A Pandemic and a Blockade!!
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| Photo credit: Zander Zamora/EFE.
Beyond a doubt, Cuba is the only nation in the whole world having to battle the international Coronavirus while also struggling against a genocidal Blockade being imposed by a handful of vicious U. S. Cubans, courtesy of the Trump administration because Trump expects to be rewarded with Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes that Trump needs if he hopes to get re-elected President of the United States on November 3rd, 2020.
The photo above is used this weekend -- in early August of 2020 -- to illustrate several of the most important headlines related to the blockaded Caribbean island of Cuba. Those five important headlines this weekend are:
***"Cuba To Scrap 'Too Restrictive' Private-Sector Activities List As Economic Pressures Grow." This article is by Sarah Marsh for the London-based Reuters News Agency, which honestly and fairly reports from the island using honest and fair journalists.
***"Cuba Keeps Havana Airport Closed In Response To Spike In Coronavirus Cases." This weekend this article is from the Miami Herald, which shames journalism and democracy by routinely using its once-respected newspaper to only dispense extreme anti-Cuba propaganda, most of it written by its shameless anti-Cuban propagandist Nora Gamez Torres.
***"Cuban Borders To Continue Closed Until Further Notice." This article this weekend is by OnCubaNews, which is a good source of inside and accurate journalism related to the Caribbean's largest island.
*** "Coronavirus Success Story Might Not Save the Cuban Economy." This article this weekend is by Foreign Policy {FP}, which is a fair and accurate source for Cuban news.
***"Cuba Reopened: When Will Air Canada Resume Flights & What Are The Entry Requirements." This article this weekend is by Travel Week, which is a fair and accurate source for Cuban news.
 
The point I make...and one that Democracy-loving Americans cogently should one day comprehend, I think...is that a skilled and unbiased London-based journalist like Sarah Marsh is able to report accurately and fairly about and from Cuba. As a Democracy-loving American, I wish that was true of journalists in the United States!!
In stark contrast to Sarah Marsh is Nora Gamez Torres, the prime Cuban propagandist at the Miami Herald who masquerades as a journalist.
In article after article in the Miami Herald, Nora Gamez Torres tries to powerfully portray Revolutionary Cuba as the vilest and worst government in history while also powerfully implying that the brutal, thieving Batista-Mafia regime that ruled Cuba prior to the Cuban Revolution was the sweetest and best government in the history of the Western Hemisphere.
In article after article in the Miami Herald Nora Gamez Torres claims that Counter Revolutionary rich and powerful Little Havana Cubans in Miami from Cuba {above) are the salt of the earth while even everyday Cubans in Cuba are the most vile creatures on earth.
Unfortunately, Nora Gamez today represents the precipitous decline of honest journalism in the United States of America. Little Havana, a force in the USA since 1959, is not the only reason for that sorry development but it is certainly a primary cause. Thus, Nora Gamez...in English and Spanish, in the Miami Herald and its companion El Nuevo Herald...has never shown an iota of compassion for the totally innocent and vulnerable families, including mothers and babies, on the island. I sincerely believe that the American people themselves are most to blame for the current state of journalism in the United States, but compliant propaganda-dispensing and high-profile writers like Nora Gamez pretending to be real journalists shames America and Democracy even more than it shames the Caribbean nation of Cuba.
 
