"Stiffened U. S. Sanctions" Starving Cubans

 

    Today -- on November 14th-2023 -- this popular Cuban TV journalist was standing in front of Havana's famed Malecon Seawall when she ended her report with these exact words: "My Havana in the background. What more could I ask for." But this same journalist has also informed her fellow Cubans about this reality: "The recently stiffened U. S. Blockade against our island by the Trump and Biden administrations have caused severe blackouts as well as food and medical shortages that are making some of my friends, many of them journalists, to leave Cuba. As journalists in Cuba we live with the Cuban people, so we report to them exactly what they are seeing and are living themselves...otherwide we would be nothing more than stupid and cruel propagandists. It is the U. S. media that lies about Cuba, telling everyone that the Blockade is necessary entering into its 7th decade and must be strengthened to finalize the starvations that will make us submit to the Cubans in Miami and Washington that profess to be good while we are bad. Such lies, coupled with the incomparable U. S. power, prolongs the Blockade's genecidal goals from generation to generation. Yes, I have been to 14 major cities in Latin America, Europe, and Asia and I could easily live in Miami. But I will live and die in the city where I was born, Havana...and not in Little Havana in Miami."

    And, meanwhile, today -- on November 14th-2023 -- the ultra-powerful Reuters News Agency is flashing this headline around the world: "Help Wanted: Cuba's government turns to growing diaspora for investment." The first paragraph of that important international article today ends with these exact words: "...stiffened U. S. sanctions" to explain to the world that the "stiffened" U. S. blockade against Cuba is finally, after six+ decades, starving mass numbers of Cubans on the island to cause them to submit to overthrowing their revolutionary rule, which was the purpose of the U. S. Embargo/Blockade when it was created way back in February of 1962. Please note on November 14th-2023 that the Cuban journalist standing at Havana's Malecon Seawall was reporting the same thing that Reuters is reporting today, which is about the effects of the "stiffened" U. S. Blockade now devastating the Cuban people. And, of course, London-based Reuters is the world's best News Agency and it also has long had the world's best journalism regarding Cuba.

    From time-to-time, since imposing the Embargo/Blockade against Cuba in 1962, the United States has occasionally stated its intent to ease the dreadful sanctions "as a goodwill gesture to the Cuban people that we are trying to help." One of those times was back in July of 2022 when the Associated Press, the USA's top News Agency, informed the world {see above} that American Airlines was told by the U. S. goverment that it could "resume flights to five destinations to Cuba that were stopped in 2019 when the Trump administration sharply curtailed air service between the two countries." Then {see above} the AP article said that the Biden administration would reverse the Trump administration decision and "let American Airlines resume flights from Miami to Santa Clara, Varadero, Holguin, Camaguey and Santiago de Cuba," which are all prime destinations for tourists hoping to visit Cuba. WONDERFUL!! After Trump put Cuba on the U. S. List of Nations That Sponsor Terror, it drastically allowed the Miami-Washington Cubans to dictate the harshest-ever sanctions against Cuba...but many thought the Democrat Biden would reverse the Republican Trump and that Biden would take Cuba OFF the dreaded Terror list. But in mid-November of 2023 the Biden adminstration has refused to do that, allowing the "stiffened" six-decade-old Embargo/Blockade of Cuba to drastically starve Cubans on the island...and making them believe that, in the USA's two-party political system, both the Republicans and the Democrats are now dictated to by the Counter Revolutionary U. S. Cubans in Miami and Washington. Of course, a prime desire of the U. S. Blockade on Cuba since 1962 has been to Block tourism...because, of course, tourists that would flock to Cuba would not compute with the U. S. desire to starve the Cuban economy, which is happening in mid-November of 2023.

    The image above is from an ad that reflects the prices of flights from Miami or Charlotte to three of Cuba's prime Tourists Destinations. Cuba's lures and intrigue, including some of the World's Best Beaches and some of the World's Best Hotels & Resorts, would be attracting enough tourist money to blunt the U. S. economic Blockade of the Caribbean's largest and arguably the Caribbean's most beautiful island. Nearby Miami, like the rest of the world, loves money derived from tourism...but the U. S. Blockade blocks Cuba from having that basic right.

    Yes, when I was in Cuba I stopped at spots such as Varadero Beach because it was rated The Best Beach in the World and it is on Cuba's northern coast directly below the tourist-mecca of Florida. Varadero is just an hour's drive east of Havana but even closer to Havana is Vinales Valley that remains the most unique and most beautiful valley I've ever seen and it is a haven for tourists who like to walk on its trails or ride bikes or horses on the trails. BUT HEY!! The United States has had a Blockade on Cuba since 1962 that blocks tourism to the Cuban destinations that tourists might want to visit.

