The Blockade & the Coronavirus!!
Today -- June 30th, 2020 -- the update above indicates that Cuba believes it is winning its battle against the Coronavirus. The deaths {"fallecidos"} from the pandemic are holding steady today at 86...so as usual now today's statistics show "0" deaths in the past 24 hours and just "1" new case of COVID-19 patients.
But the 11 million Cubans on the Caribbean's largest island are now more concerned about the "Genocidal Blockade" that the American people, without a whimper, have allowed the Trump administration to impose on them. Trump elevated the 6-decade-old U. S. EMBARGO into what is truly a genocidal BLOCKADE against masses of Cubans on the island to appease a mere handful of self-serving, greedy, and heartless Cubans in Little Havana.
The excellent journalist Michael Weissenstein, who heads the Associated Press's Caribbean News Bureau in Havana, recently wrote an important article that Americans, as usual, ignored. The article is entitled: "Trump Policy Changes Frightens Cubans." Direly afraid of the Little Havana Cubans in Miami and in Congress, Americans simply don't have the guts to oppose genocide being perpetrated on their/our BEHALF against Cuban children, women, and men on the island...and, probably, most Americans also would not object if Little Havana denizens persuaded their current patsy in the White House, Trump, to nuke Cuba...paving the way for a second generation of Batistianos to finally regain control of the island. Thus, when a respected journalist like Michael Weissenstein reports in the U.S.-based news agency AP that Cubans on the island are more "frightened" about genocide imposed on them from Little Havana than they are of the Coronavirus pandemic, Americans have been programmed not to object. After all, since 1959 Americans have been told that the nice Cubans are in Little Havana and the Bad Cubans are in Cuba. In other words, unchecked propaganda...even in a Democracy...is a powerful tool.
Four Republican presidents prior to Trump -- Nixon, Reagan, Bush #2, and Bush #1 -- garnered enormous political and economic benefits from their flagrant ties to decades of supporting the Batista regime in Cuba in the 1950s and then, after the Cuban Revolutionary triumph in 1959, doing the same thing with the Batistiano's takeover of Miami with their new Batistiano capital, Little Havana. Yes, the Republican ties to Batista/Batistiano Cuba began in 1952 when, as Vice President and before he later became President, Nixon helped align the U. S. with the Mafia to support the Batista dictatorship in Cuba. But, that being said, only the current Republican Trump regime in Washington has permitted the Batistianos to openly use genocide in its quest to recapture Cuba.
In June of 2020 after almost four years of the Trump presidency, most Americans have problems with some or many of things Trump has done. But Americans are programmed to accept anything any Republican U. S. president does, including genocide, to appease the Cuban extremists in Little Havana two generations since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 booted them out of Havana to Miami. Thus, the image above of Trump wielding the infamous Helms-Burton club to impose genocide against masses of innocent Cubans on the island is cowardly accepted by another generation of Americans. At the same time, many Democracy-loving Americans cringe at the correct image depicted above, but there is nothing they/we can do to correct it.
The photo above, I believe, chronicles the moment that Little Havana got permission from President Trump to impose genocide against Cubans on the island. The Four Batistiano Horsemen shown above are, left to right: Mario Diaz-Balart of Little Havana; Ron DeSantis, the current Batistiano Governor of Florida; Marco Rubio of Little Havana; and Rick Scott, who preceded DeSantis as the two-term Batistiano Governor of Florida and then became, along with Rubio, a Batistiano U. S. Senator in Washington. Like countless other politicians such as Jeb Bush and Porter Goss, DeSantis and Scott owe their political careers to becoming 100% anti-revolutionary Cubans that the Batistianos in Little Havana would support and control. Mario Diaz-Balart or his Havana-born brother Lincoln have been continuously in the U. S. Congress since the 1990s as extreme Counter Revolutionary zealots, after the Bush dynasty began the trek of Little Havana zealots to Congress when Jeb Bush led Havana-born Little Havana's Ileana Ros-Lehtinen to the U. S. Congress in 1989, where she stayed till 2019 when, like Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Ros-Lehtinen resigned her safe Congressional seat to pursue, apparently, better opportunities to recapture Cuba. The Diaz-Balart brothers are the sons of a powerful Minister in the Batista dictatorship in Havana, a family that reached their political and financial heights, not in Havana, but in...Little Havana from 1959 till today. In that milieu, the Little Havana Four Horsemen in the photo above -- Diaz-Balart, DeSantis, Rubio, and Scott -- had just reached that bevy of microphones outside the White House AFTER just having had a one-sided discussion with President Trump. With Rubio telling what they had just gotten from Trump, it apparently turned to be what Little Havana most wanted, which was the activation of Title III of Helms-Burton that Little Havana zealots had LONG-believed was the final tool they needed to regain control of Cuba once and FOR all.
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Right-wing Republicans in 1952 teamed the U. S. democracy with Mafia kingpins like Lucky Luciano to support the brutal Batista dictatorship in Cuba so rich Americans could partake in the rape and robbery of the island. But on Jan. 1-1959 when the Cuban Revolution chased the Batistianos off the island, two generations of Little Havana denizens in Miami, Newark, and the U. S. Congress, still riding the coattails of the Republican Party as shown above, have garnered even more wealth and power on U. S. soil than they ever amassed in Batista's Cuba.
Like Rick Scott today, the Little Havana Batistianos have never had any trouble getting sycophants such as Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Dan Burton of Indiana to do their bidding in the U. S. Congress.
The Helms-Burton Act -- considered the work of Little Havana zealots Jorge Mas Canosa and Lincoln Diaz-Balart -- became the inviolable Little Havana Bible in 1996. Not only was it designed to use the U. S. treasury and other means to recapture Cuba, just as importantly it also became an incredible piggy-bank that has to this day gushed pipelines of tax-dollars from Washington to Little Havana, quickly helping make Little Havana's Mas Canosa its first billionaire. Incredibly, even from 2009 till 2017 when Democrat Barack Obama was the U. S. President who tried desperately to normalize relations with Cuba, the wording of the Helms-Burton Act makes it protected from decent Democratic presidents who might want to kick it into the dust bin. Thus, after surviving Obama, Helms-Burton to this day does the bidding of Little Havana Cubans, financially and politically.
But Helms-Burton has a provision known as Title III that not even the two-term George W. Bush presidency would activate...because even Bush considered it too GENOCIDAL to impose on masses of Cubans on the island. Of course, Title III also has provisions to supposedly make more billions of dollars available to Little Havana by legalizing lawsuits against companies and nations doing business with Cuba. When the Trump administration activated Title III in 2019 it essentially legalized genocide against Cuban families on the island to appease already rich and powerful Little Havana families. So, you ask, where does that leave the rest of the world regarding Title III's genocide against Cuba? Answer: It leaves the rest of the world out in the cold because, after all, the U. S. is the world's economic and military Superpower.
And so, you ask, why doesn't the U. S. Democracy itself curtail the genocide against Cubans via Title III of Helms-Burton? The answer: The last two generations of Americans...since the 1950's...have been the most cowardly and thus the less democratic generations in America's history.
