BEST Cuba Article THIS WEEK

And Maybe You Should Read It!!
{UPDATED: Friday, January 11, 2019}

     A famed Cuban-American journalist, Albor Ruiz is as gutzy as Cuban-American journalist Emilio Milian was in Miami. {When Emilio criticized well-known and well-protected Cuban terrorists in Miami for killing innocent Cubans, Emilio was routinely silenced by a car-bomb}. But the equally brave Albor still has a journalistic voice. For decades Albor was a top Editor and Columnist for the New York Daily News in English and El Diario in Spanish. He graduated from the University of Florida and he is in the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Hall of Fame. To this day Albor, incredibly, has the courage to write honest columns regarding both his native Cuba and U.S.-Cuban relations. For example, his Jan. 8th-2019 column is entitled: "Cuba: Europe Against the Embargo." Instead of meekly being propagandized by Rubio-type Counter Revolutionary extremists, perhaps Americans should Google a more decent and more intelligent Cuban-American's Cuban insights, namely Albor Ruiz's insightful column this week.

   The EFE photo of President Donald Trump fronted the aforementioned Jan. 8th-2019 article by the highly regarded Cuban-born journalist Albor Ruiz. To counter the Batistiano-dictated Cuban narrative, I hope Americans will read what Albor wrote, such as: "If looking at the chaos prevalent in Washington you get the disquieting feeling that the U. S. -- the world, for that matter -- is in the hands of a cabal of heartless, bigoted, greedy fools, you are not alone. Trump and his advisers on Latin America -- namely the insanely hawkish National Security Adviser John Bolton and Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who is mainly notable for his opposition and his embrace of every measure intended to make the lives of his parents' compatriots in Cuba as difficult as humanly possible."

  The harsh depictions of Marco Rubio and John Bolton by the great Cuban-American journalist Albor Ruiz is, of course, 100% accurate. For the mainstream U. S. media and 315 million U. S. citizens to sit back and allow President Trump to anoint the likes of Rubio and Bolton as the chief architects...the primary dictators...of America's Latin American and Cuban policies shames both America and Democracy. And the main culprits for allowing it to happen are the pundit/propaganda-driven mainstream U. S. media as well as the most cowardly and the most undemocratic generation of Americans in America's history.

     Most Americans agree that the majority of their 535 Senators and Representatives in the U. S. Congress are in politics for the money and the enormous benefits that ensue...and that those members of Congress answer to the untold thousands of unsavory lobbyists in Washington who dole out millions of political dollars to put and keep  their bought-and-paid politicians in office to do the bidding of the richest Americans. To exacerbate that dilemma, the U. S. democracy no longer has an unbiased mainstream media, most of which are owned by biased billionaires who used their powerful forums as pundit-driven propaganda tools, not news-gathering sources so vitally needed in the USA. That includes especially...NBC, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox, the NY Times, and the Washington Post, with the latter former great newspaper now owned by the all-time richest person in the world -- Cuban-American Jeff Bezos. If you feel any of that is not true, ask real Americans or real Hispanics-Americans like the ones depicted above. In his Jan. 8th-2019 article and previously for decades, Hall of Fame Hispanic journalist Albor Ruiz points out that the deterioration of the mainstream U. S. media and the lack of concern for their Democracy by American citizens paves the way for...a Trump, a Rubio, and a Bolton to egregiously impact the lives of everyone, including Hispanics, in an American society ruled by extreme right-wingers and extreme left-wingers...leaving the more decent 80% majority mostly out in the cold and voiceless. For that to happen...again it is worth noting that a biased or incompetent mainstream media and a cowardly or undemocratic generation of Americans are the prime culprits, not just the ruthlessly cruel benefactors such as the unchecked Marco Rubio.

   This New York Times photo shows the parents of Marco Rubio {front-row center} on their wedding day in Havana in 1948. Now go back and contemplate the exact words that the great Cuban-born and U. S. Hall of Fame journalist Albar Ruiz wrote in his scintillating column on Jan. 8th-2019: "...Marco Rubio who is mainly notable for his opposition and his embrace of every measure intended to make the lives of his parents' compatriots in Cuba as difficult as humanly possible."

            In other words, while Americans have been programmed not to know or not to care, the U. S. Hall of Fame/Cuban-born Hispanic journalist Albor Ruiz is abundantly aware that the U. S. embargo against Cuba, first imposed in 1962 and continuing to this day, has been implemented and enforced by a few ruthless, self-serving, revengeful, and malicious Cuban-Americans like Marco Rubio who get free passes from the mainstream U. S. media. As Albor Ruiz references above, Rubio's Cuban parents...like most Cubans and most Cuban-Americans...almost certainly wouldn't approve of their "compatriots" back on the island being punished decade-after-decade by a handful of self-serving miscreants. Rubio himself, of course, has never been to Cuba so why should such a greedy individual care about Cubans on the island, a point that the Cuban-born Albor Ruiz points out. Albor Ruiz also knows that, according to de-classified U. S. documents, the purpose of the Embargo is to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of everyday Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. Rubio is fine with that; Albor Ruiz and decent Cuban-Americans like him ARE NOT.

     In his blisteringly anti-Rubio Jan. 8th-2019 article, the great Albor Ruiz quotes Federica Mogherini, the Political Leader and High Representative of the 28-nation European Union. Born in Rome 45 years ago, the ultra-powerful Ms. Mogherini has railed against the cowardice and ignorance of U. S. citizens for allowing people like Rubio to dictate "decade after decade" a Cuban policy that "drastically harms" women and children in a "much weaker nation" to "please or benefit a few rich people in a strong nation," to quote Ms. Mogherini who has a worldwide forum from which to speak. And in his Jan. 8-2019 article Albor Ruiz quotes Ms. Mogherini as saying what she has said repeatedly: "The U. S. embargo, or economic blockade, against Cuba is both cruel and illegal." And Ms. Mogherini, like Albor Ruiz, has pointed out that sanctimonious Americans are quick to condemn a Russia or a China if those countries would mount a genocidal economic embargo against a much weaker nation for six DAYS and not for six DECADES.

   The Executive Director of the Washington-based Center for Democracy in the Americas is Emily Mendrala, a Cuban expert and former key U. S. government official. Emily Mendrala tirelessly echoes the words and expertise of great people like Albor Ruiz and Federica Mogherini in their condemnation of the United States for allowing unchecked miscreants like Rubio to dictate America's insanely "cruel and illegal" Cuban policies. But largely because of an incompetent or afraid mainstream U. S. media, the sane words and expertise of people like Albor Ruiz, Federica Mogherini, and Emily Mendrala are drowned out within the bowels of the world's Superpower Democracy.

   The aforementioned Jan. 8th-2019 Albor Ruiz article used the above photo of Marco Rubio in its evisceration of Little Havana's choirboy being allowed to dictate U. S. policies designed to eviscerate totally innocent  Cuban men, women, and children on the nearby island. The extreme left-wing U.S. media -- NBC, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, the NEW YORK TIMES, and the WASHINGTON POST -- spend almost all of their airtime and print-space condemning Trump for such things as harming immigrant children, but that same left-wing media doesn't have the guts to even criticize Trump or Rubio for harming Cuban children on their sovereign island. Democracy-loving Americans should ignore the gutless left-wing/right-wing mainstream U. S. media and study the Jan. 8th-2019 article written by Hall of Fame journalist Albor Ruiz while also studying the above photo of Rubio that illustrated the article. When a Rubio is unchecked in dictating America's Cuban policies, America and Democracy are ACTUALLY the primary losers.

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