Cuba Says Coup Fizzles

 Protestors Say It Continues!!!

    Today-- Monday, Nov. 15-2021 -- a highly publicized and massive Protest in Cuba was supposed to be the start of the beginning of the end of the Cuban Revolution that has ruled Cuba since January 1st of 1959. The graphic above, including the EPA photo of Protest leader Yunior Garcia, was how the London-based BBC told its world-wide audience of what was/is happening in Cuba, namely stating, in the first sentence, that, "Dissident playwright Yunior Garcia was blocked from leaving his home on Sunday."

    On this pivotal day in Cuba and for U.S.-Cuba Relations, these are the top headlines that U. S. citizens are seeing...although Cuba, purposely, is not normally a high upfront priority topic for either the U. S. media or the U. S. government except for demeaning the island. As shown above, as usual, within the propaganda bowels of the U. S. media NBC News and the Miami Herald continue to fan flames of what appears to be their hopes for a massive overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba's government. Such saturations by the U. S. media yesterday prompted raucous anti-Cuba demonstrations all up the nearby east coast of Florida from Miami to Jacksonville. Even the great journalist/professor in Florida Tracey Eaton, normally a brilliant and fair expert in reporting Cuban news, posted on YouTube a 24-minute video of Sunday's Florida protests that only featured extreme Cuban-Americans panting about the immediate need for them to recapture Cuba. Surely no one with a moderate view in Florida was allowed to speak, and never does the U. S. media consider the opinions of non-dissident Cubans in Cuba nor non-dissident Cubans in the United States.

    As above, the U. S. government quickly denounces any dissident protest in Cuba...while Cuba repeatedly claims that such protests are always funded with U. S. dollars from Washington and Miami. There are ample indications that most everyday Cubans on the idea wholeheartedly agree with the Cuban government regarding that issue as opposed to agreeing with the U. S. government.

    While the U. S. media is tuned to solely distorting and concocting anti-Cuban topics, there is an easily assessed blog -- CUBA MONEY PROJECT -- that is minutely researched via the Freedom of Information Act by the great, fair, and highly respected Cuban expert and journalist Tracey Eaton. It is mind-boggling how many tax dollars CUBA MONEY PROJECT reveals go directly to Cuban dissidents via such U. S. government agencies as USAID, the U. S. Agency for International Development. Yes, the amounts of money and the names involved indisputably documented by the CUBA MONEY PROJECT blog are indeed mind-boggling in revealing how massive amounts of U. S. tax dollars routinely go into trying to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba while...uh...making selected Cubans very rich. But, of course, the only place you will get that information is by dialing up CUBA MONEY PROJECT.

    But above are two of the anti-Cuban projects that are lavishly funded with incredibly huge amounts of U. S. tax dollars...Radio & TV Marti in Miami and USAID in Washington. Only the CUBA MONEY PROJECT research by the indisputably great and honest journalist Tracey Eaton reveals such truths, as with the two items shown above.

      For sure, the Cuban government controls its media, such as the image above today as a reporter on a Havana street says, "These are the colors of Havana as it celebrates its 502nd anniversary." The report included, in the background, movie houses and hotels that were reopening...along with other businesses, tourism, schools, universities, etc., after a successful vaccination program to curb the COVID-19 virus. So, is the U. S. media more honest or is the Cuban media the more honest in covering news that directly affects Cubans on the island...or is that even a legitimate question?

     One of the fallacies of the U. S. media's coverage of Cuba, I believe, is trying to convince Americans that most Cubans on the island hate everything about the Revolution while loving their memories or knowledge of the Batista/Mafia/US businessmen who spawned the Revolution. The fact is...from the late Fidel Castro to current leader Miguel Diaz-Canel, who was born after the 1959 triumph of the Revolution but is Castro-like in his defense of the Revolution, Castro from 1953 and Diaz-Canel from 2018 have always had millions of Cubans on the island fervently supporting them. While the U. S. media is massively obliged to deny that fact, the U. S. media won't discuss HOW or WHY...against incredibly high odds...the Cuban Revolution has survived all these many decades. In the photo above in the red shirt, that is President Diaz-Canel with supporters last night on the eve of what he and they knew would be the start of another round of Protests designed to topple the Revolution. Diaz-Canel firmly believes that most Cubans on the island support him and, moreover, he believes most Cubans on the island supported the Revolution from 1953 till 1959, and that is why it triumphed...against all odds!!

