Huge Explosion Rocks Havana!!!

Massive Explosion Disrupts Capital!!

   At dawn today -- May 6-2022 -- two million Cubans in their capital city of Havana were mostly concerned about their problems related to the U. S. Blockade and the Pandemic. But this morning they were shocked by a massive explosion that destroyed one of Cuba's landmarks -- the historic Saratoga Hotel, which was only a 4-minute walk from El Capitolio, the historic capital building.

     At least 8 Cubans were killed in the explosion but that number is expected to rise as searches continue. CNN and other international news organizations are reporting that "a gas leak" caused the drastic explosion.

  Today's disaster in Havana exacerbates the mounting problems on the island, which is losing many of its young, well-educated citizens that are more-and-more seeking to migrate to the U. S. to escape Cuba's economic problems.

    This photo shows Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel today at the scene of the huge explosion that destroyed the Saratoga Hotel and killed at least eight people.

     The Saratoga Hotel was built in the heart of Havana in 1933 but the entire building and its 96 rooms were totally refurbished in 2005. Below is how the Saratoga Hotel looks after today's explosion. {May 6, 2022}

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CUBA: First Week of May-2022

     The mainstream U. S. media -- from Miami to Washington to New York City to Los Angeles, etc. -- is not about to tell the truth about U.S.-Cuban relations in the first week of MAY-2022, but the Paris-based global AFP AGENCY {Agence France-Presse} is a source that is truthful. The AFP update today -- May 4th-2022 -- focused on Democratic President Biden's Cuban policies being as genocidal and as similar as the Cuban policies of his predecessor, Republican President Trump. Cuba in the first week of 2022 is a major victim of the U. S. two-party political system now in which both have self-serving draconian Cuban policies. Last month, in April, the U. S. actually talked to Cuba for the first time in over four years because the U. S. has a migration problem that involves Cuban migrants.

    The AFP today -- May 4th-2022 -- also reports fairly that the U. S. Embassy in Havana has, for the first time since 2017, resumed issuing visas. 

    Unlike the mainstream U. S. media, the Paris-based AFP News Agency has reported fairly today about the thousands of Cubans that are flocking to the U.S.-Mexican border in desperate efforts to enter the United States because the Blockade/Embargo, coupled with the Pandemic, has created perhaps the worst financial situations in Cuba since the U. S. first began the Embargo in 1962. In the AFP article today we are told that one of the latest young Cubans to defect from the island on the way to the U. S. is Ismael Berrero, who won a wrestling Gold Medal in the Beijing Olympics. Miami & Newark partisans especially rejoice when famed young Cubans defect.

    From 2009 to 2017 Joe Biden was Vice President under President Barack Obama. It turned out that Obama was the first U. S. President since 1959 -- the year the Cuban Revolution overthrew the U.S.-backed & Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship -- to visit Cuba and tell them that "no longer do you need to fear the United States." He meant that promise and, among other brave and sane things, reopened the U. S. Embassy in Havana in 2016 to serve Cubans and Americans...and, briefly, Cubans in Cuba actually did not "FEAR" their superpower northern neighbor.

     But in January of 2017 the Republican Donald Trump replaced the Democrat Barack Obama as President of the United States. As President of the U.S., Trump immediately ended every positive Obama overture to Cuba and, as shown above, Trump quickly went to Miami and announced that he was returning the U. S. Cuban policies totally back over to only the most extreme Counter Revolutionary Cubans who long-ago, starting in 1959, had built a gold mine as well as massive political power in Little Havana.

    Since the 1950s all Republican presidencies -- especially the three Bush administrations and the one TRUMP administration -- have been 100% aligned with the Miami Cubans, from Batista in the 1950s to Rubio in 2022. But in 2017 when the Republican Trump was replaced as President by the Democrat Biden, many believed that Biden -- who been Obama's Vice President for 8 years -- would end the Trump-inspired genocide against Cubans on the island. But within the bowels of the USA's two-party political system, Cubans on the island in May of 2022 believe Biden has self-servingly followed TRUMP'S Cuban policies.

