Cuba: Surrender or Fight?

Trump Leaves Two Choices!!
{Monday, June 12th, 2017}

       The AP photo above was used last weekend by the Voice of America to illustrate its article about President Donald Trump's planned visit to Miami June 16th to announce his plans to reverse much of former President Obama's peaceful gestures regarding Cuba. The photo shows a Cuban watching coverage of the Jan. 20th-2017 inauguration of President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. The VOA mentioned the pressure Trump is receiving from visceral counter-revolutionary Cuban-American members of Congress from Miami, Marco Rubio and Mario Diaz-Balart. But the VOA also hinted that Trump is also getting vast requests from business interests and many other members of Congress to continue the Obama-orchestrated detente with the Caribbean island. The VOA article even hinted that Trump may temper his decision or postpone it while he ponders it some more, although both those prospects are very long-shots.

     This coming Friday -- June 16-2017 -- U. S. President Donald Trump will be in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood to announce his Cuban policy. The fact he will do it in Miami is the tip-off that he will do what decent, democracy-loving Americans feared he would do, which is to essentially turn America's Cuban policy back over to Counter-Revolutionary extremists in Miami and the U. S. Congress. It's a reversal of former President Obama's sane and decent Cuban policies and reverts back to the hateful, cruel, right-wing Cuban policy that currently has the United States condemned by a 191-to-0 vote in the United Nations. The unanimous worldwide denunciation of America's Cuban policy is well-deserved but neither Trump nor the Counter-Revolutionaries nor unpatriotic Americans care. 

       Back on Oct. 25-2016, two weeks before the presidential election, Trump went to Little Havana in Miami and displayed the gutless cowardice and stupidity that has marked his first four tumultuous months as President of the United States. As shown above, standing in front of a huge "Brigade 2506 Assault" banner, Trump promised the few remaining Counter-Revolutionary Cuban exiles who -- backed by the air, land and sea support from the U. S. military -- attacked Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in mid-April of 1961, an attack that was supposed to recapture Cuba from the revolutionary forces that had overthrown the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship on Jan. 1-1959. But Revolutionary Cuba, led by Fidel Castro who raced to the frontlines, emphatically defeated the infamous and cowardly air-land-and-sea attack...and has somehow managed to maintain its independence ever since. But in the above speech, Trump promised, as President, he would reverse Brigade 2506's defeat. The apathetic and propagandized cowardice of this generation of Americans will surely afford Trump and the Miami counter-revolutionaries that opportunity. THUS, AS OF JUNE 16-2017 CUBA WILL BE LEFT WITH TWO CHOICES -- SURRENDER OR FIGHT. And there is no doubt that the island will choose to fight, and by sunset on June 16-2017 its do-or-die battle-plans will be firmed up...as if another Bay of Pigs, this time maybe nuclear-powered, was imminent.

        In Miami's Little Havana after he promised the surviving Brigade 2506 veterans that he would reverse the outcome of the 1961 Bay of Pigs attack against Cuba, Donald Trump was rewarded with the above keepsake -- the Brigade 2506 shield. 

      The most insightful Miami journalist is Marc Caputo. He formerly worked for the Counter-Revolutionary Miami Herald but now works in Miami for the Washington-based political juggernaut Politico. Caputo has Counter-Revolutionary instincts but those views intermingle with the fact that he is a brave and decent journalist even when the topic is CUBA!

       And so, it was Marc Caputo working in Miami for Politico who broke the long-awaited news that President Trump would venture to Miami on June 16th to announce that the U. S. would turn its Cuban policy over to a pair of Counter-Revolutionary/Cuban-American zealots from Miami -- Senator Marco Rubio and Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart. That revelation from Caputo instantly sent the unmistakable ultimatum to Cuba -- SURRENDER OR FIGHT. Caputo buttressed his Politico reporting by using Twitter updates that made it plain that President Trump, and therefore the United States, would -- beginning on June 16-2017 -- have a Cuban policy that bears "the stamp" of Rubio and Diaz-Balart. While Americans are not supposed to care or comprehend that meaning, Cuba does care and comprehends that it means Cuba must surrender to the dictates of Rubio and Diaz-Balart or fight, and to Cuba that is actually no choice at all. It will fight to keep its sovereignty.

      While pusillanimous Americans may well deserve a government or dictatorship ruled by Mario Diaz-Balart and Marco Rubio, there are eleven million innocent Cubans on the island who do not deserve such a dreadful humiliation. Those Cubans remember, or have learned, what it was like from 1952 till 1959 under the thieving, brutal Batista-Mafia dictatorship. It is those memories that will force Cuba to now embark on a do-or-die posture reminiscent of its Revolutionary War and its Bay of Pigs triumphs. Mario Diaz-Balart's father Rafael was a key Minister in the Batista-Mafia dictatorship and, after 1959, was one of the richest and most volatile Counter-Revolutionary operatives in Miami. That Diaz-Balart nexus from the 1950s to today may be far beyond the scope of propagandized Americans but it surely is not lost on the still vivid memories of Cubans residing on the nearby island. Likewise beyond the scope of apathetic Americans is the fact that Cubans on the island view Rubio every bit as nefarious as the four rich and powerful Diaz-Balart brothers who have extended their father's fierce Counter-Revolutionary activities beyond the half-century mark but yet have not recaptured Cuba even as they lucratively hide behind the skirts of the superpower U. S. government AND the super-apathetic American citizens.

