15.12.24

BBC and Reuters Tell The World About Cuba's Dire Situation!!

     Today is December 15th in 2024 and the quotation above is from Fidel Castro on December 15th in 1959. He was finishing the FIRST FULL YEAR of his Revolutionary Rule in Cuba. Translated to Engish, he said: "The Revolution feels secure because it is advancing with a firm step, and is supported by the vigorous arms of your peasants and our workers." Please note that today -- December 15th in 2024 -- that Fidel Castro's words from December 15th in 1959 actually remained "secure" and mostly accurate for 65 years. But today those 65 YEARS are finally ending because...the Cuban Revolution's rule is not secure.
    In mid-December in 2024 the two British international news giants -- Reuters and BBC -- are the best sources for news from inside Cuba. And, for sure, the news is extremely dire now and likely will get worse starting on January 20th in 2025 when two prime counter-revolutionary Americans -- incoming U. S. President Donald Trump and incoming Secretary of State Marco Rubio -- will be the top decision-makers expected to orchestrate the demise of revolutionary rule in Cuba where Fidel Castro or his legacy have been in power since 1959. Cubans fear Trump's second 4-year term as U. S. President, especially with his choice of Rubio as his Secretary of State. Rubio since 2011 has bee a powerful U. S. Senator from the Little Havana area of Miami and he has led the charge in trying to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. As Secretary of State starting on January 20th, it is widely believed Rubio will have unrestricted power to finally bring about the end of Revolutionary rule in Cuba. Below are updated excerpts about the situation by Reuters from inside Cuba.
     Illustrated by the two photos and paragraphs shown above, the powerful Reuters News reports worldwide on "the two months of hours-long blackouts now have a new problem" for everyday Cubans, meaning the drastic fuel shortages that now limit their  movements. Along with food and medical shortages, such hardships have inspired over a million Cubans to recently leave the island, especially for the U. S. or Spain.
      For many years Will Grant has been the BBC's superb international journalist specializing on Latin America, especially Cuba. In December of 2024 Will Grant's latest BBC News update from Cuba reviews the island's dire concerns about Donald Trump's second 4-year term as President of the United States that will start next month on January 20th, 2025. Exceprts from that key article are listed below:
     As the BBC's Will Grant has reported many times, after 62 years the U. S. Economic Embargo of Cuba has finally helped totally devastate the island's wherewithal to provide necessities for its people -- including fuel, food, medicine, etc. After all, as proved by U. S. documents, the purpose of the Embargo in 1962 was to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. By December of 2024 and surely later in January of 2025, the fulfillment of that purpose is at hand.
     The photo and sentences above by the BBC's Will Grant quote Cuban expert and former diplomat Jesus Arboleya" as saying, "The Cuban Revolution is now facing its 'harest moment." Back in the 1950s wild and unchecked tourism made millions of dollars for the Batista leaders, the Mafia leaders, and for the powerful U. S. companies that, with kickbacks to Batista, saturated the island from Havana in the West to Santiago de Cuba on the Western end of the island. Since 1962 the U. S. EMBARGO and other restrictions have devastated Cuban's economy, as planned. Will Grant's latest BBC article in mid-December of 2024 explains all that.
      The Cuban Revolution shocked the world on January 1st in 1959 by overthrowing the US-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship. But even more shocking has been the 65-year longevity of the Cuban Revolution from 1959 till the end of 2024. In all those decades since 1959 the Cuban Revolution has faced daily attempts by the superpower United States to again dominate the Caribbean's largest island, including especially via the EMBARG but also such historic events such as the air-land-sea BAY OF PIGS military attack, etc., etc.
     Now starting on January 20th in 2025 U. S Senator Marco Rubio, newly elected President Donald Trump's new Secretary of State, will finally have the power to abolish the Cuban Revoluion. Rubio's powerful Cuban-American colleagues in Miami will rejoice wildly much louder than they have ever shouted since January of 1959, even louder than they did in Miami's Little Havana section on October 25th in 2016 when Fidel Castro died at age 90 in Havana.
As shown above, Miami is not far from Havana.
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11.12.24

