Marco Rubio vs. Rosy Amaro Perez!!
Bob Menendez vs. Miguel Diaz-Canel!!
{Permit Me to Explain}
{Tuesday, March 13th, 2018}
{Tuesday, March 13th, 2018}
The President of the powerful East African nation of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, arrives in Cuba today -- Tuesday, March 13-2018 -- on a key 3-day visit. The Kenyan government stated that it needs Cuba's "help and guidance in healthcare for our 50 million people." The statement added: "Cuba has a well-developed health sector which has achieved great milestones such as the discovery of the top vaccines against lung cancer and the eradication of malaria. Cuba also has a thriving pharmaceutical industry that we would like to emulate. The World Health Organization and the World Bank both marvel at Cuba's advances in preventative and vaccine-treated health, such as in gynecological care that renders a remarkably low infant mortality rate." Kenya's leading newspaper, The Daily Nation, stressed that President Kenyatta also wants to drastically improve ties with Cuba concerning trade, sports, and cultural relations while also "congratulating Cuba on the manner it is handling the post-Castro transition that began this past Sunday, March 11th, with the National Assembly elections."
This was the scene today at the Nairobi Airport as the plane carrying Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta left for Havana. The Nairobi Capital News.com featured this statement from President Kenyatta's spokesman Manoah Esepisu: "Cuba is dear to Kenya's heart. African libration movements began in the 1960s because the Cuban Revolution in 1959 inspired us that colonialism and apartheid racism did not have to exist forever." NOTE: With such frank coverage of President Kenyatta's trip to Cuba today, it is apparent that neither the Nairobi Capital News nor The Kenyan Daily Nation were required to seek the permission of anti-Cuban Counter Revolutionaries.
The news conference in Havana depicted above signifies perhaps the greatest transition in Cuba since January 1, 1959 -- the historically famous...some say infamous...day the victorious Cuban Revolutionary chased the key leaders of the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship to U. S. soil, mostly nearby Miami. This photo shows three top Cuban election officials answering questions about the Sunday-March 11th-2018 election of 605 National Assembly members, the Cuban parliament that will choose or at least crown the first non-Castro and the first non-revolutionary Cuban leader since 1959. While Americans, via a Cuban narrative in the U. S. mostly dictated by Counter Revolutionary Cuban exiles since 1959, have been taught to scoff at Cuba's one-party elections, Cubans on the island put a lot of stock in local municipal elections and in the National Assembly elections. That's why the news conference above, with key Cuban officials discussing Sunday's 7,399,891 votes, was vastly important to {1} Cuba's future; and {2} to the Cuban-exiles in the U. S. who have tried so mightily for six decades to regain control of the pugnaciously determined island.
Sunday, March 11-2018 was a crucial day for Cuba as most adults on the island voted to elect its National Assembly members who will then, next month, decide Cuba's first non-Castro-led government since 1959. Knowing how important it is, Rosy Amaro Perez posted the above photo and caption on her Facebook page -- a photo that shows the Cuban flag with the notation "for Cuba." As a superb young news anchor on Cubavision International television, the beloved and high-profile Rosy, with the image above, is making a very important statement, which is: Talented, intelligent, and highly educated Cubans like her ON THE ISLAND should predicate Cuba's future and not have it dictated by foreign Counter Revolutionary benefactors like Marco Rubio & Bob Menendez in the United States. A vast majority of Cubans ON THE ISLAND and even a clear majority of Cubans in Miami -- where she has family & friends -- agree with Rosy. Yet, she is abundantly aware that the likes of Marco Rubio & Bob Menendez -- like their Counter Revolutionary predecessors SINCE 1959 -- have huge advantages as they hide behind the financial & military skirts of the nearby world Superpower. And, perhaps even more significantly, they can hide behind an intimidated or incompetent mainstream U. S. media, which is incapable of providing both sides of the two-sided U.S.-Cuba conundrum. Additionally, the last two generations of unpatriotic or thoroughly propagandized or pusillanimous Americans will continue to allow a handful of self-serving miscreants in a Superpower assault 11 million more decent people on a nearby island nation. Rosy typifies the young-adult segment of Cubans who are determined not to capitulate to foreigners who seek imperialism, not sovereignty, for the stubborn but eternally targeted island. Well educated, healthy, talented, and fiercely patriotic, Rosy has visited Italy, Spain, France, & Portugal and she has family and friends in Miami. But she is a Cuban in Cuba.
