Miami Herald Is UPSET About a TINY Good Cuban News

 Little Havana/Miami CRYING About Nora Jones Concert!!!

    This week in the closing days of November-2023 Americans are celebreating THANKSGIVING DAY all week.

      And meanwhile media headlines in the U. S. confirm that Cubans in Cuba are close to starvation as the six-decade-old U. S. economic blockade of the island at last seems to be HAPPENING. And meanwhile...in late November of 2023 the meanstream U. S. media, led as always by the Miami Herald, makes sure that Cubans in Cuba are not helped by a few dollars tourists might leave on the beleaguered island...and thus, of course, the Miami Herald is now wildly upset that a surprising Nora Jones Concert in Havana might be allowed to leave a dollar or two in Havana in February of 2024.

     Of course, the Miami Herald is awash with extreme Counter Revolutionary journalists such as Nora Gamez Torres who fired off the latest diatribe against anyone, such as singer Nora Jones, who might try to lend a hand to starving Cubans in Cuba, something that Cubans in Miami will not allow.

    Yes, Nora Gamez Torres in Miami is UPSET that Nora Jones will have four concerts in Havana...and Miami's Nora wildly believes that American superstar Nora Jones, nor any other American, should not be allowed to visit Cuba!! I mean...the U. S. blockade against Cuba is still legal, isn't it?

    Wow!! If Nora Jones is allowed to have four concerts in Havana, how can the U. S. maintain its wonderful blockade???? Please tap the YouTube video  above to listen to  Nora Jones sing some of her greatest hits, the same Nora Jones that has scheduled four concerts in Havana in February of 2024.

     Cubans in Havana deserve to be able to see Nora Jones, the Cubans  after all these decades since 1962 after being tormented since the nice Cubans in the U. S. sicced the blockade on the bad Cubans in Cuba...and have kept it on all these decades as Cubans in Miami get rich. Above in late November-2023 the worldwide reach of the London-based Reuters News Agency is telling the world that "Food SHORTAGES" are finally working wonderfully against families in Cuba thanks to extreme new sanctions by both the Trump & Biden administrations to drastically strengthen the always cruel 1962 legalization of the blockade...as Washington politicians please the politically powerful Cubans in Miami.

    Despite the ravages of the U. S. blockade, the mothers in Cuba are trying their best to protect Cuban children on the island such as 4-year-old Roman and 10-year-old Mariana. They are shown above on Thanksgiving Week in Havana. Mothers in Cuba have faced the Blockade during the past three generations.

    Every now and then, such as with news of the impending Nora Jones concert in Havana, Cuban mothers in Cuba have seen glimmers of hope that Cuba and its superpower northern neighbor were beginning "to cooperate." But time and again, such hopes are simply blocked, beginning in Miami.

    Thus the four images directly above have ruled U.S.-Cuba Relations since 1962 when the Blockade began.

     And meanwhile Cuba's powerful Vice President Ana Mari Machado in the closing days of November-2023 is holding talks with important people such as Eamon Gilmore, a key leader of the 27-nation European Union.

    And meanwhile in the closing days of November-2023 Cuba's powerful Vice President Salvador Valdes Mesa is holding important meetings with important people such as Abiy Ahmad Ali, the 47-year-old Prime Minister of Ethiopia.

    And meanwhile in the closing days of November-2023 Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel told the Cuban people: "This week is celebrated as Worldwide Children's Day and it should remind us why Revolutionary Cuba is now over 63 years old." Diaz-Canel, Cuba's President since 2018, is 63-years-old and he was born a few months after the triumph of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution on January 1st of 1959.

     And meanwhile...this photo was taken in 1994. It shows Cuba's prime revolutinary icon Fidel Castro writing down a declaration in which the first sentence, translated to English, said: "Each man, such as great men like Jose Marti, must be measured by the immensity that opposes them." 

