Cuba EXPECTS U. S. Attack

In the Spring of 2019!!
{Friday, January 4th, 2018}

  The photo above shows Raul Castro delivering the main speech in Santiago de Cuba to highlight the 60th anniversary celebrations of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959. In the lower-left you can see the tomb of Fidel Castro, who died at age 90 on Nov. 26, 2016, symbolically guarded by two Cuban soldiers. The 87-year-old Raul stepped down as Cuba's President on April 19th, 2018. In this speech, Raul made it plain that Cuba anticipates a military attack from the United States, probably by this spring and probably launched from Brazil {as I will explain}. He said: "Once again the North American government is taking on the path of confrontation with Cuba. Increasingly high-ranking officials in the Trump administration are trying to blame Cuba for the region's ills."

    The high-ranking National Security Adviser in the Trump administration is, incredibly, John Bolton. Late in 2018, as shown in the above photo, Bolton, speaking on behalf of President Trump, went to Miami and essentially declared war on Cuba. Of all the high-ranking U. S. officials in the last half-century, Bolton is considered the greatest war-monger...not against big boys like Russia or China but against small nations. Bolton has long advocated an all-out military attack on Revolutionary Cuba, once famously goading President George W. Bush by advising that Cuba was a dire threat to the United States. Bush shamefully appointed Bolton as the U. S. Ambassador to the UN but that was a joke and only a short recess appointment, meaning Bolton's shameful Bush appointment was withdrawn before it could come up for Senate approval, which Republicans as well as Democrats would have voted down. Now Trump's shameful appointment of Bolton as National Security Adviser is considered a harbinger of an all-out military attack on Cuba by this spring, and Cuba's friends in Latin America agree with that appraisal.

      This photo, and the Brazilian media reports that accompanied it, refurbished the probability of John Bolton finally getting his war against Cuba thanks to the Trump presidency. After his Miami declaration against Cuba, Bolton flew to Rio where he is shown shaking hands with Jair Bolsonaro who this week took over as the new President of Brazil, Latin America's richest, largest, most populated, and strongest nation. Two previous and recent Brazilian Presidents -- Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff -- had been democratically elected four times and both were fiercely pro-Cuba and wildly popular with Brazil's majority poor population, but a right-wing movement in Brazil brushed them aside. Bolsonaro loves the Brazilian military and he is extremely scary because is an extreme right-wing zealot...and extremely anti-Cuba. Knowing that, Bolton flew to Rio to meet with Bolsonaro. It is believed they agreed on a U.S.-Brazilian military attack on Cuba.

    Now a journalism professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, Tracey Eaton is generally considered America's best and fairest journalistic Cuban expert. He headed a U. S. bureau in Havana for years and since then his Cuban expertise has been used by all major U. S. media sources...from the major U. S. television networks, especially NBC-TV, to the major U. S. newspapers, especially USA Today. After John Bolton's declaration of war in Miami against Cuba and after Bolton's meeting with Bolsonaro in Rio, Tracey Eaton wrote that he would "not be surprised" if the United States attacked Cuba from Brazil, supposedly by the spring of 2019. Tracey is married to a Cuban woman and they spent Christmas in Havana. AND TO REPEAT: Tracey Eaton knows more about current U.S.-Cuban issues than all the other U. S. journalists and politicians combined...and anyone deeply interested in U.S.-Cuban relations knows that fact.

     After his speech in Santiago de Cuba on Jan. 1-2019 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Cuba's Revolutionary victory, Raul Castro was joined by Miguel Diaz-Canel as they walked solemnly to pay homage at the tomb of Fidel Castro, as shown above. On April 19-2018 Diaz-Canel replaced Raul Castro as Cuba's first non-Castro and first non-revolutionary Cuban President since 1959. Diaz-Canel was born after the triumph of the Revolution on Jan. 1-1959 and his political rise came as Cuba's Education Minister in cities well south of Havana. President Diaz-Canel agrees with Raul Castro that U. S. President Trump will allow John Bolton, Marco Rubio, and Mauricio Claver-Carone to lead the United States into a springtime war against Cuba.

     This photo shows Cuban President Diaz-Canel with Russian President Putin. Alarmed by John Bolton's declaration of war against Cuba in Miami and by Bolton's meeting in Rio with Bolsonaro, Diaz-Canel made a whirlwind trip to discuss the situation with friends that included the leaders of Russia, China, Vietnam, and Laos.

    But, as shown above, it was in 87-year-old Raul Castro's speech in Santiago de Cuba this week that publicly revealed Cuba's expectation of an attack from the U. S. by this spring. Raul said, "When Fidel and I were young, our generation fought against Batista, the Mafia, and the United States for the soul of Cuba. We won that struggle 60 years ago today -- on January 1, 1959. Once again the North American government is taking the path of confrontation with Cuba. Once again we will be the underdog and no one expects us to survive. But I think we will. I base that prediction on what I detect all around this island. In the 1950s the main thrust of the revolution came from women like Celia Sanchez, Haydee Santamaria, my late wife Vilma Espin, Tete Puebla, Melba Hernandez, Marta Rojas and so many more. Today as I look over this island I see another generation of young women just as determined as Celia, Haydee, Vilma and the others were at the start of our Revolution. And that's the basis of my prediction. Cubans on this island will fight to the death for Cuba against all odds and those from another country who attack us may not be similarly motivated. But otherwise they will have all other advantages...so we will see. We will see, won't we."

