Both Threaten Cuba!!
This BBC graphic shows that the eastern tip of Cuba is right in the bulls-eye of the powerful Hurricane Matthew today -- Tuesday, October 4th, 2016. It also targets the plush, ultra-modern U. S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But American military planes have flown 700 family members of navy personnel to safety on U. S. soil and the remaining 5,500 Americans working and vacationing there are considered safe in modern buildings and, if needed, shelters. However, the Cubans on the eastern edge of the island are not so lucky although Cuba is renowned for its preparation ahead of such devastating hurricanes.
Meanwhile, this AP/John Raoux photo is being used this week to herald the re-election of Marco Rubio to a second 6-year-old term in the U. S. Senate from Miami. That unfortunate event will officially occur next month. While Hurricane Matthew threatens only the eastern tip of Cuba today, Rubio threatens the entire island for as long as he can use a skewered, money-crazed, flawed democracy to conduct mostly unchallenged aspersions and cruelties on a vulnerable, much smaller nation. Rubio's reelection reflects anew that only revengeful, self-serving anti-Castro zealots can get elected to Congress from Florida, especially Miami. That's kinda strange considering that polls show that most Cuban-Americans even in Miami's Little Havana favor President Obama's efforts to normalize relations with Cuba, not Rubio's archaic belligerence. But when it comes to Cuba it would be hard to point out a single instance in which a democratic principle has been applied to either Miami's or Washington's Cuban policy. Thus, Rubio's re-election will mark a sad continuation of an ageless topic, Cuba, that reminds democracy-lovers in the U. S. and around the world that the once-vaunted U. S. democracy is still not capable of correcting a policy that has done more harm to America's international image than any other single event or subject. That reminder will come yet again later this month in the United Nations with a resounding 191-to-2 vote. Unworthy benefactors like the re-elected Senator Rubio will bask in the Batista-like and Mafiosi-like pain inflicted year-after-year and decade-after-decade on both the U. S. democracy and millions of totally innocent Cubans...ALWAYS, of course, IN THE GUISE OF HURTING THE NOW 90-YEAR-OLD FIDEL CASTRO.
TRUTH BE KNOWN, Fidel Castro's long life has been greatly boosted by such things as the impending re-election of Marco Rubio to the United States Senate from Miami. MOREOVER, Fidel Castro's long legacy will be greatly boosted by the continuation of such things. Some self-ordained Cuban experts will deny that but that will be only in their lucrative roles as self-serving bullies, not as honest or unbiased analysts.
Summary:
This Reuters photo shows a street in 2008 after hurricane Ike hit Cuba.
Innocent people on this vulnerable island........
do not deserve to be attacked by Hurricane Matthew today
or by U. S. Senator Marco Rubio forever.
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