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US Cringes at 64 Years of the Cuban Revolution

     The photo above was taken today in Havana Harbor -- on November 22nd-2023. It shows one of the crumbling seawalls or fortresses that were built centuries ago to protect Havana from foreign powers determined to capture the Caribbean's most beautiful, largest, and most strategically located island. Indeed...starting shortly after Spainish explorer Columbus descovered Cuba in 1492, just almost every one of the world's imperative powers violently coveted capturing the island, especially Spain and the United States who fought the most notable War -- the Spanish-American War that was fought in Cuba in 1898 when the easy victory in Cuba gave the U. S. dominance of Cuba, Puerto Rico, etc., as the U. S. began its emergence of the world's richest and most powerful nation. So...natives in Cuba, starting in 1492, soon began building seawalls to defend their island from foreign attacks, and thus crumbling seawall fortresses such as the one shown above are still visible remnants in Cuba's two most important cities -- the current 500-year-old capital of Havana on the western tip of the alligator-shaped island and the former capital of Santiago de Cuba on the eastern tip of the island.

    Now study this map to understand why Cuba is known as an "alligator-shaped island" with Havana on the western tail end and Santiago de Cuba on the mouth end. Also note that Cuba's extremely important location so close to the superpower USA remains its greatest curse although it could be its greatest treasure if Revolutionay Cuba since 1959 was still a vital trading partner with the USA as it was back in the 1950s when the USA's richest companies and the U.S.-based Mafiosi were getting vastly richer because of their sweet deals with the Batista dictatorship when both the USA and Batista's Cuba wildly promoted tourism from the USA to Cuba!!! 

   The massive and rampant U. S. tourism and trade with Cuba during the Batista dictatorship abruptly ended on January 1st of 1959 when the Cuban Revolution overthrew Batista, an historic phenomenon that quickly created Little Havana in Miami.

      Since 1959 Cubans in Little Havana USA in Miami have spearheaded the massive U. S. effort to overthrow Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.

   Beginning in 1959 Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro famously survived 634 or so assassination attempts...allegedly attempted "MOSTLY BY THE CIA." 

    Cuban memorials have claimed that Cubans other than Fidel Castro were targeted by Little Havana Cubans and the CIA.

    Of course, Fidel Castro himself not only survived "634 or so assassination attempts" but he also survived the famed "Bay of Pigs" air-land-sea Military Attack by the Cuban exiles and the U. S. military in April of 1961. The attack was, of course, also supported by the two top U.S.-backed regional dictators Trujillo in the Dominican Republic and Somoza in Nicaragua. Famously Somoza stood on a Nicaraguan dock and historically bade a departing U. S. military ship, "Bring me back some hairs from Fidel's beard!!!" Of course, Somoza never got to receive any hairs from Fidel Castro's beard because, once Castro heard U. S. bombs attacking Camp Colombia on the edge of Havana, he raced to Cuba's southern coast to the Bay of Pigs beach where he, correctly, anticipated the ground attack would take place; 72 hours later Fidel Castro's forces had easily defeated the attack...to the chagrin of his enemies in Little Havana USA, the Dominican Republica, and Nicaragua.

    Above journalist Haynes Johnson in the Washington Post on April 17, 1981, correctly reported, as shown above, Nicaragua's U.S.-backed dictator Luis Somoza told the Bay of Pigs attackers leaving the Nicaraguan port to "Bring me a couple of hairs from Castro's Beard." Like others, Somoza waited for the Bay of Pigs attackers to kill Fidel Castro and recapture Cuba.

    Turns out that after smashingly winning the Bay of Pigs battle in April of 1961, Fidel Castro not only kept his famous beard intact, but he also relished smoking a victory Cuban cigar.

    History confirms that Fidel Castro, easily the most targeted rebel in history, died peacefully in his own bed in Havana at age 90 in 2016.

    Amazingly, in November of 2023 it is still the legacy and quotations of Fidel Castro that still remain, in the opinions of many Cubans in Cuba, the prime bulwark against the "U. S. economic Blockade that in November of 2023 still harms Cubans in Cuba. After the Bay of Pigs military attack in April of 1961 failed to defeat Fidel Castro's revolutionary rule of Cuba, the next major attempt to accomplish it was the Blockade, which began in February of 1962 and continues in November of 2023. In other words...64 YEARS after Fidel Castro's revolution defeated the USA, the Mafia and Batista, the U. S. and Miami's Little Havana in November of 2023 still can't overthrow Fidel Castro.

