Will The USA Win?
{Updated: Friday, May 17th, 2019}
{Updated: Friday, May 17th, 2019}
Cuba's Minister of Commerce is Betsy Diaz. She has been tasked with trying to keep the Trump administration's activation of Helms-Burton Title 3 from causing starvation on her vulnerable island. She said this week, "President Obama, for the first time in six decades, gave our new generation of well-educated, talented young-adult entrepreneurs the chance to thrive...and they did, briefly. Then came the Trump term as President, the antithesis of Obama. Our adjustment is painful. The activation of Title 3 of Helms-Burton, we know, is meant to starve us and stop other nations that would be our trade partners from dealing with us. It might be called genocide but, for us, it is survival...life or death but not surrender."
Cuba's Commerce Minister Betsy Diaz, as shown above, appears on state television and radio to inform the Cuban people why Title 3-Helms-Burton has made it necessary for her to order rationing of important foods and health products. "I ask for calm," she said, "and for the understanding that I and others in government service are doing everything we can to ease the pain."
One of the food staples that Betsy Diaz has been forced to ration in Cuba are eggs. She said, "Since Title 3 added to the Helms-Burton assault on this island, we have produced or acquired about 900,000 fewer eggs than the 5.7 million eggs we need each month. Along with eggs, we are struggling to stock the needed amount of items such as rice, beans, chicken, and soap. When the American people, whom I consider mostly nice people, allow their government to treat foreign people, including children and the elderly, in this manner...well, it makes me wonder if their democracy is just a facade that mean people hide behind. To me, as I have learned from the generation that preceded mine, it reminds me of when the Mafia hid behind the facade of the U. S. democracy to rape and plunder Cuba prior to the Revolution's victory. We hoped for an American leader like Obama, and we were rewarded. But how can the next leader be permitted to turn all of that into ashes?" Her name is Betsy Diaz. Her title is Cuba's Minister of Commerce. She longs for the day Cuba can do commerce with its neighbor, the United States. Oddly, every U. S. farm organization and every U. S. port from the East Coast to Florida to New Orleans wants to do commerce with Cuba. Yet, a handful of unsavory creatures want to starve Cubans on the island, and it is those miscreants that hold the upper hand from the dark side of the U. S. democracy.
Canada's outraged Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland flew to Havana yesterday to discuss the Trump administration's activation of Title 3, the portion of the infamous 1996 Helms-Burton Act that called for the total starvation of Cubans on the island, the portion of Helms-Burton that NOT EVEN the George W. Bush presidency would activate because of its extreme genocidal cruelty. But to appease extreme Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress, Trump activated Title 3 last month, on April 17th. Along with starving Cubans, Title 3 punishes companies and countries that might do business with Cuba. Chrystia Freeland, as any leader of a sovereign nation would be, is upset that Canada and Canadian companies are being punished by Title 3. For example, the Montreal-based National Bank of Canada has a branch in Havana. And Canada's Sherritt International Corporation has major nickel, cobalt, and oil operations in Cuba. That's why Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland flew to Havana yesterday. She doesn't believe right-wing extremists in the Trump administration should be allowed to punish other nations and other companies in order to starve Cubans on the island to appease a few Cubans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress.
Former Florida governor {2007-2011} Charlie Crist now represents Florida in the U. S. Congress. Crist is shown above on his recent visit to Havana where he discussed Title 3 with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. Unlike Florida's two U. S. Senators Rubio and Scott, Crist is outraged that Title 3's activation hurts the majority of Cuban-Americans in Florida who adamantly do not want fellow Cubans in Cuba starved or harmed. Such Cuban-Americans in Florida, for example, yearly send several billion dollars worth of cash and goods to Cubans on the island. Of course, Title 3 sharply curtails that decency.
On April 17, 2019, it was U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who announced the activation of Helms-Burton Title 3. With a gutless lack of consideration for Cubans on the island, for most Cuban-Americans, and for Democracy, Pompeo's shameless announcement also added this totally gutless exact sentence: "Any person or company doing business in Cuba should heed this announcement." In other words, to totally starve innocent Cubans on the island, Pompeo warned that nations or companies that tried to prevent the starvation of Cubans would be punished by the Superpower United States of America.