   A law known as Proclamation 3447 in February of 1962 legalized the U. S. EMBARGO/BLOCKADE of Cuba. In this month of November in 2023 the nations of world, as happens each year, loudly voted to condemn it and beg for it to end. But the one nation that wants to continue it happens to be the richest and strongest nation in the world, and that is the reason it has existed since 1962.

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Why US Blocks Tourism to Cuba?

 As you can see above, the British travel magazine Wanderlust has anointed Cuba with its 2023 gold medal as "The Most Desirable Island in the World" for travelers. While many would-be tourists around the world might concur with that designation, it so happens that Cuba's neighbor, the United States, has expanded its six-decade old Cuban economic blockade that, since 1962, has tried desperately to starve Cuba by, among other things, blocking tourism to Cuba. In November of 2023 the most glaring Cuban headlines are telling the world that the U. S. Blockade in 2023 is indeed starving, depriving, and making miserable Cubans in Cuba to such an extent that over 400,000 of them have recently left the island hoping to reap financial rewards in capitalist nations such as the United States, which is also home to Miami's rich and powerful Little Havana Cubans. That being said, in mid-November-2023, Cuba is still trying its best to survive the violent Miami-based/Washington-based/Blockade-beloved designs of its northern neighbor that happens to be the longest and strongest such economic embargo in history.

    But, in mid-November of 2023 {see above} Cuba is holding its annual International Trade Fair in Havana seeking "foreign investment to help boost its ailing economy." And it appears to be successful with "over 800 companies from more than 60 countries showcasing products and services."

     At the Trade Fair in Havava some foreign companies, as shown above, are promising to help Cuba stock its store shelves with food that average Cuban can actually afford.

   Cuba-born Cuban-Americans such as Hugo Cancio are in the majority when they try to help Cubans in Cuba survive the U. S. blockade although the more politically powerful U. S. Cubans from Miami and Newark have historically dictated the USA's anti-Cuban policies since 1959. But Hugo Cancio, who uniquely has offices in both Miami and Havana, is determined that enterprises such as this month's Trade Fair, coming a couple of weeks after the yearly UN vote that reveals the whole world's disgust with the U. S. blockade of Cuba, might provide some positive vibes for the 11 million Cubans still on the island who have lived their lives under the yoke of a stifling economic blockade imposed by the strongest nation in the world. Hugo Cancio in November of 2023, as shown above, is at the Trade Fair in Havana trying to find and create gaps in the blockade that will permit Cuba to obtain fuel to prevent the electric blackouts and obtain fertilizer and machinery to help the island grow more of its own food. He said, "It has become history's longest and cruelest economic embargo that the Cuban people know as a genocidal blockade. That, especially as it is allowed to continue decade after decade, hurts Cuba, America, and Democracy."

    Every now and then, during the six+decades of the U. S. blockade, the Cuban people have been given some hints that it will ease or even end some day. Here in mid-November of 2023 the images above provide more hints. Yes, Cuba -- with massive tourist lures such as beaches rated the best in the world by some travel agencies -- wants the superpower United States to permit free and honest tourism to Cuba but that is impossible within the confines of the superpower blockade. Yet this week the prime U. S. airline -- American Airlines -- plans "82 WEEKLY" flights to Cuba during this period, the winter part of the island's prime winter season for tourism. Wow!! Will the rich and powerful Cuban politicians in Washington from Miami and Newark allow such tourism to reach Cuba with actual dollars to spend. I doubt it.

    This is the Hotel Royalton at Cayo Santa Maria in Cuba where the beach, directly south of Floirda, has been recently rated "The Second Best Beach in the World." It is very close to Veradero Beach, which has been rated THE Best Beach in the World. The two world-famed Spanish chains -- Iberostar and Melia -- have 5-star Hotels and Resorts in Cuba but the U. S. blockade blocks tourism to visit them.

       This tourist believes that the clear water and soft sand at Cayo Santa Maria makes it the best beach in the world, but her friend said it is "second only to Veradero!!"

    This is the Seville Hotel in Havana operated by Melia Hotels & Resorts. Melia and Iberostar -- the two world-famed Spanish chains -- have 42 4-star and 5-star hotels in Cuba...all waiting to see in November of 2023 if the BLOCKADE will ease a bit.

    Of course, the famed National Hotel in Havana has been restored beautifully and remains the most famous and the most alluring and best hotel in "the Caribbean and in North America."

    For tourists who want to go beyond the wonders of Cuba's big and historic cities such as Havana, the four photos above show why many tourists want to visit places such as Candetorea, which is a little community in the Rosario Mountains in Artemisa Province. Candetorea has a population of 1,000 very friendly Cubans who are anxious to provide wonderful experiences for visitors who venture to a gorgeous spot that Cubans love to show off on their island.

