cubaninsider: The Soul of Cuba

She Competes Against the Souls of Miscreants!
{Updated: Friday, Sept. 15th, 2017}

In my opinion, Rosy Amaro Perez is the soul of today's Cuba. If Cuba survives the wrath of Hurricane Irma, Rosy will be one key reason why. If Cuba survives the gutless but powerful assaults of the second generational and relentless Batistiano-Mafiosi exiles, Rosy will be one key reason why. As a high-profile and outstanding broadcast journalist on the island, Rosy is also a leader of the young-adult generation of Cubans who will predicate Cuba's future instead of it being dictated by vile foreigners. It's a future very much in limbo now that its revolutionary icon Fidel Castro died at age 90 on Nov. 25-2016 and now that 86-year-old Raul Castro will step down as President on the island no later than February of 2018. The transitions in Cuba amidst man-made and natural hurricanes will focus on Rosy's generation of Cubans. Either she wins or Cuba finally loses to ultra-rich, ultra-powerful, ultra-unchecked, and ultra-unworthy Cuban-Americans such as Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez. I happen to know Rosy and I know this: She is a far more honorable and decent person than any of her high-powered, self-serving, and miscreant enemies in the United States.

On her Facebook page Rosy Amaro Perez posted the above GenteDeCuba photo, which crystallizes and chronicles Cuba's current struggles to survive the ravages of Hurricane Irma. The young Cuban boy above is holding a bust of Jose Marti that was blown off a statue of the Cuban independence fighter. This young man's concern for that statue is commendable. Jose Marti was a world-famed Cuban poet who died on Cuban soil in 1895 fighting against Spanish imperialism after he had also very presciently and famously decried America's imperialist designs on the island. Rosy Amaro Perez added this haunting caption to the above photo: "!Verso, o nos condenan juntos o nos salvamos los dos." {"Verse, or condemn us together, or save us both."}. In other words, Rosy seems to be saying: "Condemn this Cuban boy and condemn me or save us both." Her analogy rekindles independence-lover Marti.

Struggling against all the natural and man-made hurricanes targeting the Cuba that she loves, including the most dangerous ones that originate in Miami and in the United States Congress, Rosy Amaro Perez will either survive on her island or, without ever surrendering, be beaten after an honorable fight. Hurricane Irma took a direct aim at Rosy. Concerned, I was quite relieved when she informed me: "Thanks. We're fine. My house was damaged. But we are alive. That is the most important."

I believe that Rosy and her young family have a right to continue to try to survive in Cuba against natural hurricanes and against unholy and fiendish assaults from unchecked Cuban exiles still smarting about the Cuban Revolution that in 1959 kicked the Batistianos and Mafiosi as well as greedy U. S. businessmen off the island...all the way to Miami as it turned out. England's top newspaper, The Guardian, had a major article this week -- Sept. 13th -- entitled: "Cuba: Crumbling Infrastructure No Match for Might of Irma." Even Americans who are scared to death of the Batistiano-Mafiosi dictation of America's Cuban policy should summon up the guts to read that entire article on The Guardian's powerful website. It includes these exact words:

"With macabre comic timing, Donald Trump renewed the U. S. embargo on Cuba for another year just hours before Irma made landfall. With dozens of hotels smashed, millions still without power, and thousands of hectares of sugar cane destroyed, financing the reconstruction effort will be a challenge; the embargo also prevents Cuba from joining the IMF and the World Bank, as well as other regional lending institutions that grant infractrasture loans to other nations. As Cuban authorities go about patching up walls and constructing new homes, Cuba will have to pay over the odds for building materials. Cuba cannot buy from multinationals that trade with the U. S., so it is forced to source higher priced items from further afield."

The aforementioned article in The Guardian -- an article I don't believe many Americans have the compassion or the guts to read -- used photos like the one above to illustrate its points about what lies ahead for Cuba while miscreants in the U. S. revel in punishing the vulnerable island to exacerbate its punishment from Irma.

This photo used by The Guardian shows a flooded street in Havana. It is a reminder that the primary threats to Cuba are not hurricanes but the sheer gutlessness of the American people who don't have the courage or the intelligence or the patriotism to challenge a Batistiano-Mafiosi Cuban policy that the rest of the world -- with a 191-to-0 vote in the United Nations -- severely challenges. But that worldwide challenge is useless because the Batistiano-Mafiosi miscreants -- such as Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez -- can hide behind and utilize the power of the world's superpower.

The article in The Guardian also included this photo of Cubans having their furniture outside to try to dry it out and salvage it. The article also included this paragraph that the United States media would be too afraid to publish: "Yorka Gutierrez Perez came to a shelter when her house was unlivable. She's hoping to now stay in the shelter until she's given a new house, but given that hundreds of Cubans in her neighborhood are in temporary housing, it's likely she'll have to wait. 'But I've got faith in this government,' she said. 'The Revolution has never abandoned us.'" The U. S. media that doesn't have the courage to publish such a paragraph, as published yesterday by the top British newspaper, reflects an America that has watched its precious Democracy decline precipitously each day since the 1950s when the cancerous U.S.-backed Batistiano-Mafiosi union in Cuba in 1952 became permanently engraved on the U. S. government and U. S. psyche since 1959's victory by the Cuban Revolution, a revolution that says much more about the U. S. than about Cuba.

