America's Cuban Debate

NY Times vs. Miami Herald!
{Thursday, June 8th, 2017}

        This week -- June 5th, 2017 -- the New York Times used the above graphic created by Daniel Zander to illustrate a long and important article written by the Times' Editorial Board. The article is entitled: "Undoing All the Good Work on Cuba." It sanely and decently laments the insatiable work currently underway by counter-revolutionary Cuban-American extremists to erase...or "undo"...the sane and decent overtures towards Cuba undertaken by former President Barack Obama. In other words, this Editorial shows deep respect for both the United States of America and for democracy. BY CONTRAST, the very same day -- June 5th, 2017 -- the Miami Herald quite typically featured a major article penned by a renowned counter-revolutionary extremist to goad and lobby for current President Donald Trump to erase...or "undo all the good work"...the brave Mr. Obama did on behalf of AMERICA, DEMOCRACY and innocent CUBANS.

           Yes, this week -- June 5th, 2017 -- the Miami Herald very typically countered the sane and decent Editorial in the New York Times with an insane, indecent, anti-Cuban propaganda spiel written by notorious Cuban-American counter-revolutionary Frank Calzon. His article is entitled: "Cuba Continues to Support Terrorism." It reflects two things: {1} The latest tactic to push President Trump into targeting Cuba and keeping the voluminous cash pipelines flowing steadily to anti-Cuban Cuban-Americans; and {2} to continue the time-honored tactic of Cuban-American extremists, since 1959, believing they can say anything about Cuba and assume the American people are too stupid or too scared or too unpatriotic not to believe them. Calzon was born in Cuba in 1947 and came to the U. S. in 1960 shortly after the Cuban Revolution overthrew the Batista-Mafia dictatorship. Any Google search of "Frank Calzon, Cuba" will reveal that, since his days as a student at Georgetown University, he has been tied to just about every devious, well-funded {by U. S. taxpayers} counter-revolutionary effort in America -- with the CIA, infamous groups such as Alpha 66 and Abdala, steady streams of USAID dollars, the Bush dynasty, the Cuban American National Foundation, anti-Cuban propaganda tax-bunnies in Miami such as the still-lucratic Radio-TV Marti, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc. Frank Calzon epitomizes how lucrative the counter-revolutionary Castro Cottage Industry in the United States has been for an elitist cast of Cuban-Americans since January of 1959. The title of Calzon's propaganda article in the Miami Herald June 5th-2017 is interesting: "Cuba Continues to Support Terrorism." It is also interesting, I believe, that THE VERY FIRST COMMENT beneath that article was from a Cuban-American who fired back at Calzon with a stark reminder of extreme terrorism against innocent Cubans and the Comment specifically mentioned the bombing of the civilian Cubana Flight 455 airplane and the fact that the well-known alleged bomber is to this day walking free as a celebrated celebrity in Miami. 

       Since 1959, rich and powerful counter-revolutionary Cuban-Americans like Frank Calzon have been able to use such assets as the mainstream media; a handful of right-wing Congressmen like Jesse Helms, Dan Burton, and Bob Torricelli; the Bush dynasty; and the Tea Party to perpetuate their usually unchallenged agendas. More and more the prime agenda seems to be to keep the pipelines of tax dollars flowing unimpeded for projects such as Radio-TV Marti or any other propitiously named and always lucrative anti-Cuban enterprise. Secondly, seeking revenge against the Cuban Revolution from 1959 till today remains a bulwark of the counter-revolutionary architects. All the while, considering that the Cuban Revolution has yet to be countered, the primary victims have been totally innocent Cubans on the island, the U. S. tax-payers, and America's reputation. IF THAT IS NOT SO, then perhaps Frank Calzon should be asked to explain the current 191-to-0 condemnation of America's Cuban policy in the United Nations, with the very judicious reminder that the 191 number includes ALL of America's best friends in the world.

       When a decent U. S. President, Mr. Obama, bravely and decently tried to correct the insults to democracy caused by America's Cuban policy, well-funded counter-revolutionary zealots like Frank Calzon were anxious to pounce on Mr. Obama's pro-American advocacy. And the same day -- June 5th-2017 -- the NY Times Editorial Board penned a sane and decent article regarding Cuba, Frank Calzon countered it with a brazenly insane and indecent assault in the always available pages of the Miami Herald.

        Cuban-Americans in Miami, like Frank Del Rio, are AMONG THE MAJORITY OF CUBAN-AMERICANS EVEN IN MIAMI who support former President Obama's efforts to normalize relations with Cuba. Like most every one of the top Cuban-American business executives in Miami, Frank Del Rio is anxious for his cruise line to have the freedom to cruise back-and-forth to Cuba, providing jobs for Cubans and Americans.

        A Cuban-born businessman in Miami, Hugo Cancio, is "sick and tired" that his views, which parallel the opinions of MOST Cuban-Americans, are "not represented in Miami or Washington or very often in the media." He wonders aloud why only counter-revolutionary zealots get elected to the U. S. Congress from Miami and he wonders aloud why someone like him can't contribute to the Miami Herald while high-profile counter-revolutionaries like Frank Calzon can use it to pen huge counter-revolutionary propaganda.

       If you ask why Cuban-American Hugo Cancio in Miami sometimes "throws his hands in the air in disgust" when asked to discuss America's Cuban policy, the answer is: Like most Cuban-Americans even in Miami, like most Americans, and like all 191 nations that voted on the topic in the UN, Hugo Cancio wonders why the U. S. democracy is not strong enough to include his "majority opinion" when it comes to Cuba.

       America's belligerent Cuban policy has been a failure for 50+ years merely to sate the greed and revenge motives of a handful of miscreants. Most democracy-lovers, and that includes most Cuban-Americans, are still waiting for America to have enough guts, enough decency, and enough intelligence to correct this disgrace that has persisted for over half-a-century.

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