Countering Counter-Revolutionaries!
Born in Cartagena, Colombia and raised in Webster, New York, Juan S. Gonzalez for the last 16 years has been America's best expert on Latin America. He served the Obama administration in that regard as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs. With the transition on Jan. 20-2017 from the Obama presidency to the Trump presidency, of course, there is no room for a Latin American expert in the White House, especially when it comes to Cuba where Trump only gets his advice from extremists and self-serving counter-revolutionaries.
After serving Obama well as America's top Latin American expert, Juan Gonzalez is now on the sidelines while right-wing Republican extremists {I'm a lifelong conservative Republican but not a right-winger} advise President Trump on topics such as Cuba. But Mr. Gonzalez as a speaker and writer thankfully still counters the counter-revolutionary extremists who want to continue, for another half-century or more, an anti-American Cuban policy that currently has the 191-to-0 condemnation in the United Nations and is also strongly opposed by THE MAJORITY OF CUBANS IN MIAMI. Juan Gonzalez penned a major article originating on ForeignPolicy.com this week entitled: "TRUMP'S CUBA POLICY AND THE RETURN OF THE AMERICAN BOGEYMAN." He succinctly and correctly points out that the counter-revolutionary Cuban zealots care nothing at all about America being viewed as the "bogeyman" by the international community. In his very first sentence Mr. Gonzalez pointedly mentioned "Sen. Rubio and Rep. Diaz-Balart" -- counter-revolutionary Cuban-American extremists in the U. S. Congress from Miami -- as being the real "Bogeymen." Mr. Gonzalez wrote: "Think about it: a vague announcement dressed in universally supported themes, like defending human rights..." He was referencing Trump's June 16th announcement in Miami's Little Havana speaking purely before counter-revolutionary zealots in a building named for a Bay of Pigs veteran. And Mr. Gonzalez added: "The paradox of U. S. policy is that pandering to the Cuba-American hardliners in Florida hurts Americans and Cubans..." Like most patriotic Americans, Juan S. Gonzalez resents self-serving politicians like Rubio, Diaz-Balart and Trump assuming that intelligent and courageous people will actually believe their claims that they have the best interest of innocent everyday Cubans and Americans at heart when it is obvious that they have only their own economic and political self-interests in mind, self-interests that greatly harm most Cubans and most Americans.
The aforementioned article by Juan S. Gonzalez was illustrated by this Joe Raedle/Getty Images photo. It shows President Obama preaching to the choir on June 16th in Miami's Little Havana. Every poll in Miami reveals that what he said in Little Havana in rolling-back much of Obama's Cuban sanity is strongly against the wishes of MOST CUBAN-AMERICANS IN MIAMI as well as most Americans and obviously all 191 nations that voted last October in the UN. But within the bowels of the sacred U. S. democracy, America's Cuban policy has always been shaped to benefit only a greedy or revengeful few. That policy changed finally and drastically under Obama but surely it has resumed under Trump, and as always the timid and unpatriotic American people will let him get away with it even as impeachment talk concerning other issues escalates. The Latin American expert, Juan S. Gonzalez, you'll recall, called such things "a paradox," meaning that atrocities involving America's Cuban policy is permissible while lesser atrocities are not. The above speech by President Trump on June 16th was an atrocity for Cuba, for America and, yes, for the world.
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