As Well as DEMOCRACY & FLORIDA!!
{Friday, April 5th, 2019}
{Friday, April 5th, 2019}
The Tampa Bay Times is the best newspaper in Florida and one of the most-read and respected newspapers in America. Its major Editorial this week, I believe, should be read by every Democracy-loving American. Permit me to explain why.
The primary contribution to the U. S. Democracy and to decency this week by the Tampa Bay Times is entitled: "Editorial: Don't Cut U.S.-Cuba Baseball Ties." From that simple headline, Florida's best news source in Marco Rubio's home-state goes on to excoriate Rubio for "punishing" totally innocent people in Cuba to sate his apparently insatiable appetite for revenge but, of course, mostly to enhance his economic and political fortunes by catering to a handful of rich Counter Revolutionary extremists from his Batistiano-dominated home area -- Little Havana in Miami.
Well known for trying to starve everyday Cubans on the island by leading the Trump administration's insanely cruel tightening of the six-decades-old economic embargo, Rubio uses any excuse to "punish" innocent Cubans on the island -- even including the recent totally sane and decent agreement between the USA's Major League Baseball teams and Cuba's corresponding pro baseball league.
The Tampa Bay Times, obviously fed-up with Rubio's incessant cruelty, included these exact quotes in this week's important pro-democracy/pro-decency excoriation of Rubio's blatant and moronic attempt to block the U.S.-Cuban baseball agreement: "The deal could be unraveling, thanks in part to the backward politics of Sen. Marco Rubio. It is too bad but entirely predictable that Rubio is hurting that effort. Sen. Rubio is foolishly attacking it. This is a humanitarian mistake that only punishes innocent families."
And beyond Rubio's cruel insanity related to baseball, the Tampa Bay Times Editorial also excoriated Rubio for being primarily responsible for "punishing" totally innocent Cuban "families" by tightening the already-stifling U. S. economic embargo that has existed since 1962 although in 2016, the last year of the Obama presidency, it correctly, with President Obama's approval, got the U. S. condemned by a worldwide 191-to-0 vote in the United Nations. But that insanely cruel embargo persists decade-after-decade because the USA is the world's economic dynamo AND because the USA has more nuclear weapons than the rest of the world. The Tampa Bay Times Editorial, clearly aware of Rubio's leadership in tightening the insanely cruel embargo, added this condemnation of Rubio: "The U. S. trade embargo was a failure, and Cuban Americans of all ages recognize the need to move on." Of course, such anti-Democratic "FAILURES" as the embargo have been DICTATED for six decades by a handful of Cuban exiles from the Batista-Mafia dictatorship that brutalized and ransacked Cuba from 1952 till it was overthrown on the first day of 1959, which chased the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to its new capital -- Little Havana USA.
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The primary contribution to the U. S. Democracy and to decency this week by the Tampa Bay Times is entitled: "Editorial: Don't Cut U.S.-Cuba Baseball Ties." From that simple headline, Florida's best news source in Marco Rubio's home-state goes on to excoriate Rubio for "punishing" totally innocent people in Cuba to sate his apparently insatiable appetite for revenge but, of course, mostly to enhance his economic and political fortunes by catering to a handful of rich Counter Revolutionary extremists from his Batistiano-dominated home area -- Little Havana in Miami.
Well known for trying to starve everyday Cubans on the island by leading the Trump administration's insanely cruel tightening of the six-decades-old economic embargo, Rubio uses any excuse to "punish" innocent Cubans on the island -- even including the recent totally sane and decent agreement between the USA's Major League Baseball teams and Cuba's corresponding pro baseball league.
The Tampa Bay Times, obviously fed-up with Rubio's incessant cruelty, included these exact quotes in this week's important pro-democracy/pro-decency excoriation of Rubio's blatant and moronic attempt to block the U.S.-Cuban baseball agreement: "The deal could be unraveling, thanks in part to the backward politics of Sen. Marco Rubio. It is too bad but entirely predictable that Rubio is hurting that effort. Sen. Rubio is foolishly attacking it. This is a humanitarian mistake that only punishes innocent families."
And beyond Rubio's cruel insanity related to baseball, the Tampa Bay Times Editorial also excoriated Rubio for being primarily responsible for "punishing" totally innocent Cuban "families" by tightening the already-stifling U. S. economic embargo that has existed since 1962 although in 2016, the last year of the Obama presidency, it correctly, with President Obama's approval, got the U. S. condemned by a worldwide 191-to-0 vote in the United Nations. But that insanely cruel embargo persists decade-after-decade because the USA is the world's economic dynamo AND because the USA has more nuclear weapons than the rest of the world. The Tampa Bay Times Editorial, clearly aware of Rubio's leadership in tightening the insanely cruel embargo, added this condemnation of Rubio: "The U. S. trade embargo was a failure, and Cuban Americans of all ages recognize the need to move on." Of course, such anti-Democratic "FAILURES" as the embargo have been DICTATED for six decades by a handful of Cuban exiles from the Batista-Mafia dictatorship that brutalized and ransacked Cuba from 1952 till it was overthrown on the first day of 1959, which chased the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to its new capital -- Little Havana USA.