Always portrayed as a Mother Teresa-like Cuban-American Miami choirboy, Senator Marco Rubio was, as usual, all over CNN and other U. S. networks this morning -- Thursday, Sept. 14th -- portraying himself as the choirboy he IS NOT.

A huge but highly financed failure in his 2016 presidential bid, Marco Rubio in 2020 will again powerfully seek the U. S. presidency. And, of course, the U. S. media will again portray him as a Cuban-American choirboy from Miami. And again, in 2020 Rubio's presidential bid will be backed by billions of dollars because he is famed for selling out to the highest bidders, and in politics that, of course, means billionaires.

A more accurate portrait of Marco Rubio -- the presidential wannabe who also wants to be the Commander-in-chief so he can dictate to Cuba -- is an almost book-length article by highly respected American journalist Ken Silverstein. The famed article, which Americans are not supposed to read, was fronted by the graphic above. Silverstein started off with this sentence: "When it comes to sheer brazen corruption, chicanery and dishonesty, there is one candidate that stands head and shoulders above everyone else and he is the right-wing Cuban-American and Tea Party darling Senator Marco Rubio of -- naturally -- the great state of Florida." After that damning preamble, Ken Silverstein's diligently researched article goes to great length and expressive name-calling depth to document the Rubio bio, which...as I stated...Americans are not supposed to read. Meanwhile, Rubio can appear daily on U. S. "news" programs explaining why he will make sure that the embargo of Cuba is enforced and even enlarged to make sure it continues to severely punish everyday Cubans on the island. Of course, neither Rubio nor the mainstream U. S. media has the guts or the integrity to admit this fact revealed by DE-CLASSIFIED U. S. documents: The embargo against Cuba dates back to 1962 when Batistiano-Mafiosi thugs got the U. S. government to legalize it for the purpose of starving and depriving Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. Meanwhile, the likes of Marco Rubio is daily portrayed in the United States media as a Miami choirboy by an intimidated, biased or incompetent media.

The London-based Reuters, the world's best news agency, this week in mid-September of 2017, flashed the above photo around the globe. It shows Cuban-American U. S. Senator from New Jersey, Bob Menendez, heading to trial in the Menendez-dominated city of Newark. In a trial expected to consume two months, Senator Menendez is facing massive corruption and bribery charges related to a Miami multi-millionaire who himself has been convicted of massive Medicare fraud, costing American taxpayers millions of dollars. Using his wealth and his power in the U. S. Senate, Menendez has been an ultra-powerful Counter Revolutionary against Cuba. In 2015 when the Obama administration brought the corruption charges against him, the Democrat Menendez gave up his omnipotent position as Chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, but he remains an ultra-powerful Counter Revolutionary, of course. AND he plans to seek reelection to a third six-year term as the U. S. Senator from Newark, a city, like Miami, that is renowned for its Mafiosi-type crime. Ultra-serious Federal Corruption Charges, even with a conviction, might not disrupt Menendez, such is the power of Counter Revolutionary Cuban Americans even though most Cuban Americans strongly favor normal relations with Cuba.

The Menendez corruption trial got underway on Wednesday, Sept. 13th, 2017. The opening remarks by lead U. S. prosecutor Peter Koski were: "This case is about a corrupt politician who sold his Senate office for a life of luxury he couldn't afford."

The charges against Menendez, a Democrat, originated in the administration of President Obama, also a Democrat. Obama is shown above on friendly terms with Saloman Melgen, the rich Miami friend of Senator Menendez, before Melgen was convicted of massive Medicare fraud and before the massive corruption charges against Menendez became public. As Cubans and the Mafia discovered in the 1950s, U. S. politics spawn corruption. Innocent Cubans still suffer from that basic fact.

The Menendez Trial that is "Happening Today" is a gigantic political story even if the mainstream U. S. media is too afraid to emphasize its significance. The Republican majority is a thin 52-48 in the Senate and several seats are up for grabs in the upcoming elections. If Menendez is forced from office by a corruption conviction, New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christy would name his replacement. The Menendez Trail in the coming weeks will reveal the Miami-Newark Cubans close ties to the Dominican Republic, ties that date back to when the fiendish U.S.-backed Trujillo was the ruthless dictator of the Dominican Republic. The U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Batista, of course, fled Havana on Jan. 1-1959 and his getaway airplane first touched down in Trujillo's Dominican Republic. Menendez and his convicted Miami friend Salomon Melgen have close ties to the Dominican Republic as the Trial will reveal. Also, historians are well aware that Miami and Newark were the two cities that, unfortunately, top exiles from the vile Batista dictatorship chose.

While the likes of U. S. Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez might be the Soul of Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans, I would like to suggest that Rosy Amaro Perez is the Heart and Soul of Revolutionary Cuba today. Her house was damaged by Hurricane Irma, but Rosy and her little daughter survived. It is hoped they will survive an American Cuban policy that, to this day, is dictated by the likes of Rubio and Menendez with the gutless connivance of U. S. citizens too afraid, too stupid, or simply too unpatriotic to object. Innocents like Rosy suffer from such sad facts that permeate a hostile nearby foreign superpower...decade after decade.