The Reuters photo above shows a Cuban voter yesterday -- March 11, 2018 -- getting instructions about his ballot at a voting station in Santa Clara, Cuba. Americans have been programmed to laugh at this key election in Cuba but the 8 million eligible Cuban voters considered it extremely important. That dichotomy in U.S.-Cuban thinking is typical and it also helps explain why, for six decades, Batistiano-Mafiosi leaders backed by the superpower United States have not been able to regain control of the island. There are 8 million Cuban adults on the island who cherish the sovereignty delivered to them in 1959 by the Cuban Revolution.
One of the very first Cubans to vote in Sunday's National Assembly elections was Cristina Alonso. She is shown casting her ballot at exactly 7:02 A. M. Sunday.
By 11:00 A. M. on Sunday, March 11th, election official Tomas Amaran reported that 3,977,551 adult Cubans -- 45.51% of eligible voters -- had already voted Sunday.
The President of Cuba's Electoral Commission, Alina Balseiro, said she expected 8 million Cubans to vote at the 24,000 voting stations posted all across the island.
The 87-year-old Jose Ramon Machado Ventura is shown as he voted Sunday in far eastern Guantanamo Province. He is currently one of the five Cuban Vice Presidents and he has always been in the very highest echelon of revolutionary icons.
This photo shows Rosy Amaro Perez and her 4-year-old daughter Mariana voting Sunday. Rosy, a talented television news anchor and very influential among the key young-adults on the island, staunchly believes that Cubans on the island should decide Cuba's future, not foreigners like Marco Rubio, and it all starts with the crucial elections of 605 National Assembly members today. Rosy maintains that the vast majority of Cubans on the island want to keep the island's "humanistic" system and that they will continue to resist being dictated to by foreigners. She believes most Cubans on the island will support the impending presidency of Miguel Diaz-Canel.
The photo above shows Miguel Diaz-Canel observing a recent municipal election in Cuba. After Sunday's March 11th-2018 national election at 24,000 polling places across the island, the newly elected 605-member National Assembly in Havana will select Cuba's next President, its next First Vice President, and its next five Vice Presidents. The current First Vice President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, is in line to take over as Cuba's next President next month -- April 19th, 2018. Miguel was born 57-years-ago, after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959. So Miguel is not only a non-revolutionary, he is also a non-Castro. He loves motorcycles and the Beatles, and is a highly regarded educator. Except for Republican politicians, he likes Americans.
Miguel Diaz-Canel is well-liked by Cubans.
Some knowledgeable Cuban insiders believe Miguel Diaz-Canel is far less tolerant of U. S. interference than current President Raul Castro, who at least worked closely with friendly U. S. President Obama. Miguel was convinced that the normalization of relations with the United States, fostered by Obama and Raul Castro, would have "been virtually complete" by now if, as expected, another Democrat had followed Obama in the White House. It is also known on the island that "the last straw" for Miguel "came on April 16, 2017 in Miami's Little Havana." That was when and where President Trump, "as far as Diaz-Canel is concerned," turned the U. S. Cuban policy back over to a handful of hardline Cuban-American extremists "and benefactors." Since then, Diaz-Canel has vowed not to "waste our time" negotiating with the U. S. because "that time could better be spent dealing with our friends." Thus, Diaz-Canel plans to stress a Vietnamese-style market economy in Cuba and to "take more advantage of the two prime American competitors willing to help us to hurt the U. S. and to gain more of a foothold in the USA's own backyard." The astute Diaz-Canel considers China and Russia as the USA's "prime" economic and military competitors, or threats, "for years to come."
If a majority of the 8 million adult voters in Cuba preferred another U.S.-backed dictator, or even a U.S.-backed President, Miguel Diaz-Canel would not be destined to be Cuba's first non-Castro and non-revolutionary President since 1959. But one thing should not be over-looked: The sovereignty-loving Miguel plans to continue the revolution, not replace it. The photo above is courtesy of Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images. It was taken the day Miguel publicly stated: "The triumphal march of the revolution will continue.There will be peace, liberty, and independence; and it is our task to make sure that the sovereignty of the people will endure. I don't trust imperialism, not even a tiny bit." Americans, programmed to believe that most Cubans on the island desire a return of Miami Counter Revolutionaries, need to realize that most Cubans on the island hate Marco Rubio but love Barack Obama and Miguel Diaz-Canel. If that were not so, a Rubio-type would have regained control of Cuba long ago.
