Trumps Wants "TO DEAL" With Cuba

 And Cuba Wants to Talk!!

       For sure, after putting Nicolas Maduro, the leader of Venezuela, in a New York prison, it was expected that the next regime change for U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump would be in Cuba. That, obviously, remains the plan of Little Havana/Miami and Washington but the more urgent focus on the Iran War has postponed the final plans for Cuba, but probably no more than a week or two. The headlines and articles from top U. S. media sources such as the Associated Press and USA Today as we head into mid-March in 2026 still daily update Americans and the World about the impending changes in Cuba.

      As shown above, top U. S. media scoures are saying -- despite the hot Iran War in the Middle East -- the focus on Cuba remains firmly on the minds of the U. S. leaders in Little Havana/Miami and Washington.

     For sure, Miami-born Cuban-Americans such as the ultra-powerful Marco Rubio are joined by many other powerful Little Havana Cuban-Americans like Havana-born U. S. Congressman Carlos Gimenez. Born in Cuba's capital of Havana 72 years ago, Carlos Gimenez became a powerful politician in Little Havana-Miami and served as Miami's Mayor from 2011 till 2020 and he is now a powerful Little Havana-MIami U. S. Congressman in Washington.

      Congressman Carlos Gimenez is promoting {see above} the USA's 250th Annnversary in 2026 that takes place lavishly on July 4th, 2026. By then, after 67 years of hoping, Little Havana Cubans will finally have regained control of Havana where Gimenez was born.

Little Havana/Miami vs. Cuba's Revolution.

     Cuba's top U. S. expert, Carlos Fernandez De Cossio, bravely says: "Cuba has a responsibility to protect its territorial waters." Indeed, a couple of weeks ago the U. S. Coast Guard returned fire from a heavily-armed Miami boat and killed or captured some of the ten men in the boat.

      This CBS News photo shows some of the weapons on that Miami boat that the Cuban Coast Guard faced off the northern Cuban coast recently.

     Cuba's targeted President Miguel Diaz-Canel says, "The heroic Cuban people are defending the Revolution that has survived the aggression of the United States since January of 1959, which was before I was born." 

     Most of the countries in Latin America that could help Cuba are too afraid of defying Miami, except for Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum. She has tried to send desperately needed oil, food, and medicine to help Cuba's ten million people.

      Also, Brazil -- Latin America's largest and richest nation -- has just signed a new "Bilateral Cooperation" agreement with Cuba.

     But regardless of what everyone else thinks, U. S. President Donald Trump and U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio have the power to reshape Cuba. And so it will happen, most likely in March of 2026 despite other problems such as the War in the Middle East.

    Meanwhile, Victor Toledo -- the notable Cuban photographer -- today posted the two photos shown above that depict Cubans on the island just waiting to see what unfolds from Miami and Washington. That, OF COURSE, is all they can do. Just wait!!

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Trump Wants a "Friendly Takeover" of Cuba?

What does that mean?  

            Since January of 1959 the superpower United States and the Cuban stronghold of Little Havana in Miami Florida have tried desperately to overthrow Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. Now in March of 2026 the strong and transformative U. S. President Donald Trump is massively determined to finally pull off that trick one way or another. One possible way even includes what he calls "a friendly takeover." 

This YouTube video explains the "Takeover." 

     The world expects U. S. President Donald Trump and his ultra-powerful Little Havana/Miami-born U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to takeover Cuba as soon as their current obsessions with regime changes in Venezuela and Iran are somewhat settled. Yes, the dire financial conditions on the island seem to indicate that Revolutinary Cuba, after 67 turbulent years in power, must finally admit that some kind of "friendly takeover" by Miami and the United States is the best of its options.

Cuba simply can not ignore the above headlines.

     At least when Cuba, starting in 2026, agrees to a "friendly takeover" by the rich and powerful forces in Miami and in the United States, it will be better than any of the other  options the pugnacious island now has. Thus Cuba must agree to a deal.

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Boca de Sama predated Miami's latest boat attack on Cuba

 

     This past Thursday on February 25th in 2026 the headlines, such as shown above, told about a heavily armed boat from Miami approaching Cuba. The Cuban Coast Guard had a shootout with the boat, killing four and wounding six men on the boat on the north-central Cuban coast near Santa Clara. Cubans on the island currently facing tightened regime change from Miami and Washington have historically faced other deadly attacks by boats from Miami, such as the one in Boca DE Sama!!

    The sleepy Cuban fishing village, on the north-central coast in Holguin Province, was attacked by a boat from Miami on October 15th in 1971. As you can see on the map above, it was easy for that high-powered boat to enter the waterway to locate Boca De Sama directly from the sea south of Miami. Boca De Sama had 85 citizens all of whom depended mostly on fishing but also welcomed some tourist trade.

      On October 15th in 1971 the citizens of Boca De Sami were not expecting an attack from a heavily armed Miami speedboat although they had been warned about what had happened to other such vulnerable villages.

