Miami REMAINS Little Havana

Obsessed With Recapturing Cuba!!
{UPDATED: Wednesday, August 15th, 2018}

Photo courtesy: Roberto Koltun/Miami-Nuevo Herald.

    This photo shows Jose Daniel Ferrer, by far the most powerful dissident on the island of Cuba, holding a news conference in...WHERE ELSE? -- Miami!! The photo was taken before he was arrested in Santiago de Cuba this past weekend and accused of attempted murder against a Cuban official. His now celebrated case has, of course, cast the usual spotlight and headlines on the vast U.S.-Cuban conundrum, which has vastly reshaped both nations since the 1959 Cuban Revolution chased the leaders of the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship to their new...and apparently permanent...capital of Little Havana in the heart of Miami. The Ferrer photo above was used to illustrate a huge article August 13-2018 in the Miami Herald written by Nora Gamez Torres. The article is entitled: "Cuba Opposition Leader Is Accused of Attempted Murder. Activists Dispute the Charge."

     It so happens that Nora Gamez Torres, who wrote the aforementioned article in the Miami Herald, is an outstanding and fair-minded journalist. Unlike the intimidated and politically correct mainstream U. S. media and the avalanche of thuggish anti-Cuban right-wing media rags, Ms. Gamez Torres and the Miami Herald can be counted on to write honest journalistic appraisals of Cuban events. In that vein, Ms. Gamez Torres presented both sides of the latest Jose Daniel Ferrer controversy. And she included this accurate paragraph:

           "The Santiago de Cuba attorney's office accused Ferrer and Ebert Hidalgo Cruz of trying to run over Dainier Suarez Pagan, the Interior Ministry official. Hildalgo usually serves as Ferrer's driver. However, on this day, Ferrer was practicing his driving skills when the car struck the official."

         Those exact and honest words in the August 13-2018 Miami Herald written by Nora Gamez Torres are actually AMAZING considering that a major U. S. newspaper had...and HAS...the sheer guts EVEN IN MIAMI to actually write a fair-minded paragraph about a Cuban issue.

     After all, history confirms that Emilio Milian, at the time the top Cuban-American newsman in Miami, got car-bombed when he complained about Cuban-American terrorists in Miami terrorizing totally innocent Cubans on the island and in Miami.

     Cuba has released the chauffeur who was in the car but not driving it when it struck the Cuban official on a Santiago street in far southeast Cuba. But Jose Daniel Ferrer, the driver, is still being held by Cuba. As by far the most powerful dissident in Cuba, Ferrer is beloved by the ultra-rich and ultra-powerful Counter Revolutionary elements in the United States. But Cuba labels Ferrer "an agent of the anti-Cuban forces in Miami and in the United States Congress and in all Republican White Houses." After the incident in Santiago, the official spokesman for Ferrer told the Reuters news agency, "The incident was an accident and the Ministry official was only slightly injured." Whatever the true facts are, two things are assured: {1} Decent Americans have a right, as they would if it involved any other foreign nation, to wonder if Cuba will deal with Ferrer fairly; and {2} Democracy loving Americans, like me, have every reason to wonder if, as usual, only right-wing Counter Revolutionary extremists in Miami and in the U. S. Congress will dictate how this latest Ferrer controversy is portrayed in the United States. After all, as any Google-search would reveal, even the most infamous, self-admitted, and extremist anti-Cuban terrorists -- Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch -- found safe sanctuaries in Miami, Florida.

Bosch & Posada...

lived out their long lives...

as heralded citizens of Miami.

    The world's top news organizations, such as the BBC report above, have told the truth about U.S.-Cuban relations. Perhaps it is time...in 2018...for U. S. organizations to finally do the same.

My point is..............

..........despite the worldwide image depicted above, the superpower United States of America DOES NOT own the island nation of Cuba. And neither is Cuba, unlike Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, a U. S. Territory or possession of the United States. The image above derives from the fact that transplanted {and well-known as well as awesomely supported Cubans and sycophants on U. S. soil} elements from the overthrown Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba have been allowed to dictate America's failed, embarrassing, and anti-democratic Cuban policies and narratives since 1959.

    Such basic facts always remind this democracy-loving American of Celia Sanchez -- the petite doctor's daughter who became Revolutionary Cuba's greatest recruiter of rebels and supplies, greatest guerrilla fighter, greatest military leader, and, always with Fidel Castro's 100% support, the greatest decision-maker in Revolutionary Cuba from January-1959 till she died of cancer at age 59 in January-1980. And while she still lived, Celia Sanchez famously made what might be the most definitive quote in the historic annals of U.S.-Cuban relations. Just for the record in 2018, that quote is shown below.

      "We rebels...get far too much credit for winning the Revolution. Our enemies deserve most of the credit, for being greedy cowards and idiots."

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