 Both last night and today -- Nov. 14-15, 2021 -- President Diaz-Canel has been on the streets or at the reopening of schools and businesses as he shared his leadership with his supporters. And as the island's former Education Minister, Diaz-Canel also is very skilled at using state-wide television to communicate with Cubans across the island. Below are some of his new quotes:

    For sure, Cuba's leader, President Diaz-Canel, believes that most Cubans in Cuba support him.

    Today -- on Nov. 15th-2021 -- schools reopened that had earlier used just virtual teaching with computers and television for months during the pandemic. Shown above in the front row in the white shirt, Diaz-Canel personally attended several of those school openings today.

MY POINT IS THIS:

    Since the 1950s the American people have been told blatant and self-serving lies regarding the relations between the United States and Cuba. I believed every one of those lies until the George W. Bush administration, which had perpetrated many of those lies, surprisingly permitted me to actually visit Cuba. On my first day in Havana I met Tracey Eaton, the great U. S. journalist who at the time was stationed in Cuba by the Dallas Morning News. But mostly, in Cuba I hired a driver and purposely visited and stayed overnight with everyday Cubans, including families I spotted near their homes or working nearby fields, some with oxen. From that 2004 visit to now, I remain a Democracy-loving American but one who is ashamed that the United States doesn't have a media that tells the truth about its relations with Cuban families on the island. I believe pure greed has predicated that situation since the 1950s related to Batista's Cuba, Castro's Cuba, and now Diaz-Canel's Cuba. And moreover, from the days when the most notable Founding Fathers like Thomas Jefferson began this American experiment in Democracy, the United States has had an incredibly greedy obsession to own the island of Cuba. In that regard, here are some true facts about that obsession:

    As you can see above, Thomas Jefferson in 1817 said: "If we seize Cuba we will be masters of the Caribbean." It so happens that in 1898 the United States finally SEIZED Cuba by concocting and then easily winning the Spanish-American War. As a Democracy-loving American, I am ashamed, starting in 1898, that the U. S. didn't make sure that Cuba became the greatest Democracy in the Western Hemisphere. But the United States refused to do that in 1989 or since, and instead viewed and views Cuba as a piggybank...stealing plush Guantanamo Bay in 1903 and even in 1952 TEAMING WITH THE MAFIA TO ROB & RAPE CUBA AT WILL. Lying about such things from 1898 till 1903 till 1952 and till November of 2021, I believe, clearly reveals that the biggest threat to the U. S. democracy is its dishonest media. And furthermore, I believe that Thomas Jefferson would agree with that assessment.

Thank you, Mr. Jefferson!!!

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Today Is Nov. 15-2021 In Cuba

 The Island is Braced for the Start of a Coup

Will It Be Defeated??? {Again?}

     The photo above and the three photos below were taken last night and this morning -- November 14th & 15th-2021 -- in Park Central in Old Havana. All four photos and 8 others were taken by Roberto Suarez, a notable photo-journalist. He was pointing out that from January 1st of 1959 until November 15th of 2021 that there have always been a majority of Cubans on the island who will fight fiercely...even to the death...to support the Cuban Revolution. Roberto Suarez believes that was true at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 and during the many times between 1959 and 2021 that U.S.-backed forces so often tried desperately to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. Roberto Suarez says he is well aware that Americans since 1959 have been told the exact opposite...that almost all of the Cubans on the island hate their revolutionary leaders, love for a return of the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista regime that preceded 1959, and that most Cubans in Cuba today either want to be in Miami or to be ruled by the wealthy Miami Cubans who...uh...might share their wealth with them in Cuba. But that belief that is so much embedded in the minds of Americans is not true, according to Roberto Suarez and other experts who have lived all their lives in Cuba with the last two generations of Cubans in Revolutionary Cuba. And Roberto Suarez says that if most Cubans on the island didn't support Revolutionary Cuba that Miami Cubans and the United States would have regained control of Cuba "MANY, MANY DECADES AGO."