       On the night of October 15th in 1971 Nancy Pavon was then a 15-year-old girl sleeping beside her 13-year-old sister Angela in a cabin on the edge of Boca De Sama. The cabin was attacked by cannon fire from a Miami boat.  Two family members were killed while both Nancy and Angela were gravely wounded.

The night-time cannon fire blew off much of Nancy Pavon's right leg.

       The Cuban Coast Guard arrived and chased off the boat while trying to help the victims. Nancy Pavon was rushed to a hospital but she had lost so much blood she was not expected to live. But, somehow, she did live. The photo shown above of Nancy Pavon recuperating in the hospital was taken by her oldest sister Xiomara who was a soldier with the Coast Guard working that night just north of Boca De Sama when the two younger Pavon sisters were badly wounded.

      The saga of Nancy Pavon's ordeal is well known to generations of Cubans in Cuba but rarely or never mentioned in Miami or the United States. But it was not only very real but also typical of the Cuban-US conflicts since 1959 in Revolutionary Cuba.

A brave survivor, Nancy Pavon in Cuba.

     Yes, Nancy Pavon, missing a blown-off right leg, barely survived the Miami boat attack on the little fishing village of Boca De Sami on October 12th in 1971. It is remembered in Cuba as a part of the island's history. It should also be remembered as a part of Miami's and the USA's history.

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The Deadly Cuba-Miami Gunfight!!!

 What Is Cuba Saying?

What is Miami Saying?

      Yes, yesterday -- February 25th, 2026 -- the Cuban Coast Guard killed four men in a boat approaching the island, and six other men in the heavily armed boat were injured. That much is undisputed but the rest will be likely disputed.

     Cuba's most notable journalist is Lazaro Manuel Alonso. Most Cubans believe what he tells them. Many others do too. Lazaro has over 306,000 followers on Facebook alone!! This week he has been telling Cubans about the unexplained number of fires that are roiling the island, with some believing that they involve ongoing terror attacks from nearby Miami.

     When Lazaro Manuel Alonso reported on this fire on Facebook this week, he said: "lhe fires in recent days are very worrying. This one, which occurred in Playa..." Thus, many Cubans were not totally surprised that yesterday -- February 25th, 2026 -- the Cuban Coast Guard got in a deadly gunfight with a heavily armed boat that Cuba believed was planning a terrorist attack on the island.

    Now today -- February 26th, 2026 -- the world is being told about yesterday's deadly gunfight on Cuba's northern coast just below Florida. It made the news despite other events that include major wars as well massive talks about other impending wars.

    In the U. S. the three legacy news networks -- NBC, CBS, and ABC -- still get about 20 million viewers at 6:30 PM each night. The graphic above shows how NBC News began its opening report on Cuba Kills Four On U. S. Boat. The top NBC News anchor is Cuban-American Tom Llamas who has reported extensively about President Trump's desire to orchestrate a regime in Cuba. Needless to say, the U. S. coverage of things like yesterday's Cuba-Miami gunfight will differ from how Cuban journalists such as Lazaro Manuel Alonso describe it. For example, at NBC News the Cuban-American anchor Tom Llamas depended on Cuban-American Jose Diaz-Balart to deliever the long report on the deadly gunfight yesterday off Cuba's coast.

     This was Jose Diaz-Balart yesterday delivering the opening NBC News report on the Cuban gunfight. The father of Jose Diaz-Balart was Rafael Diaz-Balart, a top Minister in the Batista dictatorship that was overthrown by the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959. Rafael fled to nearby Florida where he became a rich and powerful man advocating for the overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba.

In 2005 at age 79 Rafael Diaz-Balart died in Florida.

       This photo shows Rafael Diaz-Balart flanked in Florida with his four sons, one of whom was born in Havana while the other three were born in Florida. Two of the sons --Lincoln and Mario -- became long-time very powerful U. S. Congressmen representing Miami in Washington; Rafael Jr. became a very rich banker; and, as mentioned, Jose became a top news anchor at NBC and Telemundo.

    The saga that chronicles the riveting connection of Rafael Diaz-Balart and Fidel Castro highlights the ongoing intrigue and fascination with US-Cuba relations, especially the Batista dictarship, the Cuban Revolution, and Revolutionary Cuba. Both Rafael and Fidel were born in 1926 in southeast Cuba in the town of Banes. In 1948 Fidel, who had been Cuba's Athlete of the Year, married Rafael's sister Mirta. Rafael and Fidel were Law School classmates at the University of Havana. But Rafael became a powerful Minister in the brutal Batista dictatorship; Fidel's Revolution ousted Batista, chasing Rafael to Florida where he helped create Little Havana in Miami as a rich and powerful colossal that has tried mightily since 1959 to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. Yes, it is true that Rafael died at age 79 in Florida in 2005 and Fidel died at age 90 in Havana in 2016. But their legacies still dominate things like yesterday's deadly gunfight just off Cuba's northern coast. 

May they both Rest in Peace!!

May the Cuban Revolution be remembered!!

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