While Americans are programmed to mock elections in Cuba, the majority of Cubans on the island...from the municipal to national levels...put much stock in them. The last two generations of Cubans on the island, since 1959, know all about the necessity of the Cuban Revolution, meaning they know the difference between the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia rule and the Fidel Castro-dictated revolutionary rule. While Cubans, like other citizens, have revolutionary complaints, they also relish free and good educations through college and free and good health care for life, as well as other revolutionary innovations such as overall safety and a minimum of crime. All those features were the exact opposite of what everyday Cubans had during the Batista-Mafia reign. The Cuban narrative in the U. S., dictated by Batistiano-Mafiosi elements since 1959, has shamed the U. S. and Democracy even more than it has harmed Cuba. For example, the Trump administration, at the behest of Counter Revolutionary benefactors like Senator Marco Rubio from Little Havana in Miami, recently declared Cuba "unsafe" for American tourists, a scheme to curtail the record number of Obama-inspired U. S. tourists visiting the island. The same week that announcement began to indeed harm Cuban tourism, the highly respected International Tourism Fair in Madrid announced that "Cuba is the safest country in the world for tourists." And that same week Chris Baker, the Brit who is the world's top Travel Writer, agreed with the Madrid pronouncement. So, somebody is lying and, for sure, neither Madrid nor Chris Baker had any cause to lie about Cuban tourism.
Yet, to America's democratic shame, for two generations America's Cuban policy and America's Cuban narrative have both been almost exclusively dictated by only a handful of self-serving Counter Revolutionary extremists like today's slanted iteration of Senator Marco Rubio and Senator Bob Menendez. Neither the mainstream U. S. media nor the U. S. citizens raised an eyebrow recently when Rubio was the Chair and Menendez was the Co-chair of a Senate session that stressed hurting everyday Cubans by rolling back Cuban positives that a braver and more decent President Obama had orchestrated. Such Rubio-Menendez mendacity against Cuba, decency, and democracy has been par-for-the-course since 1959 thanks to the cowardice or lack of patriotism on the part of two generations of American citizens.
Pugnacious little Cuba has survived in revolutionary form since 1959. By doing so, it has done something far bigger nations -- such as Mexico or Canada -- could not have done facing the same unchecked obstacles from the nearby world Superpower.
The U. S. embargo against Cuba was installed in 1962 after the Bay of Pigs military attack and dozens of assassination attempts against Fidel Castro in 1961, not to mention numerous and often deadly terrorist attacks from 1959 into 1962, had failed to quickly recapture the island for the Batistianos, Mafiosi, and rich American businessmen who had profited so majestically in Cuba from 1952 till 1959. The Carlos LaTuff image of the embargo as shown above still does not embarrass unpatriotic or propagandized Americans. And neither does the now declassified U. S. documents that prove the intention of the embargo from 1962 till today was: To starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their government. But like the Bay of Pigs attack; like the terrorism; and like countless assassination attempts, the Embargo has failed although indeed it has greatly harmed everyday Cubans on the island while also reminding them why they do not want a return of the U.S.-backed Batistianos and Mafiosi pillaging their island.
And that's why on the eve of Sunday's important national elections on in Cuba Rosy Amaro Perez posted the photo above on social media so she could highlight the Cuban flag and the words "por Cuba," or "for Cuba." As a superb television news anchor, Rosy sometimes criticizes her revolutionary government on the air and in the social media but she, like most of the other young adults on the island, is a fierce defender of both the Revolution and the sovereignty it finally brought to the island on January 1, 1959...the same day that the Revolution also quite markedly changed America by chasing the rich and revengeful Batistianos-Mafiosi leaders to American soil from which most of them -- including Floridians Fulgencio Batista and Meyer Lansky -- had emerged in 1952 as the new and most devious U.S.-backed dictators of Cuba. Rosy has both family and friends in Miami who often visit her in Havana, but there is not enough money in rich Miami to persuade her to forsake the island...and, yes, the Revolution...that she so sincerely loves and cherishes.
And so today -- March 12, 2018 -- there was a national election in Cuba to choose the National Assembly that will, next month, choose the island's first non-Castro leader since 1959. The 9 young Cuban women above...that's Rosy Amaro Perez 4th from the right...believe THEY should have more to say about Cuba's future than self-serving Counter Revolutionaries like MARCO RUBIO basking in a foreign country. In the last year of the Obama presidency -- in 2016 -- the nations of the world voted 191-to-0 in the United Nations to support Rosy's views, not Rubio's. In 2018 it's perhaps time all Americans agreed with 191, not zero, even if to do so took a little courage.
After all, the Cuban flag waving in the Caribbean breeze today -- on March 12th, 2018 -- is a sovereign flag. The 500 years of imperial Spanish and American rule finally ended in 1959.
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