      The Roberto Suarez photos here show Cubans massing in Park Central in Havana in reaction to what they have been told...and have seen on Social Media...are the massive anti-Cuba protests in Miami Sunday leading up to the well-publicized protests/coup that supposedly today -- Monday, November 15th, 2021 -- will begin the imminent destruction of the Cuban Revolution and replace it with Miami-friendly dissidents, including some on the island and some from Miami. Roberto Suarez says pro-Revolutionary Cubans in Havana last night and this morning were reacting to Sunday's anti-Cuba caravans in Miami...and Roberto Suarez believes that such Cubans today -- Monday, November 15-2021 -- represent the majority of the 13 millions Cubans in Cuba. Indeed, starting today we make learn if these Cubans represent the majority of Cubans in Cuba...whether or not THEY PREVAIL!! And I sincerely hope there is no bloodside on either side.

     The U. S. media seems obligated, or anxious, to tell the American people that all the good and brave Cubans are in Miami and in the U. S. Congress while all the bad and cowardly Cubans, except for Miami-friendly dissidents, are still in Cuba. And, of course, that is simply not true...as these photos taken in Havana last night {Sunday} and this morning {Monday} by Roberto Suarez!!!

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Tomorrow: Much Bloodshed in Cuba?

 Tomorrow Is: November 15-2021!!!

    The photo above is flashing around the world today -- on Sunday, November 14th, 2021. It was taken by the great photo-journalist Yamil Lage for the Paris-based AFP News Agency that covers Cuba fairly. This photo shows..."...Cubans arguing at El Quijote Park in Havana Sunday where dissident Yunior Garcia was scheduled to speak today." Tomorrow -- on Nov. 15th-2021 -- Yunior Garcia will lead "Protests in Cuba" that millions of Cubans on the island believe is meant to start "A Miami-backed COUP meant to overthrow the Cuban Revolution."

     Today -- SUNDAY -Nov. 14th-2021 -- the image above shows that the powerful TV-10 and other media in Miami is promoting the fact that tomorrow -- MONDAY -- might be a bloody day in Cuba.

     Today -- Sunday, Nov. 14-2021 -- these are the googled Cuban headlines. The NY Times claims that "Desires for Food and Freedom" are the reasons for the protests that will roil Cuba tomorrow. Cuba itself says the reason for the coup is Miami's decades-long desire to recapture Cuba as in the days of the Batista-Mafia rule on the island in the 1950s prior to the Cuban Revolution that created Little Havana in nearby Miami in 1959. As you see above, The Washington Post today heralds the fact that the "Cuban Government, Dissidents Head Toward Monday Confrontation." And The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the history of the world, and Jeff Bezos's step-father is anti-Castro/Cuban-born Miguel Bezos. And, as you see above, today TV-10 in Miami is promoting live coverage of demonstrations that are "SHOWING SOLIDARITY for those in Cuba...!!!!!"

         Of course, since 1959 the Little Havana section in Miami has been supported by the U. S. media, the U. S. government, extreme amounts of money, as well as extreme amounts of terror and military excursions...and still Little Havana has been unable to recapture Cuba. All the while, to obtain the support of U. S. citizens and U. S. dollars, Little Havana has loudly proclaimed that Cubans on the island hate their Revolutionary government and long for the U.S.-backed Batistiano/Mafiosi rulers that ruled Cuba in the 1950s and spawned the Cuban Revolution that in 1959 captured Havana and created Little Havana in Miami.

