Cuba BEFORE Rubio Arrives

So, Let's Take A Look!!
{Monday, March 11th, 2019}

   Since the remarkable...earth-shattering, really...triumph of the Cuban Revolution over the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in 1959, Cuban women from the incomparable revolutionary icon Celia Sanchez to Rosa Miriam Elizalde have actually played the leading roles when it comes to domestic issues on the island. Rosa is the talented and no-nonsense boss at the influential Dominio Cuba television channel. Needless to say, Rosa is not too happy that the USA's Trump administration has given Miami's Marco Rubio what she believes is the backing of the U. S. treasury and the U. S. military to execute Miami's long-desired recapture of Cuba. Rosa, and perhaps about 5 million other Cuban women like her, is especially angry that Rubio is hurling and tweeting braggadocio taunts...such as "SEE YOU SOON"  at Cuba's President, former Education Minister Miguel Diaz-Canel. The "Te vemos pronto"/"See you soon" Rubio taunt directed at the Cuban leader has galvanized strong support for Diaz-Canel, especially for the Cuban President's strongest supporters -- Cuban women like Rosa.

      On her popular television channel this week, Rosy Mariam Elizalde used the above image to hurl a taunt back at the taunting Rubio. The image shows two Cuban women...Celia Sanchez and Vilma Espin...who were among the many Cuban women directly responsible for the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. Their photo during the war was taken by Dickie Chapelle, the world-renowned female war photographer from World War Two in the 1940s to the Vietnam War in the 1960s. Rosa pointed out that, after taking this famous photo of Celia and Vilma in 1958, Dickie Chapelle later died in the middle of a battlefield in Vietnam in 1965 "while the imperial-thirsty USA was losing the Vietnam War." Using this photo this week was Rosa's reminder to Rubio that "If you indeed do show up on our soil to 'see' our President, a few million disciples of Celia Sanchez and Vilma Espin will be waiting to greet you. Remember, it was women like Celia, Vilma, Haydee Santamaria, Tete Puebla and so many more that chased the Batista and Mafia cowards to your Miami sanctuary in 1959."

    Also, on her strong television channel in Cuba, Rosa Mariam Elizalde can use photos like this to remind Rubio that "Since 1959 all Cuban babies like this one have received loving and protective care with totally free educations through college and totally free health care all their lives...two things in Rubio's America that American babies don't have because such money goes to rich thugs like Rubio just as Cuban money in the 1950s went to rich thugs like Batista, Luciano, Lansky, and rich American business thieves. Rubio's attempts to starve Cuban babies like this one by strengthening the blockade against us will not work unless we are killed or we surrender. We will not surrender...not now, not ever."

    To stress the "No Surrender" theme of Cuban women in direct response to Rubio's taunts, the image above was used on Cuban television and in thousands social media sites as 5,000 Cubans a day now join the Internet. This graphic, translated from Spanish to English, shows a little Cuban girl asking her mother, "What is surrender?" The mother replies, "I do not know, daughter. We are women."

    And so...Rosa Mariam Elizalde uses her Dominio Cuba television channel to galvanize support for her President, Diaz-Canel, against the taunts from Marco Rubio whom she considers, "a pompous coward hiding behind the skirts of a superpower while throwing bricks and grenades at Cuban children."

      On her television channel Rosa Mariam Elizalde can use spontaneous images like this to point out that most of Cuba's 5 million or so females love President Diaz-Canel, "especially the grandmothers and mothers who remember the brutality against and starvation of everyday Cubans back when the USA and the Mafia were ruling the island. Rubio's repeated lies about trying to HELP us real Cubans can only be effective in the U. S. and only because of six decades of Mafia propaganda that blares out the truth the American people need."

     Above is the exact Tweet that Marco Rubio sent to Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel. If you study it from top to bottom, you will see that Rubio is gleefully warning Diaz-Canel that, as soon as the USA completes it regime-change eliminating Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, Diaz-Canel will be next. At the bottom of Rubio's Tweet to Diaz-Canel are the words: "Te Vemos pronto" that, translated to English, means, "See you soon." To Cuban women like Rosa Mariam Elizalde, that is a cowardly taunt. "If Rubio wants to see our President 'soon,'" she says, "he should have the courage and kindness to ask to see him in peace. But Rubio is a coward hiding behind the skirts of a Superpower. Therefore, to see our President he might have to kill several million Cuban women first. Without restrictions, he seems willing to do that. After all, the American people have allowed Rubio to install Elliott Abrams as one of his chief regime-changers and Abrams is best known throughout Latin America for the Massacre at El Mosote."

