14.12.20

Cuban Children CAUSED the Revolution

And Are The Reason For Its Longevity?

  This week -- on Dec. 14th, 2020 -- notable Cuban photographer Roberto Suarez posted this photo on his Social Media pages. He used it to illustrate this update from UNICEF regarding how Cuba is taking care of its children during the U. S. Blockade and during COVID-19: "The Cuban state has shown strong political will to guarantee the adequate development and well being of its children. Different data and research shows the high level of protection and development that children and adolescents have on the island, especially in relation to educational coverage and care for maternal and child health."
     Of course, UNICEF is the United Nations' Children Fund that monitors the welfare of children worldwide. It regularly provides positive results regarding how Revolutionary Cuba treats the welfare of its children. Unfortunately, and in stark contrast...!!!
     Yes, unfortunately...the two photos depicted above were taken during the 1950s when the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship ruled Cuba. While supported by the world's strongest nation and by the world's strongest criminal organization, it was almost impossible for a revolutionary revolt to overthrow Batista...but the impossible DID actually occur. While the extreme and unchecked rape and robbery of the island was taking place from 1952 till 1959, the Batistianos, the Mafiosi, and American businessmen were amassing truckloads of wealth; but the everyday Cubans who were not connected to the dictatorship were not even tossed crumbs, and that left women like the ones shown above in dire straits trying to feed and clothe their children. But along with trying to feed and clothe their children, Cuban mothers during the Batista dictatorship had another even larger problem.
     The dire deprivations for the everyday Cubans during the Batista dictatorship in the 1950s were exacerbated to extreme levels when Cuban mothers took to the streets in the cities to protest. But as documented by the two photos depicted above, and by many others just like them, the Batista thugs responded with a most hideous tactic -- murdering children to serve as a warning to the Cuban mothers not to resist. But the hideous killings merely made the Cuban mothers...Cuban madres...more determined to resist and PROTEST. In the photo above, the woman in the white blouse and wearing the sunglasses was the mother of Willie Soler, a now famous little boy murdered by the Batista thugs. Because mothers like these lit the fuse that spawned the Cuban Revolution, which defeated Batista on Jan. 1-1959, today the major children's hospital in Havana today is named...William Soler Children's Hospital.
This is a modern UNICEF photo of two healthy girls.
      And this updated photo shows four Cuban girls in Havana, typical of the Cuban children that now UNICEF tells us that are being well cared for in Revolutionary Cuba today. Of course, in order to care for Cuban children like these, in December of 2020 Revolutionary Cuba must defend these children against both the COVID-19 PANDEMIC and against the equally cruel U. S. ECONOMIC EMBARGO that has existed since 1962 in various forms but which the Trump administration has been allowed to now expand into a genocidal U. S. ECONOMIC BLOCKADE. Of course, beyond the self-serving political gains for the Trump administration and the Little Havana Cubans in Miami, the biggest culprits are the everyday cowardly Americans who allow it to happen.
      While most politicians and journalists in the United States simply are not courageous enough to oppose the genocidal cruelty of the U. S. Economic EMBARGO-BLOCKADE against the children of Cuba, the truly brilliant Brazilian Editorial Cartoonist Carlos Latuff has brilliantly illustrated to the world images, such as the three above, that Americans are programmed not to be ashamed of. And by doing so, Carlos Latuff reminds Americans that Little Havana in Miami, almost 7 decades after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, continues to grow richer and stronger.
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11.12.20

Cuba Punching Above Its Size

 From 1492 Till 2020!!!

