After Venezuela Falls!!
Little Havana's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio, as is well known, has been allowed by President Trump to reshape Latin America in order for the Miami Batistianos to finally regain control of Cuba, and this time not lose it to a Revolution. And Rubio has been emboldened enough by the above AP map to declare victory in Venezuela. As the graphic indicates, Venezuela's embattled President Nicolas Maduro is fenced-in all along his key borders by powerful U. S. proxies -- Colombia and President Ivan Duque as well as Brazil and President Jair Bolsonaro. So, except for money and perhaps air-power, the U. S. can gain dominance in oil-rich but destitute Venezuela without having to actually use its own military. Rubio understands all that, and that accounts for a brazen threat that Rubio has Tweeted to his prime target, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.
Now that Marco Rubio@marcorubio knows Cuban ally Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela is toast, Rubio fired off his threat to Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel via the above Tweet at 5:06 PM on Feb. 23rd, 2019. Translated from Spanish to English, "Te vermos pronto" means "See you soon." In other words, Rubio's not-so-subtle message to Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel is this: "I am Commander-in-Chief of U. S. and allied forces and right after eliminating Maduro in Venezuela I will personally arrive in Cuba to take care of you."
It is clear that Rubio's "See you soon" threat to Diaz-Canel has registered in Cuba.
Cuba's President since April 18-2018, Diaz-Canel does not have a getaway airplane and he's not about to be scared off the island. Sunday, February 24th, when Diaz-Canel was shown Rubio's Tweet, he and his wife were at a voting station to cast their "Yes" votes for the New Cuban Constitution. Asked about the Tweet, Diaz-Canel ignored it directly but said, "Tin soldiers backed by three militarized nations many times stronger than we are will do what they will do, and so will I, which is to use our new Constitution to improve our economy and create as much private enterprise and private ownership as we possibly can." The "three militarized nations" referenced by Diaz-Canel are the USA, Brazil, and Colombia.
Throughout his brief tenure as President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel has been quite aware that vicious, rich, and unchecked Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami like Marco Rubio and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen would "leave no stone un-turned to retake Cuba, especially now that Fidel Castro has died and another Republican runs the White House." That opinion reportedly was stated three months ago when Diaz-Canel was attending a public discussion of the new Constitution at a session with a dozen everyday Cubans, one of whom had her cell phone on the table recording, which he knew.
President Diaz-Canel has admitted that he is "maybe a little surprised" that President Trump "has surrounded himself with Rubio-directed war-mongers without a hint of an outcry from the prime U. S. media." It is reported that on an office wall Diaz-Canel has a Miami newspaper clipping in which, just days after becoming U. S. President, Trump told his staff, "Keep Rubio happy." That 4-word quote has been confirmed by several staffers as legitimate. It made Diaz-Canel wonder out-loud on a recent trip to Santa Clara, "What could Rubio have on Trump?" Indeed, that is question worth asking. During the presidential primary in 2016 Trump hated "Little Marco" Rubio and the feeling was mutual. And, yes, soon after becoming President, Trump actually instructed his staff to "Keep Rubio happy." And keeping Rubio happy would involve two factors: The back-stabbing Rubio replacing Trump as President or at least as head of the Republican Party; and, of course, President Trump providing Rubio the military and financial muscle to recapture Cuba. Venezuela is an afterthought for Rubio and only a pathway to recapturing Cuba for a few Little Havana zealots in his hometown of Miami.
Meanwhile, with "Little Marco" left in charge of fanning the flames of war in Latin America before the smoke even reaches the Caribbean, President Trump has another meeting with his beloved North Korean communist dictator, Chairman Kim, in Hanoi, Vietnam...a thriving nation now united as a communist country after beating the U. S. in the bloody Vietnam War. If you're Communist China or Communist Vietnam and can't be conquered, you become major trade partners with the USA. And, of course, if you're Communist North Korea and have nuclear weapons plus 1.3 million well-armed soldiers, the Republican war-mongers in Washington will kiss your ass. Moreover, no vile dictatorship in China, Vietnam, or Korea ever got overthrown by a Revolution and then resurrected itself on U. S. soil. That, of course, makes the Cuban Revolution totally unique and, for going on 7 decades, has made little Cuba the constant military and economic target of the island's resurrected dictatorship that is still backed by the USA, which is still the world's economic and military Superpower. I wonder if Chairman Kim, at his meeting with President Trump in Vietnam, will ask, "After you let Rubio capture Venezuela and Cuba, what about letting us share in Venezuela's massive oil reserves?" How Trump would reply to such a question from Kim would be, to say the least, interesting.
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