1.10.18

Cuba and the Propaganda Media

Masquerating as Real Journalists!!
     Although the mainstream U. S. media is too afraid, too politically correct, or too incompetent to report fairly on issues involving Cuba, the island's new President, former Education Minister Miguel Diaz-Canel, had a successful week on his first trip to the United States. The prime lure to New York City was and then were the two major speeches he delivered flawlessly at the United Nations but his ancillary sessions were just about as significant. Google's Top Boss, Eric Schmidt, hosted Diaz-Canel at a meeting that included many other top U. S. business executives. Actor Robert De Niro hosted Diaz-Canel at a session that involved other Hollywood heavyweights. In addition to Latin American Presidents that included the tightly U.S.-aligned leader of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, Diaz-Canel had key meetings with Cuba-friendly politicians such as...the Miami-born Kathy Castor who represents Tampa-Florida in the U. S. Congress; European Union leader Federica Mogherini, etc. And, equally important, the photo above shows Diaz-Canel, on the right, meeting with important Cuban-Americans such as Arturo Lopez-Levy. Most Cuban-Americans oppose the extreme U. S. belligerence against Cubans on the island but most Americans, thanks to an incompetent or intimidated media, don't comprehend that. And, influenced by the U. S. media and political correctness, the conservative and right-wing British media often relishes hurling vindictive propaganda at Cubans on the island.
    This photo, courtesy of Twitter, shows Poppy McKenzie Smith. She is, in my estimation, a liar and a hypocrite but pretends to be a legitimate journalist at the London Telegraph, which has the 8th largest newspaper circulation in the UK plus a strong tabloid-fueled impact on the Internet. In picking on innocent Cubans far from England, Poppy's Sept. 29-2018 article was entitled: "Cuba's Classic Cars Aren't Cuba -- They're An Enduring Symbol of Deprivation." That cowardly headline is typical of right-wing propaganda rags masquerading as informative media. In other words, if Poppy masqueraded in the USA she could be working for anti-Cuban right-wing propaganda machines like Breitbart News, the Babalu blog, etc.
   The aforementioned article by Poppy McKenzie Smith featured the above photo with this gutless caption: "Unsafe, unclean and unfit for purpose, Cuba's aging fleet is not something to celebrate." That's a lie from a cowardly, lying hypocrite.
    The Mashable.com photo above shows a skilled, innovative, and dedicated Cuban mechanic preparing to get a 1950s automobile running smoothly. Embargoed by the world superpower since 1962 {all this mechanic's entire life and then some}, this Cuban is denied normal spare parts for this car, so he has to invent suitable substitutions. But Cubans like him have been doing that since 1959 and especially since 1962 when the embargo was emphatically imposed by American and Cuban right-wingers intent on regaining control of the island in short order. But going on 7 decades later, it's turned into a long order.
    This Anywhere.com photo shows a decent, enterprising Cuban mechanic-taxi driver making a living for his family using his restored 1950s classic American convertible, the kind tourists like to be chauffeured in. This is the Cuba I saw when I visited the island. And that is why I call Poppy McKenzie Smith a liar and a hypocrite when she calls Cubans like this vile names for having overcome massive obstacles thrust upon them by a few sanctimonious hypocrites in a rich foreign country.
     In ridiculing and making fun of Cubans and their classic cars, Poppy McKenzie Smith and her ilk don't have the guts to mention the U. S. embargo that has purposely tormented totally innocent Cubans on the island since 1962 to merely appease the revenge, economic, and political motives of a handful of miscreants, many of them remnants from the 1950s Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba that the Cuban Revolution chased to the USA in 1959. It is, beyond question, history's longest and cruelest embargo ever imposed by a powerful nation against a smaller, much weaker nation. Somehow Cubans like those innovative mechanics have survived that ordeal but also consider this fact: The United States, the architect of the embargo against Cuba, is the world's economic and military Superpower. Its economic and military influence can make huge, powerful nations like China, Russia, and Iran tremble if the U. S. imposes financial sanctions or boycotts or tariffs on them EVEN FOR A FEW WEEKS. But similar actions against Cuba have lasted for 6+ DECADES!!
        Therefore: if you are not a liar or a hypocrite, study this Carlos LaTuff image AGAIN and then try to explain how little Cuba is probably the only nation in the world that could have possibly survived such an embargo imposed on it for 6+ decades by the strongest nation in the world. And then, if you are not a liar or a hypocrite, I'd surely like to hear your explanation.
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