Trump Sets Cuba's Doomsday

Mark It Down: February 7th, 2018!!
{Updated: Sunday, January 28th, 2018}

       Even as the Trump administration in Washington has set Cuba's doomsday as February 7th, 2018, as we will explain, U. S. executives were in Havana signing major deals with state-owned Cuban businesses. Guy Henderson, President of U.S.-based Sony ATV Music Publishing, is shown on the right after signing a mega deal on January 24th, 2018 with Mario Angel Escalona Serrano, head of Cuba's Egrem Record Label. Now Sony will distribute the catalog of Cuba's state-run Egrem Music. The U. S. Sony music giant sought and has received the rights to renowned Cuban artists. 

      The Voice of America this week used this Reuters photo to illustrate a major article on the VOA's international platforms to hint that February 7th-2018 is the day the Trump administration has set as the start of its effort to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government. The photo shows a man using a computer in the lobby of a Havana hotel. The VOA article is entitled: "U. S. State Department Creates Cuba Internet Task Force." That Task Force will meet Feb. 7th-2018 in Washington and it is in keeping with a pledge that President Trump made to hard-line Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans in Miami's Little Havana on June 16, 2017. That day Trump stood before Bay of Pigs Assault Banner 2506 and essentially told elderly survivors of the April-1961 military attack on Cuba that he would fulfill their dreams of overthrowing Revolutionary Cuba. The "Cuba Internet Task Force" that holds its first meeting on Feb. 7th-2018 is a culmination of Trump's June 16-2017 promise.

Photo courtesy: Desmond Boylan/Associated Press.

     The same day this week the VOA article appeared, the Miami Herald used the above photo to headline an article entitled: "Trump Administration Wants to Expand Internet Access in Cuba." While that is supposed to be a benign headline in Miami, in Havana it signals the start -- on Feb. 7-2018 -- of the Trump administration's effort to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. The article, written by anti-Cuban zealot Nora Gamez Torres, stated: "As part of President Trump's Cuba policy, as outlined in its June presidential memorandum, the Department of State has created the Cuba Internal Task Force." Not surprisingly, the Miami Herald article said that Miami's lushly funded Radio-TV Marti anti-Cuban propaganda vehicle will be a part of that Task Force when it meets on Feb. 7-2018 in Washington. It is presumed that other fierce Counter Revolutionary forces from Miami will also dominate that Task Force meeting.

      Anti-Cuban zealot Nora Gamez Torres wrote this week's celebratory article in the Miami Herald about the upcoming Feb. 7-2018 Cuban Task Force meeting in Washington that supposedly will begin Cuba's long-awaited doomsday. But such celebrations since 1959 in Miami have been premature and overly optimistic, so this one too might prove more humiliating to the Batistianos in Miami than to Cuba.

     When Obama was the U. S. President, Internet giant Google opened the above Technology Center in Havana on March 21, 2016. This proved that Cuba wanted to expand and improve Internet service on the island...at least when it trusted the U. S. when Obama was President. But Cuba in 2018 doesn't trust the U. S. with Trump in power and therefore Cuba believes the Feb. 7th-2018 Cuba Internet Task Force in Washington is designed to "destabilize" the island's sovereignty and security.

    The photo above shows President Trump displaying that memorandum he signed on June 16-2017 in Little Havana before a choir of vicious Counter Revolutionaries in Miami. Cheering the presidential action was, on the far left, Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart whose father was a key Minister in Cuba's Batista-Mafia dictatorship. Third from the right is Senator Marco Rubio, another flagrant Miami anti-Cuban extremist.

     In a drastic but expected departure from the decent Obama presidency, on June 16th, 2017, President Donald Trump made the above speech in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood standing before a huge Assault Banner of the Brigade 2506 that attacked Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in April of 1961. Only a handful of those failed attackers are still living but Trump, tossing democracy into the trashcan, promised them he would make up for their humiliating defeat from six decades ago. As Trump made that promise, all the nations in the UN had voted 191-to-0 to condemn the Bastistiano-driven U. S. Cuban policy. In fact, polls show most Cuban-Americans in Miami favor Obama-like normal relations with Cuba. But the weakness of America's two-party political system for decades has been crystallized by the USA's effort since 1959 to recapture Cuba for a few Batistiano-Mafiosi extremists. When the Democratic Party is in control of the White House, democracy is generally respected regarding Cuba. But when the Republican Party controls the White House it is like putting Batistiano-Mafiosi boss Lucky Luciano in charge of America's Cuban policies. And for six decades, two generations of gutless Americans have allowed this assault on their democracy to persist without even a modicum of embarrassment that the USA Cuban policy is the only topic that could possibly get a 191-to-ZERO condemnation in a very diverse world. Reversing the decency of Democratic President Obama, Republican President Trump, as shown above, turned America's Cuban policy back over to a mere handful of vicious, self-serving Counter Revolutionaries in Miami's Little Havana and, in today's milieu, if that Cuban Task Force that meets in Washington on Feb. 7-2018 decides to nuke 11.4 million innocent Cubans neither the United States media nor this generation of United States citizens would likely have the guts to object.

     The anointment of former Brigade 2506 soldier Jorge Mas Canosa as America's Cuban dictator by the Bush dynasty soon made Canosa a Miami billionaire and the architect of such Counter Revolutionary things as...the Cuban American National Foundation, the Helms-Burton Act, Radio-TV Marti, etc. Yet, even with unchecked U. S. Cuban dictators during all Republican administrations, Cuba somehow has managed to maintain its hard-earned sovereignty except for its inability to regain control of Guantanamo Bay, which has been a controversial U. S. Naval Base since 1903.