   But, of course, the U. S. Blockade of Cuba powerfully and cruelly denies American tourists from spending a dollar in Cuba because it might deter from the starvation tactics embedded deeply within the Blockade. The "CRUISE FROM FLORIDA 2023/24" ad shown above actually applies to anyone except tourists that might want to visit Cuba. For example...as dictated by the Blockade, a cruise ship that has the audacity to dock in Cuba is then not allowed to leave Cuba and then dock in a U. S. port. Yes, if you are the richest and strongest nation in the world you can impose such dictates to other nations.

Uh...ANYWHERE EXCEPT CUBA, of course.

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UN Begs US to End Its Blockade of Cuba!!

THANK YOU!!

   Today -- on November 2nd-2023 -- the nations of the world at the United Nations in New York once again voted almost unanimously to beg...demand...that the United States end its Embargo/Blockade of Cuba, which began in 1962.

    Above today -- November 2nd-2023 -- are the votes of the world's nations that voted at the UN to end the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba. The two red blocks shown above reveal that only the United States and Israel voted today to continue the endless Embargo/Blockade. Yesterday and today nations from around the world for two days at the UN used blistering speeches to denounce the United States for its Cuban policies, and that included the best U. S. friends around the world.

    At the UN today Cuba's longtime Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez summarized the denunciations of the world's nations "who are both ashamed and surprised that the United States and its Democracy, decade after decade, permits a handful of persons to dictate the vile results of the blockade, merely to please or benefit a small number of people who want to continue the suffering of Cuban families from generation to generation." Prior to Cuba's summarizing words, nations of the world voiced similar opinions about the U. S. Cuban Blockade, such as the speakers shown below:

    In other words, all the nations in the world except the United States believe that its Embargo/Blockade of Cuba is totally immoral and illegal...yet it has existed for over six decades with no end in sight.

     Today -- on November 2nd-2023 -- the nations of the world voted at the United Nations in New York for the United States to end its Embargo/Blockade of Cuba. Yet, it will continue because of the overwhelming influence of the USA's incomparable financial and military power. Today...as it does every year at this time...the UN tells the U. S. and the world that its Blockade of Cuba is wrong but that only the U. S. has the power to end it.

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THE WORLD DEMANDS US END CUBAN BLOCKADE

 

     On these first two days of November-2023, even as two bloody Wars are grabbing the attention of the whole world, the whole world at the United Nations is "demanding the end of the inhumane blockade imposed more than 60 years ago by the US on the Cuban people." To start November of 2023 the nations of the world are indeed demanding that the United States finally end the cruel and "inhumane" blockade against "the Cuban people" that has existed since 1962. Below are 20 examples of what the nations around the world are saying about it at the UN:

    As you can see and read above, the nations of the world are outraged that the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba has been allowed to continue since 1962...and, as you should note above, the world is particularly outraged that the U. S. during the Trump presidency put Cuba on its List of Nations That Sponsor Terrorism and that the current Biden administration has allowed that to continue so the Blockade can be more cruel than ever. In other words, today and tomorrow -- November 1st and 2nd of 2023 -- the nations of the world show their outrage at the UN that the richest and most powerful nation in the world can alone endlessly impose a cruel and inhumane blockade against the people of Cuba, as the U. S. has done since 1962!!

    On November 1st-2023 YouTube and other Internet outlets showed the live speeches at the UN denoucing the U. S. Blockade. The day before when the Cuban mother posted the above photo and quotation on Social Media outlets, it quickly garnered thousands of replies. The quotation was/is a poem by the famed Jose Marti, who died on a Cuban battlefield in 1895 as Cuba tried to break the yoke of foreign {Spain's} imperialism.

     Born in Havana on January 28, 1853, Jose Marti died on May 19, 1895, in Cuba during the Battle of Rio Cauto as he fought in vain against Spain's long domination of Cuba. Before he returned to Cuba from the U. S. to fight for Cuba's independence, Jose Marti was an internationally famed literary figure, especially for his poems. The same year {1895} he died fighting Spanish soldiers in Cuba, the United States later that year easily won the Spanish-American War in Cuba, meaning the U. S. had replaced Spain as the foreign power dominating Cuba...until 1959.

   Inspired by Jose Marti, another Cuban rebel named Fidel Castro shocked the world on January 1, 1959 when his Cuban Revolution dramatically replaced the United States, the Mafia, and dictator Fulgencio Batista as the rulers of Cuba. Incredibly, although Fidel Castro died at age 90 in 2016, his Revolution amazingly, against all odds, remains in control of Cuba at the start of November in 2023.

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