What's Next For Ana Belen Montes?

 

    This weekend -- January 7-8, 2023 -- Ana Belen Montes -- will be released from the U. S. Federal Prison in Texas where she has spent the past two decades. A graduate of the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University, Ana spent years as the top U. S. Cuban expert when she worked with the United States defense department. In that capacity she believed that the U. S. policies against Cuba were "extremely cruel and immoral." Thus, she used her exalted position high up in the U. S. government to spy FOR Cuba. Even when she was finally captured and sentenced, the U. S. agreed that she was not paid...and that she acted only out of conscionable concern for the Cuban people.

 This was Ana Belen Montes during her 20 years in the U. S. Federal Prison system. The day she was sentenced she read a long and passionate statement to the judge to explain that she would never regret what she did on behalf of the Cuban people.

     This weekend the Reuters News Agency -- as Ana Belen Montes regained her freedom at age 65 -- informed the world that "Montes argued that she had obeyed her conscience and that U. S. policy to Cuba was cruel and unfair." Her saga will forever make Ana a beloved and cherished person by Cubans in Cuba but, of course, she will forever remain a pariah of the first-order in Miami and Washington.

Ana Belen Montes

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Vietnam Wants Cuba to Survive in 2023

 

   More and more, in this first week of 2023, Cubans on the island believe that faraway Vietnam is the most important nation trying to help them survive.

    The map above shows the strategic location of the *Mariel Port* 28 miles southwest of Havana. It is an ultra-modern deep-water port that, since 2014, is capable of handling the largest container ships that exit the Panama Canal. Except for the drastic and endless U. S. economic Embargo, Mariel's lavish Economic Zone has the potential to revitalize Cuba's dire financial outlook...if the U. S. would allow it to be utilized properly. At the moment faraway Vietnam is the only nation that has the courage to bravely challenge the U. S. Embargo and to invest heavily in the *Mariel Economic Zone. And, Moreover, in the New Year of 2023 Vietnam is determined to greatly expand its investment at *Mariel* by building more companies that will continue to produce vital products as it continues to hire more-and-more Cuban workers.

   Since 1962, or since the 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack and other drastic measures by the U. S. didn't defeat Revolutionary Cuba, Americans have been programmed to support the U. S. Embargo that, for over six decades, has tried to massively starve the Cuban economy. Thus, for over six decades, propagandized Americans have supported or condoned the Embargo while being lied to about such well-known truths such as those explained above about the Mariel Port. If allowed to attain its potential, the Mariel Port would be more valuable than the nearby Florida Ports.

     Above is another well-known Mariel Port fact: "Perhaps most important, Mariel is a deep-water port, and will be able to accommodate the world's largest cargo ships. If successful, it could mean big money for Cuba." In other words, only one nation -- the United States -- is keeping the Mariel Port from "meaning big money for Cuba." And in other words, the only nation seriously challenging the ongoing United States attempt to totally starve Cuba is Vietnam, which is hoping that the Mariel Port means "big money for Cuba."

    Ana Teresa is the Cuban in charge of the Mariel Port Economic Zone, but all of Cuba's top economists are involved in trying to make it the catalyst to the island's economic survival. And today -- on January 4th, 2023 -- many top Vietnamese political and economic officials are working tirelessly to make Mariel the jewel among all the ports in the Caribbean and beyond. Below are photos this week from Mariel that give Ana optimism that Vietnam's view of Mariel, not the view of the United States, will prevail and, in fact, is prevailing. Study the photos below to see some of the things that Vietnam is doing this first week in 2023 at Cuba's vital Mariel Port.

    Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel this first week of 2023 said: "If the Cuban people in this new year of 2023 begin to rise above the efforts of the United States to starve them, I now believe that the biggest reason will be the help the Cuban people are now getting from our friends in Vietnam." Above this photo of Diaz-Canel, the other photos show why the island's leader feels able to make that statement. The 2023 photos this week at Mariel Port show current Vietnamese-supported companies already manufacturing key products while new companies are being built to do the same thing...as trucks carry products to Havana along the newly paved 28-mile highway; as Cuban workers are now being paid decent wages at Mariel; as Vietnamese government and economic officials are eagerly at Mariel continuing to make more things happen...etc., etc.

    While the world's superpower, the United States, is located near Cuba's northern border, thousands of miles away the feisty nation of Vietnam is the nation in 2023 most concerned with helping the Cuban people survive history's longest and cruelest economic Embargo ever imposed by any powerful nation against any much-smaller nation.

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The Country Making Sure Cuba Survives in 2023

Vietnam also wants Cuba to Thrive in 2023!

