More USA Sanctions Daily!!
The U. S. Treasury remains in charge of directing the Trump administration's all-out effort to starve the Cuban government into total submission, once and for all. Today -- July 3rd, 2019 -- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin used valuable government time to continue leveling devastating sanctions against Cuba, again using the excuse that little Cuba is preventing the USA from executing its regime-change in Venezuela. Today Mnuchin sanctioned Cuba's oil company Cubametales for refining Venezuelan oil. Mnuchin said, "These new sanctions against Cuba will disrupt Maduro's attempts to use Venezuela's oil as a bargaining tool to help his supporters purchase protection from Cuba." Once again today, Mnuchin declared that Cuba is preventing the U. S. from installing Juan Guaido as Venezuela's president, replacing President Nicolas Maduro.
The Trump administration's extreme anti-Cuban war-mongers, led by National Security Adviser John Bolton, would prefer using the U. S. military to create their long-desired regime-change in Cuba. Meanwhile, as indicated by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's mammoth anti-Cuban news conference today, at the moment the Little Havana-directed Trump minions believe extreme economic sanctions will starve the Cuban people who will then overthrow their revolutionary government. Yet, continuing to fear a return of the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship of the 1950's, Cuba has somehow survived Little Havana's Batistiano exiles headquartered in Miami and totally entrenched in all Republican administrations since January of 1959 and in the U. S. Congress since the 1980's. Bolton's military factions are battling Mnuchin's starvation sanctions as the means to recapture Cuba while Trump remains the U. S. president.
While Bolton and Mnuchin haggle over who will lead the recapture of Cuba for Little Havana, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, who was born after the triumph of the revolution, is making economic changes trying to survive the Trump administration's starvation tactics. The photo above shows Diaz-Canel appearing on the island's important "Round Table" television program explaining his decision to sharply increase salaries for Cuban workers. It is also an attempt to ease the problems inherent in Cuba's frustrating dual-currency situation. For the last quarter century Cuba has used one peso worth about four cents and another worth nearly a dollar.
The extremely harsh sanctions employed by Trump against everyday Cubans have, to date, strengthened President Diaz-Canel's overall support across the island. As shown above on the "Round Table" television discussion, Diaz-Canel stays in close touch with the Cuban people via the Radio-TV media as well as Social Media forums such as Twitter. At this session, he said, "The salary increases are in effect now but similar measures to survive what Washington is doing to hurt us will be forthcoming. This is a first step. The tenets of the revolution against foreign domination must remain uppermost in our minds and hearts. This island deserves to be free to make its own decisions for its own people, even as Trump, Rubio, Bolton, and the Diaz-Balarts are making it a life-or-death struggle for us. We must make our own decisions and we must be the ones to correct mistakes we have made."
Well known as Cuba's former people-oriented Education Minister, Miguel Diaz-Canel remains popular with the Cuban people as the only non-revolutionary post-Castro leader of the Caribbean's largest and by far the world's most continuously targeted island. But he is a fierce defender of the Revolution's "principles of independence." His comment above says: "Nobody will achieve the purpose of weakening the revolution or crushing the Cuban people." But backing up that sentence may be a long-shot for President Diaz-Canel, who is well aware that, since 1959, Revolutionary Cuba has survived one long-shot after the other.
Since 1952 when the USA sicced the Mafia on Cuba, Cubans in Havana first and Cubans in Little Havana since 1952 have had an indelible and unholy grip on America's Republican Party. But of the seven Republican administrations since 1952, the current Trump administration is the only one that has been absolutely dictated to 100% by the likes of vicious and unchecked Cuban-Americans such as U. S. Senators Rubio and Menendez. Assuming Trump will not be re-elected for a second presidential term, Rubio and Menendez must feel that their window FOR RECAPTURING Cuba has dwindled down to about 18 more months. But there remain on the island millions of Cubans who equate a possible dominance by the likes of Rubio and Menendez with the dominance Cuba experienced from 1952 till 1959 by Batista and Luciano. In other words, if Cuba loses its war with Trump, it will likely spawn another emphatic Cuban Revolution immediately.
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