April 11th in 2024 Shows More Dark Days for Cuba

 

    In 1492 the lands that became the United States and Cuba were close neighbors, and 1492 was the year that esplorer/discoverer Columbus famously first landed on the southeastern tip of Cuba at what is now the city of Baracoa. Columbus then famously wrote in his diary that the Baracoa area was "the most beautiful land these eyes have yet seen." From 1492 until 2024 CUBA's beauty and its location have remained its prime curse, not its treasure. That's because, almost since 1492, the world's imperative powers -- most notably Spain and the United States -- have not only coveted CUBA but also attacked it and gone to war to  control it. In that vein, from 1492 until 2024 the island and the nation of  CUBA, uniquely in history and in longevity, have had to try to defend itself, creating untold hardship for its people. Today, for example, is April 11th, 2024, and the news from CUBA today is mostly sad, as shown below:

     Just before the helicopter crash in Santiago de Cuba today -- April 11th, 2024 -- that killed three Cuban soldiers, the island was celebrating the anniversary of an event that involved independence icon Jose Marti, as shown below:

     Every Cuban knows that Jose Marti, after landing at Cajobabo "to join the Necessary War", that he was soon killed in the Battle of Rio Cauto on May 19th in 1895 fighting Spanish soldiers that had controlled Cuba for decades. Marti's death was in vain because he and many other great independence fighters, including brothers Antonio & Jose Maceo Grajales, had died in the two "neccesary wars" that tried, in vain, to defeat Spanish soldiers on CUBA'S soil. But Marti and the others are remembered lovingly today for what they tried to do; the major airport in Santiago de Cuba where the three Cuban soldiers died in the heliocopter crash today -- April 11, 2024 -- is named "Antonio Maceo Grajales Airport," for example.

     And today Jose Marti is revered in Cuba as a Independence Fighter almost on a par with Fidel Castro...and uniquely Marti to this day is lovingly revered not only in Cuba but also in the United States and around the world. Marti was born on January 28th, 1853, and went on to become an internationally famous and rich poet/author in New York, Paris, London, etc. But he gave up all that fame and fortune to return to Cuba to try to gain independence for his beloved Cuba, only to die fighting Spanish soldiers on May 19th, 1895, in the Battle of Rio Cauto.

     But, of coursse, during all those many, many decades that imperative powers like Spain were dominating Cuba, the United States violently wanted to do the same. Please note the historic quotations shown above, starting with Thomas Jefferson in 1817 declaring, "If we ceize Cuba we will be masters of the Caribbean." 

     Well, in 1898 -- a mere three years after Jose Marti died fighting the Spanish soldiers -- the United States knew it was powerful enough to easily defeat Spain and become the "masters of the Caribbean. So in 1898 the United States easily won the quick & bloody SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR on Cuban soil, putting the U. S. on its path to becoming the world superpower...but also spawning Fidel Castro's Cuban Revoltution that, on January 1st of 1959, shocked the world by overthrowing the U.S.-backed & Mafia-backed Fulgencio Batista dictatorship.

    Incredibly, Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution has ruled Cuba from January 1st of 1959 till today, which is April 11th, 2024!!!!!!!!!!

    Today -- April 11th, 2024 -- the two most famed Cuban Independence Fighters historically and topically remain Fidel Castro and Jose Marti. At age 42, Jose Marti died in Cuba in 1895 fighting Spanish soldiers. At age 90 in 2016 Fidel Castro died peacefully from old age in Havana, leaving him just a notch more notable than Jose Marti as Cuba's most successful Independence Fighter.

     Of course, today on April 11th-2024 Fidel Castro's Revolutionary Cuba is still just a few miles due south of the United States. After the U. S. Bay of Pigs military attack in April of 1961 failed to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba, the U. S. EMBARGO of CUBA has existed since 1962.

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Most Cuban-Americans DON'T Want to Starve Cubans

But Little Havana/Miami Cubans Are Not AMONG Them!!

