Before Trump "Terminates" It!
The website www.gettingstamped.com has an interesting article entitled "27 of the Best Things to do in Cuba." Cuban visitors must rent an old 1950s car and check out the island's uniquely beautiful beaches.
Then, even if you are a non-smoker, you must taste Cuban delights and cultural phenomenons such as its famed, world-class cigars. And be sure to have a photo taken to prove to your friends that you did it!
But please understand that you have only a few weeks left to experience Cuba. If you disbelieve that, I invite you to Google the four names depicted in the photo line-up/montage above. They and four others like them are on President-elect Donald Trump's Transition Team that takes office in the White House on January 20th, 2017. Those eight, led by these four, comprise the most visceral anti-Castro lobbyists in the U. S....and all are determined to use the power of the President and the might of the most powerful Commander-in-Chief in the world to eviscerate the last vestiges of the Cuban Revolution, once and for all.
Why are these five people smiling and chatting so vociferously? They are omnipotent anti-Castro zealots who didn't overwhelm Cuba's revolution during the Bush presidencies but they now will have Donald Trump as President and Commander-in-Chief of the United States. Their prayers have been answered. In the red tie above is the most visceral anti-Castro zealot on the planet. His name is Mauricio Claver-Carone. Mauricio Claver-Carone is Donald Trump's primary advisor regarding Cuba. And that's why I believe that Mr. Trump, the Twitter-in-Chief, used the word "terminate" when he Tweeted about Cuba.
It will be incredibly easy for Mauricio Claver-Carone to convince President Donald Trump that Cuba is "unwilling" to acquiesce to the demands of the ultra-powerful Cuban-American anti-Castro zealots. Judge for yourself if that has already happened and then decide if that is why Trump's Tweet above used a rather definitive word -- "terminate" -- to presage his Cuban policy that will soon commence on January 20th.
For Americans to sit back and leave its Cuban policy in the hands of only the most zealous and self-serving Cuban-Americans while ignoring the desires of most Cuban-Americans, most Americans and all the nations in the world is an abominable, cowardly and undemocratic commentary on the United States. That fact is reflected by the current 191-to-0 denunciation of America's Cuban policy in the United Nations, a bitter condemnation that intimidated and propagandized Americans have been proselytized to ignore.
This collection of unique Cuban butterflies is now on display in Washington at the American Museum of Natural History's newly created Cuban exhibit, just one of the positive offshoots of President Obama's sane and decent overtures to Cuba. Does the Trump & Claver-Carone plan to eviscerate or terminate the Cuban Revolution also mean the elimination of basic principles of democracy that America's Founding Fathers tried so hard to instill in perpetuity into the basic fabric of America's beloved democracy? It appears so. That's why, as I suggested at the top of this article, if you want to experience Cuba, do so quickly. Shortly after Jan. 20-2017 it will cease to exist, except in the image of Mauricio Claver-Carone, a determined and, I believe, a dangerous man most Americans have never heard of. The Cuban Revolution, as epitomized by Mauricio Claver-Carone, says a lot more about the United States than it says about Cuba.
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The dynamo at the Washington-based Center for Democracy in the Americas, Sarah Stephens, for the last ten years has been the greatest promoter of U. S. sanity and decency in regards to Cuba. At the start of the pivotal New Year of 2017, she says, "At CDA we support engagement and treating Cuba with respect. Until his inauguration on January 20th, we don't know whether President-elect Trump will continue, stall, or reverse all the good that the U. S. policy {Obama's} has done for the Cuban people, the American people, and our shared hope for the future." But as a superb expert on U.S-Cuban relations and as a fierce advocate of such sanity and decency in regards to Cuba, the U. S. media is generally too afraid of the Batistianos to air the democratic views of a truly great lady like Sarah Stephens. This generation of Americans, like the previous one, is not supposed to have the guts or patriotism to question that undemocratic way of life. And that's precisely why Americans, even timidly, should have the freedom to choose between a Sarah Stephens and a Mauricio Claver-Carone.
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