A U. S. Journalist With Guts to Tell Cuban Truths??

Wow!!!!!!

    Today -- on Thursday, April 21, 2022 -- Biden administration officials actually held |"HIGH-LEVEL" talks with Cuban officials regarding "MIGRATION!!" Normally the United States never discusses anything with Cuban officials or everyday Cubans because the Superpower U. S. is obsessed with either regaining control of Cuba for Miami Cubans or continuing to expand the 6-decade-old Embargo against the island that many Cubans and many people around the world consider to be genocidal treatment of everyday Cubans families on the island.

    In the United States, only Miami speaks for Washington when it comes to Cuba. But the Miami article above article at least sort of explains why the U. S. on April 22-2022 wanted to hold discussions in Washington with Cuba's top U. S. experts regarding the USA's glaring migration problems along its southern border with Mexico.

    The U. S. media, which is basically obligated to report only Miami's side of the two-sided U.S.-Cuban conundrum, just before today's U.S.-Cuba talks in Washington actually a couple the U. S.  media asked for a sit-down in Havana, as shown above, with Cuba's greatest U. S. expert, Josefina Vidal. The two interviewers, incredibly, were from CNN and the Associated Press. Incredible...uh, yes, incredible!! For the U. S. media to listen to what a powerful Cuban diplomat says is truly amazing. There is no American on the planet that knows as much as the 61-year-old Vidal knows about U.S.-Cuban relations. When President Obama tried to normalize relations with Cuba, it was Vidal, both publicly and behind closed doors, who represented Cuba. With both the Trump and Biden administrations wiping out the Obana-Vidal agreements and sanity, Vidal has since had a enjoyable time in Ottawa as Cuba's Ambassador to Canada but she returned to Havana because of what she feels is the new Trump-Biden genocide against Cuban families. "At least Obama listened to us and amazingly, in April of 2022, Biden is listening to us, at least because of Biden's problems on the U.S.-Mexican border. Then, I presume, the Miami stranglehold on dictating self-serving Cuban policies will resume Miami's glee and profits from U. S. cruelty to Cuban families."

   For many decades the Associated Press has been the largest and most respected News Agency in the United States. Such trust is considered to be essential to the world's strongest Democracy. For 230 years or so the U. S. Democracy enjoyed and benefited from a news media that was trusted by most Americans. But now the Gallup Poll and other polls reveal that "most Americans no longer trust the mainstream U. S.  media." That, I believe, is particularly so regarding the USA's ageless and contentious relationship with the island of Cuba. While supposedly Cuba rates near the bottom of the USA's priority concerns, both history and topicality says that is untrue. Thomas Jefferson and other notable Founding Fathers in the 1770s were obsessed with owning/controlling Cuba...not so unlike the U. S. leaders in 2022 in Miami, Newark, and Washington are obsessed with owning/controlling Cuba. Historical and topical events in U.S.-Cuban relations attest to that abiding obsession with the island...from the Spanish-American War, the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs attack, the Mafia, the Embargo, Batista, the Blockade, etc., etc., etc. In that Milieu, from the 1770s till 2022, the island nation of Cuba probably says in totality more about the United States than any other event or relationship says about the USA. Not trusting the U. S. media to tell the truth perhaps had its origin decades or even centuries ago when Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and others rated gaining control of Cuba as a top U. S. priority, such as in the 19th century when the USA's two top newspaper publishers used "Yellow Journalism" to promote the desperate need to concoct and win the Spanish-American War in Cuba, etc. Now in April of 2022 anyone who trusts the mainstream U. S. media to write or speak a truthful word about U.S.-Cuban relations is either a certified idiot or a massive political/economic benefactor of gruesome policies such as the U. S. Embargo/Blockade that, for over six decades, has been designed to starve and deprive families on the island of Cuba to benefit a few rich people in the nearby United States. Yet, incredibly, one mainstream U. S. journalist who dispenses truthful information about Cuban issues happens to be...Andrea Rodriguez. For years she has been stationed in Havana for the Associated Press...and, incredibly, she reports the truth -- good or bad or in between.

    Although she works for the Associated Press, Andrea Rodriguez lives with or beside Cuban families and, uniquely among the U. S. media journalists, Andrea has the integrity and courage to write about the struggles Cuban families face while "struggling to get by."

While Fake News almost always dictates Cuban-related news in the United States, there is an exception -- the AP's Andrea Rodriguez. She keenly knows what is happening in Cuba and she astutely & honestly observes how such things as the Blockade, the Pandemic, Migration, etc., impact the lives of the most important people on the embattled island, the families who are..."struggling to get by."

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