War Clouds Over Cuba

John Bolton Is Very Serious!!
{UPDATED: Friday, August 9th, 2019}

    For years, Citgo Gas Stations, owned by the Venezuelan government's PDVSA, have been ubiquitous in the United States. They still are but things have changed as the United States is intent on ousting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in favor of the U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido. The USA, with omnipotent economic and military influence worldwide, has turned Citgo over to...you guessed it!!...Juan Guaido. Therefore, Citgo will not be subject to the massive United States sanctions imposed on just about every other enterprise tied to the current Maduro government!!

     Every opposition leader throughout Latin America, like Juan Guaido in Venezuela, knows precisely what to do if a Republican president like the current Donald Trump happens to be in the White House. As shown above, you get on your phone and don't call Trump. You call Little Havana's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio because Little Havana/Miami is considered the OPPOSITION CAPITAL of Latin America and because Little Havana in Miami has an IRON GRIP around the necks of all Republican presidents.

        And, of course, Marco Rubio will eagerly answer every call from any Latin American opposition leader, such as Juan Guaido, that reportedly will promise: {1} That once in power he will help Rubio recapture Cuba for Little Havana; and {2} in return, Rubio promises the opposition leader the full support of the Superpower United States. Of course, in America's frayed two-party political system, such phone calls prevail ONLY during Republican administrations when renowned war-mongers like John Bolton reclaim enormous power.

     This photo is courtesy of Reuters/Guadalupe Pardo. It shows President Donald Trump's National Security Adviser John Bolton this week -- August 6th, 2019 -- in Lima, Peru. Bolton announced a new round of U. S. sanctions that he said will finalize the economic ruin of the "rogue nation" of Venezuela. He called them "new, maximum sanctions" tightening restrictions on Venezuela's trade with other nations and further freezing all of the country's public assets. Since January, Trump and Bolton have expected to replace besieged Cuba-friendly Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with the U.S.-friendly Juan Guaido. Many believe that Bolton's personal obsession with Venezuela derives from his long-held obsession of executing a regime-change in Cuba. In Lima this week, Bolton said, "The United States is acting assertively to cut off Maduro financially, and accelerate a peaceful democratic transition." He warned other nations not to "double down on a bad bet" and this time he singled out Russia by name. Earlier, Bolton had blamed little Cuba for keeping Maduro in power.

      Photos like the one above are reminders of why another Republican administration in Washington now has trouble even using the USA's incomparable economic and military power & influence to exact modern-day regime-changes in Latin America. Beginning in 1952 with Batista and the Mafia in Cuba, and shortly thereafter the brutal regime change in El Salvador, Republican administrations started aligning the U. S. with brutal Latin American dictators {Batista, Trujillo, Somoso, Videla, etc.}, and this continued deep into the 1970s when the Democratically elected Salvador Allende in Chile was killed in a U.S.-backed coup that put the murderous but U.S.-friendly dictator General Pinochet in charge of Chile for 17 bloody years. Many of the anti-Cuban war-mongers from the Bush dynasty have resurfaced in the current Trump administration -- such as John Bolton and Elliott Abrams, both of whom are remembered with fear throughout Latin America to this day. The photo above shows President George W. Bush when he empowered Bolton. By 2002-2003, Bolton was famous for concocting wild excuses trying to persuade Bush to recapture Cuba. As it turned out, Bush refused to go to the extremes requested by Bolton, but it appears that Bolton believes President Trump will do so...as soon as Venezuela, Cuba's close ally, has its regime-change.

   Once he became National Security Adviser, John Bolton quickly went to Little Havana in Miami and promised the few remaining survivors of the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba that their ignominious defeat way back in April of 1961 would be avenged with the regime-change they have longed for courtesy of the Trump administration. Bolton, as shown above, made that prediction...promise...standing before a huge Brigade 2506 Bay of Pigs Assault Flag.

MEANWHILE:

      Also this week -- August 6th, 2019 -- Cuba surprisingly announced that it "will fight" in a U. S. courtroom and elsewhere against a lawsuit by oil giant ExxonMobil, which was one of the many U. S. corporations that thrived in Cuba before the Cuban Revolution overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in January of 1959. Cuba has never contested lawsuits in the U. S. that made millionaires or billionaires out of a lot of Cuban-American lawyers and Counter Revolutionaries, and to do so against ExxonMobil is unusual, to say the least. After all, ExxonMobil can afford an army of high-priced lawyers that Cuba can't afford...and ExxonMobil will have the huge home-court advantage as well as the backing of the world superpower, the United States.

     Since 1996 the Helms-Burton Act has legalized in the United States genocidal sanctions and assaults against Cubans on the island while paving the way for vast amounts of unchecked tax dollars to enrich and empower Counter Revolutionary Cuban exiles. Helms-Burton since 1996 greatly expanded on the debilitating U. S. embargo against Cuba that has existed since 1962. Every politician in Washington is aware that Helms-Burton was craftily written by expensive lawyers working for the most vehement Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami, such as future billionaire Jorge Mas Canosa and then Havana-born congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, whose father Rafael Diaz-Balart was a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship. Today Lincoln's brother Mario Diaz-Balart is in the 535-member U. S. Congress from Miami and he can easily keep Helms-Burton alive and legal along with other congressional Cuban extremists such as Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez. So, in August of 2019 the genocidal skull and X, as shown above attached to Helms-Burton, is STILL alive and well...and both cruel and lucrative.

     Prior to Trump, all U. S. Presidents...even including George W. Bush...had SUSPENDED Title III of Helms-Burton because it entails extreme cruelty against innocent Cubans on the island and because it punishes and angers nations, including U. S. allies, that might want the freedom to trade with Cuba. But back on June 4th, 2019, the Trump administration activated Title III of Helms-Burton. While Title III indeed is severely hurting innocent Cubans on the island, it is also serving its main PURPOSE, which is to further enrich and empower an already select group of rich and powerful Cuban-Americans and, of course, their lawyers.

       National Security Adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, both renowned anti-Cuban zealots, make most of the announcements about anti-Cuban sanctions and anti-Cuban war-mongering.

      In August of 2019, with President Trump embroiled in a bevy of other domestic and foreign problems, John Bolton nevertheless believes he has the full authority from Trump to execute Bolton's long-desired regime-change in Cuba.

      And, therefore, in August of 2019, the most famed war-monger in Washington, John Bolton, believes he finally has the hammer...and the bombs if needed...to drive the nails in Revolutionary Cuba's coffin. For sure, it appears that neither the mainstream U. S. media nor 325 million Americans have the guts to challenge him.

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