Surviving Trump and Rubio?
Normally the mainstream media in the U. S. takes one of two stances regarding Cuba: {1} Ignore the island as insignificant; or {2} report only what the counter-revolutionary forces in Miami and the U. S. Congress want it to report or perhaps suffer the fates dished out to the two bravest Miami journalists -- Emilio Milian and Jim DeFede. But in recent days the U. S. media has featured countless articles about Cuba leading up to tomorrow's {June 16th} announcement IN MIAMI by President Trump about the latest Republican-Batistiano efforts to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government, efforts that have failed miserably but have been brutal and continuous since January 1-1959, succeeding primarily in regularly brutalizing totally innocent everyday Cubans as well as projecting America internationally as a colossal imperial bully, a fact currently registered by a 191-to-0 condemnation of the U. S.'s Cuban policy in the UN.
The plethora of U. S. articles about Cuba prior to Trump's cowardly announcement tomorrow in Miami have followed the U. S. media's pattern of being too afraid to depart from blistering counter-revolutionary/regime-change propaganda. But there are notable exceptions, such as Tracy Wilkinson, the superb Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Her article this week, in case you're interested, is entitled: "Trump Considers Reversing Historic Obama Opening With Cuba." She had the integrity, courage and insight to make these points:
"President Trump is expected to roll back parts of the historic Obama-era with Cuba, siding with hawks who oppose detente and rejecting demands from U. S. businesses for whom the island is a ripe potential market. Lobbying Trump against Cuba ties are two Cuban-American Republican lawmakers from Florida, Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart. The move will be controversial. It will dull a boom in tourism by Americans to Cuba...and it could allow Russia and China to more easily step in to fill the void."
For Americans today to sit back and allow self-serving counter-revolutionary Cuban-American zealots from Little Havana in Miami, like Marco Rubio and Mario Diaz-Balart, to dictate America's Cuban policy is equivalent to 1952 when that generation of Americans sat back and permitted Mafia thugs like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky to align with the U. S. government in supporting the thieving Batista dictatorship. While the U. S. media is generally not permitted to mention it, Mario Diaz-Balart's father Rafael was a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship and, following Batista's overthrow in 1959, was one of the richest and most powerful counter-revolutionary forces in Miami and, in fact, the founder of "The White Rose, the very first of many paramilitary groups in Florida aiming to regain dictatorial control of Cuba.
As for Marco Rubio, whom the American media portrays as a cute Mother Teresa-like choirboy, President Donald Trump's astounding path to the White House had to include a successful take down of highly financed Republican contender "Little Marco," whom then presidential-candidate Trump labeled as being "For Sale" to the highest bidders -- such as controversial multi-billionaire Sheldon Adelson.
*&***********************&*
One of America's most respected investigative journalists is the Washington-savvy Ken Silverstein. He earned that reputation after many years with the Associated Press, Harper's Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, etc. In one of his most deeply researched articles, he called Marco Rubio the most "For Sale" and most "corrupt" politician in Washington. As far as I know, he wasn't sued and the article wasn't refuted.
Graphic for Ken Silverstein's Rubio article.
And so, you ask, How in the world can President Trump turn America's Cuban policy over to Mario Diaz-Balart and Marco Rubio -- one the son of a former Batista Minister and the other also a visceral counter-revolutionary Cuban-American from Miami? Well, Trump can do it and get away with it the same way vicious right-wing operatives in Washington along with self-serving entities such as the Bush dynasty have gotten away with supporting first Batista in Cuba and then the Batistianos in the U. S. since the 1950s. Also, in recent days even the mainstream U. S. media has indicated that Mario and Marco have nudged Trump towards their vindictive Cuban policies with what some might call BLACKMAIL. It's reported that Mario reminded Trump that he is on the House Appropriations Committee that doles out federal money Trump may need to fund his projects AND Marco has reportedly reminded Trump that he sits on the Senate committee that is INVESTIGATING TRUMP'S ALLEGED IMPEACHMENT-THREATENING TIES TO RUSSIA.
TWO ongoing and ominously looming factors may well impeach the 71-year-old Trump's presidency, but not before he lowers the boom on Cuba in Miami tomorrow. ONE of those factors is Trump having so many Republican foxes, such as Diaz-Balart and Rubio, in his own Republican hen-house. THE OTHER FACTOR is indicated above by the infamous Tweet from Rachel Maddow, the top anchor on MSNBC, flatly and unequivocally stating that "Donald Trump has to be taken out before he ruins our country." Every single anchor and almost every pundit on both MSNBC and CNN devote almost every second of their airtime towards an electronic coup designed to get Trump impeached. They are joined by every single columnist at the Washington Post and New York Times, and that comprises four entities that might be powerful enough to get the job done, as indicated by extreme left-wing antics that include...the Alexandria, Virginia shooting rampage this week, Madonna calling for the bombing of the Trump White House, Kathy Griffin's shamefully touting the bloody beheaded image of Trump, etc. Left-wing zealots, like right-wing zealots, abound but perhaps the biggest threat to America is not Trump but probably the MSNBC-CNN-NY TIMES-WASHINGTON POST media pretending to be journalists while primarily engaged only in left-wing, anti-Trump propaganda. "Donald Trump has to be taken out before he ruins our country." If a kook says such things in a democracy, it's very bad. But when the so-called mainstream media says it, it's downright scary to democracy-lovers.
