Huge Till Trumped!
Back on January 12th, just 8 days before his 8 years as America's two-term President ended, Barack Obama signed a final Executive Order that concluded his massive effort to normalize relations with Cuba, defying the United States Congress and the cabal of Cuban-American hardliners who effectively use their Congressional and Republican ties to dictate America's Cuban policy, one that currently is condemned by a 191-to-0 vote in the United Nations. Obama's January 12th decision ended, at least for now, the controversial and discriminatory Wet Foot-Dry Foot congressional law that legalized the entry of Cubans into the U. S. the moment their foot touched U. S. soil, an incentive that was not available to non-Cubans.
This photo was used by the Jamaica Observer to update President Obama's decision to end the Wet Foot-Dry Foot incentive for Cubans to exercise their unique invitations to enter the United States and immediately begin enjoying an array of special discriminatory residence and economic privileges.
The Jamaica Observer reports that since January 12th, 2016, 683 Cubans have been deported back to Cuba following Obama's ending Wet Foot-Dry Foot. The Cubans have been returned from Mexico, the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands where they had ended up, often aided by human traffickers, on their way to the U. S. Mexico deported 264 Cubans and turned back 144 more; the Bahamas and the Cayman Islands deported a combined 156. In 2016 a total of 56,082 Cubans entered the U. S. -- 38,310 via Wet Foot-Dry Foot while 11,772 had legal visas. Anticipating that Obama might end the special rules for Cubans, 2016 had the highest number of Cuban migrants to the U. S. since 1980 when Fidel Castro himself allowed 125,000 Cubans to go to Florida from the Port of Mariel in what history calls the Mariel Boatlift, with some historians claiming that Castro wanted to get shed of burdensome dissidents, imprisoned criminals, etc. The Jamaica Observer, like the rest of the media in the Caribbean, is waiting to see if U. S. President Trump will use his own Executive Orders to overturn the massive changes former President Obama made in U.S.-Cuban relations with his own series of Executive Orders, such as the last one just before leaving office that currently equates Cuban migrants on a par with others seeking entry into the United States.
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President Donald Trump at a scathing pre-election speech in Miami before Brigade 2506 veterans seemed to foreshadow his Cuban imprint that would surely please and excite the most fierce Cuban-American hardliners. Trump assured Brigade 2506 veterans he would reverse Obama's entire Cuban policy.
Brigade 2506 led the ground attack to complement the air and sea assault on Revolutionary Cuba in April of 1961. To this day -- Feb 20th-2017 -- the Brigade 2506 veterans in Miami blame "U. S. Miscalculations" for their long-ago failure to recapture Cuba. In the decades since, the Brigade 2506 veterans have erected massive monuments in Miami celebrating their 1961 attempt and, via strong representation from Miami in the U. S. Congress, they have played a huge role in America's Cuban policy.
But as of today -- Feb. 20-2017 -- President Trump has not lived up to his pre-election Brigade 2506 rants and that is now leading to massive anti-Trump protests in Miami and other South Florida cities, such as the volatile pro-migrant demonstration depicted above. Democratic presidents, especially Barack Obama, tend to support normalizing relations with Cuba, so the anti-Cuban zealots await Republican administrations -- such as Trump's -- to accentuate their stern counter-revolutionary Cuban desires.
The current Chairman of the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party is Juan Cuba. Yes, that is his real last name and that is Juan Cuba shown above with America's former Democratic President Barack Obama.
This photo shows Juan Cuba campaigning with Hillary Clinton, who was supposed to be the Democrat that would easily trounce Republicans in the President sweepstakes. It didn't happen, of course, because millions of Americans were tired of bought-and-paid-for establishment and dynastic politicians -- Republicans OR Democrats -- so the voters...at least in the decisive Electoral College forum...opted for the non-politician but unqualified contender, the billionaire businessman Donald Trump. But so far President Trump has neither nuked Cuba nor reversed President Obama's efforts to normalize relations with the island. That led to a major USA Today article today -- Feb. 20, 2017 -- entitled "Miami Goes From Apathetic to Anti-Trump." The article was written by Alan Gomez, USA Today's primary and obligatory anti-Cuban/Cuban American journalist. The democratic leader in Miami-Dade County, Juan Cuba, told Gomez he welcomes the anti-Trump protests. He said, "I think they make us stronger as a party." {Juan Cuba IS his actual name}.
If THE TRUTH IS KNOWN, in the Republican primary election, the only county in Florida that Donald Trump lost was Miami-Dade and he lost it BIG because the majority of Cuban-Americans favor a sane, decent Cuban policy that would include ending the embargo. Cuban hardliners use propaganda and fake news to dispute such facts. The photo above showing Trump speaking in Miami is courtesy of Michele Eve Sandberg and The Miami New Times, which explained the above-stated truth in a Feb. 17-2017 article.
Meanwhile, Cuba tries to remain Cuba:
Cuba's National Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials, founded in 1991, continues to receive plaudits from the World Health Organization, the Pan Am Health Organization, American clinics, and even the World Bank for its "innovative advances in medical research and testing procedures as well as the continuous support it receives from the Cuban government," according to the WHO. The Director of the National Coordinating Center, Dr. Carlos Manuel Garcia, says, "Since cancer is the main cause of death for the Cuban population, we prioritize those clinical trials for neoplasias, although we develop many others."
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