17.4.19

USA's Miami Shame

Reaches NEW HEIGHTS Today!!
     Today is April 17, 2019. Arguably, America's all-time greatest historic shame revolves around allowing right-wing thugs to direct its Cuban policies from 1898 {The Spanish-American War} till today {mid-way of the Trump presidency}. And today that shame reaches a new height when extreme right-wing war-monger John Bolton, speaking in Miami on behalf of President Donald Trump, elevates America's right-wing gutless extremism even beyond 1898's Remember-the-Maine criminality, the 1903 theft of Guantanamo Bay, the 1952 nexus with the Mafia in the wholesale rape and robbery of Cuba, the mid-April of 1961 gutless and humiliating Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba, the 1962 Embargo that still reigns as the longest and cruelest in world history, and the 1996-till-today Helms-Burton Act that was entirely written by Cuban exile extremists led by Jorge Mas Canosa and Lincoln Diaz-Balart whose dad {before fleeing to Little Havana/Miami in 1959} was a key Minister in the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in CubaIf you question any of the foregoing I assume you are a propagandist for the Cuban-exile extremists in Little Havana/Miami that Bolton affectionately calls the "the Bay of Pigs survivors" -- the ones he joins in Little Havana today to promise them that the USA will return Cuba to them. Of course, THE BAY OF PIGS SURVIVORS were captured by Fidel Castro-led Cubans in April-1961 and THEN SOLD BACK TO THE U. S. FOR $53 MILLION, most of which was in the form of BAYER BABY ASPIRIN. And, of course, in April of 2019 very few of those BAY OF PIGS SURVIVORS are still living, but Bolton at Trump's behest today in Little Havana will insist that the USA IS WILLING TO HARM AND MOCK THE REST OF THE WORLD in order to revenge/avenge the cowardly and ill-planned BAY OF PIGS/CIA/USA DEFEAT IN APRIL-1961.
    Actually, this initial Life Magazine recap of the Bay of Pigs attack was euphemistically slanted toward the exiles and the CIA. President Kennedy, who had inherited the Little Havana dominance of the USA's Cuban policies, did in fact order massive bombing of all three Cuban airfields but with planes disguised as Cuban planes. Life's depiction as "humiliating the US" was correct in April of 1961 and it is still correct in April of 2019...even if the Cuban narrative in the U. S. since 1961 has been dictated from Little Havana in Miami, where the infamous anti-Cuban Counter Revolutionary John Bolton, speaking on behalf of the USA today, will promise "the Bay of Pigs survivors" {as he called them in his Tweet} that the U. S. will return Cuba to them.
      The USA's stupid and cruel Cuban policy is THE ONLY TOPIC THAT COULD GET THE U. S. or any other country CONDEMNED UNANIMOUSLY IN THE VERY DIVERSE UNITED NATIONS. But in 2016, with an ignominious unanimity that the then-decent President Obama agreed with, the USA's Cuban policy got America condemned 191-to-0 in the worldwide vote. As a Democracy-loving American, that embarrassed me but, obviously, the generations of Americans since the 1950s have simply not had enough Democracy-lovers. Since 1952, when right-wingers sicced the Mafia on Cuba, right-wing thugs in all six Republican administrations have been 100% aligned, not with the majority of Cuban-Americans, but with only a mere handful of extremist Cuban exiles. The latest Republican President, Trump...as shown in the photo above...QUICKLY lived up to that fact by going to Little Havana in Miami and, appearing before a huge BRIGADE ASSAULT 2506 BAY OF PIGS BANNER, he genuflected shamelessly before the Little Havana choir...THE VERY SAME THING THAT TRUMP'S MOST-FAMED WAR-MONGER JOHN BOLTON WILL DO TODAY.
    While Nixon as Vice-President in April of 1959 solely prevented Revolutionary Cuba and the USA from normalizing relations, and Reagan as President in the 1980's officially anointed only Cuban-exile extremists as the political power-brokers in Florida and Washington, it is the Bush dynasty, although never held accountable, that crowned Cuban-exile extremists as, essentially, a government within the bowels of the U. S. democracy. The mutually beneficial Bush nexus with Cuban-exiles actually began in the 1950s as revealed by declassified U. S. documents but reached alarming cresendoes by 1976, the only year George H. W. Bush was CIA Director, and then sharply accelerated during his 8 years as Reagan's Vice President. Then during George H. W. Bush's one presidential term and his son George W. Bush's two presidential terms, Cuban-exile extremists in Little Havana/Miami were in muddy HOG-heaven.