      Back on October 12th, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba and claimed the New World for Spain. With his three ships -- La Pinta, La Nina, and La Santa Maria behind him, in his diary that day Columbus wrote that "this is the most beautiful land these eyes have ever seen." Although the world today is drastically different from it was in 1492, basically from 1492 till these last days of 2020, Cuba's awesome beauty and geographical location have predicated that every prime imperialist nation in the world, especially Spain and the United States, after tried mightily to capture, own, and dominate the Caribbean's largest island. In 1898 the United States finally concocted a pretext for an easy war against a weakened Spain to gain the luminous and luscious island. The easy Spanish-American War, fought on Cuban soil, made the USA a major imperialist power because it also included other prime Spanish holdings. The pretext for going to war against Spain was Cuba and the excuse was the explosion of the warship USS Maine in Havana harbor that killed 253 U. S. sailors, an event that was caused by the United States or by Spain or by an accident.
     In the centuries since Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba in Oct.-1492, the CUBA HISTORY.ORG has chronicled trials and tribulations of historic people who tried to fight for Cuban independence, with the two Castro brother Fidel & Raul being the most successful because their Cuban Revolution in January of 1959 defeated the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship...for better and for worse. The Cuban Revolutionary rule of Cuba from 1959 until today has been even more astounding than its initial victory because, every day since January-1959, the Batistianos and the United States, the world's economic and military Superpower, have tried desperately to recapture the pugnacious island.
    All that history and topicality about Cuba today -- Dec. 11, 2020 -- reminds me of this image of journalist Nancy Scola.
     One of the most important journalists in Washington, Nancy Scola had a major article today about Cuba for Politico, one of the most powerful media sources in the USA's capital city. The reason that interests me is because rarely does the U. S. mainstream media devote any space to Cuba despite the fact that the nearby Caribbean island probably has defined the United States since 1898 more than any other news item, perhaps more than major items such as 1940's World War II.
        And so...above is the headline and sub-headline sent out of Washington and around the world today online by Politico and its important journalist Nancy Scoba. Remember that the primary news items today -- Dec. 11, 2020 -- concern...the COVID-19 vaccine, the Trump-to-Biden presidential transaction, a merging scandal involving the Biden family's ties to Chinese financial transactions, etc., etc., etc. Yet, the prime article today by Politico and Nancy Scoba was, INCREDIBLY, about Cuba!!!!! Just for the record, below are the first four paragraphs of this AMAZING article:
         "On Inauguration Day, President-elect Joe Biden will inherit the United States' fraught relations with Cuba, one with technology at the center of it.
       "And whatever Biden does next vis-a-vis Cuba -- he said in September he'd try to 'reverse the failed Trump policies that inflicted harm on Cubans and their families' -- has big implications not only for that island nation's 11 million people but all the U. S. tech industry.
         "Cuba, though, didn't exactly spend the Trump era waiting on the U. S. Pushed in part by its younger generations' hunger to get connected, the country has made a giant leap in recent years when it comes to getting wired. It has rolled out 3G access and hundreds of Wi-Fi hotspots. Internet access in Cuba was near the single digits when Obama took office. Now, per the World Bank, it's in the neighborhood of 60 percent -- still low for the region, but far beyond where it once was.
         "Also not waiting to see how U.S. policy to Cuba played out: China. Beijing has jumped into the market with both feet, saturating the island with low-cost telecommunications equipment."
       I suggest you dial up the rest of that long and AMAZING article today. I find it not only interesting but truly AMAZING because rarely does the mainstream U. S. media even mention Cuba, surely not on a hot news Friday in Washington. That's because in the United States since 1959 the only voices regarding the recapture of Cuba that are generally allowed are those of only the fiercest Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami's Little Havana sector and in the U. S. Congress. In other words, as far as the U. S. government and the mainstream U. S. media are concerned, Cubans in Cuba have absolutely no OPINIONS about whether or not hostile and greedy foreign entities should control them and their island nation.
      But, yes, Cubans in Cuba in December of 2020 not only have opinions but they also have their own Smart Phones or access to the them, meaning they are now ubiquitous users of Social Media and the rest of the Internet to express their opinions.
     Well-educated and well-informed Cubans on the island now ubiquitously use their Smart Phones to interact on Social Media and to search the Internet to learn about what is happening in the world. And their opinions matter, contrary to what the U. S. government and the U. S. mainstream media want everyone to believe.
      It's only in the United States, the world's richest and strongest Democracy, that only the leaders of Little Havana rule the roost when it comes to the Cuban narrative. That's why, I believe, that the victorious Cuban Revolution since 1959 has said more about the superpower United States than it has said about the island of Cuba itself.
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9.12.20

A Little Girl is Born in Cuba!!

 Her Dad Is Very Famous!!!