    In November of 2023 188 nations in the United Nations in New York voted once again, for the 31st consecutive year, to support Revolutionary Cuba's struggle against the endless U. S. Embargo/Blockade that began way back in February of 1962.

    It was back in 2016 when Fidel Castro died in Havana at age 90. Yet, in November of 2023 many Cubans in Cuba still wonder what be would be thinking today about things such as this 64th Year since the VICTORY FOR HIS Cuban Revolution?

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PLEASE, Let Cubans in Cuba Speak Too

U. S. Media Overwhelms Cubans in Cuba!! 

    Cubans in Cuba, such as the popular journalist above, have opinions about U.S.-Cuba and Havana-Miami relations. Havana's Rosy Amaro has visited fourteen {14} famed foreign cities -- Paris, Beijing, Moscow, Abu Dhabi, Instabul, etc. -- but she has no plans to visit nearby Miami. Yet she has pertinent opinions about whether, for example, journalism is FAIRER in Havana or in Miami: "Because of the U. S. blockade of Cuba, journalists such as me struggle to have necessities of life in our households, but at least we provide fair journalism to the people because we live beside them or with them and the people would know if we lie to them or not. In Miami and in the U. S. the rich and powerful journalists live mostly in luxury and routinely lie as propagandists to the American people. How do I know that? I know Cubans who live in Miami. And I also see that many respected polls in the U. S. reveal that barely 10% of the U. S. citizens 'trust their media.' But journalists like me in Cuba don't lie to the masses of people in Cuba because, like them, we all suffer from the crimes against us by rich and powerful Cubans in the U. S. who benefit from things such as the Embargo, which the entire world wildly condemns, but, alas, as the richest and most powerful nation in the world the U. S., and its media, can do whatever they want to do to Cubans in Cuba. To deny that fact is to deny the truth about the blockade and other U. S. policies regarding Cubans in Cuba." 

     One problem with U.S.-Cuban Relations, both before and after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 that got rid of the Batista dictatorship in Havana but then quickly created Little Havana in Miami, is that it seems that only ultra-powerful Miami forces are allowed to dictate U. S. policies regarding Cuba. Miami Law Professor Pedro Freyre or someone like him routinely are used by the U. S. media and the U. S. government to guide Cuban policies in the USA. For example, today -- on November 19th of 2023 -- the most powerful Cuban News flashing around the world is an article by the Associated Press, the USA's giant News Agency, and by Voice of America, the U. S. government's giant worldwide media source. Obviously that article didn't include any opinions from Cubans in Cuba like Rosy Amaro but did include the opinions of Miami's Pedro Freyre -- as shown below:

    If you take time to read today's worldwide article {above} on November 19th-2023 from the Associated Press/Voice of America, in the headline and in the article there are references to Cubans in Cuba having dire problems because they can't afford basic items although Cuba is now flourishing with entrepreneurs trying to open new stores filled with products the people need. Of course, the article doesn't mention the endless U. S. economic blockade of Cuba as a cause of the problem. In the two last paragraphs shown above, note that the quotations are by "Pedro Freyre, an analyst with the Florida-based Akerman Consulting and professor at Miami Law School." PERHAPS ONE DAY the AP and V of A might ask a Cuban Mother in Cuba, such as the journalist Rosy Amaro, how she feels about things such as...the U. S. Blockade!!!

    Perhaps in late November of 2023 it is time for the superpower United States to heed the International cry that calls for the end of The U. S. Blockade of Cuba!! After all it began on February 7th of 1962 and now we are near the end of 2023!! Does the historic longevity of the Blockade hinge on a few people in a superpower nation claiming that they "are the good guys" and the masses of people in the much-smaller nation "are the bad guys" and is that what created the Blockade and what has prolonged it for over six+ decades?? And if that is not why it still exists, then perhaps the AP and the Voice of America will publish another article around the world and let us know what is the reason the Blockade still exists!!!! 