The former head of ExxonMobil and the former or current friend of Russia's Vladimir Putin, Rex Tillerson is now, as Secretary of State, the most powerful member of President Trump's cabinet. He strongly advocates lowering the boom on poor little Cuba but certainly not on big, strong threats like Russia or China. Tillerson told Congress: "We believe it is important that we take steps to restore the purpose of the Helms Burton legislation, which was to pressure the regime to change, and that pressure, in our view, has been largely lifted." The right-wing gutlessness of that anti-Obama, anti-American statement assumes that Americans are too stupid or too unpatriotic to know that the Helms Burton legislation was written by and rammed through Congress by the most vicious counter-revolutionary forces in Miami, such as Jorge Mas Canoso. Decades of uncontested Batistiano-dictated propaganda, of course, dispute that but there is no respectable Cuban expert in America that would dispute it. Helms Burton, pure and simply, was designed to bring about regime-change in Cuba while also enriching and empowering selected Cuban-American zealots and defying the wishes of most Cuban-Americans, even in Miami. I assume Tillerson understood that when he mentioned "Helms Burton" in that exact asinine quote depicted above.
America's greatest Cuban expert IS Julia E. Sweig.
In her book -- "CUBA: What Everyone Needs To Know" -- Julia E. Sweig expertly explains how Helms Burton, as the dismal congressional linchpin of America's disgraceful and failed Cuban policy, came to shame both America and democracy while also cruelly punishing millions of totally innocent Cubans.
America's 2nd greatest Cuban expert IS Ann Louise Bardach.
In her truly great book -- "CUBA Confidential: Love And Vengeance In Miami And Havana" -- Ann Louise Bardach expertly explains how Helms Burton, as a cruel linchpin of America's disgraced and failed Cuban policy, came to shame both America and democracy while also cruelly and unjustly punishing millions of totally innocent Cubans, including children in Cuba and children aboard the terrorist-bombed Cubana Flight 455 civilian airplane. Since the 1950s, Americans have loutishly swallowed bucket-loads of Batistiano propaganda while they should have shown more respect for America and for democracy by absorbing truthful Cuban information from unbiased experts like Julia E. Sweig and Ann Louise Bardach.
Emblematic of a great failure of the U. S. democracy is the fact that truly decent members of Congress, like Senator Patrick Leahy, have not been permitted to have major impacts on America's Batistiano-driven Cuban policy. That is so even though most Americans, most Cuban-Americans, and, yes, that 191-to-0 vote in the UN agree with Mr. Leahy's sane approach to Cuba. On the eve of President Trump's announcement in Miami on June 16th about turning back former President Obama's sane and decent overtures to Cuba, Mr. Leahy wrote an article, which you can go online to read in its entirety, in which he begged President Trump not to do it. He wrote: "It would not only harm U. S. business and the Cuban people, it would leave a gaping vacuum, just over 90 miles offshore, for our adversaries to fill. Russia is eager to regain its diminished sphere of influence over our island neighbor. Recent events indicate the Kremlin may be seeking to return in full force to Cuba. The American people and the Cuban people overwhelmingly want closer relations."
Prior to the election of Donald Trump, the brave and decent President Obama went to Cuba and, in the emotional and heartfelt speech above carried live on state television, he told the Cuban people: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." Unfortunately for both Cuba and America, Mr. Obama's two terms as President are over and now the Miami-based Batistianos are back in charge. President Trump will remind the world of that tomorrow in Miami, reminding Cuba of THE U. S. THREAT.
The above image of America drastically embarrasses decent Americans like Barack Obama. As President, he tried his best to correct it. But Donald Trump is now President. And Trump is about to allow Marco Rubio and the Diaz-Balarts to resume the Batistiano dictation of America's Cuban policy. Meanwhile, the majority of Americans and Cuban-Americans will not have the guts or the patriotism to intervene.
Cuba's brilliant Minster of North American Affairs, Josefina Vidal, negotiated every aspect of the island's positive relationship with the Obama administration. She will meticulously defend Cuba {note her quote} but remains very willing to cooperate with the Trump administration. Ms. Vidal is very proud that, thanks to the overtures from Obama, everyday Cubans have markedly benefited, with well over 8,000 private Cuban homes renting out accommodations, via AIRbnb traffic, to the increase in U. S. tourism.
Note the above Tweet exchange between Josefina Vidal in Havana with Jose Ramon Cabanas, the head of Cuba's Embassy in Washington. It's about the Obama-orchestrated increase in U. S. tourism to Cuba. The counter-revolutionaries in the U. S. don't like it and much prefer an aspect of the embargo, since 1962, that still makes everyday Americans the only people in the world without the freedom to visit Cuba, an anti-democratic law designed, many assume, to just keep Americans from making their own Cuba judgments.
And by the way:
The two photos below are courtesy of Cuba's superb young broadcast journalist Rosy Amaro Perez. The photos show a 12-year-old girl helping the doctor deliver her baby brother. Was she a bit excited?
No comments:
Post a Comment