USA's Cuban Dissidents

Cuba Lashes Out Hard!!

            Based in Havana, Michael Weissenstein is the Associated Press's Caribbean News Director. His latest article is entitled: "CUBA ACCUSES US DIPLOMAT OF SUPPORTING ILLEGL ACTIONS." Weissenstein wrote:

       "The accusations against charge d'affaires Mara Tekach was a break from Cuba's normal language, which had remained measured despite an escalating Trump administration campaign to cut off revenue and oil to Cuba." Weissenstein understands that Cuba, as David vs. Goliath, tries not to inflame U.S.-Cuban relations even faced with what it describes as the genocidal measures enacted by the Trump administration. 

           The Cuban statement on Nov. 20-2019 accused Mara Tekach of using the otherwise gutted U. S. embassy in Havana to create and fund dissidents to "foment divisions among Cubans. The United States Embassy in Cuba has been the fundamental vehicle for attending to, orienting and financing the conduct of Jose Daniel Ferrer, in a clear demonstration of interference in Cuba's internal affairs and instigation of violence."

     In Michael Weissenstein's AP article, it was unusual for Cuba to identify Mara Tekach as the person it says are using the U. S. Embassy in Havana to massively fund and encourage dissidents, especially Jose Daniel Ferrer who is by far the most prominent dissident on the island.

      Now 49-years-old, Jose Daniel Ferrer has been jailed numerous times as Cuba's most famed dissident.

      In fact, it is believed Jose Daniel Ferrer has been imprisoned since October 1, 2019, and Freedom House and Amnesty International are among those who have demanded that he released. Family members who saw him two weeks said he is being grossly mistreated, fearing for his life. 

     The current detainment of Jose Daniel Ferrer is being used to discredit Cuba but this week, in the aforementioned Associated Press article written by respected U. S. journalist Michael Weissenstein, Cuba decided to lash back claiming that Mara Tekach is using the 7-story U. S. Embassy building in Havana to support dissidents like Jose Daniel Ferrer. Cuba believes the vast majority of Cubans on the island support the government's position and that it must take steps to counteract such flagrant efforts against Cuba's sovereignty.

     The vast anti-Cuban media in the United States indulges in only issues that show Cuba in a drastic negative light. The photo above, for example, illustrates the Radio-TV Marti saturation of Jose Daniel Ferrer coverage. Since the Reagan-Bush administration in the 1980s anointed future Miami-billionaire Jorge Mas Canosa as the USA's Cuban dictator on U. S. soil, Canosa's founding of entities such as the Cuban American National Founding, Radio-TV Marti, etc., essentially created a government-within-the-U. S. government. So since the 1980s every journalist and every politician in Washington is abundantly aware an obscene pipeline of tax dollars has daily flooded from Washington to Miami to lavishly fund Radio-TV Marti, which is merely an anti-Cuban propaganda operation - - as again as every journalist and politician in Washington well knows.

     Decades ago notable journalist Jeffrey Kofman of ABC News had the seminal reminder to U. S. taxpayers what Radio-TV Marti in Miami was created to: {1} To merely make selected anti-Cuban exiles rich; and {2} to broadcast only one-sided anti-Cuba propaganda. The fact Mr. Kofman's two reminders still prevail today exposes Radio-TV Marti as a vivid reminder that anti-Cuban extremists essentially still...all these decades since January 1st of 1959...operate as mostly unchecked 2nd government in the United States of America.

    Whether topics such as how dissidents in Cuba are created or treated receive honest media coverage in the United States is important. Not factoring issues such as Radio-TV Marti into the U.S.-Cuban conundrum seems to denote and suggest that anti-democracy U. S. ties to Cuba prior since 1959 were merely exacerbated since 1959 onto U. S. soil.

    Famed Cuban dissident Yoani Sanchez has a Cuban passport and when she flies off the island she usually heads to Miami and the hot anti-Cuban microphones of Radio-TV Marti.

      And, of course, Yoani Sanchez surely heads to U. S. Congress where she is lavishly received by viciously Counter Revolutionary U. S. Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez.

     This image of Yoani Sanchez after she has visited Miami and Washington and prior to flying back to Havana to resume her ubiquitous status as a apparently internationally known anti-Cuban dissident...to many...vividly serves as a reminder to some people of the incredibly unique U.S.-Cuba relationship. And moreover, it appears the U. S. democracy can deal with it, apparently because of a government-within-a-government.

     Meanwhile, this photo of the famed National Hotel in Havana shows that Revolutionary Cuba somehow has survived more than three years of the Trump administration even as pro-Cuban governments in nations like Bolivia are reeling from coups...with others like Venezuela and Nicaragua teetering toward falling into the anti-Cuba, U.S.-friendly camp. 

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