In a Democracy with 330 million People!!! 
Since the Cuban Revolution managed to overthrow the U.S.--backed/Mafia-backed Batista rule of Cuba in 1959, generations of Cubans in nearby Little Havana-Miami have dictated the USA's Cuban policies...a financial and political bonanza for them and continuous, well-orchestrated disasters for Cubans on the island. Little Havana's power, like Batista's power in Cuba in the 1950s, is tied to the fact that sycophants in the guise of very rich U. S. businesses and political parties also partook/partake in the Cuban largess that includes economic benefits via juicy Congressional and White House legalities such as extremely legalized laws such as the extremely and endlessly convenient acts such as Torricelli, Helms-Burton, etc., etc., etc...all of which, of course, include massive economic and political rewards for some along with massive cruelty for others. Decade after decade such luscious rewards predicate, extend, and expand what long-ago became the cruelest and longest Embargo/Blockade ever imposed by a powerful nation against the people in a much smaller nation. Within the bowels of the U. S. DEMOCRACY it doesn's matter if most U. S. citizens and most citizens of the world are APPALLED BY THIS PHENOMENON. What does matter are the fantastic economic and POLITICAL rewards that accrue to a minority of miscreants who lap-up the bulk of the off-shoots of the USA's non-democratic Cuban policies. To agree with these universal beliefs is of no use because MONEY, MONEY, MONEY trumps all else when it comes to the USA's age-old view of the Caribbean's most coveted prize....Cuba!! It has been that way for the past two centuries at least...and especially since 1898 when the Spanish-American War in Cuba gave the prized island nation to the world's most notable DEMOCRACY!! On March 20th-2022 the journalist-author who best addressed the U. S. domination of Cuba, as shown above, is Mexico's Gerardo Arreola:
For sure, in both the article today and in the new book above, on March 20-2022 Gerardo Arriola had the guts to speak truths about Cuba as it exists in the clutches of Little Havana/Miami. But he is merely honest, not pro-Cuba at all. Yet, he displays both the courage and the insight to express the fact that the Cuban Revolution & Revolutionary Cuba say a lot more about the United States than they say about the island of Cuba. Of course, such factual situations within the bowels of the U.S.-Cuba conundrum would never have occurred if democratic ideals had ever been applied.
For sure, most facts/nuances of the USA's relations with Cuba do not reflect nice images of Democracy, YET they persist decade-after-decade...prolonged by reflections of such things as a feisty little Cuban schoolgirl bouncing off the Embargo hat of the USA's Uncle Sam.
While it is wonderful that Cuban brothers can easily become billionaires in the U. S. or other Cuban brothers can easily become ultra-powerful politicians in the U. S., perhaps it would also be nice if some moderate Cubans would also be allowed to have INPUT in such areas, areas such as legalizing or not LEGALIZING a cruel embargo/blockade that involves starving families on the island of Cuba, among its other very controversial provisions!!
A greedy, cruel, red-eyed United States shames some people.
And it should shame all Americans!!
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