Prior To The War!
When U. S. President Barack Obama bravely put U.S.-Cuban relations on a sane and mutually beneficial plateau, Johana Tablada was Cuba's highly respected Ambassador to Portugal. But when Donald Trump, quite surprisingly, became the latest Republican U. S. President, Johana and her two young children returned to Cuba because, as an expert on U.S.-Cuban relations, she was needed as the Deputy Minister of U. S. Affairs.
The above Tweet was posted a few hours ago by CNN's Patrick Oppmann. It shows Johana Tablada at a news conference May 1st, 2019, in Havana. As Oppmann pointed out {and he seemed to agree with her} Johana Tablada was providing Cuba's view regarding the prime pretext that RUBIO/BOLTON/POMPEO/CLAVER-CARONE, Trump's four prime war-mongers targeting Cuba, are using to justify their impending regime-change on the island. Rubio and his three main puppets repeatedly say that 20,000 Cuban soldiers in Venezuela are the only thing keeping harried President Maduro in power. As you can see above, Johana Tablada said, "There are no Cuban troops in Venezuela." Her position is this: "Rubio and his people in Miami, Newark, and Congress claim that if we don't remove our 20,000 troops in Venezuela that we will be wiped out. Rubio knows we can't do that because we have no troops in Venezuela, yet he believes that excuse will convince Trump to attack us. I see that news agencies say that Russia and China have troops and weapons in Venezuela but they are nuclear superpowers and Rubio is afraid of them. But we are small and poor so he thinks Cuba will be easy pickings and Trump is the President that will finally let his Miami friends recapture our cherished island."
Cubans on the island, including Johana Tablada, believe that the Rubio-directed Trump administration will attack their vulnerable island as soon as the denouement in Venezuela plays out: you know, the dire threat of a Latin American War that could involve the world's three top nuclear Superpowers -- the USA, Russia, and China. But, of course, Rubio claims it will mostly involve Cuba's 20,000 phantom soldiers. Through it all, Johana Tablada and the adult Cubans on the island appear quite stoic. "We have to be, for the sake of the children. We are not going anywhere. How does the song go -- 'Whatever will be...will be'"
The May Day photo above on May 1-2019 shows Cubans overflowing the Plaza of the Revolution in Havana. Johana Tablada posted it on her social media pages. She knows that Rubio may now have "the right President to finally destroy our Revolution. But if so, those of us still standing will start another one."
Meanwhile, in the USA the conservative/right-wing media is ready to lavishly hail Marco Rubio when he recaptures Cuba...and the mainstream USA media is too afraid not to hail him. In the image above the Fox-10 television station in Miami as well as the Fox News Network was showing Rubio's WE WILL RECAPTURE CUBA speech at Little Havana's "Manuel Artime Theater" that was named for one of the leaders of the April-1961 BAY OF PIGS military attack on Cuba. That, of course, turned out to be a massive humiliation for the attackers, the United States, and for Democracy. But in the spring of 2019 Rubio has all the cards in his favor -- Trump, the world's strongest military, the world's largest Treasury, a supportive or intimidated U. S. media, and a U. S. population programmed since 1959 to believe that all the good Cubans are in the USA and all the bad Cubans are on the island.
Americans just got through paying millions of dollars for a 2-year investigation to determine if Donald Trump's election as President was because of his collusion with Russia. Perhaps the more interesting investigation would concern Trump's collusion with Cuban extremists in Miami's Little Havana. During the 2016 presidential campaign Trump and Marco Rubio hated and mocked each other...with Trump labeling Rubio "Little Marco" as DONALD JR. mocked with the above graphic. But then, as President, Trump anointed Little Marco as THE CUBAN DICTATOR ON U. S. SOIL, a coveted Florida prize both economically and politically because members of the U. S. Congress from Little Havana can ROUTINELY gush massive pipelines of tax dollars from Washington to Miami...and for a myriad of excuses such as the wildly lucrative anti-Cuba propaganda machine known as Radio-TV Marti.
So why, as President, did Trump quickly make Little Marco into BIG Man Rubio? Sure, all Republican presidents capitulate to Little Havana because of Florida's often decisive electoral votes. But Trump making Rubio a BIG MAN seems to have a more diabolical twist, such as...MAYBE??...a tip Rubio got that ties Trump to something a lot more damning than Trump's alleged Russian ties????
People who know Pinocchio Rubio the best don't believe a word Rubio says about Cuba...or even about himself. The Pinocchio image above, for example, is from Alvaro Fernandez's Progreso Weekly published in Rubio's hometown of Miami. Rubio made it all the way to the U. S. Senate from Little Havana still claiming his parents escaped the tyranny of Castro's Cuba for the freedom of Miami. But then Progreso Weekly, the Miami New Times, etc., pointed out that Rubio's parents escaped Batista's Cuba long before Castro chased the Batistianos to Miami. Likewise, anyone who believes anything Rubio says about Cuba is probably an idiot or someone too afraid to question it.
And that brings me back around to Johana Tablada, Cuba's Ambassador to Portugal who was summoned back to Havana as the island's USA expert when Donald Trump became the latest and most surprising Republican to take over the USA White House. Johana, to my knowledge, has never been accused of having a Pinocchio nose.
And this week, as Tweeted above by CNN's Patrick Oppmann in Havana, Johana Tablada says: "There are no Cuban troops in Venezuela. Doctors, nurses, teachers...yes. Troops...no."
Decade after decade since the 1950s, poor little Cuba has astounded the world by essentially holding its own in its tussles with the rich and mighty USA. But I believe at long last, in this 3rd year of Trump's first presidential term, the island is destined to finally lose to the nearby Superpower. But that is likely to ignite another Revolution, and one that might pugnaciously linger until...and IF...all the Cubans on the island, like Johana Tablada, are finally eviscerated...for once and for all.
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