How CUBA Skewered AMERICA

David's USA-Goliath Slingshot!!
{And how it still affects the U. S. democracy}

    This week -- nearing the end of October, 2018 -- started off with CNN hosting the above debate between Florida's two candidates for Governor -- the extreme right-wing U. S. Congressman Ron DeSantis vs. the extreme left-wing Mayor of Florida's capital city of Tallahassee Andrew Gillum. Florida and the USA, edged along by the long-ago triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, have evolved -- both politically and in  the mainstream news media -- as the playpen of extreme right-wingers or extreme left-wingers, leaving the 80% or so of more decent and moderate Americans out in the cold and actually gasping for air. In Florida's heated governor's race, right-wing extremist DeSantis quickly and cowardly rushed to Little Havana in Miami and promised the handful {but still powerful} Counter Revolutionary Cubans that, as Governor, he will make sure they regain control of the nearby island as in the Batista-Mafia era from 1952 till 1959. Meanwhile, left-wing extremist Gillum admitted to such things as being funded by far-outside money from the likes of controversial multi-billionaire "friends" such as George Soros and couldn't effectively deny taking bribery-funded excursions to places like New York City and Costa Rica...both typical gratuitives in today's USA political circles. With New York and California both locked up for extreme left-wing politicians, Florida is America's largest and most important "swing" state awash with a huge load of decisive electoral votes and thus Florida makes genuflecting lap-dogs out of Republicans and Democrats in the USA's money-crazed, two-party political system. In other words, as so often happens, Florida voters in their governor's race are left to chose between an extreme right-winger or extreme left-winger, also par-for-the-course in today's political landscape.

 In the entire hour debate, CNN's moderator Jake Tapper didn't have either the guts or the integrity to ask DeSantis or Gillum anything regarding Cuba although it is no secret that Cuba dominates politics in Florida. Such cowardice and lack of integrity in the USA's mainstream, propaganda-obsessed media is also typical. So Tapper asked such questions, like the one above, that was keeping in step with CNN's prime 24-hour-a-day focus, and that's to dethrone President Trump without waiting for the next presidential election to do it democratically.

    So Florida's Governor's race -- extreme left-winger Gillum vs. extreme right-winger DeSantis -- replicates what has become the norm in USA politics: tons of outside money backing extremely fringe candidates while the vast majority of voters would love to have a moderate or center-right or center-left candidate.

    And Jake Tapper, the CNN moderator of the Gillum-DeSantis debate, fulfilled his anchoring duty by concentrating mostly on trying to dethrone Trump rather than providing Floridians with valuable information regarding the political qualifications, or lack thereof, related to Gillum and DeSantis. Regardless, it appears that the left-winger Gillum is poised to defeat the right-winger DeSantis in Florida's Governor's race partly because DeSantis over-estimated the declining power of Counter Revolutionary Cubans to dictate state-wide Florida elections. And Tapper, like all the anchors on CNN, is over-estimating the ability of the extreme left-wing media to reverse the 2016 presidential election, at least without creating some type of violent revolutionary-type episode. That being said, the defeat of any Republican administration -- logically at the hands of decent voters and not extremists -- would greatly ease the cruel targeting of innocent Cubans by revengeful, greedy, and unchecked foreign-based miscreants.

     The Miami Herald website included a chilling video in which Congressman Ron DeSantis went to Little Havana in Miami and seemed to base his Republican candidacy to be Governor of Florida on promising a handful of Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans that he would continue as Governor to work furiously to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government. That chilling video didn't mention a myriad of other problems Florida residents face nor was it mentioned in the DeSantis-Gillum debate aired on CNN earlier this week. That video, I think, encapsulates two things: {1} The precipitous decline of America's money-crazed and propaganda-driven political landscape; and {2} the precipitous decline of America's mainstream, propaganda-driven media. And both of those calamitous developments routinely lie about reality, such as CUBA, which happens to be the only topic that could possibly get the United States condemned UNANIMOUSLY -- 191-to-0 -- in the United Nations during the last year of the decent Obama presidency, a UNANIMITY that the Obama administration APPROVED.

    It appeared, based on that DeSantis video, that one of the two candidates to be Governor of Florida starting next month believes that recapturing Cuba will be easy now that the indefatigably indestructible Fidel Castro finally died at age 90 in Havana on November 25th, 2016. It seems that Miami's remaining Counter Revolutionaries in Little Havana agree with DeSantis, as do most of the thoroughly propagandized Americans. However, unbiased and insightful visitors to the island easily recognize this basic fact: It is still Fidel's Cuba.