    Indeed, with Rubio being able to add extreme war-mongers like John Bolton, Elliott Abrams, etc., at the top of President Trump's Latin American team, this generation of Americans who allow such things to happen might be responsible, to put it bluntly, for impending imperialist massacres in Latin America. The scariest thing about that scenario, perhaps, is the fact that this generation of Americans are not concerned enough to GOOGLE "The Mosote Massacre" to ascertain that after all the men and then all the women were massacred, then the 120 babies and children were massacred. Not to know or to care about such things results in people like Elliott Abrams and John Bolton resurfacing in powerful government positions each time a Republican is President. This week the Washington Post had a major article about "The Massacre..." that Trump, Rubio, Bolton, Abrams, etc., want everyone "...TO FORGET." And everyone has forgotten, it seems, in America...but NOT in LATIN AMERICA.

    A long-time Latin American expert for the New York Times, Raymond Bonner is indisputably America's greatest expert on U.S.-involved Latin American atrocities. He cringed when Trump resurrected Elliott Abrams to apparently oversee the Rubio-inspired regime-changes in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. No one...repeat NO ONE...knows as much as Raymond Bonner knows about the El Mosote Massacre in El Salvador in December of 1981. Every American should read Mr. Bonner's detailed article in The Atlantic that is entitled: "What Did Elliott Abrams Have To Do With the El Mosote Massacre?" The sub-title opined that "Trump May Have Picked the Right Man..." -- meaning the right man to put down resistance to the impending Latin American regime-changes that appear to interested observers to be directed by anti-Cuban zealots in Miami and in Congress. In his minutely accurate and scintillating article, Raymond Bonner writes: "More than 900 peasants were murdered at the Roman Catholic church in El Mozote. Soldiers separated men from their families, took them away, and shot them. They herded mothers and children into the convent. Putting their American-supplied M-16 rifles on automatic, the soldiers opened fire. Then they burned the convent. Some 140 children were killed, including toddlers. Average age: 6."

    After writing those exact words shown above to depict the El Mosote Massacre, Raymond Bonner went into great detail to tie Elliott Abrams to that event. Because of Mr. Bonner's impeccable credentials as the world-class expert on such U.S.-involved Latin American atrocities, there is no way Trump, Rubio, or anyone else can deny them. They, of course, just hope Americans don't care enough ABOUT AMERICA to dial up such readily available articles and read them. And that's why, even after needing a pardon from a long-ago Bush Republican president, another Republican President, Trump, can resurrect a Bush-era pardoned relic from decades ago to ONCE AGAIN play a powerful role in yet another questionable USA Latin American venture.

     Massive U. S. propaganda paints Rosa Mariam Elizalde as a "bad guy" in Cuba while pretending that Marco Rubio is the "good guy choirboy" from Little Havana in Miami. As a democracy-loving American concerned about America, I think that is a lie. In her sovereign, pugnacious island nation, the astute Rosa has a right to support her President, Miguel Diaz-Canel. And moreover, Rosa has a right to use her television channel to fire back at Rubio for taunting her President with the "Te vemos pronto"/"See you soon" Tweet. Rosa and about 5 million other women on the island interpret that to mean Rubio, after he eviscerates Maduro in Venezuela, will arrive in Cuba to eviscerate his prime target, Rosa's President Diaz-Canel.

    This week when Rosa Mariam Elizalde used this image of revolutionary heroines Celia Sanchez and Vilma Espin, she sent this message to Rubio: "Celia and Vilma were do-or-die guerrilla fighters and their enemies were do-or-run non-fighters who sent others to fight their battles. This generation of Cuban women is like Celia and Vilma. We wonder who Rubio will send to do his fighting? They may win, but that doesn't mean we won't defend our island at all costs. Yes, we remember the 1950s...the last time imperialist foreigners ruled our Cuba." You may study the expression on Rosa's face {as shown above} to judge whether she is as determined today as Celia Sanchez was back in the 1950s.

          And...as you can see from her up-close facial expression from the 1950s as she headed to battle, the incomparable anti-Batista guerrilla fighter Celia Sanchez WAS DETERMINED!! And without Celia Sanchez's fierce determination from start to finish, the Cuban Revolution would not have triumphed against overwhelming odds.

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