    While since 1959 Little Havana leaders in the U. S. have dictated their views to both the U. S. media and the U. S. government, but the views of Cubans on the island such as Adriana, an everyday Cuban, and Yadira, a journalist on Cuban TV, also have views...as Adriana on Social Media and Yadira {shown above reporting on a street in Havana today} would also like the world to know about the Havana-Little Havana conundrum. And their point is this: "Most Cubans on the island were do-or-die supporters of the Revolution and for all these decades since 1959 most of the Cubans on the island are still do-or-die supporters of Revolutionary Cuba. And if that was not or is not so, the Miami Cubans would have regained control of Cuba long ago." In other words, there are two sides to the Havana-Little Havana conundrum...and unless and until Adriana and Yadira are proved to be either idiots or liars, I believe that the U. S. media should EXPLAIN why Little Havana, with all its economic, political, and fire-power advantages, has been unable to recapture Havana since 1959!!

    Facing what Cubans on the island believe is a well-funded and powerful coup that will commence tomorrow -- Nov. 15th-2021 -- the photo above shows an outdoor concert in Havana last night -- Saturday, Nov. 13th -- that drew thousands of Cubans. Cuba's most beloved band, Buena Fe/Good Faith, told the audience on the live televised video, "We came here tonight to give the world, including Miami, a kiss and nothing else."

This afternoon -- on Sunday, Nov. 14-2021 -- the music-loving Cubans are attending other concerts on the eve of tomorrow's coup/protests. The concert above today, as you see above, was attended by Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

   After that concert today, as you see above, President Diaz-Canel was facing a bevy of television cameras on TV and live on Social Media as he said: "In the 1950s brave revolutionaries were willing to give their lives to chase greedy and brutal leaders supported by a foreign power off our land. At the Bay of Pigs attack in 1961 and many other times, revolutionaries have been willing to die to save our country. Tomorrow we must be willing to do whatever it takes, as similar revolutionaries, to keep remnants of greedy and brutal foreign-backed forces from doing what the Batista and Mafia forces did to our people before the 1959 triumph of the our revolution. The first two things the coup tomorrow will try to do is get video to send back to Miami of the coup-mongers being brutalized, and we must not do that, and the second thing they want is for Yunior Garcia or someone like him to become your leader. I want to be your leader only as long as you Cubans want to be led by me, and not by Miami Cubans."

    Starting tomorrow -- Monday, November 15th, 2021 -- it appears that President Miguel Diaz-Canel is the underdog against Miami-supported dissidence. But he believes that since his days as Education Minister he has had the strong support of most Cubans on the island. But since its first-known existence in 1492, the island of Cuba has been a huge underdog against a vast array of supposedly much-stronger imperialist nations. And the only Revolution that defeated such forces was in 1959 when underdog rebels defeated the U.S.-backed & Mafia-backed Batista regime, creating the endless and ultra-powerful Little Havana faction on U. S. soil. Tomorrow will yet again be a major test for Cuba, and unfortunately once again foreign influence will be a deciding factor in the outcome...whether or not the U. S. calls it Protests, a War, or a Coup!!!

Little Havana vs. Havana!!

Tomorrow is: Nov. 15th-2021!!

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Hours Away From THE Coup In Cuba

WILL IT Overthrow the Revolution?

    In a few hours -- on Monday, Nov. 15th-2021 -- there will be Protests in six of Cuba's 14 Provinces designed to initiate the COUP that will finally overthrow the island's Revolutionary government. The headline/graphic above is by NBC News and is typical of how the mainstream news media in the U. S. this crucial weekend is promoting what they believe and hope will be a successful coup, although surely a bloody one. The headline and sub-headline above is by NBC News and the photos are by Yamil Lage, who works in Cuba for the Paris-based AFP News Agency.

   Since 1959 when the Cuban Revolution overthrew the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in Havana, quickly creating Little Havana in nearby Miami, the mainstream media in the has clamored wildly for the recapture of the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island. Carmen Sesin of NBC News is one of a plethora of Counter Revolutionary mainstream U. S. journalists constantly reminding Americans how wonderful the 1950s rule of Batista's Cuba was and how brutal Revolutionary rule has been since 1959. In the belief that the coup that begins IN A FEW HOURS will recapture Cuba for Miami/Little Havana, this is how Carmen Sesis/NBC News this weekend {Nov. 13-14 of 2021} was beating the drums about how the sensational new savior-hero-leader of Cuba will a nice dissident named Yunior Garcia:

   As you can see above, Carmen Sesin/NBC News this weekend believes and hopes Yunior Garcia will soon be the new U. S/Little Havana-friendly leader of Cuba.

