How Did It Happen??
Many months and MANY millions of dollars ago there were 25 candidates vying to be the Democratic candidate hoping to beat Republican incumbent Donald Trump in November's presidential election. And now in March-2020 the Democrats are down to just two viable candidates -- the elderly Joe Biden and the elderly Bernie Sanders. Next to the U. S. itself, the island nation of Cuba has the most at stake is this election, a fact that Americans are programmed to deny but that, nevertheless, is exceedingly true. In America's money-crazed/two-party political system, since 1959 every Republican President has been tightly aligned with the Cuban extremist exiles headquartered in nearby Miami/Little Havana in a fervent, no-holds-barred effort to recapture Cuba, a pugnacious island where the Cuban Revolution had finally won the nation's independence by incredibly overthrowing the dominance of the brutal Batista dictatorship that had been supported by the Mafia, the world's strongest criminal organization; and by the USA, the world's strongest nation. Every Republican president since 1959 -- Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush#1, Bush#2, and Trump -- have provided both the U. S. Treasury and the U.S. Military to make sure that the exiles, the Mafia, and the USA could recapture Cuba for the purpose of making the island the luscious piggy-bank that it had been prior to January 1-1959. But Democratic presidents -- especially Kennedy and Carter, even Clinton, and particularly Obama -- actually tried treating Revolutionary Cuba as a sovereign nation and as a potentially valuable trading partner. So, instead of an air-land-and-sea military attack like the Bay of Pigs fiasco in April-1961; totally unchecked murderous terrorist attacks by U.S.-paid exiles unchallenged as they destroyed a Cuban civilian airplane killing all aboard; bombing hotels to discourage tourists; and launching murderous cannon-fire from Miami-based speed-boats that blew through coastal fishing cabins killing fishermen and totally slicing off the leg of a little girl while she was asleep in the village of Boca de Sama; etc. Thus, the difference between a Democratic U. S. president and a Republican U. S. president means the world to Cuba...with either Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders MUCH PREFERRED to a re-election of the Republican Trump in November. To Cuba the difference between a Biden or Sanders presidency as opposed to Trump is the difference between continued genocide against Cuban families and breathing room for Cuban families. While Americans are programmed to not consider that difference, it perhaps means as much to the USA's future as it means to Cuba's.
Although it was widely said that America's Greatest Generation had led the fight in World War 2 to rid the world of suffocating domination by despicable regimes in Germany, Japan, and Italy, by 1952 the graphic above PROVES that the post-war next two U. S. generations were/are the worst generations in America's history. In 1952 greedy right-wing thugs in the Republican Party teamed the U. S. democracy with the Mafia to support a thieving, brutal dictatorship in Cuba just so rich U. S. businessmen could PARTAKE in the wholesale rape and robbery of the Caribbean's largest island and, arguably, its most beautiful and, potentially, its most prosperous nation. Incredibly, America's worst two GENERATIONS of Americans proved to be both too stupid and too cowardly too raise a wimper when the U. S. chose brazen and murderous mobsters Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Fulgencio Batista as America's Associates to plunder and brutalize Cuba. And, incredibly, from 1952 till March-2020, America -- the strongest and richest nation in the world -- has not had the courage to tell the truth about its alignment with the Mafia in Cuba and in the USA. IN FACT, after the Cuban Revolution, with astonishing grit and great cause, overthrew the vile Luciano-Lansky-Batista dictatorship in January-1959 the United States quickly not only allowed but also the Mafiosi leaders to transfer their thieving, brutal dictatorship FROM Cuba TO the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!
From 1952 till today, the U. S. democracy has not been democratic enough to embrace the captivating history of the Cuban Revolution, which forever changed the United States even more than it changed Cuba. After all, the U. S. is the world's Superpower and Cuba is a Caribbean island.
As a fierce democracy-lover, I have always been appalled that the U. S. democracy was and is not able to tell the truth about Cuban facts, such as the photo above. It shows Fidel Castro during his 12-DAY VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES IN APRIL OF 1959. That was a mere three months after his Revolution had shocked the world by defeating the U.S., the Mafia, and the brutal Batista dictatorship...not realizing that the Batista-Mafia dictators would quickly resurface on U. S. soil. Why did Fidel Castro visit the U. S. for twelve days in April-1959? After the U. S. Society of Newspaper Editors told him that he could meet with President Eisenhower, Castro eagerly thought the trip was worthwhile. He was ready to make any concession...including an election that the U. S. could minutely monitor and which he would not be involved...because he believed that normal relations, including as a trading partner, with the U. S. was vital for Cuba. During his visit, as shown above, Castro was photographed during such things as paying homage to the Lincoln Memorial. In April of 1959 Castro was treated as a Superhero by the American people in New York and Washington -- till he was betrayed by the right-wingers in the Eisenhower administration -- Vice President Nixon, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and CIA Director Allen Dulles -- who had earlier led the the U. S. democracy into aligning with the Mafia to support Cuba's Batista dictatorship in 1952 so rich U. S. businessmen could partake in the wholesale rape and robbery of the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island.
