Cuba President to Visit U.S.

Diaz-Canel's First U. S. Trip!!
{Updated: Monday, September 17th, 2018}

    Cuba's new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, will make his first-ever trip to the USA later this month of September, 2018. He's coming to New York to represent Cuba at the United Nations. But he's set one day aside --  September 28th -- to also meet with friendly Cuban-Americans as well as U. S. business leaders interested in possibly investing in Miguel Diaz-Canel's Cuba.

     Since Miguel Diaz-Canel took over as Cuba's President on April 19th, the Cuban parliament, including the Council of Ministers, has been sharply revamped with Diaz-Canel's stamp.

     The Cuban parliament has devised a new Constitution to replace the one that has prevailed since 1976. President Diaz-Canel sees the urgent need to improve the island's economy by seeking foreign investment but also by allowing for more private enterprise and also stressing agricultural production because Cuba purchases most of the food consumed on the island, which Diaz-Canel thinks should be produced by Cubans. The new constitution has already been ratified by the parliament and currently is being publicly debated nationwide before it will surely be passed into law by a referendum vote early in 2019.

    Since the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution, women -- such as heroines Celia Sanchez, Vilma Espin, and Haydee Santamaria as well as modern leaders like Josefina Vidal -- have held powerful positions in the Revolutionary Government. But President Diaz-Canel has elevated many current women to strong positions, such as Johana Tablada, who has served as Cuba's Ambassador to Portugal. But this past week the photo above shows Tablada at the podium in Washington as she led a strong Cuban delegation that not only debunked but ridiculed the Trump administration's claim that Cuba -- or some ally like Russia or China -- is responsible for so-called sonic-or-health attacks on U. S. diplomats in Havana. She, for example, asked the U. S. to reveal how many of the "26 injured diplomats were CIA agents."

    As reported in major articles by NBC, ABC, the NY Times, the Washington Post, etc., in Washington this week the feisty Johana Tablaba accused the U. S. of "fabricating or withholding vital information about the alleged attacks" that she maintained were intended solely to be used as an excuse to reverse President Obama's positive overtures to Cuba. She claimed that the "the Cubans in Congress and in the Trump White House" want Americans to believe that Cuba, not the anti-Cubans in the U. S., wanted to destroy Cuba's vital tourism industry and she said, "that's ridiculous but I guess those who control the narrative or the intimidation factors can get away with it if the world's most powerful nation allows it to happen."

     Cuba's frustrations with America regarding the "health attacks" that Cuba has begged the U. S. to investigate fairly since 2016 were left this week in the hands of Johana Tablada and the Cuban experts she brought with her to Washington. "To claim we would hurt ourselves in such a manner doesn't meet the smell test, and the United States knows it," Tablada said, adding, "so why not come clean. Start with admitting who's being hurt and who is benefiting from the attacks."

     After her important mission in Washington, Johana Tablada took the above photo as her airplane returned her to her beloved Cuba. She posted the photo on her Facebook page with this caption: "La mas bella que ojos humanos han vista" {"The most beautiful human eyes have seen." Johana's sentence replicated the words Columbus put in his diary in October of 1492 when he described Cuba's la tierra {"the land"} the most beautiful his eyes had ever seen. [NOTE: I've been to Cuba and I happen to agree with both Johana and Columbus regarding Cuba's beauty].

Johana's airplane photo.

 Cuba's Johana Tablada believes that self-serving Counter Revolutionaries led by Senator Marco Rubio from Miami's Little Havana brigade are taking advantage of President Trump's many other distractions as well as Trump's need for the political support provided by Little Havana to "devise a Cuban policy in Washington designed to destroy Cuba but one that also harms most Cuban-Americans and Americans of all stripes too." And Johana Tablada this week, allowed to speak in Washington with major U. S. news organizations on hand, seemed to drown out Rubio who is more accustomed to speaking before the choir in Little Havana, as shown above, or to his equally self-serving and sycophantic members of the United States Congress.

     It is well known that Johana Tablada in Cuba studied some of Fabiola Santiago's recent columns in Rubio's hometown Miami Herald that scathingly denounced Rubio's self-serving actions regarding Cuba. Santiago was born in Cuba and since 1980 has been one of the Miami Herald's most anti-Castro journalists. She is now that newspaper's top Editor and Columnist regarding all things, not just Cuba. She recently assailed President Trump for putting Rubio in charge of America's Cuban policies, pointing out that Rubio is so self-centered that he ignores the best interests of everyone but himself and his billionaire political donors, disrespecting the majority of Cuban-Americans in Miami. And, yes, Johana Tablada, representing Cuba in Washington this week, had read what Miami's top journalist, Fabiola Santiago, has said about Marco Rubio, the man Tablada for sure and Santiago seemingly believe is most responsible for pressuring the unpredictable President Trump with excuses to annihilate Revolutionary Cuba -- as if the city of Miami, the state of Florida, and the United States of America don't have enough problems already, such as...gun epidemics, drug epidemics, and epidemics of unpopular but entrenched politicians getting elected in a money-crazed/two-party political system in which both parties can be purchased by the highest bidders. 

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