    This week -- in April of 2024 -- the photo and caption above shows this Airbus Condor Airliner landing at Varadero Beach on the northern coast of Cuba, just a few miles from the United States. Tourists have voted Varadero Beach as "The Best Beach in the World." Since 1955 Condor Airlines -- headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany -- has been one of the world's most important international airlines. Like other worldwide companies, Condor Airlines -- afraid of the U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade of Cuba that has existed since 1962 -- has refrained from doing business with Cuba, including the Caribbean island's prime tourist attractions. So, if you will, permit the media in poor little embargoed Cuba to make a BIG deal this week about Condor Airlines beginning to bring planeloads of tourists to Varadero in Cuba.

    Of course...although Varadero has been voted as the "Best Beach in the World" by international tourists, the U. S. Embargo/Blockade since 1962 has included Varadero as one of the numerous places in Cuba to be blockded from receiving tourist money although world-famed Varadero is just a few miles due-south of rich and tourist-obsessed Florida!!

    Of course, rich and tourist-obsessed Little Havana USA in Miami craves tons of tourist dollars while making sure that the U. S. government keeps its strict economic Embargo against Cuba that has blocked and starved the Cuban economy for six decades since 1962.

    If you study the caption and photo above, uinderstand that it is a microcosm of U. S. Relations with Cuba since 1898understand that it is a microcosm of U. S. relations since 1898, which was the year that the U. S. launched its easy military victory in Cuba to win the Spanish-American War, which gave the U. S. control of Cuba replacing the long occupation of the island by Spain. By 1903 the U. S. was building a massive military base on one of Cuba's most vital ports at Guantanamo Bay...a U. S. military base that now includes an infamous U. S. federal prison as well as lucrative recreation facilities, restaurants, etc.  So...what does the caption and photo shown above tell you?? It shows U. S. President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, signing the infamous Helms-Burton Act into law on March 12th in 1996. From that day to this day in April of 2024 the Helms-Burton Act has empowered and enriched counter revolutionary Cuban-Americans while massively harming Cubans in Cuba. President Clinton very reluctantly signed it into law. Please note how scared Clinton was when he looked up at counter revolutionary U. S. Senator Bill Menendezz. Also looking over Clinton's shoulder, you should note, was another ultra-powerful U. S. Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart from Miami's anti-Cuban stronghold of Little Havana in Miami. If you comprehend the awesome power that the controversial Bob Menendez and Lincoln & Mario Diaz-Balart have had in the U. S. Congress for decades, you can comprehend the vast power that Little Havana/Miami has had over Havana. And also comprehend for example, that the father of the Miami-based Diaz-Balart brothers in Miami was a powerful Minister in the Batista dictatorship in Cuba before the Revolution chased him to Miami in 1959. With that in mind, judge whether you think a reluctant President Clinton was scared when he signed the Miami-beloved Helms-Burton Act into law on March 12th of 1996. And, with that in mind, understand that there is no chance that the Helms-Burton Act will ever be eased by the U. S. Congress or by the U. S. Presidents that have followed President Clinton.

    One of the many Cuban-Americans who massively denounce the U. S. Cuban policies that benefit anti-Cubans in the U. S. but starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans in Cuba is Carlos Lazo, a professor in Seattle. Carlos is shown above when, followed by some of his students, he rode his bike the 3,000 miles from Seattle to Washington to beg President Trump to stop strarving Cubans in Cuba while enriching politically powerful U. S. Cubans. President Trump would not listen to Carlos but only tightened the sanctions against Cuba. Then Carlos walked the 300 miles from Little Havana in Miami to Washington to beg President Biden to stop starving Cubans in Cuba instead of always bowing to rich U. S. Cubans. But, like Trump, President Biden has refused to listen to Cuban-Americans such as Carlos. To his credit, Carlos Lazo raises money and then defies the U. S. government by flying food, medicine, and hygiene products to Cubans in Cuba.