Thus, instead of having the promised visit with President Eisenhower in April of 1959, Fidel Castro met with Vice President Richard Nixon, who was already a crook ALTHOUGH the American people would not know that until a few years later when Nixon had been elected President. Instead of waiting to hear what Castro intended to say about normal relations and being a friendly trading partner with the U. S., Nixon brazenly told Castro the U. S. would recapture Cuba "within days." Of course, once he returned to Cuba after the Nixon-marred 12-day visit to the U. S. in April of 1959, Castro's reaction to Nixon's unveiled threat echoes with mammoth repercussions to this very day in March of 2020. And to this day, and like all major aspects of U.S.-Cuban relations since the 1950s, the Batistiano-tinged U. S. democracy has not been strong enough to tell the truth about such things as...the historic and DECEITFUL handshake depicted above. Unfortunately for America and for Democracy, the deceit came from the Superpower, not the island.
When Nixon, the Dulles brothers, and other such dark elements in the Eisenhower administration GOT AWAY WITH aligning the U. S. democracy with the Mafia in 1952 to support the brutal, thieving Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in Cuba, it was up to more decent facets of the U. S. democracy to step to the forefront and restore decency to Washington and its precious Democracy. Incredibly...six decades later...it still hasn't happened. In fact, in March-2020 America is closer than it has ever been to having a Batistiano government taking over Washington and not JUST Little Havana in Miami.
After emerging as the Democratic Party's leading presidential contender, Bernie Sanders is suddenly being derailed BECAUSE OF his long-held belief that Fidel Castro did some things to improve the lives of the Cuban people who had been the brutal victims of the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista regime.
As a young politician and activist, Bernie Sanders made statements such as the one shown above. During this first week of March-2020, such quotes are being propagandized ubiquitously to destroy Bernie's bid to become Trump's successor as President of the United States. Not surprisingly, in March-2020, as has been the case since 1959, the Cuban narrative in the United States has been dictated by Cuban exiles directly from the Batista dictatorship in Cuba...such as two rich and powerful generations of the Diaz-Balart family.
For example, this photo shows Rafael Diaz-Balart in 1958 when he was a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship. It was when he was holding a rally against the rebel uprising that, by then, was already marching determinedly toward Havana. A few months later, Batista leaders such as Rafael Diaz-Balart fled the Cuban Revolution for their sanctuary in Southern Florida.
To their own surprise, Cuban Batista exiles such as Rafael Diaz-Balart, starting in January of 1959, began getting a lot richer and more powerful in the Miami area than they ever could have attained in Batista's Cuba. Starting in 1959, Rafael Diaz-Balart created the first anti-Castro paramilitary group on U. S. soil, The White Rose. From there he became one of the richest and most powerful Little Havana stalwarts determined to recapture Cuba with no holds-barred when Republicans ruled the White House and he was too powerful to even be blunted even when Democrats were in charge of Washington. When he died on May 6, 2005, Rafael Diaz-Balart and his allies had still not recaptured Cuba but he left behind two rich and powerful sons who were just as devoted and unchallenged as their father had been since 1959.
Above are shown three generations of the Diaz-Balart family, with Rafael in the center when he was still in Cuba. On the right are Rafael's sons Lincoln and Mario. Born in Havana during the Batista dictatorship, Lincoln in Miami inherited his father's zeal and power regarding the recapture of Cuba...as did Lincoln's younger brother Mario who was born in South Florida. Batista exiles starting in 1959 easily had enough money and firepower to overwhelm Miami economically and politically, and additionally they and their offspring had mammoth support from the Republican Party and the Catholic Church. From 1993 till March of 2020 the Diaz-Balart brothers Lincoln and Mario, either at the same time or separately, have awesomely represented Little Havana in the U. S. Congress. And because of their wealth and their Republican ties, such Little Havana leaders easily had the support of self-serving Congressmen as Bob Torricelli, Jesse Helms, Dan Burton, etc., to easily pass Congressional laws such as The Torricelli Bill, The Helms-Burton Act, etc., that were/are designed to make selected Cubans very rich but also to massively punish and overthrow Cubans on the island.
