Cuba's Propaganda Enemies

Unchecked and Unsavory!!
{Updated: Tuesday, July 18th, 2017}  

      For being just a small island, relatively speaking, it is astounding how much vile anti-Cuban propaganda flows throughout the world's superpower, the U. S., on a daily basis...almost as if Cuba, as in the 1898 Spanish-American War and in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, is still the most important aspect of America's Foreign Policy. That relates, of course, to the unique fact that the vile and overthrown U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba regrouped permanently starting in 1959 on U. S. soil. Yes, finally taking control of Cuba from Spain in 1898 was vitally significant to imperialist and greedy right-wing Americans and so was teaming with the Mafia to support the murderous and thieving Batista dictatorship on the plush island beginning in 1952. But after the Cuban Revolution in 1959 booted Cuba's Batistianos and Mafiosi to Miami, a half-century of efforts, backed by the U. S. government and the U. S. taxpayers, have failed to recapture the island. The 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack didn't get the job done and neither has such sadistic tactics as the economic embargo that, since 1962, has been the longest and cruelest embargo ever imposed by a powerful nation against a weak nation. But, hey!! Propaganda might wipe-out little Cuba any day now!!

        The daily barrage of cruel and sadistic anti-Cuban propaganda is highlighted this mid-July week by Mary O'Grady. She is a powerful editor and columnist for the ultra-powerful Wall Street Journal and, unfortunately as indicated above, she considers herself an expert on Latin America. But primarily she is a vicious anti-Cuban propagandist and attack-dog. Each Monday O'Grady writes a column called "The Americas" and the Americas include little Cuba. This typically anti-Cuban O'Grady propaganda is entitled: "How Cuba Runs Venezuela." Her first three sentences are: "The civilized world wants to end the carnage in Venezuela, but Cuba is the author of the barbarism. Restoring Venezuelan peace will require taking a hard line with Havana. Step one is a full-throated international denunciation of the Castro regime." I assume that by "hard line" O'Grady means nuking Cuba because she apparently doesn't believe that assassination attempts, the Bay of Pigs military attack, massive and unending terrorist attacks such as the bombing of the civilian Cubana Flight 455, the 1962-till-today embargo, etc., etc., have been "hard line" assaults on Cuba. Yet, such daily vitriol and propaganda masquerading as "news" is far more harmful to the prestige of the United States than it is to Cuba. O'Grady, for example, assumes her readers are either anti-Cuban zealots or just plain stupid. She has the gall, as noted above in the second sentence of her new propaganda sheet, to call for "a full-throated international denunciation" of Cuba. Of course, even while O'Grady and her ilk have been unable to persuade the United States to nuke Cuba, she doesn't have the integrity to mention that the INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY  has already spoken IN UNANIMITY regarding the Batistiano-directed American Cuban policy -- and the UN CONDEMNED IT by a vote of 191-to-0. 

       The anti-Cuban propagandist at the Wall Street Journal, Mary O'Grady, epitomizes why U. S. journalism has plummeted to depths never imagined before in democratic societies. One primary reason is that once-great institutions such as the Wall Street Journal are being purchased by multi-billionaires apparently for propaganda purposes. Amazon multi-billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post that now seems engaged in a massive propaganda-fueled effort to overturn the U. S. presidential election; Nevada-and-China's controversial multi-billionaire  casino mogul Sheldon Edelson bought Nevada's largest newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, apparently because it was too critical of Edelson. And Rupert Murdoch -- born 86-years-old in Melbourne, Australia -- purchased the WSJ for $5 billion in 2007. Prior to that it was probably the most respected newspaper in the United States. Murdoch -- the Aussie-British-USA media mogul -- also owns Fox, Fox News, 21st Century Fox, Harper Collins Publishers, etc., etc. The WSJ was founded in 1889 and became America's first national newspaper. It was the Bancroft family's and America's pride and joy. But if you Google either "Rupert Murdoch" or the "Wall Street Journal," you will note that one of the first articles will reveal how the remaining members of the Bancroft family "regret" selling their prize to Murdoch. If you read the new propaganda piece about Cuba by Mary O'Grady, you may understand why.

