But Still Predicated On Venezuela!!
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| Photo credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images.
The photo above was used to illustrate a new and interesting NBC News article written by Carmen Sesin. It is entitled: "Are U.S., Russia, and Cuba Going to Work to Break the Impasse in Venezuela." The key sentence said that the U. S. was "not adverse to opening conversations with countries that are allied with Maduro." Since January the U.S.'s plan to finally effectuate a regime-change in Cuba has used the critical situation in Venezuela as the pretext for gifting Senator Marco Rubio and a handful of other Little Havana zealots in Miami with the recapture of Cuba. The NBC News update above, which you can readily dial up online, touches on that basic fact by quoting two pertinent Tweets from President Trump after the anticipated regime-change in Venezuela failed to materialize last week. Those two Trump Tweets were directed at Cuba although Russia and China, the BIG BOYS, have far more military and thus much more Venezuelan influence than Cuba has. Trump said about Cuba: "The U. S. will impose the highest level sanctions if they {Cuba} do no immediately cease military and other operations in Venezuela. With the right moves, Cuba could do very well. We could open it up but we're going to end up closing it up if they don't get out of Venezuela." Trump has already allowed Rubio to activate Title 3 of Helms-Burton, a starvation tactic that even the George W. Bush presidency refused to enforce. The rest of Trump's Tweet above surprised NBC News because it seemed to offer the first and only carrot to Cuba since the Republicans took over the White House from the decent Democratic president Barack Obama. But it wasn't a carrot; it was a pragmatic hint.
The image above of President Trump using his tie to surround Cuba is both wicked and cruel, but it is nothing new. Since the Spanish-American War in Cuba in 1898...since the imperialist USA stole Guantanamo Bay from Cuba in 1903...since the U. S. sicced the Mafia on Cuba in 1952...and since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 chased the Batista-Mafia leaders to their safe and even more lucrative havens in Miami {Little Havana} and Newark, the USA's Cuban policies have insulted both America and Democracy. In 2016, the last year of the decent {and brave} Democratic Obama administration, the UN, with President Obama's concurrence, voted 191-to-0 to condemn the USA's Batistiano/Mafiosi-directed Cuban policies, namely the economic embargo that since 1962 has been designed to starve Cubans on the island into submission or to induce them to overthrow their government in favor of Little Havana. Unfortunately, the flagrant unanimity of that USA condemnation didn't embarrass enough democracy-lovers in this generation of Americans...and, of course, as the world's economic and military Superpower, the U. S. government simply doesn't have to worry about how the rest of the world feels about its shameful Cuban policies. The controversial Trump is fully aware of those facts and realities. Thus, a handful of the most extremist Little Havana zealots, including the few remaining losers from the 1961 Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba, remain convinced that Trump, after all these decades, is about to recapture Cuba for them.
This past Sunday on Face the Nation Secretary of State Mike Pompeo surprised Cuban watchers when he said: "We're working with with the Cubans to try to get an outcome that will let the Venezuelans have this opportunity," meaning for a better life. An amazing sentence. Whether it's North Korea, Saudi Arabia or any other questionable nation, Republicans are not just willing but anxious to talk but only a Democrat like Obama had the decency and guts to talk to key Cubans such as Josefina Vidal, who is now the outspoken Cuban Ambassador to Canada. In Congress, atop the CIA, and now as Secretary of State...all his adult life Pompeo has wanted a regime-change in Cuba, meaning U.S.-friendly or U.S. domination again. That apparently is why Little Havana U. S. Senator Marco Rubio, who is Trump's Cuban dictator, got Pompeo his powerful job as Secretary of State. Pompeo, however, is not as extreme in his hatred of Revolutionary Cuba as three other ultra-powerful positions Rubio has secured for John Bolton, National Security Adviser; Elliott Abrams, Special Envoy to Venezuela; and Mauricio Claver-Carone, the State Department's Western Hemisphere chief. But that doesn't mean Pompeo is not an extremist in advocating for a U. S. takeover of Cuba.
