For years the Associated Press, the top U. S. News Agency, has had the superb Andrea Rodriguez as its top journalist stationed in Cuba. She fairly reports from inside the long-maligned island, as epitomized by her latest AP article shown below that reveals an enterprising female entrepreneur in Havana running a popular Havana restaurant and diligently trying to make a living for her family.
As this AP photo suggests, the AP's Andrea Rodriguez reports this week that Sonia Perez uses this Robot to decipher digital orders in her "Dona Alicia" restaramt in Havana and then the Robot brings the food and drinks to her customers. The article is entitled: "A Restaurant in Havana Defies..." Sonia Perez actually is typical of entrepreneurs who work hard in Cuba to "Defy" many obstacles and restrictions, and Sonia Perez happens to know that the obstacles and restrictions for her include the affects of the U. S. EMBARGO/Blockade that has harmed her family and restricts her from making an honest liviing, but the diligent Sonia Perez has typically faced those U.S.-imposed obstacles and restrictions all of her life, as has her mother.
The infamous U. S. EMBARGO began in 1962 and it has been continually expanded since then, especially during the last two presidential 4-year terms by President Donald Trump. Normally for the past six decades+ since 1962, the U. S. media has failed to report fairly about the EMBARGO, such as about the documented fact that U. S. documents reveal that the purpose of the EMBARGO was to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cuban people to induce them to rise up and overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government, namely the Cuban Revolution that in 1959 overthrew the brutal and thieving Batista dictatorship. Maybe one day democracy-loving Americans might convince the U. S. media to report truthfully about the EMBARGO -- and even admit that a few rich and politically connected people in a POWERFUL nation should not be allowed to endlessly profit from harming vulnerable masses of people in a much weaker nation. But in the United States even powerful media sources such as The New York Times, Miami Herald, and The Wall Street Journal seem to endlessly maintain key journalists who endlessly write Anti-Cuba/Pro-Batista/pro-LittleHavana Miami articles that tend to accept things such as...the EMBARGO.
Now deep into the month of April in 2025, the two headlines shown above are indicative of the fact that normally all headlnes are injurious to Cubans such as Sonia Perez who only wants to provide for her family. The New York Times headline above shows the Trump adminstration is trying to end the few things that Cuba uses to make some money, and that includes the highly skilled and highly beloved Cuban Medical Units that other nations need and are willing to pay for...including Jamaica, the island nation a few miles southeast of Cuba whose Prime Minister recently told President Trump's Miami-born Secretary of State Marco Rubio face to face, "No, Mr. Secretary, we disagree with you on that issue. The Jamaican people need and love the Cuban medical brigade and it is my job to keep them to help my people."
And the other headline shown above is from the London-based Reuters international news agency and it too is injurious to everyday Cubans such as entrepreneur Sonia Perez. The Reuters headline says: "Dissident pushes for change in Cuba, one ladle {change} at a time." That headline in late April in 2025 is indicative of the fact that other nations, including the UK that could help Cubans such as Sonia Perez, simply bow to the incomparable power of the United States and its Cuban policies.
Frances Robles of The New York Times.
Nora Gamez Torres of The Miami Herald.
Mary Anastasia O'Grady of The Wall Street Journal.
For many years as a democracy-loving American, I have waited for three big-name, high-profile U. S. journalists such as the three shown above who work for big-name, high-profile U. S. newspapers such as the New York Times, Miami Herald, and Wall Street Journal to stop suggesting that it is alright for a few rich people in a superpower nation to "starve, deprive, and make miserable" the masses of vulnerable people in a much-smaller and much-weaker nation. Of course, I am still waiting for the likes of big-name, high-profile U. S. "journalists" like Frances Robles, Nora Gamez Torres, and Mary Anastasia O'Grady to tell me why it is alright for a few people in an ultra-rich nation to continually deprive the lives of masses of people in a nearby much-weaker country. And I am still waiting for those three high-profile highly biased U. S. journalists to write an unbiased article regarding the struggles of everyday Cuban people on the vulnerable island.
To deny that this definitive Carlos LaTuff image of the endless U. S. EMBARGO vs. Cuba does not shame the United States is a denial that in itself continues to shame the United States. Yes, Carlos LaTuff's worldwide image of the EMBARGO shames the United States and Democracy-lovers like me. And so does the worldwide UN vote that each October asks the U. S. to end the EMBARGO. That vote in the United Nations each year for decades has typically been 189-to-2 with U. S. and Israel, which is very dependent on the U. S. economically and militarily, are the only two nations that each year vote to maintain the endless EMBARGO). {One year it actually was a worldwide unanimous UN vote because that one year President Obama chose not to let the U. S. vote for it}.
As the photos and aricles shown above indicated, President Donald Trump, Miami-born Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Miami-born Cuban-American Envoy to Latin America Mauricio Claver-Carone since January of 2025 have apparently spelled doom for Cuba's Revolutionary government that has ruled the island for 66 years, since 1959. And now in late April in 2025, it appears the only thing that is holding off Doomsday for Revolutionary Cuba is the sheer fact that the Trump presidency is facing other faraway foreign problems that don't relate to the little problem the U. S. has with its nearby neighbor Little Cuba.
For example...BIG China!!
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