Media Coverage of Cuba

  Highlights An American Problem 

        This photo is courtesy of the U. S. House of Representatives. It was taken yesterday, Tuesday. The man in the forefront is Congressman John Katko from New York. He has only been in Congress since January 3rd, 2016, but he helps explain why the right-wing Republican dominated Congress has an approval rating in the single digits and why many longtime Republicans exited the party long ago. Although New York and America have a lot of things that need congressional attention, Katko is shown above unleashing a vicious attack on President Obama. Katko is outraged that Mr. Obama is trying to bring a degree of sanity and decency to America's Cuban policy. In particular, Katko yesterday assailed Obama for allowing commercial airplane flights from the U. S. to Cuba for the first time in half-a-century, with the flights due to start this fall. The lady looking incredulously and scornfully at Katko is Congresswoman Kathleen Rice, also from New York. Miss Rice accused Katko of "playing politics with Cuba" instead of doing "the people's business." 

       Representative Katko has only been in Congress a few months but his tirade yesterday seems to clearly indicate he has joined the fraternity that is willing to hurt the mighty United States in order to hurt little Cuba.

       Kathleen Rice has been in the U. S. Congress little more than a year. Her courageous rebuke of Katko's anti-Obama and anti-Cuban rants yesterday indicates she actually cares about helping everyday Americans and has no interest in hurting everyday Cubans. But as long as the likes of Katko keep getting elected and joining a dysfunctional majority in Congress, the U. S. democracy itself has a problem...especially considering the fact that 315 million Americans have never heard of Katko and can't vote him out of office. 

       Sarah Marsh covers Latin America for Reuters, the world's top news agency. Reuters is headquartered in London, which means Sarah is free to write unbiased articles about Cuba. This week she is covering the important U.S.-Cuban bilateral meetings taking place in Havana. U. S. journalists and news outlets are obligated to distort and slant news related to Cuba, either out of intimidation or political correctness. Thus, the best sources for updates on U.S.-Cuban developments, such as the ongoing bilateral sessions, are the London-based giants, Reuters and the BBC, both of whom are easily accessible in this digital age.

       The Sarah Marsh article is entitled: "Cuba and U. S. Draw Up Roadmap for Talks to Deepen Detente." 

        The Reuters article by Sarah Marsh quoted Josefina Vidal with this summation of the bilateral discussions taking place in Havana: "Cuba and the U. S. aim to reach new agreements on cooperation in law enforcement, health, and agriculture over the coming months. The agenda is quite ambitious." While praising the earlier positive advancements in U.S.-Cuban relations and expressing hope for this week's discussions on crime, health and agriculture, Vidal was not so naive as to expect eminent accommodations on ticklish topics such as the embargo, Cuba's Guantanamo Bay and the funding of Cuban dissidents.

        In addition to Reuters, the London-based BBC is an excellent source for fair-minded news related to Cuba. While the U. S. media is not capable of providing unbiased Cuban news, the BBC is. For example, check the BBC's article and video report entitled "How Obama's Olive Branch Caused A Cuban Exodus." While Americans are not supposed to be told about incredibly discriminatory U. S. laws regarding such things as Cuban migration and special financial incentives for Cubans, the BBC explains how America's grossly undemocratic Wet Foot/Dry Foot law is currently creating vast problems for many Latin American nations and windfalls for Cubans and human traffickers as rumors spread that Obama's approach to Cuba might...WOW!!...end some of the wildly discriminatory U.S. laws that favor would-be Cuban defectors and a selected few Cuban-Americans. Reuters and the BBC can fairly discuss such things; the U. S. media cannot. And that's why...the Cuban Revolution says a lot more about the United States than it says about Cuba. In fact, the Cuban Revolution has changed the United States as much as it has changed Cuba. That change commenced in 1959 when the Batista-Mafia dictatorship was booted out of Cuba...all the way to Miami.

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