Cuba's INCREDIBLE Survival

Why Can't America Recapture Cuba?
{Monday, November 19th, 2018}

       The Naphtai Junior photo above headlined a major story in the Sunday, Nov. 18-2018 Jamaica Observer. It sort of makes one wonder why all the nations in the Caribbean, with the exception of Cuba, are not extremely wealthy and prosperous. On the left above is Oscar Derby enjoying a joyous handshake with Barrington Miller, two of Jamaica's leading businessmen. They are dynamos in a project called JISCO Special Economic Zone that will break ground next month thanks to a $2.5 billion investment from JISCO, a Chinese company. The project is on the Jamaican soil where an old World War II airbase once existed. The article suggested that eventually JISCO might inject a million new well-paying jobs into the Jamaican economy. Mr. Miller said, "It's a game-changer for Jamaica."

      As the above map indicates, Jamaica is due south of Cuba in the Caribbean. Cuba is the largest, most coveted, and {arguably} the most beautiful Caribbean island nation. January of 1959 was the historic month the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship. From that day till this day -- January-1959 till November-2018 -- an unchecked effort by the nearby United States, aligned with two rich and powerful generations of transplanted Batistianos-Mafiosi, has tried but, incredibly, failed to recapture the island. For all those 6+ decades the United States has been the world's economic and military Superpower. Additionally, that incomparable economic and military power, for that entire period, has been able to greatly influence all other nations...in the region and around the world...in various degrees to accept and/or not interfere in the USA's reconfigured designs on the Caribbean's largest and most coveted island nation. On the other hand, all other Caribbean nations, such as Jamaica, can benefit from the economic and military competition between the world Superpowers -- such as the USA and China, the world's two most prolific economic powers -- buying up influence in Jamaica and other Caribbean nations. Yet, the USA's influence countering even China has blunted Chinese and all other investments in Cuba, partly because the USA's economy is tightly tied to that of Communist China. And that's why the Jamaica Observer article on Nov. 18-2018 creates fresh wonder about how and why, incredibly, Cuba's government has survived since 1959 and how and why all the other Caribbean nations aren't particularly rich and prosperous.

    The Jamaica Observer is an excellent Caribbean newspaper and its daily political cartoons are world-class. The one above published on Nov. 18-2018 helps explain that the insatiable power of the U. S. dollar can purchase a whole lot of anti-Cuban collaborators, even in the Caribbean.

     If you study this Latin America map, you will detect that Brazil is by far the largest Latin American nation...as well as its richest and most populated. Just a few years ago Brazil had a left-wing Dilma Rousseff-led government that was a powerful supporter of and investor in Revolutionary Cuba...as were the leaders of the three important nations due southeast of Brazil -- Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile...not to mention oil-rich Venezuela on Brazil's northern border. But things have drastically changed in Latin America, most notably in mighty Brazil and struggling Venezuela.

    Latin American Superpower Brazil now has a new President, former military officer and military-lover Jair Bolsonaro. Now 63-years-old, Bolsonaro had always been considered far too much of an avowed right-wing extremist to be remotely considered as presidential material, but that changed drastically in 2018 just as the United States changed drastically in 2016 when the also very improbable Donald Trump got elected President of the United States. Now instead of Cuba-friendly Obama as the U. S. President and the Cuba-friendly Rousseff as the Brazilian President, the world Superpower United States and the Latin American Superpower Brazil have two Presidents -- Bolsonaro and Trump -- determined to starve and overthrow Revolutionary Cuba.

     And so, with President Donald Trump in the United States and President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, there appears to be a concerted effort...unlike all previous efforts since 1959...to finally overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government. Cuban intelligence, considered among the most acute and astute in the world, believes that the Trump-Bolsonaro timetable for the demise of Revolutionary Cuba is the early spring of 2019.

    Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel, on his recent 5-day visit to the New York City that included two UN speeches, let it be known...publicly and privately...that he is very aware of the Trump administration's conspiring with other right-wing forces, most notably the startling rise of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, to set the spring timetable for Cuba's demise.

     Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has just returned to Havana after a whirlwind trip that took him to France, China, Russia, Vietnam, North Korea, Laos, and England. And then -- at 2:29 P. M. on Nov. 14, 2018 -- President Diaz-Canel posted the above statement on his Twitter account. Note his use of the words "los colaboradores Cubanos han prestado un valioso servicio al pueblo de Brazil." {"Cuban collaborators have rendered a valuable service to the people of Brazil."}. He was referencing the harsh words against Cuba that Brazil's new President Bolsonaro unfurled when he ended a program started by the Rousseff presidency in 2013 whereby thousands of Cuban doctors worked in the poorest rural areas of Brazil. To President Diaz-Canel, President Bolsonaro's bitter anti-Cuban words signaled Brazil's start of a vicious assault on Cuba in collaboration with President Trump and the United States.

