U. S. Citizens Afraid To Object!?
Born in Miami 53 years ago, Kathy Castor has represented Tampa/St. Petersburg in the U. S. Congress since 2007, a total of 7 elected terms. All that time she has fought valiantly to bring sanity and decency to America's Cuban policies...on behalf of American and Cuban-American constituents and on behalf of totally innocent families on the island. Outraged that Donald Trump, even more than previous Republican presidents, has turned over Cuban policies to only the most-vicious Counter-Revolutionaries in Miami and in Congress, Kathy Castor this week said that Trump's recent activation of Helms Burton-Title 3 is "particularly cruel treatment of everyday Cuban families on the island."
To illustrate how decent and how brave Miami-born Congresswoman Kathy Castor is, you won't see her on mainstream media outlets in the USA because they, unlike her, are direly afraid of the vehement Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress. Shamefully, that includes CNN, NBC, and MSNBC -- extreme and wealthy so-called mainstream left-wing "news" operations that spend most of their time and resources trying desperately to end the Trump presidency. So, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, etc., will liberally quote vicious Counter Revolutionary Miami Cubans in Congress, such as Marco Rubio and Mario Diaz-Balart, but they are simply too gutless to expose the sane and decent Cuban views of a brilliant and decent Congresswoman like Kathy Castor.
While CNN, NBC, and MSNBC frantically search for anything under the sun or moon to discredit President Trump, and then POUND AWAY ON IT 24-hours-a-day, they are too afraid to report on Trump's most egregious action during his almost three-years in the White House -- and every journalist in Washington knows what that is: Activating Title 3 of Helms-Burton, which is so genocidal for Cubans on the island and so lucrative for Cubans in Miami that not even President George W. Bush would activate it. In other words, as much as I hate Trump's genocidal Cuban policy, which he assumes will award him Florida's vital 29 Electoral Votes to help re-elect him, I actually believe the extreme left-wing tilt of the mainstream U. S. media is more of a threat to the U. S. democracy than Trump is, because the Trump-era will pass and I'm not sure the extremely wealthy left-wing or right-wing elements can be so easily cut from the bowels of the troubled U. S. government. Meanwhile, as decent democracy-lovers like Congresswoman Kathy Castor well know, totally innocent Cuban families on the island are being subjected to genocide {"legally" because of Title 3-Helms-Burton} from the nearby superpower United States...and it's being done with the silent and gutless consent of the mainstream U. S. media and America's long-programmed and intimidated citizens. Meanwhile, of course, Title 3/Helms-Burton since June 4-2019 has also greatly and grossly enriched, via one-sided court decisions and threats, Miami's Counter Revolutionary zealots who, in return, are supposed to deliver Florida's 29 Electoral Votes to Trump in 2020.
Trump's U. S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is charged with carrying out much of Helms-Burton/Title 3's genocide against Cuban families that Congresswoman Kathy Castor and countless other democracy-lovers call "particularly cruel" even as compared to previous Batistiano-Little Havana aligned Republican presidents. The incomparable economic influence the U. S. has worldwide can pay-off and reward friendly nations while starving and eviscerating other nations refusing to relinquish their sovereignty and hard-won independence. The longest and cruelest economic embargo/blockade ever in history imposed by a powerful nation against a much-weaker nation is the U. S. embargo/blockade against Cuba since 1962. All Republican administrations since then have allowed Miami Counter Revolutionaries to dictate that embargo/blockade, but ONLY TRUMP activated the genocidal terms of Helms-Burton/Title 3. This past Friday -- Sept. 6, 2019 -- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had the "honor" of holding a news conference to announce additional Title 3/Helms-Burton genocidal assaults on Cuban families on the island. Americans are the only people in the world without the freedom to freely visit nearby Cuba, which in 2019 was named "the safest nation in the world for tourists to visit" by the Madrid Tourism Fair that advises nations on such things. Also, Mnuchin a few days ago greatly reduced remittances that Cuban-Americans can send to relatives on the island, infringing on their freedoms merely to appease a handful of rich Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans that Trump feels he needs if he is to be re-elected in 2020.