    Revolutionary Cuba throughout January of 2023 is celebrating its 64th anniversary of its stunning victory over the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship on January 1st of 1959. Surviving 64 years as Revolutionary Cuba is even more stunning than the initial triumph 64 Years ago.

    With the U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade in its 62nd year and as stringent as ever, a nation far from the Caribbean is determined to make sure that Revolutionary Cuba improves its blockaded economy and even has a "Happy New Year in 2023. Incredibly, that faraway country is Vietnam!!!

      The long and bloody Vietnam War finally ended on April 30th of 1975 in humiliation for the United States, which had tried to bomb North Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia into oblivion to hopefully leave the U.S.-backed Saigon-based South Vietnamese government in charge of all Vietnam as opposed to the anti-U.S. North Vietnam communists. The dramatic end, however, was a bitter defeat for the U. S. that even wiped out the name of the ancient city of Saigon and left Hanoi as the capital of all of Vietnam. And, incredibly, since 1975 Communist Vietnam has emerged as a highly praised trade partner of the United States!!

    By November 17th of 2006 {see/read above} the two-term U. S. President George W. Bush was in Hanoi lavishly toasting the strong economy that communist Vietnam had amassed. Above you see The White House itself officially proclaiming Vietnam's prosperity by publishing the photo above along with the caption that included President Bush saying: "Vietnam is a country that's taking its rightful place as a strong and vibrant nation." Since that visit to Hanoi in 2006 by President Bush the U. S. acceptance of Communist Vietnam has included the two nations becoming key trade partners.

     In Hanoi in 2006 President Bush wildly praised Vietnam while acknowledging reluctantly that Vietnam's victories in bloody wars against Western imperative powers such as France and then the United States were, uh, indeed memorable victories. Of course, in sharp contrast, no U. S. leader will acknowledge the need for the Cuban Revolution and, of course, no U. S. leader will acknowledge {see below} the drastic actions that the superpower U. S. has tried for the past 64 years in its efforts to overthrow the Cuban Revolution.

   Since January of 1959, against all odds, Revolutionary Cuba has survived only by surviving such things as a world-record number of assassination attempts, the famed 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack, the 1976 terrorist bomb that killed all 72 people aboard the civilian Cubana 455 airliner, and since 1962 the economic U. S. EMBARGO that, for six decades, has tried to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their own revolutionary government that had defeated the U. S., the Mafia, and Batista back in January of 1959.

    In that milieu today -- on January 3rd of 2023 --the faraway nation of Vietnam is the only foreign country trying desperately to help Revolutionary Cuba survive the stifling U. S. Embargo. Tomorrow -- on January 4th of 2023 -- I will use 20 new photos to illustrate how Vietnam is trying so desperately to help Revolutionary Cuba survive...against all odds...in 2023.

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Starving Cubans in Cuba while making Cubans in Miami RICH!!!

 Welcome to Miami's Little Havana USA!!

    In January of 1959 the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by defeating the U.S.-backed Luciano-Lansky-Batista dictatorship. Since January of 1959 the rich and powerful Little Havana neighborhood in Miami has had the financial and political clout to dictate the USA's Cuban policies, which appears to be designed to {#1} make Cubans in Miami rich and {#2} starve Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. Those two priorities, with the first one still being lucratively fulfilled while the second one remains unfulfilled, remain in play till this very day -- January 2nd of 2023!!! Today both the Miami Herald and CBS News in Miami powerfully headlined how extremely lucrative the USA's Cuban policies continue...but still STARVING CUBANS IN CUBA WHILE ENRICHING CUBANS IN MIAMI!!!: "Miami U. S. District Judge Beth Bloom on Friday ruled that four Florida-based cruise lines must pay more than $400 million in damages for use of Cuba port. The damages will need to be paid to the American company that had the concession to some of the port piers in Havana that had been unlawfully expropriated by Fidel Castro in 1960, according to CBS 4 news partner The Miami Herald." Of course, as you read today's article from Miami don't FORGET how wonderful the Batista dictatorship was prior to the victory of the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

    For what it is worth, above you can see that CBS News and the Miami Herald today -- on January 2nd, 2023 -- tell us all about that possible new $400 million windfall for Cubans in Miami. Of course, Americans have been programmed since 1959 to believe that all the Cubans in Little Havana are good and all the Cubans in Havana are bad. So, for sure, Americans will not object to the aforementioned $400 milllion windfall mentioned today -- 01-02-2023 -- by this new article from Cuba-obsessed Miami that starts the New Year 2023.

     And, for sure, while accepting the financial U. S. windfalls from stringent Cuban policies since the 1950s, Americans are conveniently programmed in 2023 to not be ashamed of Carlos LaTuff's worldwide view of the USA as shown above.

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