Cuba Still Tries to Survive By Stressing Fidel's Quotes

     Today is December 11th in 2024 in the closing days of the 65th aniversary of Fidel Castro's victory in the Cuban Revolution that shockingly overthrew the dictatorship of the US/Mafia-backed Fulgencio Batista rule in Cuba on January 1st of 1959. For sure, 65 Years is a long time for revolutionary control of Cuba to survive. Today -- December 11th, 2024 -- the words of Fidel Castro incredibly remain the prime strength of the Revolution although he died at age 90 in 2016. Cubans today were reminded of the above quotation from fidel Castro's speech exactly 63 years ago on December 11, 1961. Translated to English he said: 
    "We know that wilh each passing day, each passing month, and each passing year, there will be more of us working for the Revolution. That with each passing day, each passing month, and each passing week, there will be more of us revolutionaries."
      And now as December 11th turns to December 12th in 2024, this is today's quotation from Fidel Castro that he made on December 12th, 1961.
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9.12.24

Miami's Marco Rubio now has the POWER to end Revolutionary Cuba!!

Starting on January 20th Rubio will the US Secretary of State.

       The photo and headline shown above in December of 2024 is from CNN News and the long "analysis" foreshadows what will certainly be the end of the Cuban Revolution's rule in Cuba that began on January 1, 1959. As CNN reports, on January 20th in 2025 the new U. S. Secretary of State with be Marco Rubio in the new adminstration of President Donald Trump. Since 2011 as a power in the U. S. Senate from Miami, Rubio has stringently tightened the U. S. Embargo/Blockade on Cuba and now, finally, as Secretary of State he will have the full power to finish off the Cuban Revolution that his Cuban parents fled. Below are some excerpts from the CNN article that explain why, as Secretary of State under President Trump that Rubio will be able to fulfill his lifelong dream of overthrowing the Cuban Revolution that  in 1959 overthrew the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship. You can dial up the entire article on the Internet or tap to enlarge some of the key paragraphs listed below.
     The well-researched analysis by CNN News excerpted above surely suggests the demise of Revolutionary Cuba early in 2025, and actually it will not take the new U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio very long to make it happen. That is because in 2024, the 65th year since the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution, the Cubans have suffered mightily from food shortages, medical shortages, nation-wide power blackouts lasting for days, etc., etc.

      In December of 2024 the headlines shown above have told the world how extremely vulnerable the revolutlonary rule of Cuba is, with the government unable to prevent the nationwide power blackouts and also unable to provide sufficient food and medicine for its citizens.
    It is well known that, beginning early in 1959, that Fidel Castro proclaimed that the "reason" for his "do or die revolution" was because the previous rulers of Cuba -- meaning dictator Batista, the Mafia, and the United States -- had "raped and plundered our homeland while never even tossing crumbs to the majority peasants." Indeed, during the Revolutionary War from 1952 to 1959 and after the victory by Castro's rebels, the majority of poor Cuban families supported the Revolution. Within days of ruling Cuba in 1959 Fidel Castro decreed that top priorities would be "to provide all Cubans free education through college, free medical treatment for life, and free food and other necessitives when needed." In various forms, those gigantic promises were kept even after Fidel Castro died at age 90 in 2016. However, by the end of 2024 the Revolution is unable to fulfill those promises.
    This updated photo of Miami's Senator Marco Rubio is courtesy of CNN News. Starting on January 20th in 2025 he will have full authority to fulfill his dream of overthrowing the Cuban Revolution. This time, considering the nationwide blackouts and other dire deprivations, the Revolution will now be unable to resist the foreign intervention from a neighbor that happens to be the strongest and richest nation in the world. During his tenure in the U. S. Senate since 2011 Marco  Rubio has craved his roles as the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Committee, from which he has powerfully tightened the Embargo/Blockade around and on Cuba. Starting on January 20th in 2025, he will have the full power to fulfill his lifelong dream when he becomes President's Donald Trump's Secretary of State, the most important cabinet post in the White House. What that bodes for Cuba is well known to observers of the historic, current, and future relations between the Caribbean's largest island and the neighboring United States. It simply means the end of Revolutionary Cuba.
2024 has been the 62nd year of the U. S. EMBARGO.
2025 will see the end of the EMBARGO
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7.12.24