      One of the many lucrative enterprises created by the Bush-anointed Canosa was Radio-TV Marti that has, everyday since the 1980s, sucked untold millions-and-MILLIONS of tax dollars in a steady pipeline from Washington to Miami. It is supposed to be an anti-Castro propaganda machine that will cause the Cuban people to rise up and overthrow their government but, first-off, it is just a cash-cow for hard-line Cubans in Miami. Decades ago ABC-News had a famous report entitled "The Broadcast to Nowhere" that explained, despite sucking up hundreds of millions of tax dollars even then, the broadcasts were easily blocked by Cuba and, in any case, Cubans would consider it slanted propaganda from a foreign enemy. YET to this day tax dollars flow to Miami for Radio-TV Marti and, not surprisingly, Radio-TV Marti has reportedly been added to the Feb. 9-2018 Cuban Task Force in Washington, along with similarly motivated entities, that will supposedly commence the Trump effort to reshape Havana solely in Little Havana's extremist image. 

     For all intents and purposes, Miami's Senator Marco Rubio has been anointed by Trump to be America's latest Cuban dictator, the same Marco Rubio that candidate Trump mocked as "Little Marco" during the 2016 Republican primary. 

    Meanwhile, Cuba is busy preparing for a new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, who will officially take office in April, 2018, with the retirement of 86-year-old Raul Castro. Diaz-Canel will be the first non-Castro to lead Cuba since 1959 and he also will be the first Cuban leader born since the triumph of the Revolution. A teacher, he rose from the ranks in Villa Clara and Holguin Provinces far from Havana but became Cuba's Minister of Education, a priority still dear to him. Popular on the island with everyday Cubans, he is known as a huge fan of the Beatles and motorcycles. But as First Vice President he has traveled widely to meet world leaders. Also, Diaz-Canel is considered less likely than Raul Castro, who teamed with President Obama to try to normalize relations with the U. S., to "bend over backwards to accommodate America," as one key Diaz-Canel observer recently articulated. Instead, since Trump replaced Obama, Diaz-Canel has stressed acutely improving relations with three particular forces -- the European Union, China, and Russia. And those efforts in January-2018 are already showing up on the streets of Havana.

     In the very first week of January-2018, Federica Mogherini, the powerful High Administrator of the 28-nation European Union, paid an ultra-friendly and productive visit to Cuba. She is known to be impressed with Cuba's next President Miguel Diaz-Canel. At a news conference in Havana, Mogherini said, "The U. S. blockade of Cuba is self-defeating, cruel, and illegal." She wants the EU nations to make up for the U. S. embargo and for the diminished trade Cuba had with now crisis-wracked Venezuela.

Cuba's important EU friend.

      The powerful EU leader Federica Mogherini joins the unanimity of world opinion that condemns the cruelty and illegality of the U. S. embargo/blockade against Cuba.

     A huge plus for Cuba is Miguel Diaz-Canel's close friendship with the EU's ultra-powerful Federica Mogherini. She is excited about Miguel Diaz-Canel leading Cuba.

Diaz-Canel is a friend of China's President Zi.

      But President Putin of Russia is courting Cuba's next leader, Miguel Diaz-Canel, every bit as anxiously as the EU and China. Diaz-Canel believes, "We have spent, I believe, too much time hoping for friendship with the United States at the expense of cultivating better friendship with our friends who accept our nation's sovereignty."

    Quite significantly this month -- on January 17th, 2018 -- Gerardo Penalver became Cuba's Ambassador to Russia. Penalver had been Cuba's important Director General of Domestic Affairs but Diaz-Canel wanted him to be the island's top man in Moscow.

     Positioning a key Cuban, Gerardo Penalver, as Cuba's new Ambassador to Russia provides a window into how Miguel Diaz-Balart plans to rule Cuba in the Trump era.

     This photo reveals how Russia is trying to take advantage of the Trump-Rubio belligerency towards Cuba. That's a 2018 Russian Lada auto driving past the Russian embassy in Havana this week. Following a Russian delivery of oil to Cuba, this week a Russian ship delivered 344 new Lada cars to Cuba. Russia's top auto dealer, AvtoVAZ, believes it now produces quality cars that deserve international exposure and it now believes its strong presence in Cuba will advertise that fact.

      Many of the 344 newly arrived {on January 19th, 2018} Lada cars from Russia have already been added to Cuba's taxi fleet, like the four shown here. Luis Diaz Hernandez, the head of Taxis Cuba, beamed this week, "These new Lada cars have greatly bolstered the island's capacity to serve its citizens and the tourists. These Russian cars are world-class." Cuba, when Obama was President, hoped such trade would be with the nearby U. S. but, with Trump as President, Cuba's next leader, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has already helped orchestrate important oil and automobile deals with Russia as well as sign key trade agreements with the EU.

      And so, as Cuba prepares to transition to a Fidel Castro-loving but non-Castro leader born after the triumph of the Revolution, President Trump's Feb. 7-2018 Cuban Task Force meeting in Washington may or may not be the beginning of doomsday for Revolutionary Cuba, as Trump seems to have promised Miami extremists. After all, the pugnacious island has survived NUMEROUS predicted doomsdays since 1959.

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