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Why is Cuba Closing 2023 as USA's "Enemy"??

Did the Great Celia Sanchez Provide the Answer?? 

     Leading up to Black Friday that is tomorrow on November 17th-2023, ads like this are ubiquitous as they promote lucrative cruises to nations in the Caribbean and elsewhere around the world -- all EXCEPT to Cuba, which is the Caribbean's largest and arguably its most beautiful nation.

     Since 1962 the Superpower United States has imposed a tight economic blockade against Cuba that prohibits Cruises from docking at Cuban ports because, of course, those ships might have tourists that might want to visit Cuba and even HELP THE CUBAN ECONOMY.

     Despite the endless U. S. blockade of Cuba, the two Spanish-based Hotel giants -- Iberostar and Melia -- still have forty of the world's best 4-star & 5-star Hotels in Cuba.

    As shown above, many of Cuba's plush Hotels in 2023 continue to win international awards despite the U. S. Blockade that is designed to starve them from having tourists. Just a few miles due south of Florida, for example, on Cuba's northern coast are beaches like Varadero, which has been voted by tourists to be the Best Beach in the World, and Santa Maria, which has been recently voted the Second Best Beach in the World. While Florida rakes in billions of dollars from tourism, it is nearby Cuba that has the Best Beaches and perhaps the Best hotels too.

       Of course, in addition to the dozens of 5-star Hotels in Cuba courtesy of Iberstar and Melia, the famed National Hotel in Havana remains the most famous 5-Star Hotel in North America and in the Caribbean. As you can see above, the National Hotel in 2023 continues to  win MASSIVE AWARDS for its magnificence and its history. Prior to the 1959 when the Cuban Revolution overthrew the U. S.-beloved Dictator Batista's rule in 1959, U. S. tourists and celebrities from Frank Sinatra to Al Capone were encouraged to spend tons of tourist dollars at the National Hotel in Havana. Now, still glorified and beautifully refurbished, the U. S. Blockade powerfully prevents tourists from experiencing the National Hotel.

    Of course, it was revolutionary icon Fidel Castro who was among the first in 1962 to proclaim the U. S. Blockade against Cuba as "a Genocidal Blockade." It so happens that in 2016, the year that Fidel Castro died at age 90 in Havana, he was still saying that it was "a Genocidal Blockade." Also note that Fidel Castro maintained that the Blockade was "an immoral" poliical act perpetrated by the United States. While Americans since the 1950s have been told that nothing Fidel Castro ever said was true, most Cubans in Cuba since 1959 have believed his words. As a Democracy-loving American allowed to visit Cuba in 2004 by the counter revolutionary George W. Bush administration, I believed that the Cuban people hated Fidel Castro and didn't believe a word he said. But after my visit to the island, I have known otherwise.

      During his 90-year lifetime, Fidel Castro was never known to have ever shed a tear, at least in public. But the person who knew him best, the incomparable rebel leader Celia Sanchez, told the incomparable journalist-author-rebel Marta Rojas, that indeed Fidel Castro did shed tears about the impact "the economic blockade was having on the people." 

     Of course, since the 1950s Americans have been told that Celia Sanchez was not a factor in the Cuban Revolution...while, in fact, she was the prime factor as the prime recruiter of supplies and rebels as well as the key decision-maker during and after the Cuban Revolution.

      Therefore, of course, Americans are not supposed to know the truth of this historic Lee Lockwood photo taken after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. It shows Fidel Castro relaxing in his rocking chair while, early one morning, Celia Sanchez was busy writing new revolutionary rules and laws that, with the 100% support of Fidel Castro, would then become vital rules and laws for Revolutionary Cuba.