    Cuba's first conclusion that President Trump intended for a spring timetable to essentially return Cuba to the Counter Revolutionaries headquartered in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood was derived from U. S. media coverage of the above speech. That occurred when Trump, early-on in his presidency, went to Little Havana and, while standing before a Bay of Pigs military assault banner, promised an extremist Counter Revolutionary choir that he, as U. S. President, would finally avenge their humiliating Bay of Pigs defeat during the April-1961 air-land-and-sea military attack on Cuba.

     Images like the Miami Herald photo above have refurbished Cuba's assessment of the Trump administration's spring-2019 timetable for the demise of revolutionary rule on the island.  For decades the three Counter Revolutionary extremists depicted above -- all products of the self-serving Bush dynasty -- have led unrelenting efforts in Miami, in the U. S. Congress, and in all Republican White Houses to regain control of Cuba. Left to right are: Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Mario Diaz-Balart. At least one or, at the same time, all three have represented Miami's Little Havana in the U. S. Congress. The Havana-born Ros-Lehtinen, who is finally retiring from her seat, has been in Congress since 1989 when the ambitious Jeb Bush was her Campaign Manager; the Havana-born Lincoln Diaz-Balart quickly followed Ros-Lehtinen to Congress but retired his safe seat to concentrate his Counter Revolutionary political and economic efforts back in Miami; and Mario Diaz-Balart who remains a safe and re-elected incumbent in the U. S. Congress. Ros-Lentinen is from a famously anti-Revolutionary Cuban family. And the father of the Diaz-Balart brothers, Rafael Diaz-Balart, was a key Minister in the overthrown Batista dictatorship who, after 1959, became one of the richest and most powerful all-time Counter Revolutionaries on U. S. soil. Although there are well over two million moderate Cuban-Americans who desire saner relations with Cuba, including top Cuban-American businessmen in Miami, only Counter Revolutionary extremists, for the most part, have been allowed, since 1959, serious input into U.S.-Cuban relations...with extreme wealth and, if necessary, dynamic force, predicating the extreme viewpoints. To this day, even the left-wing U. S. news media that is fervently trying to impeach Trump will not dare question any extremely cruel Trump-authorized cruelty against totally innocent Cubans on the island. Thus, the distorted viewpoints espoused by Counter Revolutionary extremists like Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Balart brothers continues to present the notion that Cubans on the island long for a return of the Batistianos-Mafiosi and fervently oppose their revolutionary government. That simply is not so but even the furiously left-wing/anti-Trump news media in the United States does not have the guts to mention that very salient fact, revealing anew the cancerous effect the Batista-Mafia rule in Cuba and the Counter Revolutionary forces in the U. S. have had on both America and Democracy ever since the 1950s.

  Every non-idiotic news source in Washington knows all about John Bolton, and what they know is this: Bolton, an infamous war-mongering product of the Bush presidencies, is totally unfit to be America's top National Security Adviser, but he IS President Trump's National Security Adviser, one who has long advocated the overthrow of Cuba's revolutionary government. The graphic above, compiled by Russia's RT news agency, references Bolton's alleged trip to Moscow to get President Putin's assurance, among other things, that mighty Russia will not interfere with Bolton's and Trump's designs on Cuba, which Cuba believes is an overthrow of Cuba by the Spring of 2019.

    It appears that John Bolton's recent trip to Miami, as chronicled by the above photo, had two distinct purposes: {1} To officially declare the Trump administration's war on Cuba; and{2} to ascertain whether the gutless mainstream U. S. news media would react negatively to that declaration of war...or even react at all. Well, Bolton got what he expected, which is: Because Cuba was the target of Bolton's Declaration of War, the gutless mainstream U. S. news media didn't have the guts to question the mendacity Bolton intends for 11.4 million totally innocent Cubans, and that shamefully includes the left-wing news media trying desperately to eliminate Trump, including CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, New York Times and Washington Post.

     Therefore, without a decent news media to rely on, Americans...at least those who haven't personally visited the island...are supposed to meekly accept the lie that most Cubans on the island LONG FOR A RETURN OF THE U.S.-BACKED HAVANA MOB THAT RULED CUBA UP UNTIL 3:00 A. M. ON JANUARY 1, 1959...AT WHICH TIME THE FAMOUS THUGS FLED TO SAFER HAVENS, NAMELY MIAMI, NEWARK, AND OTHER U. S. SANCTUARIES.

    I agree with The Woman Project.org that the all-time greatest female guerrilla fighter and revolutionary leader, Celia Sanchez, had the definitive quotation related to the Cuban Revolution that would not have been won without her. As you can see above, that quotation is: "We rebels...get far too much credit for winning the revolution. Our enemies deserve most of the credit, for being greedy cowards and idiots." And you know what? That quotation also probably explains another incredible phenomenon -- which is how and why Celia's pugnacious Cuban Revolution has managed to rule Cuba from 1959 till today...and PROBABLY WILL CONTINUE TO RULE CUBA AT LEAST TILL THE SPRING OF 2019.

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