A USA Shame , MOSTLY!!
An excellent broadcast journalist, Hatzel Vela is a top reporter for the top news source in Miami -- WPLG-TV 10. Hatzel is stationed in Havana and, from there, he files regular reports back to Channel 10, the ABC Network station in Miami...where the Little Havana neighborhood since 1959 has led the massive and unchecked effort to overthrow the Cuban Revolution, which overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship that then sent many of its richest anti-Castro zealots to their new capital, Little Havana. With that backdrop, knowing that even the mainstream national U. S. media is much too afraid to report fairly on Cuban issues, I have been surprised that Hatzel Vela actually files regular fair and balanced reports from Cuba to Miami's best television station.
In fact, yesterday -- March 27-2019 -- to illustrate my respect for Hatzel Vela's televised reports from Cuba to his MIAMI television station, I shared at the top of my Facebook page Vela's March 27th report on the historic visit to the island this week by the UK's future King, Prince Charles. I mentioned that Vela's reporting from Cuba "is unhindered by the Cuban government." Within a few minutes, Hatzel Vela in Cuba posted two quick "likes" on my Facebook page, one for his approval of my comment and one for sharing his actual WPLG-TV 10 report related to Prince Charles.
MY POINT IS THIS: As a democracy-loving American, I am not happy that Little Havana since 1959 has been allowed to CubaNIZE the U. S. government in a harmful manner, meaning that the perpetrators have been a handful of only the most extremists exiles and their self-serving sycophants, not the vast majority of Cuban exiles nor decent USA politicians. And, to my mind, the most grievous CubaNIZED assault on the U. S. democracy has been its Mafia-like intimidation of the mainstream U. S. media, whose free and fair-minded functionality is vital to all the basic tenets of Democracy. So, therefore, you can understand why I appreciate the fact that at least one prime news sources even in Miami -- WPLG-TV 10 -- and at least one journalist -- Hatzel Vela -- have the integrity and the courage to actually report FROM Cuba BACK to Miami. If Vela can do that, why can't the mainstream national U. S. media do the same thing, which is something the American people need -- namely, both sides of the two-sided U.S.-Cuban conundrum.
So, for a fair USA report from Cuba on the important Prince Charles Visit to Cuba this week, GOOGLE the Hatzel Vela/WPLG-TV report from Cuba-to-Miami on March 27th. Or tap the 3-minute video report above by Vela from Cuba back to Miami on April 5, 2018 to get an example of fair U. S. journalism related to Cuba. In this video, Vela explains to his viewers in Miami that the overtures to the island made by former President Obama enabled private business owners in Cuba "to flourish despite a lack of materials." This report revealed the vast potential Cuba has if the foreign superpower, the USA, would work with everyday Cubans instead of grossly handicapping them with Little Havana's malevolent 1996 Helms-Burton Act that grossly exacerbated the 1962 U. S. Economic Embargo against Cuba, the longest and cruelest Embargo ever imposed by a strong nation against a much weaker nation. And if you watch Hatzel Vela's 3-minute report above, you will better comprehend the gutlessness of the latest Republican administration, TRUMP'S, to follow Obama's decency by indecently turning America's Cuban policies back over ONLY to Little Havana's most extremists Counter Revolutionaries. In other words, any democracy-lover who doesn't comprehend the malevolent indecency involved in the transition from OBAMA to TRUMP is either an idiot or a coward. And that is precisely why I believe fair-minded reports that provide Americans both sides of the U.S.-Cuban conundrum, such as the Hatzel Vela Cuba-to-Miami reports, are so important, if rare, in the U. S. democracy that has taken SO MANY HITS from Little Havana.
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