    In 1989 little Bush brother Jeb wanted to break into politics in a big way too and HE KNEW EXACTLY HOW TO DO IT. He moved to Miami and became Chairman of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's campaign to represent Little Havana in the U. S. Congress. As shown above, backed by the Bush political and economic machine, Ros-Lehtinen won her congressional seat in 1989 as Jeb Bush mimicked a halo on her head. From 1989 till she retired this year, 2019, the Havana-born Ros-Lehtinen was, along with the Diaz-Balart brothers and Marco Rubio, the most vicious anti-Cuban members of the U. S. Congress from Little Havana in Miami. Jeb Bush wisely chose her as his stepping-stone in 1989 because he knew she was the young shining light among the most extremist Counter Revolutionaries in Miami. When she retired after 3 decades in the U. S. Congress earlier this year, Ros-Lehtinen, of course, cashed in on her congressional experience by, typically, signing on with a powerful firm that deals with Latin American issues.
      Of course, the Bush dynasty has never had to apologize for dealing handsomely with the most extremist Cuban-exiles such as the infamous and self-proclaimed anti-Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch, shown above at a cozy dinner with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
     Very seldom, of course, has the Bush dynasty had to feel embarrassed about its dire connections with the most extremist Cuban-exiles. But, uh...on his way to his two-terms as Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush's fervent desire to totally appease the Counter Revolutionary extremists included...uh...asking his father, then President George H. W. Bush, to PARDON Orlando Bosch. Of course, uh...that's what happened. As you can see above, it took a very brave journalist to ask Jeb about his intimate ties to Orlando Bosch. Surprised by the journalistic audacity, Jeb's expression and, uh...reply...well, you know...!!!
     The all-time most famous Cuban-exile terrorist, of course, was Bosch associate and CIA-aligned Luis Posada Carriles. As the photo on the left shows, Posada in 1959 along with many other Counter Revolutionary zealots, was sent to the then-secretive Army School of the Americas at Fort Benning in Georgia, where he graduated as a 2nd Lt. Unknown to Americans, the "Army School" was where the U. S. trained soldiers from U.S.-friendly dictatorships...Batista in Cuba, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Somozo in Nicaragua, etc...and then sent them back to those dictatorships to make sure they survived as U.S.-friendly dictators. So, that's where the most extreme post-Batista exiles were sent, like Posada, to train for BRIGADE 2506 that supposedly would quickly recapture Cuba for the Miami-based Batistianos. It didn't work out that way but what the "Army School" did was to train Posada as a renowned explosives expert, which he famously put to maximum use for decades as an unapologetic anti-Cuban/USA terrorist.
    Of course, both Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles lived out long lives...in their 80s and 90s...as heralded Freedom Fighter Heroes in Miami.
      Another of the 2nd Lt./Brigade 2506 graduates at Fort Benning's Army School of the Americas was Jorge Mas Canosa.
     Later -- as shown above with George H. W. Bush -- Jorge Mas Canosa was essentially anointed by the Bush dynasty as the USA's Cuban-exile leader. With that anointment, Mas Canosa emerged as what amounted to a Cuban dictator on U. S. soil. On the way to becoming Miami's first Cuban billionaire, Canosa not only dominated Florida politically but easily also dominated all Republican presidents and even the U. S. Congress. For example, Canosa founded the Cuban American National Foundation after he was advised to study and then copy the ultra-powerful AIPAC Israeli lobby. With that uncontested power, Canosa quickly created the Radio-TV Marti anti-Cuba propaganda machine that, since the 1980's, has DAILY pumped an obscene amount of tax dollars into a gushing pipeline from Washington to Miami. But, in addition to the countless major institutions in Miami named for him, Canosa's most endearing fame relates to his being the prime architect of 1996's Helms-Burton Act, which remains to this day the primary tool for punishing Cubans on the island and, some brave souls say, the primary mechanism for continuing to enrich and empower the Little Havana section of Miami, Florida.