   This AFP photo shows Yunior Garcia, whom the U. S. media believes will soon be the new U.S./Little Havana/Miami-friendly leader of Cuba.

   But this is MIGUEL DIAZ-CANEL, the undisputed leader of Cuba on this second weekend of November-2021. He is shown above on television reminding Cubans that the island will survive "...the Pandemic, the Blockade, and the Coup that will start Monday, November 15th."

    Since 2018 Miguel Diaz-Canel has been Cuba's leader. He was born in 1960, the year after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. He became very popular with everyday Cubans on the island during his years as Education Minister and, despite what the U. S. media says, he remains very popular with most Cubans today!! He uses frequent interchanges with Cubans in streets and barrios but, as shown above, he is extremely skilled at using state television and radio to communicate with the Cuban people.

  Frequent appearances on Radio & TV allow President Miguel Diaz-Canel to stay in close touch with the Cuban people.

   Yes, President Diaz-Canel deftly uses street exchanges, radio and television to talk about, as above, "The aggression of the United States..."

    And, yes...when President Diaz-Canel takes to the streets across Cuba he is wildly mobbed by everyday Cubans.

    But it is on state-wide television that President Diaz-Canel is most effective in communicating with the Cuban people. Often, as shown above this weekend, he uses charts & graphics and other images to inform his television viewers about such things as realities and projections on the island's economy, the pandemic, tourism, the blockade, etc.

   In January 1-1959 the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by chasing the Batista leaders out of Havana, quickly spawning Little Havana in the heart of nearby Miami. From January 1-1959 till November 15th-2021, the U. S. media has done a disservice to the U. S. democracy by lavishly promoting what Little Havana Cubans want, while never mentioning the opinions of what non-dissident Cubans on the island want and think. For example, the image above shows Maria Salazar, the latest of the stream of Little Havana Cubans who have been sent to the U. S. Congress from Miami. Only extreme Counter Revolutionary Cubans rule the politics of Miami, Florida, and the U. S. Congress in Cuba-related topics...while becoming rich and powerful in the U. S. while also dictating what many...most...believe is a genocidal six-decade-old assault on everyday Cuban families on the island while also, of course, massively supporting and creating self-serving dissidence on the island. In the image above, that is Maria Salazar the moment she said that the Miami Cubans are "helping" the everyday Cubans on the island and there is "no Embargo against Cuba." The rest of the world knows that there has been a cruel genocidal Embargo/Blockade against Cuban families on the island to appease Little Havana/Miami Cubans like Maria Salazar, and they can go on national television any hour of the day to say whatever they want to in praising Little Havana Cubans while self-servingly damning Revolutionary Cuba while implying that the Mafia-riddled Batista regime was a wondrous government. While promoting only what extremist Counter Revolutionaries such as Maria Salazar want and say, no moderate Cuban is permitted to express opinions as far as the U. S. media is concerned.

   This week Carlos Lazo, a decent Cuban-American, joined others on a flight to Cuba to take love and gifts to the Cuban people that they sincerely believe are being cruelly starved, deprived, and made miserable by the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of the island.

    While the U. S. media will lap up and saturate everything U. S. dissidents like Maria Salazar in Little Havana or Yunior Garcia in Havana say, the U. S. media will not cover Cuban-Americans like Carlos Lazo. A loved professor in Seattle, Carlos rode his bike...joined by some of his students...the 3,000 miles from Seattle to Washington to beg President Trump to end the Embargo/Blockade against Cuban families. Then this year he walked the 300 miles from Miami to Washington to beg President Biden to end the Embargo/Blockade. Of course, neither Trump nor Biden would even acknowledge a decent Cuban-American like Carlos Lazo, and neither will the mainstream U. S. media. While walking from Miami to Washington, Carlos stopped in Atlanta at CNN headquarters but, of course, CNN didn't have either the courage or integrity to mention him. But Carlos, who has a ubiquitous Social Media following, stood in front of the CNN building and broadcast on Social Media a live video.