     This beautiful and precious baby girl was born this week in Cuba. Her name is Eliz Gonzalez Escano.
     A very famous and popular Cuban, Elian Gonzalez, took this selfie of himself, his beautiful wife Iliana Escano, and their daughter Eliz. In high school in Cardenas, Cuba, Elian and Iliana had become sweethearts and vowed to have a family. Eliz was born on December 6, 2020...which was Elian's 27th birthday!!!!
     This photo was taken on April 22nd, 2000, and it is one of the most famous images in the annals of history. It won a Pulitzer Prize for Alan Diaz and the Associated Press. It shows the day heavily armed U. S. agents raided a home in Miami and rescued a terrified, six-year-old Elian Gonzalez and returned him over to his father Juan Gonzalez.
      As Elian Gonzalez emerged as the most famous child in the entire world, his father Juan Gonzalez returned his son to their home in Cardenas, Cuba.
      Educated as an engineer in Cuba, Elian Gonzalez and his father Juan were sheltered as much as possible but consented to a famous international interview when Elian turned 21-years-old.
     Throughout his ordeal, and right down to the very end regarding the US-Cuba tussle and battle over Elian's custody, the Cubans on the island fiercely welcomed Elian's return home -- especially Fidel Castro!!!
      Until the day when Fidel Castro died at age 90 -- on March 25, 2016 -- Elian Gonzalez idolized Cuba's revolutionary icon. On his 21st birthday six years ago, Elian said, "Fidel is like a father to me, just as he is to all of the Cubans who love him and cherish the independence he gave us."
   And so...let us note that during this second week in December of 2020 Elian Gonzalez is a happy and proud family man. On his 27th birthday on Dec. 6-2020 Elian's beloved wife Iliana Escano gave birth to their daughter Eliz. Yes, in 2020 the U.S.-Cuban conundrum includes a vicious U.S.-administrated genocidal economic Blockade as well as the pernicious COVID-19 pandemic. But Elian Gonzalez and his young family are fantastically supported by the Cubans on the Caribbean's largest island.
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7.12.20

Trump-to-Biden Won't Help Cuba

 Too Much Money Rules US Politics!!

