More Than They Demean Cuba!
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on monitoring the scourge of human trafficking is Maria Grazia Giammarinaro. She has just visited and closely examined Cuba and then, at the above news conference, made these conclusive comments:
"Cuba applies good practices to fight the global problems of human trafficking."
"The strength of the Cuban system is that people have a high level of education and know their rights."
"Cuba is a much less vulnerable country than many others."
While the mainstream U. S. media, which predicates its Cuban coverage on the dictates of the vast Castro Cottage Industry in America, wouldn't dare report on such Cuban positives such as the highly respected Maria Grazia Giammarinaro expounded on and which produced international headlines such as: "UN Praises Cuba for Practices Against Human Trafficking."
When it comes to Cuba, extremely important and insightful observations from important, insightful, and unbiased people like Maria Grazia Giammarinaro are generally ignored by the mainstream U. S. media.
On the other hand, Havana-born Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and other Miami-based anti-Revolutionary zealots have 24-hour, around-the-clock access to the mainstream U. S. media to viciously assail Cuba without ever having to worry about being questioned concerning their extreme views or about such things as her close associations with Miami's most notorious Cuban-Americans such as Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles. Moreover, Ros-Lehtinen has been entrenched in the U. S. Congress since 1989 when her convenient Campaign Manager was Jeb Bush from the Batistiano-loving Bush dynasty. And like the U. S. media, the 535-member U. S. Congress also is not about to challenge anything Ros-Lehtinen says or advocates against Cuba. In other words, the United States of America changed more than Cuba in 1959.
Meanwhile, while the UN this week praised Cuba's "high level of education" to account for its excellent fight against human trafficking, the UN, the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization have all praised Cuba's health care system and its offshoots such as its development of important vaccines, as shown above. Those three organizations, for example, recently concluded that Cuba was the first nation in the world to become "totally free of AIDs being transmitted from mothers to babies." Both education through college and health care for life are totally free in Revolutionary Cuba. That was not exactly the case in pre-Revolutionary Cuba when the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship was only concerned with enriching the already rich.
This was a typical Cuban family in Batista's Cuba. When the mainstream U. S. media provides 24-hour coverage for the Castro Cottage Industry in the U. S. to assail Revolutionary Cuba, at least they should also have to explain pre-Revolutionary photos like this one, and indeed there are many such photos.
Or this one!
Or this one!
If Batista's Cuba was a brutal and poverty-riven hellhole for the island's majority peasants, which it was, it was also a gold mine and gravy train for Mafia thugs, like Meyer Lansky, and the chosen elites.
On January 1, 1959, the startling triumph of the Cuban Revolution caused the extremely rich Batistianos and Mafiosi to flee but they quickly reconstituted their power on United States soil -- mainly the nearby Miami area and later in the United States Congress. Ironically, the financial and political rewards in the United States have been far more substantial than they were in Cuba BUT six decades of using that power in all-out counter-revolutionary efforts to recapture the island have failed...at least to this point.
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And so...from Jan. 1-1959 till Easter Sunday in the year 2017 US-Cuba Relations have remained in a hostile standoff, one that the recent two-term Obama presidency tried but failed to remedy because a handful of Miami-based Cubans in the 535-member U. S. Congress can easily dictate the cruelest aspects of America's Cuban policy.
America, the world superpower, and Cuba, the nearby island, from geographical and humane standpoints should be the closest of friends so as to mutually benefit most citizens in both nations. Yet, America's Cuban policy since the 1898 Spanish-American War and, especially, since the Revolutionary triumph of Cuban sovereignty in January of 1959, has strictly been maintained to benefit only an elitist and nefarious few. For that reason, the current international vote of UN nations is 191-to-0 in condemnation of America's Cuban policy. And for that reason, America's policy related to LITTLE CUBA has more of an adverse effect on America's worldwide reputation than any other factor. If that is not so, try to suggest one single factor in the entire world that could possibly garner a unanimous 191-to-0 vote in the very diverse United Nations. And of course, America's Cuban policy is one major reason the last two generations of Americans have been called the most ignorant, the most cowardly, and the most unpatriotic generations in America's proud history. All the while, Cuba pugnaciously remains...CUBA.
This new photo is courtesy of Ismael Francisco. It shows two gorgeous, healthy and happy Cuban twins -- Ambar on the left and Geradito on the right. I believe it is much better that these twin babies were born in Revolutionary Cuba than in Batista's Cuba. It's OK to disagree but not OK to be biased about it.
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