Most Americans Are,
But Not All!!!
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| Photo courtesy: Grey Allen/NPR.
Yesterday -- December 18th -- the brave folks at the NPR network had a major report entitled: "Little Florida Bank Goes Where Behemoths Fear To Tread." It's a reminder to some that, since the 1950s, most Americans -- BUT NOT ALL -- have been too propagandized or too intimidated to even weigh in on an affront to their democracy -- namely, the U. S. government's alignment with the Batistianos and the Mafiosi in its relationships with the nearby island of Cuba. That anti-democratic posture began in 1952 in Cuba and has continued ever since 1959 in the U. S. after the Cuban Revolution booted the Batistiano-Mafiosi leadership off the island, mainly to South Florida. Stonegate Bank is located in Pompano Beach, Florida. The NPR report pointed out that it is "the only U. S. bank doing business with Cuba."
Greg Allen, based in Miami, is NPR's only correspondent in the state of Florida. It's refreshing to note that he has the courage and integrity, even from Miami, to provide his listeners and viewers fair and balanced reports on Cuban issues, establishing him as an extremely unique commodity in the annals of modern U. S. journalism. Mr. Allen is the journalist that revealed that little Stonegate Bank in Pompano Beach is the only U. S. bank gutsy enough to legally do business with Cuba.
On a consistent basis, it is refreshing that one national network, NPR, regularly presents fair-minded reporting on Cuba, including the pros and cons of Cuba's relationship with the United States. Elsewhere, USA networks bend over backwards to make sure they don't anger or annoy America's vast Castro Industry, which frowns on any positive aspect of Cuban coverage. That's just not the way the media is supposed to perform within the confines of the world's greatest democracy.
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