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This is a set of images connected with Cuba. The images included in this set are: map, flag, boy, girl, banana, coffee bean, car, houses, Hedychium coronarium (national) flower, palm tree, cigar, rice/meat dish, guitar, Havana Cathedral, pineapple, Trogan (national) bird and word art. 34 images (17 in color and the same 17 in B&W) … Cuba Clip Art Bundle (Color and B&W) Read More »
May 17, 1928: Santiago de Cuba. October 4th, 2021: In Havana. In 2004 the George W. Bush administration -- although a part of the vast Bush dynasty that was/is an important part of the Little Havana/Miami Counter Revolutionary U. S. assualts against Cuba -- allowed me to visit Cuba for the purpose of researching the incomparable revolutionary heroine Celia Sanchez...apparently because the Bush dynasty wanted to know why there were so many statues of Celia in Cuba but none of Fidel Castro. Once in Havana the first person I asked to meet was Marta Rojas because I knew that Marta -- as a legendary revolutionary, journalist, author, and historian -- knew more about Celia Sanchez, Fidel Castro, and the Cuban Revolution than anyone on the planet. From the moment I met Marta she became a lifelong friend that I have treasured. Yes, tirelessly Marta spoke to me about Celia Sanchez, Fidel Castro, and the Revolution. Then when I returned to my home in Wyoming, Marta and I exchanged many emails between Havana and Laramie pertaining to my biography of Celia Sanchez that was published in 2005. Among other things, Marta emailed me a copy of the obituary that she had written and was published on the Front Page of Cuba's main newspaper, Granma, when Celia Sanchez died of cancer on January 11, 1980. Needless to say, for the decades since 2004 I stayed in touch with MARTA ROJAS as best I could, especially on her birthdays. So, this has been a sad week for me since last Monday -- October 4th-2021 -- when she died at age 93 in Havana. Three years ago on Marta's 90th BIRTHDAY I wrote the following tribute to MARTA ROJAS in which I tried to explain what she meant to me and to the world. That tribute is re-posted here today: cubaninsider: A 90th Birthday for Marta Rojas: A great Cuban has celebrated a great birthday on the island. Marta Rojas turned 90-years-old a few days ago. She was born on Ma... Thanks for CARING about her
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For One+ Years Or For Five+ Years!! {UPDATED: Tuesday, August 6, 2019} Although the demise of Revolutionary Cuba has been predicted almost daily since January 1, 1959, that prognostication got new adherents back in June-2019 when the Trump administration activated Title 3/Helms Burton, a starvation tactic that even the Batistiano-aligned George W. Bush presidency had considered too cruel to activate. Once Title 3/Helms Burton was activated against Cuba back in June, the USA's vast economic influence worldwide was considered by many, at long last, to be the final nail in Revolutionary Cuba's coffin. After all, Title 3 legalized the total blockade against the vulnerable island, forcing other nations to cooperate in blocking all imports and exports to-and-from Cuba as well as decimating the island's vital tourist industry. Of course, as written originally by Batistiano lawyers in 1996, Title 3/Helms Burton is also designed to create more Cuban-exile millionaires and billionaires by legalizing vast lawsuits in Batistiano-friendly U. S. courtrooms to benefit heirs of the supposedly honest Batista-Mafia dictatorship that ruled Cuba prior to the 1959 victory of the Cuban Revolution. Indeed, the Trump administration expected little Cuba to surrender by now, especially after new reports from the island, starting in June-2019, began to reveal food shortages and energy blackouts in Cuba due to Title 3/Helms Burton. Yet, as indicated above, little Cuba screamed back that no United States "economico bloqueo" would usurp "nuestra dignidad." {"our dignity"}. And so far, for about the millionth time since 1959, the white dove bearing the Cuban flag of independence has somehow escaped the clutches of the Batistiano-directed United States, and the dove each time has flown safely back to the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island, much to the chagrin of the remnants of the former Batista-Mafia rulers still nestled securely and RICHLY on U. S., but not Cuban, soil. If Title 3/Helms Burton doesn't work, all sane and decent people HOPE the Trump administration will not consider nuking the island on behalf of the Counter Revolutionary extremists but, of course, one never knows what Trump might do. As far as is known, not a single decent American or Cuban-American approves the extreme genocidal cruelty of Title III/Helms Burton. Indeed, decent Americans like Peter Kornbluh at the Washington-based U. S. National Archives; Emily Mendrala at the Washington-based Center for Democracy in the Americas; and countless other decent folks have literally begged Little Havana's Marco Rubio to allow President Trump to "SUSPEND" in its entirety the insanity of Title III/Helms-Burton. But, of course, dating back to the 1950s the collective obsessions of a mere handful of Republican right-wingers aligned with a mere handful of Batistiano-Mafiosi extremists have been able to dictate America's Cuban policies, forcing the island nation to repeatedly adjust but to not surrender. In these first few days of August, 2019, Cuba has announced to the world its latest plan to survive President Trump and Title 3/Helms-Burton. The island has welcomed some brave help from the Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Japanese