     Prior to Canosa's empowerment, in 1962...after the Bay of Pigs attack in April of 1961 had failed to recapture Cuba...the U. S. imposed the economic EMBARGO, or blockade as Cuba calls it, on the vulnerable island. The famous Carlos Latuff image above is how the world views the U. S. embargo of Cuba but IT HAS EXISTED TO APPEASE RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS from 1962 till today, the longest and cruelest BY FAR economic embargo ever imposed by a strong nation against a much-weaker nation in world history. Canosa in 1996 greatly stiffened the embargo, even putting in a clause that prevented Democratic presidents, like the decent Obama, from putting an end to it. The 1996 Batistiano Helms-Burton monstrosity even included a Title 3 element that called for the wholesale punishing and suing of foreign companies that did business with Cuba. But EVEN the two GEORGE W. BUSH presidential terms, which were 100% aligned with the Little Havana extremists, refused to enact TITLE THREE of the Batistiano Helms-Burton disaster because to do so would anger America's best friends and, HOLY COW, might even leave the USA liable to be sued BY CUBA in WORLD COURTS. BUT GUESS WHAT? Today -- Wednesday, April 17th, 2019 -- with extreme stupidity the Trump White House will announce that it is enacting Helms-Burton Title 3 as a last-ditch and final effort to starve Cuba.
     Over the past five decades, the Bush dynasty has, as shown above with President George W. Bush, cultivated a Who's Who of Counter Revolutionary zealots against Cuba. That, of course, includes Bush-trained John Bolton.
      And that brings us to today -- April 17, 2019 -- when John Bolton, speaking for the otherwise ensnared President Trump, is back in Little Havana to assure Miami's "Bay of Pigs veterans" that they have waited long enough...SIX DECADES...for the U. S. to recapture Cuba for them. And John Bolton TODAY very stupidly will announce, as a bonus for Little Havana, that the U. S. IS ENACTING TITLE 3 OF HELMS-BURTON.
     Born 45-years-old ago in Rome, Federica Mogherini is a very powerful and decent lady. For the past five years she has been the High Representative of the 28-nation European Union in charge of its Foreign Affairs. She has been to Cuba many times and she dearly loves the Cuban people. She has repeatedly called the U. S. embargo "exceptionally cruel and exceedingly illegal." Back on April 10th, when she first heard that the USA was about to enact Title 3 of Helms-Burton, Federica Mogherini fired off a scathing letter to U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, another of Trump's anti-Cuban zealots, and warned him that she, and the EU, will sue the U. S. in an International Courtroom IF Title 3 is enacted. Outside of Batistiano-friendly state and federal courtrooms in Miami, Federica Mogherini has long insisted that the USA could and should be held accountable for its Cuban policies.
     Another ultra-powerful and decent woman is Cecilia Malmstrom who has been the top European Union Trade Commissioner for the past five years. Cecilia Malmstrom, along with Federica Mogherini, co-signed that scathing April 10th letter to Secretary of State Pompeo. They did it ON BEHALF of innocent Cubans and ON BEHALF of European Union countries that might want to trade with Cuba.
     A typical young Cuban mother on the island, Daily Perez Guillen is also a well-educated journalist that is fully up-to-date on what John Bolton will say in Miami today. Daily, the mother of a young son and young daughter, is also well aware that cruel post-Obama sanctions added by the Trump administration have created a food shortage on the island, especially chicken and eggs. Her expression above reflects her sadness as well as her determination to "survive both Trump and the lack of concern from Americans to what, in their name, his White House is doing to precious Cuban children."
    Unlike the anti-Cuban Batistiano zealots who populate all Republican White Houses in Washington, Daily Perez Gullen, in the middle of the above photo, is deeply in tune with Cubans on the island...especially everyday Cubans who are parents and grandparents. "President Obama came over here," Daily said, "and he faithfully assured us that we had nothing 'to fear' from the United States. But we fear for our children whenever a Republican is the U. S. president. We believe that children in a sovereign nation should not be threatened by people in a stronger foreign nation."
    Yesterday -- April 16th on the eve of John Bolton's gutless speech today in Miami -- the Cuban mother Daily Perez Guillen posted on social media this photo of her two beloved and fiercely protected children peacefully feeding pigeons on a street in Havana. Daily believes that children who are so well protected in Cuba have the right to not be continually threatened by an unchecked handful of miscreants outside of Cuba, especially those hiding behind the skirts of a nearby Superpower. Below are two more photos that Daily Perez Guillen posted on social media yesterday. It was her way of trying to soothe the pain of what she knew would be John Bolton's speech today in Miami.
Cuban children yesterday.
Cuban children yesterday.
    Today in Miami John Bolton, speaking on behalf of President Donald Trump and 326 million Americans, will enact something...it's called Title 3 of Helms-Burton...that even the Bush dynasty refused to enact because it is considered by many decent people to be the STRONGEST EFFORT the United States has imposed since 1959 to threaten the children on the vulnerable island of Cuba. And perhaps the biggest shame of all is that, once again, the American people will be propagandized into accepting what John Bolton says today.
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