MEANWHILE, while rich and powerful counter-revolutionary zealots in the rich and powerful United States -- Like Mary O'Grady -- spend countless hours assaulting Cuba at every turn, on the island itself there are extremely decent, honorable, family-oriented, well-educated, hard-working young Cuban women such as the skilled broadcast journalists shown above this week reporting on an event for their popular television broadcast. On the left is Rosy Amaro Perez and her colleague and friend is Daily Sanchez Lemus. There are decent people in this world who believe that Rosy and Daily shouldn't be punished ALL THEIR LIVES by a handful of self-serving, unchecked miscreants in a nearby superpower. And that reflects most of all not on revengeful benefactors in America like Mary O'Grady but on the majority of America's cowardly, unpatriotic and silent citizens who permit such abominations to occur decade after decade IN OUR NAMES.

      So, if you want an anti-Cuba/anti-Venezuela propaganda piece this week, read Mary O'Grady's Wall Street Journal propaganda. But if you want fair and unbiased news today about the tragic political, social and economic turmoil in Venezuela, turn to John Paul Rathbone of the London-based and highly regarded Economic Times. His latest article is entitled: "Cuba Courted in Diplomatic Push on Venezuela Crisis."

            John Paul Rathbone in the Financial News July 17th used the photo above to illustrate his fair article. It shows Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuelan President Nicolas Madura. Santos has flown to Havana to solicit Cuba's help to try to ease or end the turmoil in Venezuela that has killed 90 protesters in the past three months and is causing Venezuelans to flock across the border into Colombia seeking food and medicine not available in Venezuelan. Cuba is Venezuela's closest ally but Latin American nations often turn to Cuba during periods of crisis. In Venezuela's case, Madura blames much of his country's problems on anti-Cuban elements in Miami, Congress and the Donald Trump White House.

        Both Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos and Cuban President Raul Castro recently received considerable international praise for brokering a peace treaty between Colombia and FARC rebels who had waged an extremely bloody half-century Civil War in which hundreds of thousands of people died.

         Prior to the incredible ceasefire in Havana that Cuba spent many months hosting, U. S. taxpayers contributed billions of dollars to the Colombia-FARC war -- especially during Bush administrations that were tightly aligned with conservative Colombian Presidents. But Santos is a peace-loving President. That's  why he worked so hard for a FARC ceasefire and that's why he's back in Cuba trying to get Havana's help in dealing with the ghastly Venezuelan crisis. Cuba bringing the President of Colombian and the guerrilla leader of the FARC rebels together to hammer out a ceasefire was both a Herculean and monumental achievement although anti-Cuban propagandists would never admit it. While much larger countries supported either the Colombia government solders or the FARC rebels, prolonging the half-century war, little Cuba almost single-handedly and evenhandedly negotiated the peace treaty.

         The FARC rebel leader Timochenko Jimenez, shown above in an AP photo, suffered a stroke on July 2nd, 2017 and was in intensive care in Colombia, which has excellent hospitals. But he chose to return to Cuba for treatment and recovery. His real name is Rodrigo Londono. The very week he suffered the stroke, the UN announced that its observers have certified that his rebels have "completely disarmed" in accordance with the peace agreement hammered out in Havana. The UN has confirmed that over 220,000 people died in the conflict. Now Colombia's President Santos is back in Cuba hoping to end the bloody Venezuelan crisis that anti-Cuban propagandist Mary O'Grady says in the Wall Street Journal today: "Cuba is the author of the barbarism." Of course, such propagandists accuse Cuba of all sorts of barbarism while implying its Batistiano and Mafiosi enemies are and always have been sweetheart Mother Teresa-types.

       This photo shows the President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, on the right, arriving in Havana this week on two important missions: One is to discuss the unrest and turmoil roiling Venezuela but it was an already scheduled trip by Santos to promote renewed economic relations between Colombia and Cuba.

And by the way:

        While Mary O'Grady, the anti-Cuban propagandist at the Wall Street Journal, is a self-proclaimed Latin American expert, John Paul Rathbone at the Economic Times is a true Latin American expert. His book depicted above -- "THE SUGAR KING of HAVANA: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo -- Cuba's Last Tycoon" -- still stands tall as a fascinating and richly detailed portrait of Cuba, to paraphrase the New York Times.

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