     In the United States there are many Cuban-Americans named Carlos, including Carlos Lazo but also others such as Carlos Gimenez, a politician in Miami. Born in Havana in 1954,70 years ago, Gimenez served as Mayor of Miami-Dade County in Florida from 2011 till 2020 and now, of course, he is in the U. S. Congress along with a bevy of other Cuban-Americans. One day the U. S. democracy might elect a leader in Miami or have a Cuban in Congressto that might not support the U. S. Embargo of Cuba, the Helms-Burton Act, etc., etc. But don't count it.

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Cuba Enters April-2024 Just Barely Surviving

The Gloom is shown in worldwide headlines!!

    The photo above and the headlines above in this first week of April in 2024 show a Russian Ship providing Cuba with some much-needed oil but power blackouts, food shortages, and other dire deprivations are causing predictions about the "collapse" of Cuba's revolutionary government that has ruled the vulnerable island-nation since January of 1959 when the overthrow of the U.S-backed/Mafia-backed Batista administration was chased out of Havana...all the way, as it turned out, to Little Havana in Miami a few miles north of Havana.

    Incredibly, the victorious Cuban Revolution survived massive assaults such as the air-land-&-sea Bay of Pigs military attack in April of 1961...but massive assaults continued daily until, in 1962, the U. S. legalized an EMBARGO designed to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cuban people until it caused them to rise up and overthrow their own government. It took over six decades to accomplish its mission, but finally in April of 2024 the EMBARGO is working.

     Even if Revolutionary Cuba is overthrown or merely collapses in April of 2024, the Cuban Revolution and its longevity has shocked the world with perhaps history's best example of a very small nation resisting the designs of a world Superpower for over six decades!!   

   But in April of 2024 the latest generation of Cuban parents who have lived all their lives surrounded by the U. S. EMBARGO seem to have finally succumbed to what the faces of their children are telling them. Before you deny that, study the four photos shown directly above today.

     The Storm Clouds that have plagued Cuba for centuries have proved less of a problem than its geographical location, as the TV Weather Photo above shows. Even the weather reporter fully knows that the natural storms didn't doom Revolutionary Cuba, but merely being just a few miles south of  the superpower United States has finally doomed the eternally vulnerable island.

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Russian Oil Arrives in Cuba on Easter Weekend...

 ....but it's too little & too late!!

    Today -- on March 31st of 2024 -- the Reuters News Agency on Easter Day informed the world that a Russian oil ship has docked in Cuba. Unfortunatedly it is much too late to markedly help the power outages and the food shortages that Cuban families are suffering. Earler this week Bloomberg News in the USA updated the Cuban oil and food shortages, as shown below:

     As the Bloomberg News article this last weekend of March 2024 {above} reported on the dire Cuban situation, many sources in Miami and in Washington are using the dire power and food shortages in Cuba to call for "REGIME CHANGE IN CUBA" as shown above...and the Miami and Washington anti-Cuba sources quickly, as always, dismiss any fault of "the US trade embargo imposed after the 1959 revolution." Of course, the wonder is that a drastic EMBARGO of a very small nation by the world's SUPERPOWER took six long decades to accomplish its goal.

      And so...on March 31st of 2024...Miami and Washington still claim, as they have done for six decades, that their EMBARGO against Cuba is/was meant to help the Cuban people, not to starve them. Well, after six decades, the EMBARGO has finally reached its goal, which was to starve Cubans in Cuba to induce them to overthrow their revolutionary government. Now...the question is how Miami and Washington will handle their victory, and that remains to be seen.

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Caribbean Sunsets Descend on a "collapsing" Revolutionary Cuba

 

    On this last weekend of March in 2024 even the super-great Cuban photographer known as Molina has posted photos indicating that Cubans on the island understand that "food shortages and power blackouts" are now signaling "that the sun is finally setting on this 65th year of Revolutionary Rule in Cuba." It will not be an April 1st joke that later in this year of 2024 that the Cuban Revolution will finally end. Instead the news will be told by true worldwide headlines buttressed with videos such as the YouTube clip below that will explain why this has happened.