governments, but it seeks vital new investments from nations closer to home. The AFP image above was used to illustrate an August 4-2019 article by BUSINESSDAY. It explained that Cuba has informed all potential investors of its total foreign debt, which it says is $18.2 billion that it is trying to keep paying off. Also, Cuba explained updated figures on how it is earning money to survive the Trump administration. For example, in 2018 Cuba earned $970 million from hotel and related services; $722 million from telecommunications; $600 million from transportation and support services, etc. Also, Cuba says its exports in 2018 totaled $14.5 billion, down from $18.6 billion in 2013; and its imports in 2018 totaled $12.6 billion, way down from $15.6 billion in 2013. BUSINESSDAY said that Cuba, for the first time, is revealing such statistics in order to try to convince foreign investors that the island is not only open for business but is also a safe investment even during the duration of the current Republican administration in Washington. Cuba insists it will survive the Little Havana-directed Republican presidency and await an Obama-like Democratic U. S. president. On August 4th-2019 the Foundation for Economic Education {FEE} used the graphic above in discussing the evils of Cuba's socialism compared to the wonders of Hong Kong's capitalism. Not discussed much is the wonders of socialism in, say, Norway, which has a far higher per capita income than the U. S. and, of course, a far safer and happier population. What if Cuba, like Norway and everyone else, had not suffered under brutal U. S. economic sanctions since 1962? Also, in July and August of 2019 massive anti-government demonstrations have inundated Hong Kong...not to mention that massive demonstrations in San Juan have just overturned the latest corrupt government on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, which is a U. S. Territory with U. S. Citizens who receive billions of U. S. tax dollars and other aid to help out during national disasters like hurricanes. When Cuba suffers from similar disasters, the U. S. embargo blocks outside help from nations that otherwise would like to help. So, can little Cuba survive Helms-Burton's most genocidal provisions recently enacted for the first time by the latest Little Havana-directed Republican administration in Washington? Well...maybe or maybe not!! But one thing is sure: Cuba...is trying real hard to survive Trump while hoping someone like Obama claims the American presidency. Obama: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." A sacred promise President Obama made on his historic visit to Cuba in 2016. It was a sincere quote by President Obama but Revolutionary Cuba, indeed, has been forced to fear a dire threat from all six Republican administrations since the 1950's. But Donald Trump is the only U. S. Republican President that has: {1} Activated the genocidal starvation provisions of Title 3/Helms-Burton; and {2} he is the Republican President that quickly went to Little Havana in Miami and promised the few remaining April of 1961 Bay of Pigs attackers that their defeat will be avenged and Cuba will be returned to them during their lifetimes. In exchange, Trump believes Little Havana can again deliver him Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes heading into his 2020 re-election. For sure, since the Spanish-American War in Cuba in 1898, and especially since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, Cuba has said a lot more about the United States than it has said about Cuba itself. And I think we can all agree, WHAT IT SAYS is not pretty. The above photo is merely one of many things attesting to that basic fact. As a democracy-loving American, I was ashamed in October of 2016, the last year of the Obama presidency, when the entire world voted 191-to-0 at the United Nations to unanimously condemn the U. S. embargo of Cuba that has existed since 1962. And similarly, I am ashamed that billboards like the one above can inform the Cuban people that the embargo...Cubans call it a blockade...is by far the longest and cruelest economic embargo ever imposed by a strong nation against a much weaker nation. The words "EL GENOCIDIO" as used above means "THE GENOCIDE" and that, I believe, is a term that should shame the people in any powerful country...China, Russia, US, etc. This photo was taken in Cuba last week by Roberto Suarez and it shows Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel addressing Cubans in a televised speech. He used the word "genocide" to describe the Trump administration's activation of Title 3/Helms-Burton and then he explained what the Cuban government is trying to do to survive it. Cubans are well-educated and now they are very active on the Internet and the Social Media. A strong majority of Cubans support Diaz-Canel and they know him well as their former Education Minister. He was born after the triumph of the Revolution but he is a fierce supporter of it, as are most Cubans on the island. If that were not so, Revolutionary Cuba could never have survived all these decades. The Cuban narrative in the United States since 1959 starts with the premise that the Batista-Mafia dictatorship was a sweet, Mother Teresa-type government in Havana. And that's a lie. And furthermore, it hasn't been a sweet, Mother Teresa-type government on U. S. soil in Little Havana since 1959 either. *&***********************&*