When Trump's Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin stands at the podium to make another "WHITE HOUSE BRIEFING" about the latest tormenting of Cuban families on the island, often standing VERY OMINOUSLY beside him, with yellow pad and pencil handy, is Trump's National Security Advisor who happens to be the very scary John Bolton. Washington has never had such an infamous war-monger as Bolton in such a uniquely powerful position, and his long-standing hatred of Revolutionary Cuba is legendary. Back in the George W. Bush presidency, for example, Bolton famously concocted wild excuses trying to persuade President Bush to execute a regime-change in Cuba. Apparently in President Trump, Bolton believes he finally has THE PRESIDENT-COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF to fulfill his Cuban dreams. Meanwhile, President Trump does not allow anyone with decent or moderate Cuban views anywhere near the White House. Meanwhile, Trump minions such as Bolton and Mnuchin are the ones who get to hold "WHITE HOUSE BRIEFINGS" to announce America's latest Helms-Burton/Title 3 genocide against Cuban families on the island.
Every regular journalist covering Washington politics is well aware that two self-serving members of the U. S. Congress from Little Havana in Miami -- Mario Diaz-Balart and Marco Rubio are the prime architects of President Trump's genocidal Cuban policies. While that is true and well known, few Washington journalists have the courage to admit it. Diaz-Balart is the son of a former key Minister in Cuba's Batista's dictatorship who fled to Miami in 1959 and had the money and power to create The White Rose, the first Counter Revolutionary paramilitary group in South Florida. And Rubio is every bit as fierce as South Florida's thriving Diaz-Balart brothers {4}, with Rubio known to have stacked Trump's most powerful Foreign Policy operatives -- John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, Steven Mnuchin, Mauricio Claver-Carone, etc. -- because of their well-known Counter Revolutionary zealotry.
Lost in the U.S.-Cuban equation, of course, is the sheer fact that, since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, the Cuban narrative in the United States has been largely dictated by remnants of the ousted Batista-Mafia DICTATORSHIP that robbed Cuba blind and brutalized everyday Cubans from 1952 till 1959. The top echelon of the Mafia -- as shown above with Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Lansky's dear friend Fulgencio Batista -- were supported by the superpower United States because they allowed rich U. S. businessmen to also partake in the wholesale fleecing of the island...at least until the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by chasing them off the island, all the way back to Miami as it turned out.
With Little Havana/Miami dictating most of America's Cuban narrative and most of America's Cuban policies since 1959, Americans today are supposed to be too ignorant or too afraid to ask, "Into a 7th decade, how much longer will The Miami Cuban Mafia be permitted to dictate Batista-like narratives and policies designed to make themselves rich and powerful while also continuing to commit what many consider to be genocide against innocent Cuban families on the island? When and if normal American citizens, or the mainstream media, are brave enough to merely ask such a question, I believe Democracy-lovers will have a right to feel much better about the great experiment in DEMOCRACY that was bequeathed to us by the Founding Fathers.
But for generations now, Americans have been programmed not to be embarrassed by this greedy red-eyed, claw-fingered international image of the United States related to the nearby island of Cuba.
But for sure that image of Cuban-obsessed America embarrasses democracy-loving Americans like Kathy Castor. Born in Miami, Kathy Castro has been elected 7 times to represent the Tampa area in the U. S. Congress. In the above photo she is shown departing Air Force One but still trying to influence Democratic President Barack Obama, who indeed tried his best to normalize relations with Cuba...only to have Republican President Trump turn that decency asunder.
When President Trump, to appease Little Havana zealots in Miami, began pointing to career Counter Revolutionary zealots like Mauricio Claver-Carone, it was up to the U. S. democracy to be strong enough to do something or at least SAY something about it. And...it hasn't been able to do that.
Miami-born United States Congresswoman Kathy Castor is well-versed in the cruelty of all Republican administrations since the 1950s towards families in Cuba. And, yes, Kathy Castor has been elected 7 times to represent Americans and Cuban-Americans in the Tampa area in the U. S. Congress. She recently said that the Trump administration is "particularly cruel" regarding totally innocent Cuban families on the island. I believe the mainstream U. S. media should have the guts to quote Kathy Castor as a true and decent expert on U.S.-Cuban relations because the mainstream U. S. media shamefully allows Trump's Counter Revolutionary zealots to defame and even commit genocide against Cuban families on the island. When it comes to decency, Kathy Castor vs. the likes of Mauricio Claver-Carone is a no-brainer.
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