In the Awesome Age of Trump!!
The President of the Miami-based Carnival Cruise Line is Christine Duffy. Like almost all of the top American business executives even in Miami, Christine Duffy loves Cuba and she especially admires the business opportunities the nearby island represents for Miami and for America. Ms. Duffy has announced huge additions to Carnival's already prominent number of cruises to Cuba. In a USA Today article on April 9-2018 written by Gene Sloan, she said, "Our Cuba cruises have been met with phenomenal guest response since we first began sailing to the island last year."
From its huge and classic fleet, Carnival's Paradise is a Miami-based 2,052-passenger gem that is finding success sailing to Cuba despite a Republican Trump, not the Democrat Obama, being the President of the United States. USA Today's Monday, April 9th article included this Cuban update: "Carnival, the Miami-based cruise giant, on Friday unveiled plans for 20 voyages to the island nation in 2019 out of Tampa on the 2,052-passenger Carnival Paradise. These sailings are in addition to 17 voyages to Cuba out of Miami that Carnival recently announced for 2019."
MEANWHILE, there are a few ultra-powerful people in Washington who are famously and revengefully determined to overthrow the Cuban Revolution, AFTER ALL THESE DECADES. That includes, left to right above, America's new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump, and #1 National Security Adviser John Bolton. Yesterday -- April 9th -- marked Bolton's very first day as Trump's very dangerous top Security Adviser in a era when Cuba is a zero threat to the U. S. in a world in which there are INDEED real national security threats to America. But Bolton, perhaps the most dangerous current product from the Bush dynasty, once accused Cuba of having weapons of mass destruction apparently as a pretext to attack the island. As a U. S. Congressman, Pompeo was just as outrageous regarding Cuba. And based on his choirboy speech in Miami's Little Havana, Trump as President and Commander-in-Chief made a chilling promise to the few remaining veterans of the 1961 Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba. America has only a two-party political system and since the 1950s the Republican Party has been tightly aligned with the extremists Batistiano-Mafiosi rulers in Cuba and exiles in the United States. All the while, most Americans like Christine Duffy, the President of Miami-based Carnival Cruise Line, have sanely and decently advocated honest engagement with Cuba. And so, in April of 2018 with Republicans Trump, Pompeo, and Bolton in Washington, the distortion of America's democracy when it comes to Cuba is back in high gear in the post-Obama era.
Yet, Cuba's sovereign flag still waves.
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