So, I believe that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was just blowing smoke...obfuscating? lying? stalling for time?...when he flatly stated on Face the Nation Sunday that he or at least some key person in his department is "talking with the Cubans." No one in the Trump administration has talked with Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel, nor have they talked with Cuba's two Ministers in charge of all U. S. Affairs -- Carlos De Cossio and Johana Tablada. Rubio has made sure that key Trump people talk ONLY to Cuban dissidents while the Trump minions direct money to dissidents but try to cut off every other dime or peso to a Cuban government that guarantees food, shelter, free health care for life, and free education through the university level for all Cubans. Regardless of what propaganda Rubio mouthpieces such as Pompeo spout off about Cuba, Pompeo's State Department should be considered cruel and gutless by activating Title 3 of Helms-Burton, something that even the Batistiano-Aligned George W. Bush presidency refused to do. If the Face the Nation moderators and all the other network "news" programs in America don't have the guts or decency to quiz Pompeo and the other Rubio mouthpieces about such things as Title 3, whatever else Pompeo and his ilk say about Cuba can rightfully be trashed as self-serving lies, or maybe this past Sunday...just stalling for time while the Venezuelan diaspora plays out. At the moment, Pompeo's State Department seems mainly concerned with trying to get Russia's and China's approval for the regime-change in Venezuela that will set the stages for the prime regime-change in Cuba as well as a third one in Nicaragua. To get Russia and China to ease off in Venezuela, it appears to be Pompeo's new strategy of promising Russia and China that once Maduro is gone all three world powers can share Venezuela's oil reserves, which are the most in the world. At the moment, both Russia and China are concerned with the billions of dollars they have lent or invested in Venezuela, and Pompeo is trying to address that. But has Pompeo or his people talked to Cuba as he indicated on Face the Nation Sunday?? HELL NO, because Little Havana will only let Republicans talk to Cuban dissidents.
Of course, JOHN BOLTON as Trump's National Security Adviser, is clearly the biggest threat to Cuba and regional stability among the mouthpieces that Rubio has positioned atop the current administration to recapture Cuba. A key Washington media source -- The Hill -- got that right with the war-mongering-monsters illustration shown above. It reads: "Monsters eating Monsters. I ate John Bolton. I NOW ITCHING FOR A FIGHT." All his adult life John Bolton has been itching to recapture Cuba. In 2002 he began pestering President George W. Bush about make-believe chemical warfare in Cuba being a dire threat to the USA, believing it would induce Bush to wipe out Cuba. But now...as Trump's and Rubio's National Security Adviser...it appears that whatever John Bolton cooks up will suffice as the pretext...the excuse...for military-induced regime-change in Cuba.
And, of course, John Bolton's pretext for recapturing Cuba is VENEZUELA!! All of Rubio's mouthpieces, including Bolton, preach that little Cuba has 20,000 soldiers in Venezuela supporting President Nicolas Maduro and keeping the U.S. choice as Venezuela's President, Juan Guaido, from taking over. Of course, Bolton really means the Russian and Chinese presence has kept Maduro in office since January when it appeared Guaido was surely about to take over. Meanwhile, Bolton's well-earned reputation as a war-monger relates to small, supposedly helpless nations -- like Cuba and certainly not like Big Boys such as Russia and China. As indicated by the photo above, John Bolton has insulted America and America's best friends -- including Canada and the EU nations -- by displaying and bragging about the Trump's administration's eagerness to represent BRIGADA ASALTO 2506 in recapturing Cuba. BRIGADA ASALTO 2506 was the attack force that unceremoniously and emphatically lost in the long-ago Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba in April of 1961. Yet, to this day 2506 in the heart of Miami's Little Havana maintains an iron-grip on every Republican administration in Washington.