Marco Rubio Little Havana Supporters.
This week's blistering Editorial in the Tampa Bay Times very correctly eviscerates Marco Rubio being allowed to continually "punish" totally innocent Cuban "families" on the nearby vulnerable island, but just as importantly it is a reminder of the vulnerability of the U. S. democracy itself and it should, I think, make Americans ASK this question: How could a handful of extremist exiles from a brutal foreign dictatorship, from generation-to-generation, relocate on U. S. soil, hide behind the skirts of the U. S. government with the help of a handful of self-serving sycophants, and use the attempts to recapture their former country to get richer and more powerful while also dictating U. S. laws and U. S. narratives to "PUNISH" generations of totally innocent "FAMILIES" in that much smaller and weaker sovereign nation??? Of course, cowardly and unpatriotic generations of Americans and Cuba-Americans since the 1950s, coupled with an increasingly ineffective and propaganda-obsessed mainstream U. S. media, are EVERY BIT as culpable as massively unsavory benefactors like "Sen. Marco Rubio." But, at least, this week's exemplary EDITORIAL in the Tampa Bay Times shines a beacon of light on the Little Havana threat to the United States -- including both its democracy and its reputation. BUT WHAT POSITIVE EFFECT WILL SUCH A POWERFUL AND MEANINGFUL EDITORIAL HAVE ON ERADICATING THE LINGERING CANCER THAT HAS AFFECTED THE USA SINCE 1959? Unfortunately, very little...I'm afraid.
After all, the Miami Herald -- Marco Rubio's hometown newspaper -- has also eviscerated and excoriated Rubio for insanely "punishing" totally innocent "families" in Cuba while also "punishing" the majority of decent Cuban-Americans in Miami who desire a sane relationship with their cousins on the island. As illustrated by the photo/graphic above, the Miami Herald invited four "female Cuban entrepreneurs" on the island to pen a blistering attack on Rubio. Those Cuban mothers had created successful businesses on the island thanks to the decency of former U. S. President Obama when Obama tried his best to loosen the embargo. But when the latest Republican President, Trump, put Rubio in charge of PUNISHING AND RECAPTURING CUBA, those Cuban mothers and entrepreneurs were blind-sided by Rubio. In their scathing Miami Herald article, the Cuban mothers explained that Rubio was preventing them from continuing to make honest livings to take care of their children. And, as you can see in the above photo-graphic, those mothers BEGGED Rubio to as least meet with them to hear their pleas in person. Of course, Rubio doesn't have the guts or the decency to do that.
While Rubio won't listen to decent Cuban mothers on the island, Rubio stays in close contact -- on the phone and in his Senate offices -- with the top Cuban dissidents, and Rubio is surely not adverse to showering dissidents like Yoani Sanchez with tax dollars if they promise to help his regime-change schemes.
While the mainstream U. S. media is too afraid of Little Havana to criticize Rubio, the VERY BEST investigative journalist in Washington, Ken Silverstein, is gutsy enough and talented enough to have penned what many consider the VERY BEST bio of Rubio.
The Ken Silverstein bio of Rubio is easily Googled and it begins by stating that Rubio is "head and shoulders" above all the other politicians in Washington "when it comes to corruption and chicanery." The Silverstein research is minutely documented by dates, time, places, and names...and as far as I know no one has ever challenged it or sued it. Rubio's Little Havana originally included in his Senate bio the beneficial but bogus claim that his parents escaped the tyranny of Castro's Cuba for the freedom of Miami, till it was pointed that Rubio's parents left Batista's Cuba before anyone considered Castro's revolution a threat to the Batista dictatorship.
Above, a false inhouse Rubio bio.
The journalist in charge of Miami's influential Progreso Weekly is Alfaro Fernandez. He knows Miami's Rubio as well as he knows the back of his own hand. The Progreso Weekly's depiction of Rubio is revealed by the two Editorial graphics below.
When a Marco Rubio can routinely take charge of the USA's Cuban policies in any Republican presidency...such as Trump's...there is obviously something drastically and perhaps fatally wrong with the U. S. democracy. And that is so, I sincerely believe, because two once-treasured institutions charged with protecting the world's greatest democracy -- citizen voters and the mainstream media -- have collectively evolved into unpatriotic cowards.
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