      Today -- on March 29th in 2024 -- if you Google the question "Is there hunger in Cuba? some of the answers that pop up start with updates about the "blackouts...hunger" in Cuba and include Cuba blaming it on "the U. S. trade embargo imposed after the 1959 revolution." Of course, to close out March of 2024, other major Cuban headlines include offshoots such as today's revelelation that war-torn "Russia Sends Cuba First Oil in a Year to Ease Blackouts and unresst." 

All maps still show that Cuba is still the largest island in the Caribbean and just a few miles south of Florida.

    But Cuba's location -- much too close to Miami -- finally in 2024 proved to be too close indeed. The rich and politically powerful Miami Cubans, as shown above, are finally ending the historic Cuban Revolution, but it has taken 65 incredible years to do it.

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The Cuban Revolution is FINALLY Ending?

 In this 65th Year of RULING Cuba!!

Yes...it seems the Revolution is ENDING!!

     The London-based Reuters is the world's best News Agency and today -- March 27th in 2024 -- it is telling the world that this 65th Year of the Cuban Revolution will finally end revolutionary rule in Cuba. The Reuters headline and photo today says: "Amid Blackouts and Scarce Food, Protest Rattle 'Cradle" of the Revolution." The photo above illustrating the headline today shows a young Cuban finally giving up, and about 400,000 others like him have recently vacated the island.

    Little girls in Cuba are different than little girls in other countries. Little girls born in Cuba since 1962 have lived all their lives under the drastic economic EMBARGO/Blockade maintained staunchly by the United States, Cuba's neighbor that is the strongest, richest, and most influential nation in the world...and also the nation that in the 1950s wildly profited in Cuba during the Batista dictatorship that preceded the 1959 victory of the Cuban Revolution. It is astounding that generations of Cuban children since 1962 have survived the EMBARGO even as the revolutionary government tried to maintain its guarantees of free educations through college and free food if needed. But, of course, many little girls in Cuba have also left the island, often to join the rich and counter-revolutionary mecca of Little Havana in Miami. But in the last week in March of 2024 international headlines are letting the world realize that little girls are indeed starving in Cuba...more than ever.

     International orgranizations such as the various UN programs that monitor children hunger are direly concerned about hunger affecting families in Cuba in the last week in March of 2024.

     If people around the world Goggle "How bad is hunger is Cuba," take a moment to study replies that start today with the Top Four Worldwide Cuban Headlines as shown above. Please note that the Wall Street Journal, which is by far the USA's largest newspaper, screams loudly that the crimes by Cuba's government are solely responsible for the hunger in Cuba in this last week of March in 2024 while loudly suggesting that the U. S. EMBARGO of the vulnerable island has been a wonderful kindness to Cuba for the past six+ decades!! Despite what the WSJ says, the rest of the world seems to understand that it is actually amazing that any small nation could survive FOR OVER SIX DECADES a massive EMBARGO/BLOCKADE orchestrated from the world's economic and military power. Indeed, Cuba has somehow survived the U. S. EMBARGO/BLOCKADE SINCE 1962.

     Since 2005 Mary Anastasia O'Grady has used her ultra-unchallenged position at the Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper, to suggest that the thieving and brutal Batista rule in Cuba in the 1950s was tolerable, or even wonderful, as it allowed rich American businessmen as well as Mafia leaders to make wild fortunes. But since overthrowing Batista's rule is it Revolutionary Cuba that "IS STARVING ITS PEOPLE" according to Mary.

      Of course, ultra-powerful counter revolutionary U. S. "journalists" such as Mary Anastasia O'Grady won't comment on facts such as the two photos shown above that show, prior to the Cuban Revoluion, that the Batista dictatorship in Cuba didn't even toss a few crumbs to everyday Cuban families even as the Batistianos, the Mafia, and rich U. S. businessmen will raking in mammoth financial windfalls in Batista's Cuba.

