6.4.19

Helping OR Starving Cubans

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     This interesting photo, courtesy of Ariel Rey Rollero/ACN, shows the first of 100 brand-new garbage collecting trucks that Japan is donating to Cuba. In this first week of April-2019 the first 24 trucks have arrived in Havana and the remaining 76 are on the way. Kazuhiro Fujimura, the Japanese Ambassador to Cuba, said, "This is one way we are trying to help the Cuban people. In addition to the trucks, we have trained the Cuban drivers and mechanics how to use the tools and the repair spare parts that we are sending with the trucks. This is from the people of Japan to the people of Cuba." Cuba has just one enemy in the world, but it happens to be the nearby world Superpower, the United States, which has the economic and military might to punish and scare away other nations that may want to help Cuba or merely conduct normal trade with the island. So, the gesture this week from Japan, a prime U. S. trading partner, is a brave move.
        THE VERY SAME DAY THIS WEEK -- Friday, April 5th, 2019 -- that Japan was making that brave donation of garbage trucks to the Cuban people, the USA Vice President Mike Pence was speaking at Rice University in Houston, Texas. If you read the coverage of that speech in articles by the Houston Chronicle and the Jamaica Observer, I believe you will comprehend the gist of Pence's message, which was essentially to cowardly and boastfully tout the starvation of Cubans on the island as a prelude to the Trump administration's recapturing the island on behalf of the latest generation of Counter Revolutionary extremists in the Little Havana section of Miami. Pence, in his speeches or statements about Cuba, merely does what President Trump, Secretary of State Pompeo, National Security Adviser Bolton, and the USA's Western Hemisphere boss Claver-Carone do...AND THAT IS TO PARROT WHATEVER THE USA'S LATEST CUBAN DICTATOR, Senator Marco Rubio from Little Havana, DIRECTS THEM TO SAY. In Houston on April 5th Pence indicated that as soon as the USA executes its regime-change in Venezuela, Cuba is next followed by Nicaragua. Typical of all Batistiano-dictated Republican administrations since 1959, Pence blamed Cuba for all the ills in the Caribbean and Latin America, including...of course...the Venezuelan crisis. While Pence expected the USA to have executed its regime-change in Venezuela two months ago, he blamed poor-little-embargoed Cuba for the delay. Of course, two huge nuclear-powered Superpowers, Russia and China, have sent airplane loads of medicine, food, etc., as well as well-armed Russian and Chinese soldiers to Venezuela. But, of course, Pence is afraid of mighty Russia and mighty China so, of course, he reserves his regime-change talk only to small nations, especially little Cuba, which is the only nation that ever overthrew a U.S.-backed dictatorship -- Batista-Mafia -- only to chase the leaders to Miami and Newark where, beginning in January of 1959, they quickly set up what has turned out to be a very rich exile-Cuban government within the bowels of the U. S government. And Pence's April 5th speech in Houston, I believe, merely reflects the latest Republican administration's dire desire to help the Little Havana extremists to recapture Cuba.
     In Houston on April 5th this Godofredo A. Vasquez/Houston Chronicle photo shows Rice University students loudly booing the speech by Vice President Pence. The Chronicle indicated they were booing Pence because they perceive him to be anti-gay but Hispanic students are also staunchly against Republican imperialism in Latin America.
     This powerful lady -- Maria Fernanda Espinosa -- has been in Cuba all week and will remain there this weekend. She is the President of the United Nations General Assembly. "I seek to strengthen ties between Cuba and the United Nations," Mrs. Fernanda Espinosa said. "When innocent people are threatened or in need, it is our responsibility, whenever we can, to offer our input and help." The phrase "whenever we can" obviously refers to the fact that she is not happy that the United States has veto power over her UN General Assembly as well as the incomparable economic and military might to back it up.
     Cuba's Ambassador to the United Nations is Anayansi Rodriguez and she is a close friend of Maria Fernanda Espinosa, the President of the UN's General Assembly. Ms. Rodriguez said, "Cuba is very willing to speak with and be very friendly to anyone and any nation that is friendly to us. We spoke with and we were very friendly to President Obama but we have been blind-sided by his successor being another Republican, a President who speaks with the top leaders of North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Russia, China, Vietnam...but not us because I, as well as others, including Maria Fernanda, believe all Republican leaders are directed by Cuban extremists in Miami and in the U. S. Congress."
        If you take time to tap the 3-minute video above you will hear in English the words of a great and decent lady -- Anayansi Rodriguez, Cuba's Ambassador to the UN. {As a democracy-loving American, one of my great shames is that, since the 1950's, the U. S. democracy, especially during all Republican administrations, has allowed a handful of Cuban extremists to dictate America's Cuban policies and America's Cuban narratives. There are, I believe, over five million Cuban women on the island, like Anayansi Rodriguez, who are far better human beings than the handful of USA-embedded Cuban extremists and the sycophants who support them}.
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