1976 was a bloody year during an era when vicious and well-known Cuban terrorists in Miami, many of them on the U. S. government payrolls, were committing vile terrorism against totally innocent Cubans...and bragging about it. That included deadly murders such as the Oct.-1976 bombing of the Cuban airplane, Cubana Flight 455, that killed all 73 people on board, including two dozen teenage athletes returning to Cuba after winning Gold Medals in the Central American Championships. In 1976 the great and decent Cuban-American journalist-broadcaster Emilio Milian strongly denounced such blatant terrorism against totally innocent Cubans. And for that decency, Emilio Milian was car-bombed. It appears that such warnings to journalists regarding Cuban news has been heeded, for the most part, since 1976. Moreover, it appears that the U. S. Democracy is simply not capable of dealing with it. BUT YES, Emilio Milian is a part of U.S.-Cuban history that Americans need to know.
For example, in 1976...in deference to Little Havana...the United States was unable to deal with vile terrorism against innocent Cubans by well-known and self-avowed Cuban terrorists connected to both Little Havana and to the United States government. The most famed terrorist, of many, historically tied to Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles was the terrorist bombing the Cuban civilian airplane -- Cubana Flight 455 -- in which all 73 people on board died. Please note that declassified CIA-USA documents proved that the U. S. government was aware about who was planning to bomb "a Cuban airliner."
And declassified U. S. documents like the one above proved that Henry Kissinger and the U. S. government quickly knew who, in fact, had carried out the dastardly bombing of Cubana Flight 455.
Immediately and to this day Caribbean and Latin American nations have begged "for justice" for the 73 victims of the terrorist bombing of Cubana Flight 455.
This haunting photo shows a Cuban girl and her mother who were waiting at the Havana for the arrival of Cubana Flight 455 that included their teenage brother and son. This photo was taken right after they had been told that the plane had crashed into the ocean and that "there were no survivors." Yes, Cuban girls and mothers who have been victims of Cuban-American terrorists cry too.
To this day the victims of the terrorist bombing of Cubana Flight 455 are mourned in Cuba and elsewhere in the Caribbean.
And to this day, those who mourn the victims of Cubana Flight 455 are well aware that the two most notable and self-avowed Cuban-American anti-Cuban terrorists -- Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles -- lived out long and well-protected lives in Miami. And, of course, to this day those who helped shelter them, including the Bush dynasty, have never been nor will ever be held accountable for such things.
Even if it is members of the rich and powerful Bush dynasty, I believe in a great Democracy that is necessary for the mainstream media and the citizens to hold people accountable. But since the 1950s that has not been the case when it comes to such things as terrorism in which innocent Cubans on the island are the victims. "Orlando Bosch? Who?" "Posada Carriles? Who?" INDEED!!
 
And as long as certain Americans and Cuban-Americans can profit economically, politically, and/or revengefully from committing TERRORISM as well as imposing genocidal EMBARGOES and BLOCKADES against totally innocent Cubans on the island, it seems that the U. S. Democracy will also never be held accountable. After all, when such atrocities are backed by the world's economic and military Superpower, what can a small island or even the rest of the world do about it??????
In 1959, after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, fleeing Cubans bent on recapturing the island were sent to Fort Benning in Georgia and trained courtesy of U. S. taxpayers to be a part of Brigade 2506, which attacked Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in April of 1961. Vicious and famed Counter Revolutionary Cubans such as Felix Rodriguez and Luis Posada Carriles, as shown above, exited Fort Benning as 2nd Lieutenants and remained on tax payrolls for decades. But neither they nor Brigade 2506 ever recaptured Cuba...despite being supported by the richest and strongest nation in the world!!
Even with declassified documents chronicling the exploits of U.S.-paid operatives/terrorists as Posada, only great non-U.S.-sources such as the London-based BBC fairly chronicle such episodes of U.S.-Cuban history.
Should U. S. politicians such as those in the Bush dynasty be held accountable for their startling ties to the likes of Luis Posada Carriles?
Every Republican politician seeking to be President of the United States must trek to Little Havana in Miami and bow before the elderly survivors of the Assault Brigade 2506, the infamous unit that humiliatingly lost the air, land, and sea attack at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba in 1961. So, digest the photo above of President Trump genuflecting and bowing extremely meekly and totally before the Assault Brigade 2506 banner. In America's two-party political system, Little Havana has total control of the Republican Party and, incredibly, the fiercely anti-Trump Democratic Party is, for the most part, too afraid to do anything about it. So, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO DEMOCRACY? And does this American generation give a damn?
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