U.S. Media's One-Sided Cuban Diatribes

 

     Since the 1950s Americans have been spoon-fed distorted accolades -- "Sooo Beautiful"/"BRAVO" -- about how wonderful Cuba's Batista dictatorship was from 1952 till 1959 and then how terrible Revolutionary Cuba has been since 1959. 

      From 1952 until 1959, when he was overthrown by the Cuban Revolution, Fulgencio Batista was Cuba's brutal and thieving dictator. During that time the Caribbean's largest island nation was a mammoth Cash Cow for the Batistianos and for the Mafia and for rich U. S. businessmen who supported the dictator and were lushly rewarded in exchange for military and financial kickbacks. To this day in July of 2022, more than six decades after the overthrow of Batista, Americans are still being told that Batista's Cuba provided everyday Cubans one of Latin America's all-time best financial standards of living. That's like saying that a multi-billionaire and a penny-less person living under a bridge have similar financial standards. For sure in Batista's Cuba, the Batistianos, the Mafiosi, and the U. S. businessmen amassed fortunes. Of course, that ignores the plights of everyday Cubans in Batista's Cuba...including the two main reasons -- extreme poverty and extreme brutality -- that spawned Latin America's most historic and longshot revolution.

    There are numerous black-and-white photos such as this that document the extreme poverty of everyday Cubans in Batista's Cuba from 1952 till 1959. The ultra-powerful Batista simply saw no need to toss a few crumbs to the peasants.

     Instead of tossing a few crumbs to the non-Batistiano Cubans...and even providing some decent healthcare and educational opportunities...Dictator Batista chose to quell dissent with extremely brutal tactics...tactics -- murdering children as warnings -- that outraged Cuban mothers who bravely took to the streets to tell the world, including the famed New York Times reporter Herbert L. Matthews, what Batista was doing to their children. Photos like the ones directly above explain what created the long-shot revolution that ended up overthrowing Batista...an event that changed Cuba and the United States forever.

    For over six decades Cuban exiles and the U. S. government have desperately tried to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. Incredibly, it hasn't happened although the super-powerful and super-rich U. S. has had its own controversial military base on Cuban soil at Guantanamo Bay since 1903. The endless attempts to overthrow the Cuban Revolution have comprised no-holds-barred strategies...such as bombing Cuba's vital sugar fields starting in January of 1960; the famed Bay of Pigs military attack in April of 1961; etc., etc., etc., etc.!!! After such drastic efforts failed, beginning in 1962 the U. S. began a massive economic Embargo-Blockade of Cuba designed to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government.

      The U. S. economic Embargo, which Cubans call a Blockade, has existed since 1962. For sure, it has starved, deprived, and made miserable generations of Cubans on the nearby island, but so far it hasn't accomplished it primary goal.

     Yet...from January of 1959 until July of 2022 the mainstream U. S. media has told Americans how wonderful and rich Cuba's Batista dictatorship was in the 1950s while how terrible and POOR Cuba has been since the wondrous and lucrative  1950s. An example is shown above today -- July 8th, 2022 -- when the John Suarez article in the Orange County Register refers to an Editorial in Jose Bezos' Washington Post that lavishly condones anything and everything that U. S. Cubans and the U. S. media say about U.S.-Cuban Relations. In other words, since the 1950s it doesn't matter what U.S.-Cuban relations are or have been. But...what does matter is who GETS to write about it.

    "Cuba vs. Blockade." Arianny Tellez Lamothe posted this photo on Facebook today -- July 8th, 2022. Arianny lives in Guantanamo, Cuba. She is a mother of two children, and she has opinions about things such as the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of her town. I believe that her opinions count too.

     These are Arianny Tellez Lamothe's two children in the town of Guantanamo, Cuba. I believe that children like these should be factored into the equation when rich people in a nearby powerful nation impose an economic blockade or other injustices that impact the precious lives of children such as these.

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