And Harms Masses of Cubans!!
As a rare jewel in journalism for the past three decades, Ginger Thompson today remains one of the final vestiges of America's once renowned and respected journalistic endeavors. Including fifteen years as a truly great New York Times investigative reporter, Ms. Thompson won Pulitzers and other major honors for her uniquely informative and acutely accurate reporting on Latin America and Caribbean developments, even including Cuba!! Even today, while also teaching journalism at Colombia University, Ms. Thompson is the Chief Correspondent for ProPublica, which particularly treasures important investigative reporting. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson would have loved Ginger Thompson because the writer of the USA's Declaration also once wrote that journalism was more important than anything else in a Democracy, including the government itself. For almost 240 years, the U. S. media was a hallmark of the world's best and most admired journalism. But no more. Now polls reveal that most Americans don't trust their mainstream media...believing that...the NY Times, the Washington Post, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and CBS have become dispensers of extreme left-wing propaganda while Fox News, the NY Post, etc., are dispensers of extreme right-wing propaganda. But THANKFULLY, there is some light left in the increasingly dark tilt of the money-crazed and propaganda-obsessed U. S. media. Almost alone among the journalists now trying to keep some of the tunnel lights on, Ginger Thompson is more important now than she was in the recent past. Below is a post that Ms. Thompson published on Social Media today -- May 25, 2021 -- about the revival of one of her classic reports from 2011.
As mentioned by ProPublica above, Ginger Thompson has long been renowned for producing and writing vitally important "breaking news events across the region, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela" And, yes, the inference is correct because Ginger Thompson for many years has stood almost alone for having the courage and integrity to report intelligently and accurately about Cuba; Haiti; and Venezuela. In other words, Ginger Thompson remains a thorn in the butts of otherwise mostly unchecked miscreants in the ultra-powerful U. S. who for decades have had lucrative pathways to exploiting targeted nations deemed vulnerable and exploitable. Regarding Revolutionary Cuba, the little revolution that defeated a brutal & thieving U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed dictatorship, any journalist in the U. S. who reports the unbiased truth tends to get car-bombed like Emilio Milian in Miami or summarily gets fired or bludgeoned. From the Miami Herald to the Washington Post to the New York Times -- and to NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News, Newsmax, etc. -- the anti-Cuban propagandists masquerading as "journalists" out-number mosquitoes in a tropical swamp...such as, for example, NBC's Miami-based Carmen Sesin!!!
Based in Miami, Carmen Sesin is the Counter Revolutionary anti-Cuba expert for NBC News. Meanwhile, NBC News along with its extreme left-wing sister MSNBC network lobbies strongly for Little Havana's take over of Havana, using Carmen Sesin's prime pro-Little Havana and anti-Havana propaganda that poses as journalism.
The above words from Carmen Sesin distributed by NBC News is, unfortunately, typical of today's propaganda-obsessed mainstream media in the United States. Note that Sesin above is mocking Cuban families on the island who are praying that one of the five vaccines that Cuba is developing will be efficacious enough to curb the surge of the COVID-19 pandemic on the island. Sesin, instead of spewing anti-Cuban propaganda, could have explained that...or explain that the well-educated, well informed, and Internet/Social Media-savvy Cubans in Cuba believe that the Trump-Biden tightening of the Embargo/Blockade is, along with trying to starve Cuban families on the island, currently taking advantage of COVID-19 to further to eviscerate Cubans on the island to appease a few "nice" Cubans such as Rubio & Menendez...and apparently to appease the bank accounts of rich corporations than now own major news operations such as NBC News.
Of course, when it comes to Cuba the propaganda media in the U. S. never cares about the plight of Cubans on the island nor about their opinions, only about the opinions of the unholy people in the U. S. -- especially in Miami and in Congress -- who benefit so massively, economically and politically, from their unchecked and unsavory control of the USA's Cuban policies, which means rich U. S. Cubans get richer and richer while Cubans in Cuba get POORER and POORER!! Rosy Amaro, the young journalist and young mother shown above, has twice received lucrative, guaranteed offers from a well-known Cuban-American communications executive in Miami. And twice she has refused it. While there are millions of Cubans, and others, yearning to get and make their fortunes in the U. S., Cuba is unique in having millions of Cubans on the island willing to still fight-to-the-death in support of their families, their sovereignty, and their Cuban Revolution. So, the Celia Sanchez-like Rosy Amaro is a typical Cuban on the island. Moreover, she is extremely smart, well-educated, and vastly more decent than the miscreants in the U. S. who benefit so much from tormenting generations of Cuban children that Rosy Amaro verily adores. Meanwhile, the propagandists in the U. S. media are obliged to salivate about the plight of Cuban families on the island to appease and benefit unsavory people in a foreign, nearby, and much-more powerful nation. 
The U. S. democracy, I believe, took a drastic hit when the Supreme Court allowed individual and corporate multi-billionaires to pour virtually unlimited ,dollars into political campaigns. Now multi-billionaire individuals and corporations can buy main media outlets and turn them into vast propaganda dispensers. For sure, in classic capitalist form, it creates many other multi-millionaires who are involved in producing the unending stream of nauseous commercials that bombard Americans around-the-clock, but all other great nations would not allow their citizens to be bombarded so cruelly. And when money can dictate the elections of people to high positions that otherwise would not have the decency, intelligence, or skills to be useful dog-catchers in a tiny town, then the U. S. democracy is in dire straits. I also believe that the biggest threat to the U. S. democracy involves what has happened to the institution of journalism in the United States of America. For example, when 330 million Americans are persuaded to not be ashamed of the image depicted below, the America that the Founding Fathers envisioned is now one that does not exist.
In that milieu, since 1962 the U. S. Embargo against the island of Cuba has existed for all these decades for the same reason that the U. S. elections now exist to make millionaires and billionaires out of the cretins involved in saturating screens with all those nauseous political commercials. In other words, those political commercials will continue to proliferate just like the Embargo of Cuba has continued to proliferate since 1962: "HEY...DON'T MIND WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT THE U. S. DEMOCRACY OR WHAT INSANITY IS SHOVES DOWN THE THROATS OF DECENT AMERICANS!!! AFTER ALL...CAPITALISM RULES, RIGHT?"
Now that May-2021 is almost over, the poor little Embargoed/Blockaded island nation of Cuba is trying desperately to develop five vaccines to curb the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, most of the island's 11.2 million people believe that a few Embargo/Blockade supporters in the U. S. who have benefited economically and politically from that strangulation of masses of innocent Cubans are now using the U. S. Democracy to try to keep Cubans on the island from benefiting from the COVID-19 vaccines that people on the island are praying will prove to be efficacious...as soon as possible. Of course, as shown at the top of this post, much of the mainstream media in the U. S. is busy mocking Cuba's efforts to produce its own effective pandemic-easing vaccines despite the ever-tightening U. S. EMBARGO-BLOCKADE!!
In 1959 no island nation remotely close to Cuba's size was expected to defeat a brutal dictator supported by the strongest criminal organization in the world and by the strongest nation in the world. And now, midway through 2021, there are predictions that the addition of the COVID-19 pandemic will finally doom the island, despite the hopes that the great Editorial Cartoonist Carlos LaTuff seems to be expressing above.
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