AT LEAST MORE SOFTLY THAN USUAL
In this first week of March-2022 Cuba, its northern neighbor USA, and the Whole World remains absorbed with the bloody repercussions of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War. Cubans on the island, as indicated by the headline above by the independent OnCuba News, are being subjected with updated news reports from their state media as well as online articles/videos via international sources such as the BBC and the Social Media giants such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.
The Cuban diplomat who is most respected by unbiased U. S. journalists and politicians, Carlos de Cossio, got a surprise question from a U. S. journalist: "Carlos, the Miami Herald today had an article that actually praised Cuba...at least somewhat. Did you know that?" He smiled and said: "Yes, I read that article. It stunned me. Even Nora Gamez, one of the mainstream U. S. reporters who seem to be devoting their careers to damning Cuba on behalf of Little Havana benefactors, may have even participated today in what you can call a bit of praise of Cuba. Shocking. Yes, I must say it was shocking, at least to me."
This is the Miami Herald article today -- March 3rd--2022 -- that seems to be a glimmer of hope to Cuba's main U.S.-related diplomat Carlos de Cossio. For decades the Miami Herald has led the vast economic and political media assault on Cuba by the Anti-Castro Cottage Industry in the U. S. media on behalf of the ultra-powerful Miami/Little Havana Cubans. Was this little bit of praise today by the Miami Herald heralding a trend to a softer stand regarding Cuba?? PROBABLY NOT. But when a little nation has been cruelly blockaded for over six decades by a superpower neighbor, a glimmer of hope from the Miami Herald today was able to put a smile on the face of an important Cuba diplomat...Carlos de Cossio.
Like most Cubans in Cuba Carlos de Cossio makes use of Social Media. Above you can see that at 7:13 A. M. this morning on 03 March 22 he fired off this Tweet. It related to the fact that Cubans who would love to have normal relations with the U. S. are frustrated that President Biden has cruelly continued the uniquely cruel attack on Cuban families imposed by the Trump presidency. For example, to appease his financial-political pals in Little Havana, Trump made Western Union close its hundreds of offices in Cuba that processed remittances from U. S. Cubans to needy Cubans on the island. de Cossio has repeatedly said, "Rubio and the other Little Havana Cubans have had the support of the whole U. S. government to get rich themselves while using the blockade and criminal Helms-Burton Act to starve Cuban families on the island. Trump and Biden shutting the Western Union offices in Cuba was to make sure Cuban families starved even quicker than Little Havana's Helms-Burton piggybank has intended that they starve." Well, to translate Carlos de Cossio's tweet today, here is what he says above: "So the U. S. banned remittances via Western Union to Cuba, which charged about $5 for every 100 shipped, to apparently authorize formulas that charge the sender up to $30 per 100." In other words, in the Tweet above and as he has stated repeatedly, Carlos de Cossio is repeating his seminal claim that Rubio and the other Little Havana benefactors lie about "every word they speak to benefit themselves while also using the U. S. government to try to starve Cuban families." In that manner, in his Tweet today, Carlos de Cossio is pointing out that Little Havana lies when it claims most of the money from the remittances goes to the Cuban government, not to Cubans families.
And so, today -- March 3rd-2022 -- above are the main Cuban headlines. The London-based The Guardian reminds the world that 6-plus decades of cruel sanctions against Cuba have not led to the recapture of the island for Little Havana stalwarts in Miami and in Congress. NBC News today says the U. S. is boosting its embassy in Havana that Obama briefly reopened fully for the first time since 1961 till Rubio quickly persuaded Trump to gut it, hurting both Cubans in Cuba and in the USA. And the other two Top U. S. Cuban Articles today are from the Little Havana-aligned Miami Herald. Both of those articles, INCREDIBLY, even take a few words to praise Cuba {and its close ally Nicaragua} for failing to support Russia in the United Nations regarding the Ukrainian War. So these three paragraphs in the Miami Herald are indeed a surprise to Carlos de Cossio:
As Cuba's top diplomat related to the island's relationship with the United States, Carlos de Cossio made a definitive statement the day a Trump supporter fired 30+ rifle shots at and into the Cuban embassy in Washington while de Cossio and 12 of his aides were inside. He said: "When a Cuban from Little Havana in Miami such as Marco Rubio can dictate Cuban policies to the U. S. government, how can the United States still say with a straight face that it is a world-class democracy comprised of 330 million people. In the 1950s U. S. businesses made fortunes in Cuba along with the Batista/Lansky mafia. Today Little Havana Cubans are doing the same."
During his long career as a Cuban diplomat towards the United States, Carlos de Cossio has been rudely ignored when he has offered a Handshake to the U. S. government or even a Statement on behalf of Cuba to the U. S. media. But today, as quoted into English earlier, he at least made the statement shown above via Twitter. And, along with some non-belligerent paragraphs in the Miami Herald today, perhaps that is something that might portend a Handshake in the future.
Neither Cubans on the island nor most Cubans in Miami want Cubans in Cuba to starve even as the cruel Helms-Burton Act remains being expanded. So the huge headline above on March 2nd-2022 brings hope for more sanity in U.S.-Cuban relations: "CANADIAN COMPANY BEGINS SENDING REMITTANCES TO CUBA WITH PERMISSION FROM THE U. S. GOVERNMENT." WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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