Bashing Cuba and Cashing In

From Batista to TODAY!!

     The photo above shows a well-known and very notable U. S. businessman having a cozy chat with Cuba's Mafia-riddled Fulgencio Batista dictatorship. Americans to this day are not supposed to remember that very ubiquitous relationship in which rich Americans were, shall we say, lovingly friendly to the island's brutal and thieving regime that preceded the triumph of the world-shocking Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959. Starting with January of 1959 Little Havana evolved in nearby Miami and, since then, has increasingly become richer-and-richer and more-and-more POLITICALLY POWERFUL. All the while, in the past 6+ decades, all that wealth and all that power in Miami and Washington has dictated poverty and deprivation for generations of Blockaded Cubans on the island via an incredible array of Little Havana-friendly U. S. laws. Meanwhile, in the U. S. media every day of every week since 1959 Americans have been told how swell Batista's Cuba was and how terrible Revolutionary Cuba has been since the U. S. businesses, the Batistianos, and the Mafioso were ousted.

         Today -- on March 30, 2022 -- this is one of the prime examples of Cuban-American journalists -- in this case Ethan Bauer of the Deseret News -- taking advantage of the well-plowed and well-cultivated media field in the U. S. to bash Cuba while, of course, implying how fantastic their lavish lives in the the United States are. Of course, there are no mentions about the fact Cuba for the past 60 years has been the only small nation in history to have been forced to face the longest and cruelest Embargo/Blockade ever imposed on any small nation by any powerful nation. Such history and topicality, of course, shouldn't be mentioned in the U. S. because it just wouldn't compute with the narrative that powers and fuels the endless...and endlessly lucrative...Cuban Cottage Industry in the United States.

    Today -- on March 30-2022 -- the two paragraphs above are the way that Ethan Bauer in the Deseret News began his propaganda spiel against Cuba. In his first sentence about his visit to Havana he tells us about the roads in Havana "pricked with potholes and bumps and are prone to flooding..." I have been to Havana and that is surely not the first thing I noticed in the Cuban capital, but, of course, it is not my job or prerogative to promote Little Havana's self-serving view of Havana.

    In the above two paragraphs today by Ethan Bauer of the Deseret News we are told: "In Miami, when you come from a Cuban family {or even a half-Cuban family, like me} you're surrounded at all time by Cuban culture -- or, at least, what Cuban culture once was. Yet Cuba itself remains mysterious." Yes, while Miami/Little Havana is rich and marvelous, Havana is a pot-marked hellhole!!!!!!!!!! In other words, let's keep making Miami/Little Havana richer-and-richer while making sure Havana keeps getting poorer-and-power...with more-and-more POT-HOLES!!!

      Of course, what Ethan Bauer in the Deseret News won't mention is the fact that this old car in Cuba, while driving over those Havana pot-holes, is forced to navigate in an island nation that is forced to face "the largest/longest genocidal blockade in history." And, Ethan, you should at least admit that the uniquely cruel blockade is prone to probably and purposely create a lot of pot-holes...and other problems...in Havana.

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