Senator Corker {But} Not Trump!!
Cuba has a new non-Castro, non-revolutionary President -- former Education Minister Miguel Diaz-Canel. Cuba's new Parliament has devised its new and drastically revised Constitution that is currently being discussed in public meetings all across the island and will be approved in a referendum nationwide vote early in 2019. Yet, the U. S. democracy remains in the rut of capitulating to and aligning with Cuban-American Counter Revolutionary extremists since 1959...and STILL hasn't been able to recapture the island. Those topical and historic truths reflect why the photo above is so important. It shows Cuba's new President, Diaz-Canel, being interviewed on the regional Telesur network this week. His pertinent comments included: "The main obstacle to prosperity for the Cuban people is the U. S. Blockade." He, of course, was referencing the U. S. Embargo against Cuba that has existed since 1962 when, according to DE-classified U. S. documents, the purpose was to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of ordinary Cubans to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. The blockade-embargo is the longest and cruelest ever imposed by a strong nation against a weak nation. And it has failed miserably "to induce" Cubans on the island to rise up against a revolutionary government that most of them to this day believe, for all its problems, to be vastly superior to the thieving, murderous U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship that preceded it from 1952 till 1959. So the comment by President Diaz-Canel in the above interview is undeniably correct although propagandized and intimidated Americans are supposed to believe the constant refrains of Little Havana's Marco Rubio when he incessantly declares that, as President Trump's newly anointed Cuban dictator, he is tightening the screws on Cuba to "hurt" Castro while "helping" the Cuban people. A democracy that continually allows such absurd propaganda to take hold is, in essence, ceasing to be a democracy. {P.S.: The sole author and the only contributor to these Cubaninsider essays is a democracy-loving American who believes America's Cuban policy shames America more than any other single topic has ever shamed the world's greatest form of government}.
The above interview this week of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel was conducted by Patricia Villegas, perhaps the most influential Latin American broadcaster. She is the President and shining star of the regional network Telesur that is based in the troubled Venezuelan capital of Caracas. But Patricia Villegas is from Colombia and she is deeply respected as a broadcast journalist and for her abiding hatred of U. S. imperialism in Latin America -- and recognized as a leading expert on such things as the Nixon/Kissinger-inspired 1973 coup that killed beloved democratically elected Chilean President Allende to install the murderous general Pinochet as Chile's U.S.-friendly Dictator for the next 17 years. While Nixon, Kissinger, and the U. S. have never been held responsible in the U. S. for the death of Allende, the democratically elected President, nor for the long reign of Pinochet, the murderous but U.S.-friendly general, Patricia Villegas uses her broadcasting platform to continually remind Latin Americans of the difference between Allende and Pinochet. And now Patricia Villegas is reminding Latin Americans of the difference between Cuba's new President Diaz-Canel and the Counter Revolutionary extremists in the United States of America.
The Influential regional Telesur broadcaster, Patricia Villegas, indeed integrates Latin America's historic and modern relationships to the Caribbean, always stressing Cuba's strategic and symbolic significance. From her interview with Cuba's President Diaz-Canel, many international news organizations headlined the new Cuban leader's belief that it is probably useless to discuss matters of "mutual concern" with President Trump or with any Republican U. S. President, but he at least indicated he is willing to do so just as the Democratic President Obama was willing to sit down with and discuss things with his predecessor Raul Castro, which Diaz-Canel says "mutually benefited" Cubans, Americans, and Cuban-Americans.
A powerful Republican U. S. Senator, Bob Corker of Tennessee, has paid an unannounced visit to Havana to sit down and talk with Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel. Corker is the Chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. Corker and many like him in the 535-member U. S. Congress believe Cuba's new President "should at least be listened to even by Trump who certainly loves to listen to Xi in China, Putin in Russia, and even Kim in North Korea." Of course, as Corker fully realizes, Cuba's uniqueness in Republican administrations is the fact that the little island nation is the only nation that overthrew a vile U.S.-backed dictatorship and chased those leaders to their Little Havana stronghold in Miami. Corker has been a powerful Republican in the Senate since 2007 but at age 66 he is retiring from Washington's incredibly dysfunctional two-party political system, as are other Cuban-friendly politicians, such as Senator Jeff Flake from Arizona. That means people like Corker and Flake, who have visited Cuba multiple times, have given up on trying to inject sanity and decency into America's Cuban policies that are staunchly dictated by Counter Revolutionary extremists who, as far as Cuba is concerned, totally control both the Republican Party and the overall U. S. Congress. But Corker's discussion in Havana with President Diaz-Canel was otherwise fruitful. Corker assured Cuba's new President that the embargo "shames" the U. S. "even more than it harms Cubans over here." Corker was very impressed with Diaz-Canel.
The retirements of veteran politicians like Bob Corker, Senator Jeff Flake, and even young Congressmen like Trey Gowdy reflects a disturbing U. S. trend in which their replacements are likely to be non-servants eager to use government service as the economic bonanza it has become for thousands of lobbyists and the politicians they can so easily be purchased by rich Lobbyists.
As shown above, Senator Bob Corker was one of the powerful Republicans who helped Donald Trump pull off the most astounding upset in American history by becoming President of the United States. Of course, Bob Corker, currently the omnipotent Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is appalled with President Trump for, among other things, reversing former President Obama's decent Cuban policies and turning them back over a few self-serving Counter Revolutionary extremists in Miami's Little Havana sector. And Bob Corker flew to Havana to express those sentiments directly to Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Yes, America, the Patricia Villegas regional interview with Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel was very important and enlightening. You can easily dial it up anywhere in the world on YouTube and listen to what he has to say...and see his Spanish words transcribed in English on the screen. To do so would be far better for America and for Democracy than forever as an American being subjected only to extremely self-serving propaganda from Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American extremists. You see, there is a reason that President Obama in 2016 supported the 191-to-0 unanimity in the United Nations that loudly condemned the U. S. embargo-blockade of Cuba that has existed since 1962. So, in the above interview, President Diaz-Canel is correct when he says, "The main obstacle to prosperity for the Cuban people is the U. S. blockade."
President Obama and the entire world in 2016 condemned this shameful image of the U. S. embargo against Cuba.
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Cuba calls the U. S. embargo "a genocidal blockade" and "the largest in history" being perpetrated against the Cuban people since 1962. Cuban extremists like Senator Marco Rubio from Little Havana get away daily in the mainstream U. S. media with insisting that the embargo is "to hurt Castro and help the Cuban people." That lie has been allowed to shame the U. S. democracy for 6+ decades...while the rest of the world agrees with the billboard depicted above.
Perhaps more shameful -- and ironic -- than the Genocidal Billboard denouncing the U. S. embargo of Cuba is the definitive Editorial Statement depicted above. Ironically but emphatically it points out that a mere handful of Counter Revolutionary extremists from Little Havana and in the U. S. Congress can, decade after decade, dictate history's all-time longest and cruelest embargo against totally innocent people in a much weaker nation...as they hide behind the skirts of the world's Superpower and the ignorant apathy of United States citizens.
A handful of Miami elite, some of them born in Havana {see above} and some of them the offspring of leaders of the Batista dictatorship {see above], have been allowed since 1959 to create a vast and lucrative multi-generational Castro Cottage Industry in the United States, resulting in the embargo/blockade and countless other self-serving tactics. This has been allowed to persist on American soil within the bowels of the precious United States democracy for 6+ decades...AND COUNTING!!
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