U.S.-Cuba Emergenies

A Domestic & Foreign Contrast!!
{Updated: Sunday, October 29th, 2017}

      This week -- October 26, 2017 -- the Voice of America informed the world that America has a "national emergency." On video and in print the VOA said: "America's current opioid overdose epidemic started in doctor's offices. The abuse of prescription opioids along with the use of heroin killed nearly 60,00 people last year. Those kinds of numbers prompted President Trump to declare a public health emergency today."

        The VOA this week reported that over a half-century ago the U. S. declared a war on drugs but now concludes that is today "The War America's Losing." Meanwhile, the U. S. currently is deeply involved in the 16-year-old Afghanistan War as well as a plethora of proxy wars not to mention the threat of wars against North Korea and Iran and even conflicting interests with Superpowers China and Russia that could evolve into future wars. But at the moment, the VOA declares the only "War" America is "losing" is the War on Drugs, a domestic issue solely inside its own borders.

      The island of Cuba also has an emergency but the roots are foreign, not domestic -- namely, the United States embargo that has been in effect since 1962, making it history's all-time longest and cruelest embargo ever imposed by a strong nation against a much weaker nation. The current international outcry condemning the embargo...with a 191-to-0 unanimity vote in the United Nations...cannot persuade the U. S. democracy to end it. Also, the U. S. democracy maintains the embargo even though most Americans and most Cuban-Americans also strongly oppose it.

     Cuba -- with strong unanimous support throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and the world -- calls the U. S. embargo a "genocidal blockade against the sovereign Cuban people." Cuban sovereignty was finally earned in January of 1959 with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution over the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship.

     But while the Cuban Revolution changed the island drastically, it actually, in many ways, altered South Florida and the United States democracy even more. By the end of January, 1959, remnants of the ousted Batista dictatorship had taken political-financial charge of South Florida with a new capital -- Little Havana in Miami -- and an out-sized influenced on America's Cuban policy, which has used such undemocratic things as a record number of assassination attempts in 1959 and 1960, the Bay of Pigs military attack in 1961, and the embargo that was legalized in 1962 for the precise purpose, as revealed by de-classified U. S. documents, of starving, depriving, and showering misery on the Cuban people to entice them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. Since 1959 only two-term President Barack Obama, from 2014 throughout 2016, possessed the combination of courage and patriotism to earnestly try to end the embargo. But that Herculean Obama effort resulted in such things as the anti-Obama march depicted above in the hallowed streets of Miami.

     The Cuban-exile political takeover of South Florida includes South Florida's biggest newspaper -- the Miami Herald -- and thus the Andres Oppenheimer headline depicted above that easily predicted "Trump Could Win Florida, Thanks to Cuban Americans." With Florida's crucial 29 electoral votes, Trump the Republican replaced Obama the Democrat in the White House with Trump owing extremists a debt.

     Subsequently, on two torrid visits to Little Havana, President Trump has rewarded South Florida's dominant counter-revolutionaries with volatile Cuban promises.

       At the behest of counter-revolutionaries, Trump's Cuba Crackdown involves reversing Obama-orchestrated peaceful overtures such as reopening embassies in Havana and Washington for the first time since 1961. Also, tightening the embargo to reverse the Obama-orchestrated sharp increase in tourism to Cuba is a Little Havana priority that Trump is obligated to reverse. In the past, such things as deadly terrorist bombings of Cuban hotels discouraged Cuban tourism, which is a lifeline for the island. These days, Trump's warning to Americans not to visit Cuba is based on deeply investigated but still mysterious sonic-wave attacks on Americans at the U. S. embassy in Havana and supposedly at two rooms in the Capri and Nacional hotels.

       Since 1962 the justification for the U. S. embargo against Cuba has been "to hurt the Castros." But as everyone knows, and as the 1962 de-classified U. S. documents confirm, the U. S. embargo, for all these decades, has mostly hurt only totally innocent, non-political everyday Cubans like Julia de la Rosa. With entrepreneurial openings provided by the cooperation of Presidents Obama and Raul Castro, Julia opened a Bed & Breakfast catering to American tourists that thrived with constant bookings via the U.S.-based AirB&B service. But after Trump's reversals on behalf of Little Havana extremists, Julia cried {above} when she told NBC's Andrea Mitchell that Trump and counter-revolutionaries were destroying her livelihood.
        Here is what Julia de la Rosa told NBC's Andrea Mitchell: "With what Rubio and Trump are doing to us, unlike the opportunity Obama gave us, I am afraid. I don't want to think about it. I worry about my family but I also worry about the 17 families on my payroll who need the money I pay them." While Marco Rubio is portrayed as a Mother Teresa-type choirboy by his Miami promoters and by the U. S. media, innocent Cubans on the island, like Julia de la Rosa, consider him a self-serving pariah.

   But the U. S. democracy today still seems incapable of reigning in counter-revolutionary benefactors like Little Havana's choirboy Marco Rubio. That, for sure, is a everlasting problem for Cuba but, in essence, it is a more dire disaster for America.

      Colin Laverty, one of the many decent Americans trying desperately to correct America's genocidal Cuban policies, used the above Rubio-Trump photo to point out on his Facebook page this week: "A powerful clip/video about how the Rubio/Trump policy of driving Cuban families apart causes great suffering." Yes, a powerful video.

       The Collin Laverty video features Cuban lawyer Irina Garcia explaining precisely how "The Rubio-Trump policy...causes great suffering" to totally innocent Cubans while Rubio builds his political and economic fortunes in the U. S. telling propagandized Americans that he is only hurting the Castros. All the while, I believe, Rubio and his ilk well know they are hurting millions of totally innocent Cubans.

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