For all four years of his Presidency, Donald Trump turned the USA's Cuban policy from decades of cruelty into sheer genocide against Cuban families on the island to further appease, enrich, and empower a minority of counter revolutionary U. S. Cubans that already were rich and powerful, especially in Little Havana/Miami and Newark/NJ. Little Havana in the heart of Miami is the home to Assault Brigade 2506, the veterans that used tons of tax dollars to attack Revolutionary Cuba in April of 2021. Trump, of course, announced his genocide against Cuba in front of the Assault Brigade 2506 banner in Little Havana/Miami. While the infamous Helms-Burton Act in 1996 greatly enriched and empowered Little Havana, Trump became the only U. S. President to activate Title 3 of Helms-Burton, which created genocide against Cubans in Cuba but, also of course, increased lawsuits that more enriched Miami's Cubans. Not even President George W. Bush, who increased the Bush dynasty's historically close ties to Little Havana, refused to activate Title 3 of Helms-Burton, but Trump activated it as neither the U. S. media nor the U. S. citizens showed the decency to object to its genocidal designs.
But in the USA's two-party political system in January of 2021 the Democrat Joe Biden replaced the Republican Donald Trump as President of the United States. Many believed Biden would quickly end much of Trump's genocide aimed at Cuba, but he didn't. Then finally, in June of 2022...deep into his second year as President...Biden apparently is beginning to at least ease some of Trump's starvation tactics against Cuban families on the island.
Here are the Top Cuban Headlines for today -- June 2nd, 2022. As you can see, the Biden administration has ordered its Transportation Secretary to "Lift Trump-era restrictions on Cuban Flights." Trump had allowed some U. S. flights to Havana but not to the other major Cuban airports. Back in the 1950s prior to the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution, the U. S. had wildly supported tourism to the brutal Mafia-run Batista dictatorship because Batista permitted rich U. S. businesses to partake in the looting of the island, but since 1959...while unable to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba...the U. S. has tried to starve the island with the Embargo/Blockade that blocks tourism money from reaching the nearby island via airplanes & cruise ships. So, the June 2nd-2022 headlines above indicate that the Biden administration is "lifting" at least some of those starvation tactics against Cubans on the island.
Above on June 2nd-2022 NBC News was among the sources reporting that the Biden administration will now allow U. S. airlines to fly to other Cuban cities, not just to Havana. The photos above show when, prior to Trump, a Jet Blue airplane was welcomed at the International airport in Santa Clara, Cuba.
But, as noted, in the USA's two-party political system the Republican Marco Rubio from Miami and the Democrat Bob Menendez from Newark presumably can continue to dictate, or at least massively influence, Cuban policies in either Republican or Democratic Congresses or White Houses. For example, under Trump Senator Rubio was conveniently the Chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee in the U. S. Senate. And under Biden Senator Menendez is conveniently the Chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee. Cuba, of course, is a foreign nation...and, of course, only extremely fierce Counter Revolutionary Cuban Americans from Miami and Newark -- such as Rubio & Menendez -- get elected to Congress and then quickly aspire to such positions as...Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
In other words, even as the June 2nd-2022 Headlines report that the United States is "lifting" some of the "restrictions" against Cuba, that doesn't mean that the genocidal blockade against the island is or will end.
The U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba has existed since 1962 and it followed the April-1961 Bay of Pigs/Brigade 2506 military attack that embarrassingly failed to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. But, despite international condemnation from the United Nations and elsewhere, the EMBARGO apparently will exist for another six decades or so!! That, of course, means that American tax-payers and voters will continue to be told that all the good Cubans are in Miami and Newark while all the bad Cubans are still on the island. And also, of course, the Embargo/Blockade of Cuba will exist another six decades or so if the American people continue to be programmed to not to be ashamed of the worldwide image of the United States depicted above.
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