     During the November 3rd-2020 presidential election in the United States, Democrat Joe Biden defeated Republican Donald Trump, with the transition to take place in January 20th, 2021. It can be said, with justification, that Cubans on the island had even more at stake in last month's election than Americans had. That  is because, justifiably, every Republican president since the 1950s has vilified Cubans in Cuba so rich Americans can partake in the rape and robbery of the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful nation. Since the Cuban Revolution defeated the U.S.-backed and Mafia-back Batista Dictatorship on Jan. 1-1959, the three Bush presidencies -- one for George H. W. Bush and two for his son George W. Bush -- have been the Republican presidents most aligned with vicious Little Havana Cubans to starve Cubans on the island, enrich Cubans in Miami, and to recapture Cuba for the rich and politically powerful Batistianos in the United States. But since the 1950s, the current Trump presidency has most violently aligned with the Little Havana Cubans in Miami and in Congress to commit genocide against Cubans on the island, and that policy was codified legally when Trump activated Title III of the Batistiano-written {Jorge Mas Canosa, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, etc.} Helms-Burton Act. Knowing that Title III indeed legalized genocide against masses of Cubans on the island, even President George W. Bush, during his 8 years in office from 2001-2009, REFUSED to activate Title III, but President Trump did activate Title III. For that reason, Cubans on the island prayed more for Trump's defeat, more so than even the legions of Americans who detested Trump's presidency.
      When Trump's Little Havana-dictated administration aimed Title III at Cuba, Cubans responded with their middle finger reaction, and fully realized it as genocide because it was a policy of the superpower United States to starve them, etc., so they would rebel against their revolutionary government. Of course, Americans have no idea what Helms-Burton/Title III means because even the extreme left-wing mainstream U. S. media that has tried to destroy the Trump presidency for the past four years is too afraid of Little Havana's Counter Revolutionaries.
      But Cubans on the island are not afraid to define Title III/Helms-Burton correctly -- "GENOCIDIO."
      President-elect Joe Biden has named Jake Sullivan as his National Security Advisor, a powerful position that often involves directing genocide at Cubans on the island to appease Little Havana's counter revolutionary Cubans. Sullivan is a 44-year-old graduate of the Yale Law School. In his initial statement  regarding Cuba since he was named Biden's National Security Advisor, Sullivan supported the San Isidro Movement that is ongoing after high-profile demonstrations in Havana and in nearby Little Havana. The Cuban government, and most of the everyday Cubans who oppose it, claim it is the latest effort by the U. S. government and the Counter Revolutionaries who rule Little Havana to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. Of course, on their Social Media platforms Cubans on the island reveal their  dismay and alarm at how many tax-dollars are devoted to projects such as the San Isidro Movement. Actually, although the mainstream U. S. media is too afraid to defy Little Havana, there is a renowned, unbiased, and brave journalist/professor named Tracey Eaton who regularly uses the Freedom of Information Act to publish the exact number of tax dollars routinely doled out seemingly to anyone who promises to undermine or destroy Revolutionary Cuba. And Truly, even during the COVID-19 pandemic as many businesses and Americans are hurting financially, the amount of  tax dollars devoted to recapturing Cuba for Little Havana IS ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDING!!!! And it is not likely, in the USA's Two-Party political system, that replacing the Republican Trump administration with the Democratic Biden administration in January will make much of a difference because the vast amount of tax dollars used to hurt Cuba simply enrich too many politically correct people in Little Havana and in Congress.
      Of course, Americans are not supposed to know about the unending stream of tax dollars parceled on a daily basis to, it seems, anyone willing to help Little Havana, Congress, and the Republican White Houses to destroy Revolutionary Cuba. For example, in just the past two days the great Tracey Eaton has published the two articles depicted above: "$1 Million Up For Grabs For Cuba Projects" And "USAID Targets Cuban Tourism." And so, if you think perhaps the millions of tax dollars doled out regularly to hurt Cubans on the island should be used for other purposes, I suggest you take note of the two headline articles listed above. They are the latest updates this week in December-2020 posted by Tracey Eaton on his must-read CUBAN MONEY PROJECT blog. Using exact stats provided by the Freedom of Information Act, Tracey Eaton lists who gets those tax dollars and he provides the exact amount of dollars given to each lucky recipient.
     In other words, if you care about who is getting all those tax dollars devoted to hurting Cubans on the island, I suggest you go to cubamoneyproject.com or just Google Cuban Money Project.
      From Washington, the U. S. capital, there surely seems to be no limit to the streams of tax dollars that flow and float out from Washington-DC to anyone who promises to hurt Cuba.
    The reason you should Meet the Journalist TRACEY EATON is because his CUBA MONEY PROJECT is the only place you will get the exact enormity of tax dollars REGULARLY doled out to people who promise the U. S. government they will help overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government.
    And please remember, Tracey Eaton is acclaimed as the Western Hemisphere's top expert on US-Cuban relations and he has an impeccable reputation as a brilliant and unbiased journalist. Mr. Eaton now is a beloved Journalism Professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, but his CUBA MONEY PROJECT remains the best source of information regarding topical US-Cuban news.
      In the Cuba-friendly Obama presidency, Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved Obama's historic efforts to normalize relations with Cuba. And now Jake Sullivan has been named as President-elect Joe Biden's powerful National Security Advisor, which means Sullivan will have a lot to say about the U. S. policy pertaining to Cuba. But, as noted, in the four years since the decent Obama presidency ended, tons more than usual tax dollars have been utilized against Cuba and in the USA's Two-Party political system money reigns supreme, certainly so when it comes to making Cuba continue as a U. S. piggybank, as it was prior to 1959 when both the United States and the Mafia supported the brutal/thieving Batista dictatorship and partook in the cash spoils.

