Miami Extremists at Work!
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Many people are surprised that current U. S. President Donald Trump has yet to keep his dire promises to Miami extremists to erase the historic positive advances crafted by Cuban President Raul Castro and former U. S. President Barack Obama.
Twice prior to taking office on Jan. 20-2017 Trump -- desperately seeking Florida's crucial 29 electoral votes -- went to Miami to promise the anti-Cuban extremists that he would do their bidding, which means helping them recapture Cuba.
Trump even stood before a huge Brigade 2506 banner in Miami and promised elderly Cuban-American survivors of the April-1961 Bay of Pigs attack that he would make up for their colossal defeat suffered during the CIA-directed military attack that was supposed to have recaptured Cuba long, long ago.
With Donald Trump in the White House to align with the Republican-control of the United States Congress and the November 25th-2016 death at age 90 of their most pugnacious antagonist Fidel Castro, the Miami extremists believed their fervent quest to recapture Cuba would finally become a stark reality rather quickly in 2017. But President and Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump has yet to return the island to the Miami hardliners, perhaps because of his more pressing problems such as his alleged Russian ties and his promise to overturn Obama's healthcare program in favor of one that will enhance the bulging bank accounts of America's wealthiest and greediest individuals.
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But this week the Miami Herald and one of Miami's anti-Cuba Cuban-American zealots in the malleable United States Congress, Mario Diaz-Balart, jumped on the torrid health-care battle as a nuclear missile-type weapon against Cuba. The Miami Herald blared this vapid conclusion in a major article: "The showdown in Congress over House Republicans' heathcare bill might have nothing to do with Raul Castro -- if it weren't for Miami. The vote on the American Health Care Act is so razor tight that House GOP leaders and the White House are leaning hard on every shaky Republican for their support." Unfortunately, Mario Diaz-Balart and the other members of Congress from Miami have votes and can leverage them in a manner that has worked for decades -- Hey, you support my plans to recapture Cuba and I'll support your Bridge to Nowhere or this week your Healthcare Bill. That's the way much of the anti-Cuban laws have been enacted in Congress with Miami zealots teaming with controversial right-wingers such as Jesse Helms, Dan Burton, Robert Torricelli, etc. The Miami Herald article indicated that this tried-and-true ploy is in play again this week courtesy of Mario Diaz-Balart and his cohorts.
Of course, the sane and decent Democracy-loving Americans -- such as James Williams -- cringe when unprincipled, self-serving anti-Cuban zealots enact and expand a Cuban policy that currently and correctly gets a 191-to-0 condemnation in the United Nations. Reacting this week to Congressman Diaz-Balart's latest shameless ploy, James Williams released this exact statement: "Mr. Diaz-Balart is playing politics with his constituents' healthcare in order to settle a family feud. Our U.S.-Cuba policy should be guided by what's in the best interest of the American and Cuban people, not one congressman's agenda." No one, of course, can dispute those words by James Williams but America's great shame is that generations of Americans since the 1950s have not had the guts, intelligence or patriotism to inject themselves into the U. S. Cuban policy that rightfully gets that unanimous international denunciation. FOR EXAMPLE, timid and proselytized Americans are not supposed to comprehend what a decent American like James Williams means when he says Diaz-Balart is trying "to settle a family feud" by hiding behind the skirts of the superpower United States and the sheer gutlessness of American citizens. For what it's worth, here's what James Williams meant by "feud."
History registers the fact that in January of 1959 the leaders of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba fled the Cuban Revolution only to quickly regroup -- especially in Miami and South Florida. That included the three powerful men depicted above shown attending a political rally in Batista's Cuba. Flanked by the infamous and very notorious Masferrer brothers is a key Minister in Batista's dictatorship -- Rafael Diaz-Balart, the man with the holstered pistol.
Soon, Rafael Diaz-Balart -- shown above in the middle of this Washington Post photo -- emerged as one of the richest and most powerful anti-Castro zealots in Miami and South Florida. His generation of Cuban exiles to the United States didn't recapture Cuba and neither has the second generation -- as epitomized by Rafael's four sons who are flanking him in this photo. Two of those sons, starting with Havana-born Lincoln who is standing just to the right of his father, reached the United States Congress from Miami. One other son, the one on the far right, is a wealthy banker and another son, the one just to Rafael's left, is a major news anchor for the left-wing NBC-TV network. And on the far right is Mario, the Diaz-Balart son that James Williams says is so fervently this week in the U. S. Congress "trying to settle a family feud" by, as always, slapping pusillanimous Americans and their democracy in the face with the Diaz-Balarts' decades-old anti-Castro "agenda." By permitting this to happen decade-after-decade, the endless streams of dollars this has cost American taxpayers is not the issue. The cost to the United States democracy and to the American image all around the world IS the most imposing issue.
When Havana-born counter-revolutionary zealots like Ileana Ros-Lehtinen can use her Miami and Bush dynasty ties to be entrenched in the United States Congress since 1989, totally innocent Cubans on the island have a problem. But that's how America's Cuban policy is crafted...you know, the Cuban policy denounced 191-to-0 by that international vote in the United Nations. And let's face it, that policy is even more of a problem for the United States of America than it is for the Caribbean island and its 11 million decent, everyday citizens.
This idyllic photo by Casey Strong shows a totally innocent Cuban mother feeding pigeons as her totally innocent little girl poses sweetly for the camera. If a handful of self-serving Cuban-American zealots, supported by the sheer cowardice of the majority of Americans, have their way, this little girl will continue to be punished all her life in the name of a "family feud" -- such as the Diaz-Balarts vs. the Castros -- that U. S. taxpayers and the American democracy have already paid dear and exorbitant prices to maintain. This little girl's mother has been punished all her life for the same diabolical and gutless reasons that now target this precious little girl, with the stink-bombs being fired relentlessly from rich sanctuaries -- Miami, Washington, New Jersey, Texas, etc. -- in the richest and most powerful nation in the history of the world, a nation that emerged from World War II in 1945 known for its uniquely benevolent democracy. But tell this Cuban mother today, and in a few years tell this little Cuban girl, all about America's benevolent democracy.
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