cubaninsider: The USA's Cuban Reach

And Its Deleterious Worldwide Image!!
{Updated for: Saturday, January 20th, 2018}

Long one of the top journalists in England, Colin Randall, 69, has been a key reporter for such newspaper/website giants as The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, etc. He and his wife Joelle have been to Cuba many times because they love the much-maligned island nation in the Caribbean sea. They learned that U. S. dollars are very useful in navigating around Cuba. This month -- January, 2018 -- Randall went to his London bank to exchange 175 British pounds for U. S. dollars. When the bank learned he was going to Cuba, it refused the translation, telling him, "It is a U. S. policy." Outraged, Randall said, "You're a British company! I am British! I'm going to Cuba, which is an independent country! Why are you imposing Donald Trump desires on me?" WHY, indeed? Non-Americans ask that question daily around the world.

The outraged question British journalist Colin Randall posed to his British bank, -- Marks & Spencer -- is very pertinent, so pertinent, in fact, that the giant London newspaper The Daily Mail featured it in a major article written by Mark Wood.

The article in the London Daily Mail this week used the above photo to stress an abhorrent international fact: America's Cuban policy since the Cuban Revolution ousted the vile U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in 1959 has been designed to appease only the most vicious Counter-Revolutionary exiles in the USA at the expense of everyone else, including 69-year-old British journalist Colin Randall and his wife Joelle. The London Daily Mail this week -- in mid-January of 2018 -- pointed out that this horrific situation has existed since 1960, the year U. S. President John Kennedy inherited the brutal, imperial Cuban policies that had been dictated by right-wing rogues in the Eisenhower administration -- such as Vice President Richard Nixon and the two Dulles brothers who were Eisenhower's most powerful cabinet members.

As the above AP photo-caption cogently reveals, in 1960 -- in the first year of his presidency and the first year after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution -- President Kennedy was powerless to stop the above U. S. warplanes in an undeclared war from leaving bases in Florida to attack "Cuban fields with napalm-type bombs." The young President Kennedy had inherited those plans from the Eisenhower right-wingers.

The young President Kennedy in 1960 had also inherited "OPERATION NORTHWOODS." As depicted above, that was the plan unanimously hatched by famed General Lyman Lemnitzer and his Joint Chiefs of Staff to, among other things, murder innocent Americans so those killings of innocent people could be blamed on Cuba and used as a pretext for a very savage military attack on Revolutionary Cuba.

The young President Kennedy defied General Lymnitzer and the Joint Chiefs of Staff regarding the Operation Northwoods plan to murder innocent Americans so it could could be blamed on Cuba. But remember, for decades -- until such facts were revealed by de-classified documents -- Americans were told that the rogues who devised such plans were the GOOD GUYS and the Cubans were the BAD GUYS. Also, as shown by the photo above, other powerful U. S. generals and the CIA persuaded President Kennedy to carry through on other inherited plans from the Eisenhower administration to recapture Cuba -- including the April-1961 Bay of Pigs military attack that Cuba embarrassingly defeated but the generals and the CIA blamed the defeat on Kennedy. Then in October-1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the same powerful forces begged Kennedy as Commander-in-Chief to nuke Cuba and the Soviet forces on the island. It is still considered the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear holocaust but, in hindsight, Kennedy's decision to avoid a nuclear war through 8 scary days in October-1962 probably saved millions of lives for sure and perhaps billions. During this time when the young President was being besieged by his top generals and CIA kingpins like Allen Dulles, Kennedy was being more wisely and sanely advised by three great speech-writers, authors, and journalists -- Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ted Sorensen, and Pierre Salinger. Via those three legendary Kennedy aides we have learned that one day an exasperated President Kennedy screamed: "If I could I would blow the CIA to Smithereens!!" It is presumed that he lumped his top generals into the CIA bundle. And it was also from those three historians -- Schlesinger Jr., Sorensen, and Salinger -- that we learned that in November of 1963 -- just a few days before he took the fateful trip to Dallas -- that President John F. Kennedy told his most senior aides that, once he returned to Washington, his most urgent priority would be to normalize relations with Cuba.

Of course, history registers the fact that on November 22-1963 America's popular young President, John Kennedy, returned to Washington from Dallas in a coffin. To this day, historians and conspiracy theorists debate not only who, along with the Oswald-Ruby known ties, were involved in the actual assassination but who were also the major forces that contributed to it or were slightly beaten to the punch by it. Those forces primarily today include the generals, the CIA, the Mafia, and Kennedy's Vice President Lyndon Johnson. In fact, newly de-classified documents in 2017 indicated that Kennedy's widow Jacqueline, who died in 1994, and his brother Robert, who was assassinated in 1968, both believed people close to Johnson killed their husband and brother. But it was also revealed anew in 2017 that Jacqueline's belief is contained in a paper that she ordered not to be published until 50 years after her death. Also, as indicated by the graphic above that shows President and Mrs. Kennedy in the fateful car in Dallas, it is generally believed that John Kennedy's murder or at least designs on his death related mostly to Cuban facts such as: Operation Northwoods, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the never-ending quest of Batistiano-Mafiosi remnants to overthrow Cuba's rebel-led government. Classifying...or hiding...documents and facts from the American people has hurt history and protected many criminals. For example, Operation Northwoods data was not de-classified until 1997, and that was many decades after Americans needed to know. And by 1997 there were two uncaring generations of Americans that simply didn't & don't give a damn.

