Can Cuba Survive Trump?

Yes, No, Maybe!!

     A respected diplomat, Carlos de Cossio, is Cuba's Director of United States Affairs. Generally, ever since 1959, only Counter Revolutionary zealots from Little Havana in Miami have dictated the USA's Cuban narrative but the Associated Press used the photo above to illustrate an internationally important article that allowed Carlos de Cossio to express Havana's views on what most Cubans on the island believe is the Trump's administration's genocide against them. The article is entitled: "Cuba's Top Diplomat For US Affairs Says Ties At New Low." Here are some of the points that the USA's top news agency, AP, permitted Carlos de Cossio to state:

            "Relations have sunk to a new low and potentially could sink even lower with the appointment of Marco Rubio as acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

           "The AK rifle attack at the Cuban Embassy in Washington on April 30th appears to be accepted by the U. S. government and the U. S. media." {de Cossio himself, along with 11 others, was inside the Cuban Embassy near the White House when it was attacked by 32 AK rifle shots. The shooter was a Trump-supporting Cuban with Miami and Texas ties}.

             "The current U. S. government, its State Department, and the Secretary of State have made it very clear that they have no interest whatsoever to improve the relationship with Cuba.

     "Whatever Americans decide during the November presidential election this year will have impact in the rest of the world, especially in Cuba. Today one can say that the difference between the positions of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party regarding Cuba is larger that even before." Carlos de Cossio and everyday Cubans on the island, who are now ubiquitous on Social Media, are stunned at the difference between Democratic President Obama's decency towards them and Republican President Trump's indecency towards them. And most of all, they are stunned that the American people are letting Trump and Rubio get away with genocide against them.

       The AP article, written by Havana-based Andrea Rodriguez, gave Carlos de Cossio a rare chance to present Cuba's opinion via the U. S. media. His viewpoints mirror the opinions of the vast majority of the 11.4 million Cubans on the island. That is apparent because Cubans now are fervent users of the Social Media, and most adults now own Smart Phones or know friends & family who do. Daily on Facebook, etc., Cubans fervently make the points that de Cossio made...such as saying that U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is a mouthpiece for Marco Rubio, the Florida Senator that Cubans on the island consider the American Dictator on U. S. soil.

      In other words, as Carlos de Cossio and everyday Cubans on Social Media often discuss, Marco Rubio in 2020 in America has replaced 1950's Fulgencio Batista as America's new Cuban dictator.

     Of course, in the 1950's Fulgencio Batista as Cuba's dictator was supported by the top echelon of the Mafia, the world's most powerful criminal organization, and the USA, the world's most powerful country. But Batista's extreme brutality and thievery spawned the Cuban Revolution, which incredibly overthrew Batista and his cronies on January 1, 1959. But, also incredibly, from 1959 till today, the triumph of the Cuban Revolution spawned Little Havana in nearby Miami.

      And in June of 2020 all that bit of history takes us to another generation of Little Havana Counter Revolutionary Cubans, such as Marco Rubio, who are continuing the blistering six-decades-old effort to recapture Cuba...and still they are supported by the world's economic and military Superpower. Little Havana Cubans, once in Congress, try to Chair the Committees that move relate to recapturing Cuba while also legalizing pipelines of tax dollars from Washington to Little Havana -- such as the Foreign Relations Committee, the Western Hemisphere Affairs Committee, the Armed Services Committee, the Financial Committees, etc., etc. In the aforementioned AP article about Cuban diplomat Carlos de Cossio, you'll recall, he began his lament about the Trump administration by lamenting Rubio's recent elevation to the Chairmanship of the Senate's powerful Intelligence Committee. That, of course, gives Rubio another tool to recapture Cuba and project the Little Havana denizens as saints.

     While even the viciously left-wing anti-Trump media in the U. S. is too afraid of Little Havana to fairly report on Rubio's genocidal role as America's Cuban dictator, or mention Rubio's unchecked pinocchio-nosed diatribes about Cuba, the genocide against masses of Cubans on the island continues unabated, and it expands weekly in June of 2020.

     For sure, Rubio was sent to the U. S. Congress in Washington from Little Havana to re-capture Cuba. But his safe incumbency from Miami and his unchecked assaults on Cuba emboldened Rubio to also add the capture of America, meaning the White House, to his agenda. In the Republican primary in 2016, as illustrated by the photo above, Rubio, powerfully backed by some well-known right-wing billionaires, was a presidential candidate against Donald Trump. They hated each other, and still do, and called each other vile names...before Trump easily dismissed Rubio with the moniker "Little Marco."

     But in January of 2017 when Donald Trump became President, Little Marco Rubio and President Trump needed each other. Rubio needed Trump to re-capture Cuba and Trump needed Rubio because he wanted to keep Little Havana's support during his first-term as President and, especially, so he could corral Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes in the November-2020 presidential election.

     Yes, in June of 2020 President Trump and Senator Rubio still hate each other but they also still need each other -- Trump so he can be a two-term President and Rubio so he can re-capture Cuba, which is why Little Havana sent him to Washington in the first place.

      But remember what I pointed out earlier: Rubio, in addition to re-capturing Cuba, still wants to capture America too. Trump believes Rubio is a back-stabber but Trump is too afraid of Little Havana to do anything about it. Yet, even during Trump's waning four-months as President during his fading first term, Trump is aware that Rubio is trying to wrest control of the Republican Party from Trump. In other words, Little Marco, and especially the BIG Billionaires who control him, do not want to wait almost FIVE MORE YEARS to take over the White House.

     An important journalist in Rubio's hometown of Miami, Alfaro Fernandez, is the key man at the Miami-based Progreso Weekly. He knows all about Rubio as a person and as a Little Havana politician.

     The Progreso Weekly image above reflects what Alfaro Fernandez thinks of the Pinocchio-nosed Rubio. Of course, the "Trumpified Marco Rubio using language of Democracy to subvert Democracy" will not hurt Rubio from remaining in the United States Senate as long as he chooses...and it will also not harm either of his two goals -- re-capturing Cuba and capturing America. 

     Yes, Little Marco Rubio easily rode the Florida alligator from Little Havana all the way to the U. S. Senate in Washington. And well-heeled, he might still easily ride that same alligator to a triumphant trot over to the White House.

     Many veteran journalists in Washington believe that the city's best investigative journalist is Ken Silverstein. The image/illustration above is courtesy of Dale Stephanos/New York Observer. It was featured as the prelude to a long, detailed essay that Ken Silverstein wrote about Marco Rubio's career. Here are the exact opening words of that very important biographical essay:

            "When it comes to sheer brazen corruption, chicanery and dishonesty there is one candidate who stands head and shoulders above everyone else and it is the right-wing Cuban-American and Tea Party darling Senator Marco Rubio of -- naturally -- the great State of Florida. Mr. Rubio's entire public image is less tethered to reality than The Wizard of Oz."

        Then in excruciating detail -- names, dates, locations, etc. -- Ken Silverstein painstakingly constructed what many believe is the best bio of Marco Rubio. As far as I know, no one ever sued Ken Silverstein about his salacious information.

Ken Silverstein

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