Trump Gutted Embassies!!
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| Photo courtesy: REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini
Pusillanimous U. S. citizens have meekly allowed President Trump and Senator Rubio to gut the U. S. embassy in Havana and the Cuban embassy in Washington -- both of which were so bravely and sanely reopened by President Obama for the first time since 1961. One of the results is that self-ordained Cuban experts in the U. S. government and respected U. S. Cuban experts in the journalistic and academic spheres are basically clueless as to what is happening in Cuba. And the fact of the matter is...more is happening right now on the island than at almost any time since the Cuban Revolution chased the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship to its new Little Havana headquarters in nearby Miami way, WAY back in January of 1959. Since April 19th of 2018 Cuba has had its first non-Castro, non-revolutionary President -- Miguel Diaz-Canel. And for the last few weeks Cuba has had the voluminous draft of a new Constitution that is now being discussed in people-forums at some 35,000 locations and then will be voted on and likely passed via a nationwide referendum vote in February of 2019. Cubans, indeed, are excited about their new President and about the many significant changes in the new Constitution. That is reflected by the photo above that features the huge banner proclaiming: "Nuestra Fortaleaes" -- "Our Strengths." As Trump & Rubio try to become the first Americans/Cuban Americans to overthrow the Cuban Revolution in seven decades, they would know more about what is happening in Cuba if they had left the two Obama-orchestrated embassies open.
Long considered one of America's greatest Cuban experts, Ted Henken is now about as clueless as Trump & Rubio when it comes to what is taking place in Cuba. Henken's latest rather nonsensical comment on recent developments in Cuba is: "In terms of everyday life I would say the changes are marginal although they are not not-existent." After that tepid and somewhat ignorant {clueless} observation, Henken did admit that the new Constitution will be passed by a referendum consensus "probably early next year." If Trump & Rubio had not gutted the two embassies as a part of their strategy to recapture the island, Henken could have made a more intelligent analysis about what is happening in Cuba today.
What is happening in Cuba today are spontaneous demonstrations all across the island that make this point: The vast majority of everyday Cubans much prefer the leadership of their new President and their new Constitution than the foreign domination from the likes of Trump & Rubio. In other words, most Cubans STILL do not what a return of the U.S.-backed Batistiano-Mafiosi dictatorship that murderously roiled and robbed the island from 1952 till 1959. And that basic fact, which propagandized Americans are not supposed to realize, is precisely why Revolutionary Cuba has survived for all these decades against such overwhelming odds.
Cubans love their new President.
If everyday Cubans love their new President, they should have that right regardless of how much it displeases Trump & Rubio. Miguel Diaz-Canel earned his reputation on the island in the provinces far south of Havana as he rose in the ranks to become Education Minister, First Vice-President, and now President. A good and smart man, the Cuban people expect two primary things from Diaz-Canel and they are, in this order: {1} To prevent the Trump-backed Batistiano-Mafiosi element in the United States from recapturing their island; and {2} improving the Cuban economy despite the U. S. embargo that has existed since 1962 and become, easily, history's all-time cruelest and longest embargo ever imposed by a strong nation against a much weaker nation.
Of course, I speak of the Embargo that both Obama's USA and the rest of the entire world voted to condemn 191-to-0 in 2016, Obama's last year as President before being replaced by yet another Batistiano-aligned Republican president, Mr. Trump. America has a two-party political system and the Republican Party has been tightly aligned, economically and politically and undemocratically with the Batista-Mafia rule in Cuba from 1952 till 1959 and since then with its transplanted Batistiano-Mafiosi remnants in the United States.
As the Democratic President of the United States for 8 years, the decent Barack Obama did everything in his power to end the Embargo of Cuba but, in the end, he was overpowered by two things: {1] A Batistiano-dominated U. S. Congress; and {2} America's all-time most cowardly, most undemocratic, and most unpatriotic generation of citizens. The only topic in a very diverse world that could likely get condemned by the 191-to-0 unanimity in the United Nations is America's Cuban policy; and only an extremely cowardly, undemocratic, and unpatriotic generation of American citizens would fail to be embarrassed by such international unanimity. Yet, none of those ignorant or afraid citizens can dispute points {1} and {2} as depicted above.
To summarize where we are today:
Aided by a gutless U. S. citizenry, a dysfunctional and easily bought-and-paid-for U. S. Congress, and an incredibly weak and non-journalistic media, Trump & Rubio are almost unhindered in their quest to recapture Cuba...but even using THAT SITUATION plus the awesome tools of the world's military and economic Superpower, they probably won't succeed in recapturing Cuba.
Because:
Cubans -- with their new President and their new Constitution -- STILL want to have their sovereign Cuban flag flying over their independent island...NOT a flag waving at the mercy of Trump & Rubio, which would be like the flag that waved SO sadly at the mercy of Batista & the Mafia from 1952 till 1959.
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