Cuba Hypocrisy Hurts U.S.

And Shames Democracy!
{Updated: Wednesday, July 5th, 2017}

        Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont has taken to the floor of the U. S. Senate to devote a long speech explaining in detail how extreme U. S. hypocrisy related to Cuba harms America and democracy in the eyes of the world. Of course, the U. S. media, afraid of upsetting a small band of viciously self-serving counter-revolutionaries, ignored Mr. Leahy's salient defense of America and democracy.

                But the points Senator Leahy made will forever be registered in the United States Senate and they are readily available word-for-word via both transcripts and videos online. Here are his highlights:

                 "On June 16th, in a campaign speech glorifying the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, President Trump spoke of freedom and democracy for the Cuban people. But the hypocrisy of the President's remarks in Miami, when he announced his decision to roll back engagement between the United States and Cuba, was glaring, if not surprising. Other than the couple of Cuban-American members of Congress -- neither of whom has ever set foot in Cuba -- who publicly took credit for writing the new White House policy, I doubt if any other members of Congress even bothered to know what is written in Trump's Cuban guidelines." And then, after assailing the anti-Cuban and anti-American dictates of Marco Rubio and Mario Diaz-Balart -- Miami's hypocritical "gifts" to the U. S. Congress -- Senator Leahy assailed President Trump for conveniently and cowardly overlooking flagrant assaults on freedom and democracy in countries such as "Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey." Senator Leahy's exact words were: "Despite all that, President Trump has decided to make a point of tiny Cuba, whose government, for all its faults, doesn't hold a candle to these other autocracies." In other words, Senator Leahy has the guts, the insight, and the integrity to point out that autocracies such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt never had a U.S.-backed dictatorship that was overthrown by a revolution and then the leaders of that dictatorship fled to the U. S. and quickly AND ETERALLY IT SEEMS established their old dictatorship within the bowels of the U. S. government, spending billions of tax dollars and tons of American prestige in failed efforts over six decades to recreate their dictatorship back in Cuba. The fact that the U. S. media is not permitted to cover such important truths as Senator Leahy laid down officially on the floor of the U. S. Senate is yet another reminder of how much U. S. prestige has suffered since the 1959 victory of the Cuban Revolution when the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba was re-created on United States soil, namely the mighty cities of Miami and Washington.

    Yet, the American media's favorite choirboy -- the otherwise dangerously ambitious and controversial Senator Marco Rubio from Miami -- can utilize the electronic and print media at his beckoning to disparage everything about Revolutionary Cuba while implying that the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba was a wonderfully democratic Mother Teresa-type operation. That narrative has created and benefited Miami politicians like Senator Marco Rubio since 1959, and they are reluctant to give up the gravy-train.

         As the brave and democracy-loving Senator Leahy pointed out in the U. S. Senate, Marco Rubio and Mario Diaz-Balart -- both vicious opponents of President Trump during the presidential campaign -- are cozying up to Trump so he will allow them to write his Cuban policy. Patting or stabbing Trump in the back?

        This photo shows the Diaz-Balart brothers -- Lincoln on the left and Mario on the right -- flanking two other visceral counter-revolutionaries in the U. S. Congress from Miami. The father of the Diaz-Balart brothers, Rafael, was a key Minister in the overthrown Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba and then, beginning in January of 1959, was one of the richest and most powerful counter-revolutionary Cubans operating freely and militarily in South Florida. And here in July of 2017 the fierce and failed Rafael Diaz-Balart-led efforts to regain control of Cuba are being replicated and led from Miami and Washington by former Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart and current Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart with help from the likes of Senator Marco Rubio from Miami and the Havana-born Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who has been in the U. S. Congress from Miami since 1989 when she was a product of the Bush dynasty. That's Ros-Lehtinen at the podium above and right behind her right shoulder is Carlos Curbelo, yet another Miami Congressman.

         On one of his frequent trips to Havana, prominent Miami businessman Hugo Cancio is shown above telling Cuba's superstar young broadcaster Cristina Escobar: "A strong majority of Cuban-Americans even in Miami favor normalizing relations with Cuba as I certainly do. But when it comes to Cuba, moderates like me in Miami have no representation in politics, including in helping to choose who gets elected to Congress."

        On June 16th, 2017 in Miami, President Trump's anti-Cuban speech was delivered in a Little Havana building named after a Bay of Pigs veteran before a wildly cheering audience of counter-revolutionary Cuban-Americans. But outside that carefully scripted venue was a far different story, as indicated by this photo courtesy of Leslie Ovalle/South Florida Sun-Sentinel. It shows Nelson Avila and other Miami Cuban-Americans demonstrating against President Trump while strongly advocating normal relations with Cuba.

   Democracy-loving Americans like Senator Patrick Leahy firmly believe that moderate Cubans in Miami like Hugo Cancio should have input into America's Cuban policy. It is a decades-old anti-democratic policy that currently has a 191-to-0 condemnation in the United Nations. And, as Senator Leahy said on the Senate floor, President Trump's allowing the likes of Rubio and Diaz-Balart "to write" that endlessly failed policy casts America and Americans as the arch-villains for continually and cruelly punishing totally innocent Cubans on the sovereign island...merely to sate economic, political and revenge motives of just a few counter-revolutionaries.

Meanwhile, Cuba is still Cuba:

          This is skilled young broadcast journalist Rosy Amaro Perez anchoring a very influential news program on Cuba's new television channel, a news source particularly aimed at young-adult Cubans.

    This is Rosy taking time to train an aspiring broadcast journalist.

         Taking a break from her anchoring job, Rosy Amaro Perez is still a favorite of the carefree and vibrant young-adult generation of Cubans. This happy group was gathering this week for an open-air concert headlined by Cuban superstar Silvio Rodriguez in Havana's Plaza De San Francisco. In the lower right, that's Rosy riding her beautiful daughter on her shoulders. Rosy labeled the photo, "Poor mama-pony." She and her generation of Cubans plan to be the driving force in the island's future. They are quite aware of the plans to the contrary in Miami and Washington but, as this photo indicates, they remain undeterred.

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