       Perhaps the most pertinent U.S.-originated article related to Cuba in the first week of December-2020 was written by Andres Martinez Fernandez and originated in print and online via Foreign Policy Magazine. It is entitled "BIDEN SHOULDN'T BACKTRACK ON CUBA" and  the sub-headline is: "The Lesson of the Past Few Years Is Clear: Don't Let Policy Toward the Island Dominate the U. S. Agenda on Latin America." Very familiar to Fox News viewers and Los Angeles Times readers, Andres Martinez Fernandez has a bio that stipulates that he has a Ph.D. from the Polytechnic University in Madrid and is "associated at the American Enterprise Institute, whose research includes Latin American policy issues. He has directed a multitude of research projects financed by national and international entities such as the European Commission,  the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the Andean Development Corporation, AECID or USAID."
      In other words, journalists, researchers, and promoters like Andres Martinez Fernandez who have the necessary funding, political connections, and media coverage to influence policy pertaining to Cuba will dictate the Cuban narrative and resonance during the Democratic Biden administration just as was the case during the outgoing Republican Trump administration during the past four years. The USA's two-party political system itself is now threatened by the left-wingers who control the Democratic Party, simply because they include the most money in what has become a money-crazed U. S. political system that now includes most of the propagandized mainstream media. Thus, minus checks-and-balances once embedded in a Two-Party system, it will now likely more resemble a one-party system and further ensnare Cuba even during the demise of the Republican Trump and the rise of the Democrat Biden.
      Even during America's two-party political system, as far as Cuba was and is concerned the anti-Cuban zealots such as Andres Oppenheimer have ruled the roost and will continue to do so when it comes to promoting the Piggybank Cuban agendas. And since 1959 it has been anti-Cuba policies that have made A LOT OF PEOPLE in the lucrative corridor between Little Havana and Washington extremely rich.
     Regardless of whether a Democrat or Little Havana-aligned Republican was in the White House, extreme Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American zealots have dictated Cuban policy in the U. S. Congress since 1989 when the self-serving Bush dynasty began sending only anti-revolutionary Little Havana Cubans to Washington. In 1989 Jeb Bush was the Campaign Manager for Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's 33-year trip to Congress, which lasted until 2019 when she retired to pursue other anti-Cuban ventures from Miami. Ros-Lehtinen was born in Havana and has always been surrounded by Counter Revolutionary family members and friends. During her three decades in Congress she was followed from Miami only by other extreme Counter Revolutionaries such as Lincoln Diaz-Balart, whose father Rafael was a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship and, after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1-1959, Rafael Diaz-Balart was one of the richest and most powerful anti-Castro zealots and, in fact, created the White Rose, the first anti-Cuban paramilitary unit in Florida. Following Lincoln Diaz-Balart's stint in Congress, he was followed by his younger brother Mario...so a Diaz-Balart has been in the U. S. Congress from Miami since the 1990s...accompanied by other Ros-Lehtinen and Diaz-Balart prodigies, such as extreme anti-Cuban Senator Marco Rubio. But the litany of Little Havana/Miami members of Congress is endless, as indicated by the above photo. Maria Elvira Salazar, one of the most powerful Cuban-American superstars in the television news media for many years, was elected to the U. S. Congress during the November 3rd-2020 election. You don't get to the U. S. Congress as a Floridian or as Cuban-American unless you are an extreme advocate for the overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba.
       Of course, paving the way for the USA's Cuban policies since 1959 has been the propagandized lie that, prior to the victory of the Cuban Revolution on Jan. 1-1959, the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship had ruled a decent and democratic Cuba. But the Batista dictatorship was a brutally enforced hellhole for everyday Cubans and a gross Piggybank for Batistianos, Mafiosi, and rich American businessmen. As shown above, the Lucky Luciano/Meyer Lansky/Fulgencio Batista Mafiosi rule of Cuba from 1952 till 1959 was supported by the superpower United States so rich American businessmen could partake in the rape and robbery of the luscious island nation. But the Luciano-Lansky-Batista mobsters bolted for nearby Miami instead of staying around in Havana to face the charging rebels who had, in the closing two days of 1958, just captured Santa Clara, the last major city before reaching Havana itself. But starting in January of 1959 after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Little Havana emerged as the new U.S. sanctuary, with the Batistianos believing, with their wealth and support from the world's Superpower, they world recapture Cuba within a few weeks. But over six decades later....in December of 2020...they are still trying to do that. It hasn't happened, incredibly, because generations of Cubans on the island still remember the extreme brutality of the Batista dictatorship. The Cuban piggybank was HUGE in the 1950s but in 2020 it is even LARGER!!! And if you doubt that, it means you don't check the great Tracy Eaton's scintillating CUBA MONEY PROJECT blog.
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5.12.20

Havana Youth This Weekend In Photos

 Young Cubans Seek Happiness Too!!

    The Mikeles Photo Studio this weekend showed insightful photos of three happy, healthy, and well-educated young-adult Cubans sharing moments in Havana's Parque Almendares. Like most young-adults in other nations, young-adult Cubans on the island these days are closely attuned to Smart Phones, the Internet, and a search for happiness. In the Age of COVID-19 and in the Age of the endless and cruel U. S. Blockade, young adult Cubans in Havana...just like young adult Cubans in nearby Little Havana-USA...aspire to be HAPPY. And that is what these three photos on December 5, 2020 convey to me.




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