And in other words, Pompeo and his henchmen in Miami and in Congress should be very proud of the above photo. The image is accurate and unstaged; the elderly Cuban women did not know they were being photographed. Because of Title 3, Cuba has been forced to ration products such as eggs, which are vital to normal Cuban diets. Cubans since 1959 have been famed for sacrificing whatever they have to help others. The lady on the left above was caught doing that: She was giving her last egg to her dear friend in the adjoining apartment. While I assume Mike Pompeo and a handful of dictatorial miscreants in Miami and Washington are very proud of this photo, I believe it should shame every decent Democracy-loving American and Cuban-American.
The Helms-Burton Act, written by lawyers working for extreme Counter Revolutionary Cubans such as Cuba-born Miami extremists Jorge Mas Canosa and Lincoln Diaz-Balart, was, in the minds and hearts of many decent people, a legal USA genocidal act against everyday Cubans on the island.
The Helms-Burton Act became law in 1996 when a very scared President Bill Clinton reluctantly signed it because, as I and many others believe, he was afraid of Cuban-American extremists in Miami and Newark. Indeed, earlier in 1996 President Clinton had indicated he was determined to normalize relations with Cuba. Study the photo above that depicts the day Clinton signed Helms-Burton into law. The obviously scared Clinton is glancing up at Newark's contribution to the U. S. Senate Bob Menendez and the man standing directly above Clinton's right shoulder is Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Menendez remains in the Senate to this day because in 2017, after a massively expensive investigation and trial in Newark in which the U. S. government charged him with multiple corruption charges related to Miami and the Dominican Republic, Menendez was spared prison time only by a hung-jury verdict, and then was, of course, re-elected again to represent New Jersey in the U. S. Senate to this very day. And what about Havana-born Lincoln Diaz-Balart, the Miami Congressman above Clinton's right-shoulder? Lincoln's father Rafael Diaz-Balart was a key Minister in Cuba's Batista dictatorship and then beginning in 1959 one of the all-time richest Counter Revolutionary zealots in Miami. Now today, of course, Lincoln's younger brother Mario represents Miami in the U. S. Congress. So, photos like the 1996 Helms-Burton signing above illustrate, I believe, the extreme grip that Miami and Newark have maintained over the United States democracy for all these decades since 1959.
The Batistiano-driven Helms-Burton Act also, I believe, graphically illustrates, defines, and codifies another huge weakness within the bowels of the U. S. democracy. As indicated by the graphic above, Jesse Helms and Dan Burton were the names forever etched to the infamous Helms-Burton Act. Whether it was uniting the U. S. government to the Mafia in supporting the brutal-thieving Batista dictatorship in Cuba in 1952 or conspiring with the Batistiano-Mafiosi exiles in Miami and Newark from 1959 till today, it has never been a problem for a handful of Counter Revolutionary U. S. Cubans to acquire the necessary assistance of right-wing politicians such as Congressmen Jesse Helms and Dan Burton who eagerly attached their names to the Helms-Burton Act.
And now in MAY OF 2019 this authentic, unstaged photo reminds Democracy-lovers that the U. S. DEMOCRACY, AFTER ALL THESE DECADES, is still not strong enough to prevent a mere handful of thugs from hiding behind the skirts of the Superpower U. S. government while {1} Trying to starve innocent people in a much-weaker nation; and {2} even punish America's best friends, like Canada, if they try to prevent such extreme cruelty. And through it all, I don't believe the thugs who benefit from such genocide are most to blame. I believe we, the majority of Americans and the majority of Cuban-Americans, are most to blame for allowing it to happen. AGAIN, as a Democracy-loving American, I ask you to study the poignant and authentic May-2019 photo above. Because of Title 3/Helms-Burton, the elderly Cuban lady on the left is passing her last egg to her next-door neighbor in a typically heroic and unselfish gesture. I truly wish that the last three generations of Cubans on their island had not and have not been forced to act so...unselfishly.
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