Punishing Cuba Remains USA Obsession

{Did the U. S. Love Batista's Cuba that much?} 

     The United States has just finished hosting the Ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. At a time when the nations of the Americas, including the United States, have massive problems with things such as runaway inflation, runaway crime, runaway health issues, etc., etc., etc., the biggest headlines emanating from the LA Summit of the Americas concerned the USA's continuing obsession with its decades-old obsession with destroying Revolutionary Cuba. Therefore at the Summit in LA the U. S. pretended that Cuba and its allies Venezuela and Nicaragua were not nations in the Americas, so they were not invited. Of course, from 1898 till 1959 -- from the Spanish-American War till the Cuban Revolution -- the U. S. dominated Cuba and thus Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua were considered nations in the Americas, especially from 1952 till 1959 when the U. S. and the Mafia supported the brutal Batista-Lansky dictatorship.

     The "News about the Summit of the Americas in LA forcused on Cuba." with headlines such as: "U.S. Excludes Cuba, Venezuela, & Nicaragua from Americas Summit;" "Mexican President Won't Attend U.S.-Hosted Summit of the Americas Due to Cuba Not Being Invited;" and so forth.

    The United States can get away with the Blockade of Cuba, the Embargo against Cuba, blocking Cuba from the Summit in LA, etc., because the United States is the strongest and richest nation in the world...and thus the U. S. can beat all of them or shower aid money on them for cooperating. But, perhaps, the biggest surprise to the the USA's Cuban policy, especially in the past six+ decades, is what it means to the image it presents to much of the world about the U. S. democracy.

     And meanwhile, during the first weekend of June-2022 while the U. S. was hosting the Summit of the Americas in LA, Cubans on the island were still being punished by...the Blockade, the Embargo, the Summit, Little Havana's beloved Helms-Burton Act, and all of the other uncontested Little Havana USA-dominated Cuban policies.

    And meanwhile, during this just completed first weekend in June-2022, Hurricane Agatha also visited Cuba with deadly floods in Havana {above} and the rest of western Cuba and some of central Cuba. {But, remember, Americans are not supposed to care because, you know, all the nice Cubans are in Little Havana USA and all the bad Cubans are still in Havana!!}.

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