     In October of 2018 the most important and the most ubiquitous slogan on the island is "Yo Soy Fidel" and that means "I Am Fidel." Visitors to the island know this.

    Young Cuban women like these make sure that "I Am Fidel" dominates the rhythms and pulses on the island.

   In April of 1961 when neophyte President John Kennedy was being persuaded to support the Bay of Pigs air-land-and-sea military attack on Cuba, Kennedy was famously told that...once Fidel heard the bombs falling on Camp Colombia on the edge of Havana he would bolt for his getaway airplane; and once the Cuban people learned of the attack they would in overwhelming numbers rise up against Fidel. History registers the fact that Fidel, unlike the Batistianos and Mafiosi that he chased to Florida, didn't have getaway planes or ships, so he raced to the front-lines at the Bay of Pigs; and, of course, no Cubans turned against Fidel and he thus had about 400,000 more volunteers than he needed to humiliate the invading attackers. Ignorantly misunderstanding Cubans on the island in April of 1961 equates to misunderstanding them in October of 2018. Thus, the young Cuban arms/hands above now sporting the "I Am Fidel" slogan is something Americans are taught to dismiss as an inconsequential government-directed isolated case. But it's not. It's spontaneous and it's ubiquitous and it comes from a wide cross-section of the Cuban people, led by young adults but also supported by most Cubans, especially the elderly who remember the brutal, thieving Batista-Mafia rule back in the 1950s, elders who have told two later generations of Cubans what they experienced during the Batista-Mafia years.

     In October-2018 Cuba has a new President who happens to be a non-Castro and who happens to have been born on April 20, 1960 -- after the triumph of the Revolution. But President Miguel Diaz-Canel worships Fidel Castro...and that's precisely what Diaz-Canel is shown doing at Fidel Castro's tomb.

    Recently in two major speeches at the United Nations in New York, and in speeches broadcast live on Cuban television as shown above, President Miguel Diaz-Canel has made it plain that Cubans on the island will fight to the death to defend Revolutionary Cuba from "any foreign force." The Diaz-Canel quotation above, translated to English, says: "In Cuba there are no capitalist gyrations. I stress this and ask that it be understood as a solemn oath from Fidel."

    The above is an updated and un-staged photo. It was taken on Wednesday, October 24th, 2018. President Diaz-Canel is treated like a Rock Star on the island and he is currently supported by a strong majority of Cubans, as is the new Constitution he helped draft and will actually be voted on early in 2019 after Cubans across the island have studied it and discussed it at 24,000 conference places. The Cubans on the island, like those shown above, are aware...or at least believe based on news and social media reports...that President Trump has designated Senator Marco Rubio full authority to orchestrate the overthrow of the Cuban government. Cubans trust Diaz-Canel, not Rubio.

      The next Cubaninsider essay will discuss and document the astonishing but mostly un-publicized steps Rubio has already taken as well as those he plans to take to put Little Havana's Counter Revolutionary extremists back in control of Cuba. The mainstream U. S. media accepts and promotes Rubio's Cuban lies, such as the one depicted above. But Cubans on the island don't accept them and now even Rubio's hometown newspaper, the Miami Herald, has assailed Trump for putting Rubio in charge of recapturing Cuba and FOR HIS LYING about trying to help "the independent Cuban small business sector." The Miami Herald, which knows Rubio inside and out, knows he's a liar and tends to agree with the highly respected investigative journalist Ken Silverstein whose long and easily dialed-up article maintains and minutely documents that Rubio is "head and shoulders above everyone else in Washington when it comes to corruption and chicanery."

    To point out Rubio's blatant lie about his trying "to help" everyday Cubans on the island, his hometown newspaper -- the Miami Herald -- featured the above graphic to highlight an article written in the Miami Herald by four young female Cuban entrepreneurs who were massively helped by President Obama's decency but have been massively hurt by the Rubio-directed and Trump-authorized efforts to overthrow the Cuban government. As reported by the Miami Herald and shown above, the four young female Cuban entrepreneurs begged to meet face-to-face with Rubio to tell him about their Rubio-induced family hardships but, of course, Rubio has not had the guts nor the decency to listen to those pleas. Study the graphic above to see the names of those four decent Cuban women and see their quotation from the article they penned at the invitation of the Miami Herald, the U. S. newspaper that knows the gutless Rubio the best.

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