Of course, within minutes of President Kennedy's murder in Dallas on Nov. 22-1963, Cuba's revolutionary icon Fided Castro was blamed by the still-viable Operation Northwoods forces that had urged Kennedy to let them murder innocent Americans so it could be blamed on Castro. The publicity to blame Fidel was instantly buttressed by the well-known fact that the Kennedy brothers, John & Robert, had signed off on and assisted in many CIA-Mafia-Cuban exile assassination attempts against Fidel. Thus, it was easy to say Fidel had retaliated against Kennedy. But Fidel didn't live to be 90 by being either cowardly or stupid and his revolution hasn't survived all these many decades by being cowardly or stupid. Before dark on Nov. 22-1963 Fidel had informed the CIA, the FBI, and the U. S. State Department that his own well-respected intelligence operation would assist them in the investigations and that the U. S. could send experts to Havana to interrogate him, which the U. S. certainly did. To this day, no reputable source blames Fidel Castro for the assassinations of John Kennedy in 1963 or Robert Kennedy in 1968. But to this day, the usual suspects in addition to Oswald & Ruby are indeed still tied by reputable sources to the infamous murders.

In 1960 the new President, John F. Kennedy, had a son named John F. Kennedy Jr. They are shown above in 1963 not long before JFK was murdered in Dallas.

The above haunting image of JFK Jr. saluting his father's casket as it was being carried to Arlington National Cemetery to this day provokes tears across America.

Awesomely handsome, intelligent, and starkly charismatic like his father, JFK Jr. could have been just about anything he wanted to be, including President of the United States. But, in another tragedy for the Kennedys and for America, JFK Jr. was killed, along with his wife and her sister, in a small plane he was piloting in 1999.

While close family members famously blamed some famous individuals and some famously notorious groups for the murders of John and Robert Kennedy, the Kennedy family knew that Fidel Castro was not to blame and, in fact, Fidel had...for what it was worth...provided concrete evidence and clues as to who did it and who planned to do it. JFK Jr., in fact, told Fidel in phone calls how much he appreciated the Cuban Revolution and how much he hated the "criminal" Counter Revolutionary forces "operating freely" in the United States. And, in fact, JFK Jr. told that to Fidel face-to-face too. In the photo above, JFK Jr., in the middle, is introducing Fidel to a JFK Jr. friend that had accompanied President Kennedy's only son to Havana to meet a man -- Fidel Castro -- that JFK Jr. VERY DEEPLY ADMIRED.

In Havana Fidel Castro hosted a dinner in honor of his famous visitor, John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. As shown by the photo above, Fidel Castro and JFK Jr. sat directly across from each other so they could talk to each other throughout the meal.

Indeed, if John Kennedy Jr. had not died in that plane crash in 1999, there is an excellent chance THAT TODAY he would be the successor to Obama as the President of the United States. And if that were so, regardless of how many Rubios and Diaz-Balarts there are in the U. S. Congress, THERE WOULD SURELY BE NO U. S. EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA nor would there be continuous Operation Northwoods schemes to justify assaults on Cuba that former President Obama and the entire world condemned 191-to-ZERO in the United Nations. Yes, JFK Jr. was "a good man" as he referenced in the above quotation. And no "good man" can justify such American history as Operation Northwoods or the still-current U. S. Embargo that was, according to de-classified U. S. documents, created in 1962 to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to overthrow their Revolutionary government. {To do what? To replace it with the U.S.-backed Batistianos again?}. But JFK Jr. is not the President of the United States in 2018. Donald Trump is. Thus, another generation of Batistianos is free to target Cuba and to concoct schemes designed to justify blaming Cuba for whatever it is they want to blame Cuba for, which is whatever benefits a plethora of revenge, economic, and political goals.

Both the modern, current, and future history of the United States are entwined in the memories of three giant men -- the Kennedy brothers who were assassinated in the 1960s -- John while he was President and Robert while he was running for President -- and Fidel Castro who died at age 90 in Havana on Nov. 25, 2016. So, the three giants are dead and their 1963, 1968, and 2016 deaths...I believe...say a lot more about the United States today than they say about Cuba. And two things they say are this: {1} The Cuban Revolution, somehow, is still viable; and {2} Donald Trump is President of the United States and Marco Rubio is Trump's anointed Dictator of Cuba.