      And so, in this last week of March in 2024, the latest anti-Cuban Mary Anastassia O'Grady Editorial in the Wall Street Journal, which is by far the USA's largest newspaper, tells the world that "CUBA IS STARVING ITS PEOPLE." And as you can see above, her sub-headline mocks Cuba for blaming "US sanctions for the island's latest hunger crisis," The world needs to know "if Cuba's latest hunger crisis in made in Havana" or "if it is made in Miami with the help of the superpower U. S. government." Of course, the Wall Street Journal and the rest of the mainstream U. S. media say "The island's latest hunger crisis is made in Havana" and that history's longest and cruelest EMBARGO has nothing to do with it.

    When the Wall Street Journal keeps saying "The island's latesst hunger crisis is made in Havana" it wants Americans and the rest of the World to believe it. The proof that the statement is a eternal propaganda lie is that the Wall Street Journal will never publish an Editorial suggesting that the EMBARGO should end because, HEY!!, stravation in Cuba is a prime tool that will finally overthrow the Cuban Revolution, probably in April of 2024!!!!!!!!!!!! And if so, is there anotther Batista waiting in the shadows to take over???? 

      And, meanwhile, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel takes to the streets and to the airways in Cuba to say, "Always with Cuba, we will get out of the difficulties, let no one doubt it!!!" But this time, in these last TWO DAYS in March of 2024, it appears the odds are against Diaz-Canel.

     As we enter April in 2024 the United States is mired in a presidential contest that will be decided in November, with former President Donald Trump, the Republican, against current President Joe Biden, the Democrat. In its two-party political system, billions of dollars are poured into the campaigns during state legislative elections and to national congressional and presidential elections...so the constant billion dollar campaigns are seemingly wall-to-wall, year around. The 2024 presidential race is Trump vs. Biden although both are considered too old and too unpopular. As you can see above, Trump is openly promising to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba "if he is reelected." Of course, as far as Cuba is concerned, Biden appears to be no improvement. Honest observers understand that the current hunger problems in Cuba are being caused, at least partly, by the fact that Trump as president put Cuba on the U. S. List of Nations that Sponsor Terrorism, which vastly tightened the six-decade-old EMBARGO. Most observers believed that the Demcorat Biden presidency would quickly remove Cuba from that List because of genocidal repercussions in Cuba...but Biden as President has had over three years to do that and he has refused to do so. You see, Little Havana Cubans in Miami have masssive political power both in Florida and nationally in Washington. And, in the US's two-party political system, relief for starving Cubans who once hoped for help from the Democrat Party, simply became a faded dream in 2024.

     Listing Cuba as a nation that Sponsors Terror, from a political standpoint, has had the effect of helping to create the Hunger and Blackout problems that appear to finally tipping the scales against Revolutionary Cuba, to the delight of Little Havana Cubans. Thus, as April in 2024 starts, there really appears nothing that Cuba can do to confront what is finally the Perfect Storm against it.

     If you study the images above, you should understand that even Cuba, as it heads into April of 2024, comprehends the difference between normal Tropical Storms and the climatic Perfect Storm that it now faces. We can assume, I think, that the most famous counter revolutiary Cuban in Cuba, Yoani Sanchez, knows all about the Perfect Storm now gushing over the vulnerable island...and so do her dear friends Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez, the two most ultra-powerful Cuban-American counter revolutionaries in the United States Senate.

    In other words, in 2024 the incredible 65 years that the Cuban Revolution has ruled Cuba will almost surely end. And, in other words, Cuba and the United States will again be lucrative "Good Friends" again -- you know, like in the lucrative 1950s when Batista dictated Cuba as US's friend.

Remember, uh, when Batista loved those rides around Washington?

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