Will Trump Hammer Cuba?

Or...Have You Checked

His Roster of Cuban Advisors??
{Updated: Saturday, March 11th, 2017}

      Without exception as far as I can detect, all of President Trump's White House advisors on Cuba are fierce, indissoluble anti-Cuban counter-revolutionary zealots, such as Helen Aguirre Ferre. This week in an interview with the Spanish news agency EFE she indicated that President Trump is about to drop the hammer on the nearby Caribbean island. The first sentence in the March 8-2017 article said, "President Donald Trump believes that Cuba has made no concession to the United States, while Washington has given much to Havana..." That ridiculous statement, of course, was not meant to convey that the U. S. in 1952 gave Cuba the thieving, brutal Batista-Mafia dictatorship and, after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the U. S. and the Batistiano-Mafiosi exiles gave Cuba repeated assassination attempts beginning in 1959 and 1960, the Bay of Pigs attack in 1961, the embargo-blockade in 1962, repetitious terrorists acts such as the bombing of the child-laden civilian Cubana Flight 455 in 1976, and an unending series of well-funded congressionally mandated counter-revolutionary "legal" laws since the 1980s. In the meantime, Helen Aguirre Ferre indicated to EFE that poor little Cuba must now be severely punished because it has not given enough "concessions" to the Batistianos, the Mafiosi and the superpower USA. WOW! That philosophy, of course, is extreme imperialism. With a monopoly on the Cuban narrative in the U. S., as emphasized in 1976 by the car-bombing when Cuban-American newsman Emilio Milian criticized the anti-Cuban Miami zealots, such ridiculousness as spouted by Helen Aguirre Ferre to EFE this week is consistently driven down the throats of Americans who are not nearly as brave as Emilio Milian was. She told EFE that, "The President has been very clear that they are going to evaluate all the agreements that the prior administration made with Cuba." The prior President, Mr. Obama, went to Cuba and tried to assure the Cuban people that they had "nothing to fear" from the United States. Of course, at the time the very decent President Obama did not anticipate he would be succeeded by a Republican president/Commander in Chief surrounded by vicious Bush-era counter-revolutionary zealots such as...Helen Aguirre Ferre.

        
      Amazingly, President Trump not only has Helen Aguirre Ferre as a top adviser regarding Cuba, he has appointed her to a key White House title: Media Director. During the presidential campaign, Ferre mocked and belittled Trump unmercifully with some of the most vile accusations he has ever faced, which is saying something. Wikipedia and other sources report that she hastily deleted as much of those diatribes as she could from social media. Ferre's Miami roots are indelible and she shamed Trump during the campaign to support his formidable Rubio-Cruz-Bush opponents.

    Helen Aguirre Ferre and her father Horacio Aguirre.
His Miami newspaper is Diario las Americas.

        Born in Miami in 1957 to Nicaraguan parents, Helen Aguirre Ferre comes by her anti-Cuban zealotry quite naturally. Her father-in-law is the former six-term Miami mayor Maurice Ferre; and Jeb Bush, who rode his tightness to Cuban-American hardliners to personal wealth and two terms as Florida's governor, is among those who schooled her on how and why to vigorously oppose pugnacious Revolutionary Cuba. 

     As a long-shot Republican politician and being politically correct as well as extremely careful, Donald Trump sanctimoniously pitched himself to minority voters in Miami who are anti-Cuban zealots, such as the trio above with Helen Aguirre Ferre appropriately in the middle. It would, of course, require a very brave Mr. Trump to pitch himself to the majority in Miami...a majority that includes most Cuban-Americans who support the decency towards Cuba that President Obama had the courage and intelligence to craft.

    Trump "pitching" to Miami's ruling minority.

      The above early morning appearance on CNN by Helen Aguirre Ferre assaulted Obama for "thawing" relations with Cuba, an Obama-process that FINALLY mitigated against the revenge motives of the Cuban exiles as well as the undeserved economic and political rewards accruing to the vast Castro Cottage Industry in the United States. Intimidated and/or politically correct networks such as CNN wouldn't dare counter such Helen Aguirre Ferre diatribes with the viewpoints of moderate, unbiased Americans.

       In other words, neither President Trump nor the U. S. networks have the courage to counter the Cuban viewpoints of extremists like Helen Aguirre Ferre. Americans, who have been inundated with Batistiano-style anti-Cuban propaganda since 1959, cannot be expected to question the likes of Helen Aguirre Ferre. But the rest of the world, which has not been bombarded with unchallenged Batistiano propaganda since January of 1959, is not so susceptible to self-serving Cuban fibs. The proof of that is the 191-to-0 vote in the United Nations that unanimously condemns America's Cuban policy. Of course, Helen Aguirre Ferre and her ilk would have trouble convincing even propagandized Americans that zero is a bigger number than 191, so they pretend such international unanimity against their Cuban attitudes didn't occur at the UN.

        Above is the current 191-to-zero vote in the United Nations condemning America's Cuban policy, notably the economic embargo-blockade that has existed since 1962 and which stands very tall and ubiquitous as the longest and cruelest embargo-blockade ever imposed by a very powerful nation against a weak nation. In Oct.-2016, for the first time, not even the United States had the heart or the temerity to support its own embargo against Cuba. But the Obama presidency is over, and it will be sorely missed.

        The very decent President Barack Obama went to Cuba to tell the Cuban people: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States."  But in March of 2017, as the former President of the United States, Mr. Obama well knows that 11 million innocent Cubans do "need to fear a threat from the United States." 

And by the way:

       It is no secret that most of baseball-mad Cuba's veteran superstars are now multi-millionaires in the U. S. Major Leagues. MOST BUT NOT ALL! For over a decade, the now 30-year-old Alfredo Despaigne has been a superstar in Cuba's pro league. In the previous World Baseball Classic, back in 2013, Alfredo belted three homers for Cuba. On Friday -- March 10th-2017 -- Cuban time in Tokyo, Japan, Alfredo slugged a long Grand-Slam {4-run} homer and Cuba held on to beat Australia 4-to-3. It advances Cuba to the second round of Pool B along with Japan. On Saturday Cuba will play Israel and Japan will play the Netherlands.

          Alfredo Despaigne was born on June 17th, 1986 in Santiago de Cuba. He is the richest of the Cuban baseball players. While he repeatedly has refused to defect to the U. S. where multi-million-dollar bonuses and salaries awaited him, Alfredo has played the last three years in Japan where its powerful pro league does not conflict with Cuba's winter season, so he returns to play in his beloved Cuba. Alfredo has just signed a new 3-year contract with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in Japan. Even though he is now a millionaire thanks to his stardom in Japan's rich pro league, Alfredo Despaigne is fiercely loyal to Cuba. 

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