   This photo shows Carlos Lazo in Cuba with his mother Juaquina. His passion in life is to end the genocidal U. S. Embargo/Blockade against Cubans on the island like his mother.

     While in Cuba this week, Carlos Lazo helped airlift 20,000 pounds of food and other products to everyday Cubans. The photo above shows Carlos lifting from a van boxes that contained some of the 5,000 pounds of tuna that he wanted Cuban families to have. Many Americans and Canadians now support the Bridges of Love organization founded by Carlos Lazo to promote decency between the United States and Cuba. Carlos, a very smart and decent man, says most  Cuban-Americans agree with him in detesting what Cuban-Americans in Miami, Newark, and Washington are able to dictate to Cuban families on the island. Below are more photos chronicling the decency of Carlos Lazo that the U. S. media doesn't have the courage or integrity to share with the American people.

  For sure, Carlos Lazo offers "amor/love" between Americans and Cubans. His problem in doing that, he understands, is the fact that his "amor/love" competes with the moneyed factors that have predicated U.S.-Cuban releations for decades, especially during the Batista-Mafia years in the 1950s and the Revolution's years since 1959. Propagandized by the U. S. media, Americans have been told that Americans loved Batista's Cuba while wanting all these decades to end Revolutionary Cuba. Of course, if the majority of Cubans on the island didn't support the Revolution, it would not have defeated Batista in 1959 and it would not still be alive in November of 2021.

         And so, if you believe the U. S. media you are supposed to believe that...in a few hours on March 15th-2021...an ultra-powerful and ultra-brilliant dissident named Yunior Garcia will commence protests in Cuba that will FINALLY overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. Of course, obviously the first thing Garcia wants is to provide images back to Miami and Washington of how "brutal" the Cuban authorities are being in trying to quell the "PEACEFUL PROTESTS." That, of course, will be fodder for the U. S. media and for Little Havana...but will it end up overthrowing the Cuban government? PROBABLY NOT.

        Starting on Monday, November 15th-2021, President Miguel Diaz-Canel probably has one major advantage over Yunior Garcia and that is this: Like Fidel Castro at the Bay of Pigs on April 17th of 1961, Diaz-Canel on November 15th of 2021 will almost assuredly have the vast majority of everyday Cubans on his side.

        In April of 1961 it is an historic fact that President Kennedy, who inherited the Bay of Pigs fiasco from the previous Republican administration, was told two pertinent things: {1} "Castro will run to his getaway airplane the moment he hears bombs falling on Camp Colombia at the edge of Havana," and {2} "The Cuban people will turn against Castro the moment they realize that those are U. S. bombs falling on Cuba." Of course, Castro didn't have a getaway airplane and, as they did during the revolution, the Cuban people staunchly and quickly rallied to defend the revolution, thus securing an astounding victory within 72 hours at the Bay of Pigs, which was the site of the land invasion. On November 15th-2021, does Miguel Diaz-Canel have a getaway airplane and will most of the Cuban people turn against him when Yunior Garcia tells them to???? I don't know the answers to what will happen in Cuba on Monday-Nov. 15th-2021. But, while Cubans have heard all about what Yunior Garcia plans in the next few hours on their island, the photos depicted below were taken in the past four days and reveal that Cubans have other things on their minds, not just the attempted COUP!!

        Uh...let's see...Cubans in Cuba this week leading up to Monday-November15-2021...were mostly thinking about more buildings being renovated despite the pandemic and the blockade...schools, universities, businesses, and movie houses were reopening....Cuba's own airline was increasing domestic flights and even a new schedule of flights to Buenos Aires....friendly foreign airlines not blocked by the blockade are flying tourists back to Cuba...Cubans are again frequently visiting favorite sites, including the Malecon Seawall...important friends like Carlos Lazo are arriving...and, oh yes, a renowned Cuban celebrity named Haydee Milanes is modeling a shirt made by a new female-owned clothing store that is so popular in selling its products online that it now has an office/store in New York City....and this second week of November-2021 mothers in Cuba are gladly getting their children vaccinated because the home-grown vaccines appear to be drastically curbing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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