Modern Day Marie Antoinette 90 miles South of Key West:
Wife of Cuba’s fake president opens gastronomic festival in luxury apartheid hotel as starving Cubans scrounge for food
https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1672426320_44340.html
Translated excerpt with translator’s comments included:
From our Bureau of Socialist Equity and Social Justice with some assistance from our Bureau of Clueless First Ladies of Latrine America Who Resemble Marie Antoinette
Another intolerable insult to the Cuban people is underway, led by none other than the so-called “First Lady” of Castrogonia, Lis Cuesta.
This latest food festival is being launched during one of the worst food shortages in the history of Cuba, a crisis that is made all the worse by triple-digit inflation. Food is not only scarce, but unaffordable.
Nice move, First Lady. Very imaginative way of reminding the Cuban people that they are all inferior to the oligarchs and tourists who get to eat as much as they want during a severe famine. Hey, Lis, tell us: Have you ever heard of Marie Antoinette? You need to check out her story. Really. Click the link, Lis … and you might learn a thing or two.
Abridged and loosely translated from Diario de Cuba
Cuba Sabe, the international gastronomic workshop organized by the Cuban first lady Lis Cuesta, will have its fourth edition between January 12 and 14, with China as the guest country, and despite the hardships that Cubans go through to get food.
Based at the luxurious five-star Iberostar Grand Packard hotel in Havana, the event will have as its themes the gastronomy of Sancti Spíritus, the imprint of Chinese immigrants on Cuban gastronomic culture and design in gastronomy, the site indicated. specialized Travel Trade Caribbean.
Cuba Sabe is organized by the Paradiso Cultural Tourism Agency, directed by Cuesta and part of the Cuban Ministry of Culture, the Culinary Federation, Sommeliers Association and Cuban Bartenders Association.
It also has the sponsorship of the Ministries of Culture and Tourism, the National Council of Cultural Heritage, the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Cuba and the Spanish hotel company Iberostar Hotels & Resorts, which from the beginning offers its luxurious facilities as its headquarters.
The meeting, which Cuban leaders usually attend, starting with Miguel Díaz-Canel, will offer conferences, tastings, specialized workshops, themed lunches, art exhibitions and book presentations.
In addition, it includes night concerts with Cuban groups and gastronomic tours in the days after the event, which can be reserved so that, according to the organizers, “those interested can learn Cuban cuisine ‘in situ’, its ingredients, its origins, its ways of autochthonous production and crops”.
Cuba Sabe derived from Gastrocult, a first workshop organized by Cuesta in 2019 to promote Cuban cuisine, which immediately received government support to become a more ambitious event.
The announcement of the call comes while Cubans face endless queues and slaughterhouses to get the traditional piece of pork to toast at the end of the year dinner, and food shortages in the country, where the prices of what few that there are are triggered, it becomes very difficult to satisfy the basic needs of families.
Dry Tortugas National Park closes after nearly 300 illegal immigrants land over 2-day span
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KEY WEST, Fla. – Dry Tortugas National Park closed Monday morning after scores of migrants arrived in the Florida Keys, and the park will remain closed for the time being.
Officials on Sunday said nearly 300 migrants arrived at the park over the past two days.
Law enforcement and medical personnel will evaluate and transport the migrants to Key West, officials said.
In a separate incident, authorities in the Florida Keys encountered 160 asylum seekers on Sunday. As of late Sunday afternoon, Border Patrol had responded to 10 migrant landings since midnight.
“More than 160 refugees have landed mostly in the Middle and Upper Keys, as well as many as 300 on the Marquesas Keys and at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas,” Monroe County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Adam Linhardt confirmed Monday.
.....“Like elsewhere in the Florida Keys, the park has recently seen an increase in people arriving by boat from Cuba and landing on the islands of Dry Tortugas National Park,” the National Park Service said in a news release. “Park first responders provide food, water and basic medical attention until the Department of Homeland Security arrives and takes the lead.
“While the park is closed, vessels may seek safe harbor in the designated areas within the one nautical mile anchoring zone around Garden Key, including Bird Key Harbor. There will be no visitor services available while the closure is in effect and emergency services will be extremely limited.”
According to Linhardt, Border Patrol officials have notified the sheriff’s office that “some migrant landings may have to wait for federal resources to arrive until the following day, aggravating the mass migration crisis in the Keys.”
“This federal failure is creating a humanitarian crisis,” he said.
“This shows a lack of a working plan by the federal government to deal with a mass migration issue that was foreseeable,” Ramsay said.
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