Every Rubio mouthpiece, especially Secretary of State Pompeo and National Security Adviser Bolton, preach that Cuba has 22,000 soldiers in Venezuela keeping Maduro in power. Cuba says it has no soldiers in Venezuela but it does have doctors, nurses, and teachers...such as the ones shown above...doing yeoman's work in the poorest areas of Venezuela. There are international news agencies in Venezuela that are well aware of those Cuban doctors, nurses, and teachers...but those journalists haven't confirmed Cuban soldiers but have confirmed some Russian and Chinese military operatives in Venezuela. Yet, Rubio's operatives believe Americans have been programmed to believe anything the USA says about Cuba and disbelieve anything Cuba says about Cuba. For example, while the Bay of Pigs attack was underway in April of 1961, Cuba said the island was being attacked by U. S. warplanes but the U. S. told the world at the UN that Cubans flying Cuban planes were attacking Cuba. It, of course, turned out shortly that the attacking U. S. planes were falsely disguised as Cuban planes.
Since January of 1959 a mere handful of the most radical Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami and in Newark...and in the U. S. Congress as well as all Republican White Houses...have totally dictated America's Cuban policies, reshaping the U. S. democracy. For example, study the image above. Most Cuban-Americans favor decent and normal relations with Cuba...and express themselves in organizations such as Cuban Americans for Engagement. Yet, a mere handful of Cubans in Little Havana and in the other prime sanctuary of Newark have, since 1959, dictated the USA's Cuban policies of revenge as well as lush economic and political rewards for a select few. Another example with another Republican in the White House: Little Havana and the Trump White just restricted the amont of money or goods Cuban-Americans can send to relatives in Cuba, an extremely cruel and gutless act considering the other additional sanctions added by the Trump minions. Only in a badly frayed democracy could a handful of spiteful Cubans continue to do such things to the majority of decent Cuban-Americans...and that includes the good people involved with Cuban Americans for Engagement.
From Little Havana in Miami, Marco Rubio, and from Newark, Bob Menendez, are not only Cuban-American extremists in the U. S. Senate but they can easily dictate the harshest treatment of Cubans on the island as well as lush financial or political rewards for their favorite supporters. For example, Rubio...as Trump's Cuban dictator...just rewarded his old Little Havana mentor, a former Counter Revolutionary Mayor of Miami, as the new head of the famed Cuban-American Gold Mine known since the 1980's as Radio-TV Marti, which is purely a lush anti-Cuban propaganda machine in Miami lavishly funded by tax dollars.
When a mere handful of only the most extremists and most self-serving Cuban-Americans...such as Rubio and Menendez...can dictate America's Cuba's policies that the whole world {and the decent President Obama} condemned 191-to-0, then it it perhaps time for both the mainstream U. S. media and the American people to do their democratic jobs and tell the truth while also trying to REINVIGORATE what once was BY FAR the greatest government on the face of the earth.
There are in the USA today a plethora of organizations such as Cuba/US: PEOPLE TO PEOPLE PARTNERSHIP peopled by decent Americans and decent Cuban-Americans. They fully understand and intently promote decent people-to-people relations between Americans and Cubans on the island. That, of course, would benefit both nations. But as things now stand, and have stood for six decades and counting, the USA's Cuban policy is meant to sate the revenge of a handful of Cubans in Little Havana and Newark while also, most importantly, drastically enriching and empowering a self-serving minority of Cuban-Americans such as Rubio and Menendez.
These two little Cuban girls are not enemies of America. Their mothers on the island work tirelessly to take care of them, and those mothers, despite what Americans are told, are supported in that endeavor by the Cuban government that the USA has tried to strangle every day since January 1, 1959. Yet, the World Superpower, for some reason, hasn't been able to finish off the strangulation of the vulnerable island. Tomorrow in the next edition of Cubaninsider I'll explain why that is so.
AND BY THE WAY:
The feisty Lisa Hanna, the former Miss Jamaica, is now a member of Parliament and the Jamaica Observer reports she just gave her fellow politicians a verbal scolding for "turning your backs on friends who supported us when we were in need." She was chastising Jamaica for running scared against U. S. financial pressure in refusing to support Venezuela and Cuba. She said, "At the UN we were MIA when needed for a principled vote."
In the Jamaican Parliament, Lisa Hanna was criticized for wearing this nice dress. The criticism made a big headline in Jamaica but her feisty retort to the misogynists made much BIGGER headlines.
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