Born in Havana when his father was a key Batista minister, Lincoln Diaz-Balart represented Little Havana in the U. S. Congress from 1993 till 2011 when he resigned to turn the seat to his brother Mario, who still holds it. Lincoln remains an ultra-powerful lawyer, is the Chairman and founding member of the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute and The White Rose Institute. In 1996 Lincoln was vital in writing and passing the infamous Helms-Burton Act that to this day makes Miami Cubans ultra-rich via anti-Cuban lawsuits and tax dollars while also making sure to legally dish out ultra-punishment to Cubans in Cuba. While Florida Cubans such as Marco Rubio, Mauricio Claver-Carone, and Mario Diaz-Balart are busy getting most of the credit for making the most punitive anti-Cubans decisions in the Trump White House, Lincoln remains the most powerful Little Havana Cuban dictating Cuban measures related to Lincoln's Helms-Burton gold mine. For example, the Miami Herald recently reported that Lincoln was incensed that Cuba had placed a little ad on Instagram trying to promote some Cuban tourism. But Lincoln said the ad was "illegal" as defined by his Helms-Burton Act that the U. S. democracy has not had the guts to do anything about. So, thanks to Lincoln, Cuba's little ad about tourism was "illegal" but Lincoln can legally get richer and more powerful while tightening a blockade against Cuba that is now designed to block tourism to the island while also BLOCKING all imports to the island as well as all exports from the island. Of course, Americans are supposed to be too afraid of Lincoln to call the blockade what it is -- "genocide."
So while Lincoln Diaz-Balart remains the Helms-Burton maestro, his little brother Mario from his seat in Congress is one of Lincoln's puppeteer darlings propping it up.
While Helms-Burton from 1996 till March-2020 has effectively made selected USA Cubans extremely rich, it also is labeled genocidal for its treatment of innocent Cuban families on the island. All the while, Americans are programmed to ignore the Skulls & Bones attached to it.
The pertinent photo above shows President Trump greeting Little Havana Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart while Little Havana Senator Little Marco Rubio looks off in the distance. For sure, the Trump presidency greatly empowers and enriches Little Havana benefactors who radiate in punishing everyday Cuban families on the island.
For some reason, Mario Diaz-Balart has recently been allowed to be a prime spokesman for anti-Cuban/pro-Batista propaganda, as reflected by the video below. It is followed by a video that shows more powerful brother Lincoln resigning from Congress in 2011 to pursue more important anti-Cuban endeavors, leaving his Senate seat to Mario.
How the Diaz-Balart family and other Batista leaders were chased out of Cuba in January of 1959 by the guerrilla fighter Fidel Castro remains a paradox of history, but so does the fact that the Diaz-Balarts and others like them found even more wealth and power on U. S. soil in the past six+ decades than they could ever have imagined amassing in Cuba.
Yes, the Cuban Revolution changed Cuba.
But it changed America even more.
Yes, Fidel died at age 90 on October 25, 2016, and former Education Minister Miguel Diaz-Canel, who was born after the triumph of the Revolution, is now the President of Cuba. Yet, it is still Fidel's Cuba...and that will be so until, or if, the USA's Little Havana leaders recapture Havana.
The Havana Cuban Mafia that was chased out of Cuba by the Cuban Revolution in 1959 is now The Miami Cuban Mafia in March of 2020. Surely, not even Fidel Castro believed the United States would ever allow that to happen.
AND IN MARCH OF 2020, Bernie Sanders is finding that the astounding legacy of Fidel Castro, which Bernie predicted long ago, still has major repercussions not only in Cuba but in the world's Superpower, the United States of America.
Birds of a Feather -- Bernie & Fidel.
Fidel Castro & Bernie Sanders.
Meanwhile, in March of 2020...Americans are still being told that all the GOOD Cubans are in Little Havana-USA while all the BAD Cubans are still in Havana-Cuba. And with that rationale, Americans are supposed to agree with the pipelines of unceasing tax dollars flowing each day to Cubans in Little Havana while, of course, the Trump White House is unchecked when it comes to imposing legal genocide against Cuban families in Havana.
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