What Would Fidel Castro Say About Cuba Today?

     Today is December 7th in 2024. The photo and caption above shows Fidel Castro and what he was thinking back on December 7th in 1976. Each day in 2024, on social media forums, it seems that a lot of Cubans are still asking, "What would Fidel be thinking today now in this 65th year of his victorious Cuban Revolution? Well, it probably would still be...the U. S. Blockade.
      The United States calls it an "EMBARGO" while Cuba calls it a "Blockade." But whatever it is called, it has existed for over six decades -- since 1962 -- and many in Cuba call it "genocidio" and many people around the world use their own word for "genocide." 
      If he was still alive on December 7th in 2024, I think Fidel Castro would mostly be thinking about the 62-year-old U. S. "Economic Blockade of Cuba." 
      On January 1st in 1959 Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution triumphed over the US-backed/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship. Come Hell and High water --- and there has been a lot of both in Revolutionary Cuba since 1959 -- that is particularly true in this very dreadful year of 2024, which happens to be the 65th Anniversary of Fidel Castro's victoriious Cuban Revolultion. In 2024 headlines have told the world about the  Cuban people facing constant hardships such as nation-wide power blackouts, shortages of food, shortages of medicine, etc., etc. Cuba says the EMBARGO/Blockade is the cause; the United States says that Cuba's Revolutionary rulers are at fault. And on December 7th in 2024 that is where the hardships on the island remain.
At age 90 in 2016 in Havana, Fidel Castro died.
Many Cubans think he is still looking out over his island.
      For sure, however, Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution has incredibly survived deep into its 65th {and mostly its last full year} anniversary of the heralded victory in 1959.
       With Cuba's capital citiy of Havana just a few miles south of Key West, Florida, the Caribbean's  largest and most beautiful island will also always have the United States as its very close northern-most neighbor. That, of course, should be a good thing. But, of course, both historic and current facts say that is simply not so.  
While Cuba's future is unknown, its location stays the same.
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30.11.24

NBC News Cares About Starving Cubans in Cuba

 

      As November turns into December in 2024, a top news source in the United States, NBC News, seems concerned about the drastic conditions facing Cuban families on the island as shown above by the headlines and articles from NBC News. Those conditions, of course, include island-wide power blackouts, food and medicine shortages, etc. As shown above, even the USA's NBC News is worried about it.
      Cuban's on the island such as Zaily Perez are working tirelessly on the island to help fellow Cuban families. But her efforts face powerful obstacles.
Cuba being so close to Miami-USA is one key problem.
So is the U. S. EMBARGO of Cuba that has existed since 1962.
A street in Revolutionary Cuba today.
Worldwide Human Rights groups like Oxfam say:
"Cuba has a right to live WITHOUT  A Blockade."
A Caribbean sunset in Revolutionary Cuba today.
The Cuban Revolution has survived for 65 years, since 1959!!
Even with this U. S. view of Cuba since 1959??
The Cuban Revolution even survived Fidel Castro's death.
But what happens when the Cuban Revolution FINALLY ends???
     This headline means the Cuban Revolution will end in 2025 because starting on January 20th Little Havana's Marco Ribio will be the new Secretary of State in the new Trump presidential administration in the nearby United States.
Yes, LOVELY...at least for Little Havana's Marco Rubio.
But PLEASE: Let Cuba Live!
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