   As the most important factor during the Cuban Revolution, and after 1959 as the top decision-maker in Revolutionary Cuba, the child-loving Celia Sanchez, with Fidel Castro's total blessing, was easily the most important person in Cuba. Till the day she died of cancer at age 59 on January 11th of 1980, Celia Sanchez -- the daughter of a notable Cuban doctor -- had unchallenged revolutionary fervor and passion fueled by her love for Cuban children, and that was the fervor and the passion that won the Revolution for Fidel Castro and other more famous rebels. As the Fidel Castro-anointed leader of the Revolution, at least Celia Sanchez is registered by history as the person who best defined both her Cuban Revolution and her enemies, and that is a fact and a quotation shown below:

     "WE REBELS...GET FAR TOO MUCH CREDIT FOR WINNING THE REVOLTUTION. OUR ENEMIES DESERVE MOST OF THE CREDIT, FOR BEING GREEDY COWARDS AND IDIOTS." 

Celia Sanchez: Guerrilla Fighter.

      In these closing days of 2023, why are Americans still not supposed to know that a 99-pound doctor's daughter named Celia Sanchez was and is the most important rebel in the history of the Cuban Revolution and Revolutionary Cuba? I believe the answer is this: Her enemies in the United States decided that it would be a lot easier to lie about macho men like Fidel Castro than it would be to lie about a small woman named Celia Sanchez!!!! PLEASE STUDY HER OWN WORDS SHOWN ABOVE...as you ponder my answer. And, meanwhile, below are some more topical truths and updates about Cuba that Americans are not supposed to know, starting with a surprising permission for a notable American singer to not only be allowed to visit Havana but actually perform there. WOW!!

Even President Miguel Diaz-Canel is pondering that.

Cuban journalists report how the world loves Cuba.

   In mid-November of 2023 Cubans in the community of Moa were surprised when a muddy flood at night from the Cabana River began destorying their homes. Yet...such natural disasters pale in comparison to the man-made destruction every Cuban on the vulnerable island has suffered every day and every night since 1962 from the colossal U. S. economic Blockade of Cuba that remains endless in mid-November of 2023 because, apparently, it pleases or benefits a few rich and politically powerful Cubans in the United States.

Uh, yes in November-2023 Cuba has GREAT hotels.

In November-2023 Cuba had GREAT U. S. baseball stars.

The whole world loves Cuba even while...

the U. S. makes it illegal to go there.

       Yes, politically powerful counter-revolutionary Cubans in Miami in November of 2023 sitll dictate the U. S. policies regarding Cuba, including since 1962 having the drastic Embargo that Cubans, and 188 nations at the UN, call "an endless and genocidal blockade." To this day Miami Cubans control what Washington's White House & Congressional decisions pertaining Cuba are -- and that includes powerful Mimai Cubans in the U. S. Congress such as the Diaz-Balart brothers, Rubio, Salazar, Gimenez, etc. But the three photos directly above reveal that the majority of U. S. Cubans, like 188 nations around the world, vehemently disagree with the USA's Cuban policies. For example, a Miami Cuban born in Cuba named Hugo Cancio has a business organization with offices in both Miami & Havana and, as shown above, he knows both Cuba's President Diaz and the USA's President Biden. Not only does Cancio own OnCuba News, which has offices in both Miami & Havana and provides fair & excellent & daily news coverage regarding Cuba-US relations, but he also has other businesses, including a new "Cuba Food" company, that tries to help Cubans in Cuba survive the U. S. economic blockade. And, yes, both the US & Cuba are abundantly aware that Hugo Cancio is the leading force trying to create entrepreneurs in Cuba that can own their businesses and even be allowed to trade with U. S. businesses, including exchanging inports and exports. And most of all, Hugo Cancio is not deterred from his colossal attempts to help Cubans in Cuba by the ultra-powerful Miami Cubans in Washington.

    The photo above shows Hugo Cancio in Havana announcing the opening of his latest business. He calls this one deCancio Foods. And, no, he didn't ask the Washington Cubans for permission to start his new company. 

    In Cuba today this is a typical image. An old man looks for food or something else he might want and the young man is trying to make a living as an entrepreneur but if the old man doesn't have any money to pay for what he needs or wants...the young man just gives it to him free. Cubans in Cuba are known to help less well off Cubans.

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