Believes Miami Extremists Involved!! The graphic above is viewed by Cuba {and many others} as a template to carefully assess the ongoing coups and violent demonstrations currently roiling Latin American nations in the USA's backdoor, much closer than "more important" nations like Ukraine, Israel, etc. Nations like Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, etc., along with U.S.-brokered right-wing governments in nations like Brazil and Ecuador, etc., are also considered directly related to Little Havana/Miami Cuban Counter Revolutionaries taking advantage of their grip on the Trump administration in Washington. Study the above graphic for yourself and start with the top five nations shown above...Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, and Bolivia...and then go down through all the others, ending with Peru and Brazil...but don't forget Nicaragua and Venezuela particularly. A recent right-wing coup in Bolivia recently chased President Evo Morales to exile in Mexico after he had spent 13 years as a staunch pro-Cuban ally, and he has been replaced by a violently anti-Cuban leadership...which is the trend in Latin America. But long-time pro-Cuban governments in Venezuela and Nicaragua for months have been also drastically targeted by Miami-USA anti-Cuban forces for regime-changes considered by Cuban Counter Revolutionaries in Little Havana and in the U. S. Congress to be far more important than the regime-change that just happened in Bolivia. So, what foreign forces are lighting the fires creating all these right-wing/anti-Cuba coups and demonstrations in Latin America? Both pro-Cuban and anti-Cuban nations in Latin America believe, although many of them are too afraid to say so publicly, that a few U. S. Cubans doing the bidding of Little Havana extremists empowered by President Trump are fueling flames of the Latin American regime-changes as depicted above, and the ramifications will be long-lasting for unwilling U. S. taxpayers who are paying for it. For the most part in the U. S. media, Cuba and even Latin America remain on the backburner while the propaganda-obsessed mainstream American media has been saturated with impeaching Trump even though his democratic re-election is less than a year away. But media like the more honest London-based Reuters News, as shown above, reports on the significance of things such as Little Havana/anti-Cuban zealot Marco Rubio taking his anti-Cuba/regime change fireworks to the volatile Venezuela-Colombia border {above} where he tried to facilitate his Venezuela regime-change because eliminating pro-Cuban governments in Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc., such as the recent regime-change in Bolivia, remain top priorities of Little Havana and Marco Rubio and his cohorts who believe their recapture of Revolutionary Cuba will still occur while Trump is president. The confident Rubio has not only pointedly Tweeted threats at Cuban President Diaz-Canel {"See you soon"}, Rubio has also bragged about being responsible for causing power blackouts and food shortages on the island since persuading Trump to activate the genocidal aspects of Title 3 of Helms-Burton that even the Little Havana-aligned George W. Bush presidency considered too cruel to inflict on the Cuban people. Diaz-Canel has replied to Rubio with Tweets of his own and with numerous talks with Cubans across the island, including admonitions such as, "Rubio believes he can starve Cubans with Title 3 and he may also have Trump's authority to nuke this island, but the revolutionary fervor still remains in the hearts and souls of the vast majority of Cubans who are not in Little Havana. We will remain guerrilla warriors to the end even in this time that Rubio and Trump has Title 3, nukes, and other advantages." This photo was taken last Friday -- November 22nd, 2019. It shows a special demonstration marking the 45th anniversary of Cuba's elite first-line Antonio Maceo Brigade. The Cuba-related maelstroms taking place in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Brazil, Ecuador, etc., prompted Cuba to remind its people of their greatest independence-fighters -- like Antonio Maceo. Born in Santiago de Cuba in 1845, Antonio Maceo is revered as, "The Bronze Titan." He died on December 7, 1896, fighting Spanish soldiers in the Battle of Punta Bravo on Cuban soil. While Cuba was unable to overthrow four centuries of occupation from the Spanish empire, Antonio Maceo is emblematic of Cuban independence-fighters who heroically gave their lives trying to achieve independence for the island. And today Antonio Maceo is remembered as one of the greatest inspirations for "THE INDEPENDENCE-FIGHTERS LIKE FIDEL CASTRO WHO IN 1959 LED THE CUBAN REVOLUTION TO FINALLY WIN ITS STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES." While Fidel Castro, before he died at age 90 in 2016, ordered that no statues or edifices should not ever be named for him, on the island today there are massive statues and things such as airports and hospitals honoring Antonio Maceo. In Havana this is the gigantic statue and monumental park honoring Antonio Maceo. On the other end of the island from Havana, this is the statue and park honoring Antonio Maceo in Santiago de Cuba in his hometown where he was born in 1845. Between the island's two biggest cities are many other statues and edifices like airports named for "The Bronze Titan." As independent Cuba is threatened anew by forces such as Title 3/Helms Burton, Rubio, Trump, and anti-Cuban coups and demonstrations across Latin America, honoring legendary Cuban independence fighters like Antonio Maceo is one way Cuba fortifies its reputation as Latin America's all-time most famed and most influential David vs. Goliath success. Today's Antonio Maceo Brigade in Cuba. VS. TRUMP'S BRIGADE 2506 in Little Havana. David vs. Goliath. *&***********************&*