    In his main speech and in two lesser-publicized speeches in Santiago de Cuba this week, Raul Castro surprised many on the island with his apparent anticipation of a U. S. attack by this spring. But his nostalgic mentions of the legendary female revolutionary women was also a bit surprising, as was his obvious dependence on "another generation of young women" whom he believes will defend Cuba in the spring of 2019 just as Celia Sanchez, Haydee Santamaria, Vilma Espin, etc. led the revolutionary fight in the 1950s. Raul Castro was obviously talking about young Cuban women today like the three depicted above -- singer Luna Manzanares flanked on her right by journalist Yisel Martinez and on her left by journalist Rosy Amaro. For example, Rosy Amaro -- an extremely talented and popular television news anchor in Havana on the strong Cubavision International outlet -- spent three days this week in Santiago de Cuba covering and participating in the 60th anniversary Revolutionary celebrations. And Rosy Amaro, and presumably a strong majority of young Cuban women like her, agreed with Raul Castro's comments and sentiments.

    This is Rosy Amaro on a street in Santiago de Cuba this week, almost 500 miles from her Havana home and her Cubavision International studio. Rosy has a gorgeous and precocious 5-year-old daughter; she has visited the famous capitals of Europe; and she has close relatives in the USA from Florida to Virginia to Arizona. But she would fight on the front-lines of another revolutionary war to preserve Cuba's independence.

   In Santiago de Cuba this week, Rosy Amaro played the drums in a Cuban band; 11 million Cubans on the island know her and love her.

       Although her hometown remains Havana on the northwestern tip of Cuba, Rosy Amaro perhaps has an even stronger affection for Santiago de Cuba, which is almost 500 miles from Havana and on the island's southeastern tip. Rosy, like most Cubans, credits Santiago de Cuba as the soul of the Revolution and the launching point for the astounding rebel victory that ousted the Havana-based and U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship on January 1, 1959.

   This was the last photo taken of the photogenic Rosy Amaro on her 3-day stay in Santiago de Cuba this week to cover and celebrate the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. That's Rosy reclining on the "C" in "CUBA" on January 2nd just before she made the long trek back to Havana. The huge sign fronts a major shopping mall in Santiago de Cuba. Rosy captioned this photo with these words:"Ya mi voy de Santiago, pero Santiago queda en mi." {"I'm leaving Santiago, but Santiago remains in me."}. Rosy adamantly wants to preserve the Revolution-provided sovereignty for...Santiago, Havana, and all of Cuba while opposing any hint of a return of foreign domination. But those lofty hopes and dreams will, in all likelihood, be severely tested this spring by the military designs of the Rubio/Bolton/Claver-Carone axis that adorns the USA Trump administration and now apparently includes Bolsonaro, who this week took over as the new extreme right-wing/anti-Cuban President of Brazil.

    Back in December Rosy Amaro spent a week on a journalistic assignment in Nicaragua. As shown above, Nicaraguan journalists wanted to know how Rosy felt about U.S.-Cuban relations "in the Age of Trump?" She prefaced her answer with that sad, worried look.

    This was Rosy Amaro in Nicaragua in December just before she flew back to Cuba. In the United States, I believe, the best source for deciphering the rhythms and pulses of U.S.-Cuban relations is the aforementioned journalist Tracey Eaton. In Cuba, I believe, the best source for deciphering the rhythms and pulses of U.S.-Cuban relations is journalist Rosy Amaro. I find it quite interesting on January 3rd-2019 that both Tracey Eaton and Rosy Amaro believe that a war-mongering quartet -- Rubio/Bolton/Claver-Carone/Bolsonaro -- will make war on Cuba this spring in the name of the USA, the world superpower, and Brazil, the Latin American superpower. If it happens, I wonder if the cowardly U. S. media will forge enough courage to ask the war-mongers if they really believed they could execute a regime-change in Cuba without creating a fiery conflagration not only in the Caribbean but also in Latin America, and perhaps beyond. But win or lose, Rosy Amaro and eleven million other Cubans on the island are far more decent human beings than the war-mongers in much stronger countries.

    This photo of Rosy Amaro Perez was taken today when she was back on the set anchoring the Cubavision International news program. In the USA the right-wing news media and even the intimidated mainstream news media only programs the Cuban narrative from the likes of Rubio, Bolton, Claver-Carone, and the Diaz-Balart brothers whose father was a key Minister in the ousted Batista dictatorship and then became one of the all-time richest and most vehement Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami. My point, which I deem valid as a democracy-loving American, is this: Rosy Amaro Perez and other Cubans like her on the island have viewpoints too...and views that the U. S. democracy should have the guts to consider. And that, I believe, is true concerning Cubans like Rosy who have no intention to defect to the wealth of Miami.

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