     After the Cuban Revolution defeated the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba on January 1st-1959, two U. S. cities -- Miami & Newark -- quickly became the strongholds of Cuban counter revolutionary political and financial power. And now -- after the Trump-Biden/Republican-Democratic transition -- the Republican Marco Rubio from Miami and the Democrat Bob Menendez from Newark have been the prime dictators of the USA's Cuban policies. For example...it is not coincidental that in the past five+ years Rubio & Menendez have alternated being the powerful Chairmen of the Foreign Relations Committee in the United States Senate. And, of course, no one in the mainstream media is about to ever ask..."Why, in either Republican or Democratic administrations, can only Cubans-Americans from Miami or Newark control U. S. policy regarding Cuba...and be labeled 'Chairmen?'"

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Havana's May Day-2022

 

     Since 1959 May 1st -- MAY DAY -- has been hugely celebrated in Cuba in honor of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.

     Today -- Sunday, May 1, 2022 -- above are the top Cuban headlines circling around the globe on MAY DAY. And as it happens, the death last night -- Saturday, April 30th -- of a legendary Cuban tops Cuba's headlines on May 1, 2022. Ricardo Alarcon died at age 84 in Havana.

      For sure, Ricardo Alarcon was an ultra-vital supporter of Fidel Castro's Revolution from the beginning in 1952 until, at age 84, he died last night.

     The London-based Reuters News Agency on May 1-2022 sent this article around the world about the death of Ricardo Alarcon.

     Today's Reuters article about the death of Ricardo Alarcon, as shown above, quoted notable Cuban diplomat Josefina Vidal regarding how Ricardo Alarcon will forever be remembered in Cuba for his fervent dedication to the Revolution.

  These Facebook photos show Cuba's super diplomat Josefina Vidal with friends today at MAY DAY celebrations in Havana.

    These Vidal photos show some of the celebratory activity marking MAY DAY-2022 in Havana today.

    But MAY DAY-2022 celebrations were tempered today when 11 million Cubans woke up to the news that revolutionary giant Ricardo Alarcon had died last night in Havana at age 84. He was born in Havana on May 21st, 1937.

     From 1952 until he died last night, Ricardo Alarcon had devoted his life to one thing, the Revolution.

   But like other mortals, revolutionaries grow old and die too. Ricardo Alarcon died last night in Havana -- on April 30th, 2022 -- at age 84. And Fidel Castro died in Havana on October 25th-2016 at age 90. But when they were young, they revolutionized the Caribbean's largest nation.

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Cuba on May Day-2022

 

     On Sunday, May 1, 2022 -- MAY DAY in Cuba -- Cubans on the island are recovering from the Pandemic but, perhaps more so than usual, they are deeply worried about the U. S. Blockade that began six decades ago, in 1962, as an economic Embargo designed to starve them into a revolt against their revolutionary government.

     May Day brings back vivid memories of their revolutionary leader Fidel Castro who died at age 90 in 2016.

     For sure, Fidel's mystique remains a formidable force on the island, but there are also palpable signs that what would be yet another full seventh decade of resisting the awesome power of the nearby superpower United States will simply be too much to ask of the Revolution. 

    January 1st of 1959, the day the Revolution began creating Little Havana/USA in the heart of nearby Miami, is still celebrated with pride on the island, but the last two generations of Cuban youth have grown tired of being the only people in the Western Hemisphere to have lived their entire lives under the threatening yoke of a foreign superpower. Therefore, sometime within the next five years, that situation...one way or the other...must end.

    The Embargo, the Pandemic, and now the tightening of what more-and-more Cubans on the island consider a genocidal Blockade has finally taken a toll that cannot endue much longer. In reality, pleas to Eliminate the Blockade will never be heeded because it pleases and/or benefits some very rich and very powerful people.

     Yet, the successful generation of Cubans on the island who vowed to fight to the death for the Revolution will forever be revered. For sure, both their illimitable & illuminable courage as well as their honorable vision will forever remain historic.

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