      The photo above shows Marco Rubio as a High School student in Miami. As far as the mainstream U. S. media is concerned, Rubio today has the same choirboy traits as he supposedly did back then. Such choirboy lies...coupled with allegedly being a diehard Counter-Revolutionary in Miami...has gotten Rubio elected twice to the U. S. Senate and also made him a serious Republican presidential candidate in 2016 when he and Donald Trump called each other vile names. While the mainstream American media delights in projecting Rubio as a choirboy, one of America's most respected investigative journalists -- Ken Silverstein in a long, famous, and easily Googled article -- depicts Rubio as being both the most "for sale" and the most "corrupt" politician in America. Also, many democracy-loving Americans are ashamed that Miami only seems to send a steady stream of Counter-Revolutionary Cuban-Americans to the United States Congress EVEN THOUGH MOST CUBAN-AMERICANS EVEN IN MIAMI FAVOR NORMALIZING RELATIONS WITH CUBA.     

      Americans who are neither patriotic enough nor brave enough to oppose or even acknowledge the Batistiano-grip on their democracy should read the above notation penned by the aforementioned Miami journalist Marc Caputo. It references the fact that both Diaz-Balart and Rubio have essentially black-mailed President Trump into doing their nefarious bidding regarding Cuba. Rubio reportedly used his position as one of the 10 U. S. Senators charged with investigating Trump's alleged ties with Russia to scare Trump into assaulting Cuba. Diaz-Balart, as reported above by Caputo, used his position on the House Appropriations Committee to remind Trump that the President will need Diaz-Balart's support to get financial backing in Congress for his key programs, such as replacing the Affordable Care Act. To forge a cruel, nefarious Cuban policy for all these decades, the tools include blackmail, payoffs and paybacks, intimidation, and apathy from American citizens. 

       In 1989 Havana-born Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was elected to the U. S. Congress from Miami when the self-serving Jeb Bush was her Campaign Manager. She is still there as a visceral Counter-Revolutionary. And since 1989 a steady stream of Counter-Revolutionary Cuban-Americans in Miami, all powered by the Bush dynasty and by Little Havana's dominance of Miami politics, has reached the U. S. Congress. That, of course, includes prime Trump-"adviser" Rubio as well as Carlos Curbelo -- second from the left above -- as well as the Diaz-Balart Brothers, Havana-born Lincoln on the far left and, of course, Mario on the far right.

      Across the Atlantic Ocean in London, the BBC used the above AFP photo in an article telling the world about President Trump's upcoming trip to Miami on June 16-2017, the city and the date in which Trump will essentially declare war on Cuba to sate the fervent desires of a mere handful of Cuban-Americans.

     The side-by-side U. S. and Cuban flags fronting a street in Havana reflects how the BBC-AFP, as non-American -- thus non-intimidated -- international news organizations told their worldwide audiences how President Obama's efforts to normalize relations with Cuba has massively helped everyday Cubans on the island as well as many Americans and Cuban-Americans via increased business and social interactions.

       While the mainstream U. S. media is too afraid or too politically correct to report fairly about Cuba, there are exceptions in some key non-national newspapers -- such as the Houston Chronicle. The Ramon Espinosa/AP photo above, which shows Cubans at sunset on Havana's famed Malecon seawall, was used by the Chronicle this weekend to illustrate an article entitled: "ENGAGE CUBA: End The Embargo And Press Forward On Improving Relations with the Island Nation." The article stressed how Trump's June 16th-2017 declaration of war against Cuba will harm millions of innocent Cubans, Cuban-Americans and Americans to sate the nefarious appetites of a few Counter-Revolutionaries by reversing Obama's policies that "unwound bits and pieces of the U. S. trade embargo put in place in 1962 to topple Fidel Castro...it failed but remains in place." By remaining it place it has enriched and empowered some Counter-Revolutionaries and rightly resulted in an international 191-to-0 condemnation of the United States in the United Nations. The article also called Trump's upcoming June 16th announcement a "political payoff" to Counter-Revolutionaries, which he can do because he can assume apathetic and unpatriotic Americans will allow him to do it. The Houston Chronicle article this week also states bluntly and factually that "Trump's main goal is to curry favor with the same old Miami crowd that has held U.S.-Cuba policy hostage for years."

        The Cuba-United States conundrum has actually held the U. S. hostage since 1952 when the American people didn't object to right-wing thugs in Washington aligning the U. S. with the Mafia to support the brutal, thieving Batista dictatorship in Cuba. After the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the American people didn't object to an ongoing, unending and unpunished sequence of terrorist acts against totally innocent Cubans, such as the Oct. 6-1976 bombing of the child-laden civilian Cubana Flight 455 in which the Miami media was joyously used to herald the chant: "It's the biggest blow yet against Castro!!" Was it, or was it one of the many Biggest Blows against the U. S. democracy? In any case, with that backdrop since 1952, don't expect the American people, beginning on June 16th-2017, to give a damn even if Trump would announce plans for a nuclear Bay of Pigs against Cuba. But, for the record, decent Americans should at least be cognizant of that exact sentence in this week's Houston Chronicle:

                 "Trump's main goal is to curry favor with the same old Miami crowd that has held U.S.-Cuba policy hostage for years."

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