What Gives?
Yesterday -- Saturday, April 29th, 2017 -- marked 100 Days that Donald Trump had been President of the United States. So far, he has not assaulted Cuba as many expected he would in those first 100 days.
Twice in Miami Trump pointed at the "murderous" Castro rule of Cuba and vowed to reverse the monumental Obama-orchestrated efforts to normalize relations with the nearby Caribbean island.
In one of his two blistering speeches in Miami, Donald Trump stood before a large Brigada Asalto 2506 banner and promised remaining veterans of the April-1961 Brigade 2506 Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba that he would at long last reverse their humiliating defeat and also overturn Obama's positive overtures to Cuba.
Donald Trump named to his transition team twelve of the richest, most powerful and most visceral Cuban counter-revolutionaries in America, and that included Bush-inspired veterans such as Mauricio Claver-Carone. When such names emerged in the Trump administration by the end of January of 2017, it was assumed by some that a second and more powerful Bay of Pigs-type assault on Cuba was imminent, certainly within Trump's first 100 days in office. But by Trump's 100th day, uh, well...it hasn't happened.
This Reuters photo shows that Cuba is peaceful and placid. It was used to illustrate an article in the London-based The Guardian that is entitled: "TOP DIPLOMATIC NEGOTIATOR IN CUBA WARNS TRUMP."
Cuba's "Top Diplomatic Negotiator" is, of course, Josefina Vidal. She brilliantly represented Cuba in negotiations with the Obama administration to slice deeply into a half-century of brutal Batistiano-directed Congressional laws that have severely hurt innocent Cubans on the island for over half-a-century and also severely hurt America's and democracy's reputation around the world, as evidenced by the current 191-to-0 condemnation in the United Nations of America's Cuban policy. Thus Vidal is Cuba's prime monitor and decision-maker regarding President Trump's plans for Cuba. The aforementioned article in The Guardian quoted Vidal sending this reminder...the British newspaper called it "a warning...to Trump: "Aggression, pressure, conditions, impositions do not work with Cuba. This is not the way to attempt to have even a minimally civilized relationship with Cuba." Whether that is a reminder or a warning, Vidal steadfastly insists that "Cuba be treated as a sovereign nation and not as a pre-revolutionary possession of either the Miami Mafia or the United States government." But Cuba is a vulnerable island and the unpredictable Trump is now the Commander-in-Chief of the world's all-time most powerful military. While he seems to have so far disregarded the advice of anti-Cuban extremists, he also is not likely to heed Ms. Vidal's warning.
Of course, many political experts predict that Trump will be impeached long before his first presidential 4-year term is scheduled to end in 2020. As you can see above, those expert predictors include Allan Lichtman, one of the few people on the planet who predicted Trump would win the presidency and the man who has correctly predicted the last nine United States Presidential elections. For sure, Cuba is not a threat to Mr. Trump or to the United States but President Trump has his hands full with more pressing problems...such as North Korea, a mainstream U. S. media trying desperately to destroy him, a bevy of left-wing billionaires able to fund any Trump-impeachment movements, etc., etc., etc., etc.
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But study this photo and you'll understand that, at the moment, there are powerful pro-Cuban influences on President Trump that supersede anti-Cuban influences such as the mighty lobbyist Mauricio Claver-Carone and even the four anti-Castro Miami-based extremists in the U. S. Congress. Sonny Perdue, the former Georgia Governor, is urging President Trump to normalize trade relations with nearby Cuba.
Sonny Perdue has just been sworn in as President Trump's powerful Secretary of Agriculture. As he did as Georgia's Governor, Sonny Perdue now has a national platform to promote his Cuban agenda, which is to normalize trade relations with Cuba to benefit American farmers and other agricultural entities.
As Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue right now has the most White House influence concerning Cuba. And he is a very persuasive and brave man who fortunately has a sane, decent Cuban perspective.
The above photo of Sonny Perdue was included along with the above Tweet from Jose Ramon Cabanas, who happens to be Cuba's Ambassador to the United States. As you can readily surmise from this Tweet, Cuba knows and deeply respects Sonny Perdue. While Obama used Executive Orders to make deep inroads into normalizing relations with Cuba, only Congress or Trump Executive Orders can erase them. And Congress-mandated anti-Cuban laws remain, like the one Cabanas references above that Sonny Perdue is trying to change...and that involves the continued restrictions on financing trade with Cuba.
So now pro-Cuban advocates like Patrick Leahy and Sonny Perdue -- shown amicably discussing politics above -- are teaming up to combat the anti-Cuban extremists who have made the Castro Cottage Industry in the United States a scary but ultra-powerful and usually unchallenged force for over half-a-century. But Mr. Leahy, a powerful U. S. Senator, and Mr. Perdue, now a powerful member of President Trump's cabinet, are indeed powerful opponents of the wickedly revengeful and self-serving anti-Cuban cabal in the United States. Both Senator Patrick Leahy and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue have been to Cuba trying to create a Cuban policy for America that will benefit most Cubans and most Americans as well as boost America's reputation as the worldwide bulwark for democracy. And now Leahy in Congress and Perdue in the White House can further their sane and decent aspirations for America and for Cuba.
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