Loving Cuba vs. Hating Cuba!!
The two photos above in late August of 2022 chronicle and revive the ageless tug-of-wars between the mighty USA and little Cuba that, actually, have been going on since 1492, which was the year both neighboring territories were discovered by the Spanish discoverer Columbus. Carlos Lazo is a Cuba-born Cuban-American professor from Seattle who has devoted his life to keeping Miami Cubans from "starving my mother and other innocent people in Cuba."; Marco Rubio is a Miami-born Cuban-American in Miami who furiously represents Miami in the U. S. Senate and has devoted his career to being an extreme Counter Revolutionary zealot devoted to overthrowing the Cuban Revolution, which on January 1st of 1959 overthrew the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship, the historic event that quickly created Little Havana in the heart of Miami, which has drastically changed both Cuba and the USA. Now in August of 2022 Rubio's latest tactic is to urge the FBI to go after Lazo. That is hugely significant because since 1959 Miami Cubans like Rubio have, essentially, been allowed to dictate the USA's Cuban policies...which for over six tumultuous decades have been used to TRY to overthrow the Cuban Revolution.
The efforts, of course, have lavishly enriched and empowered Little Havana USA Cubans but drastically assaulted masses and generations of Cubans in Havana and all of Cuba...while U. S. citizens, voters, and taxpayers have been propagandized to hugely award Little Havana USA and, of course, not be ashamed about what the rest of the world thinks of the U. S. treatment of Cubans in Cuba.
When Miami's ultra-powerful and uncontested U. S. Senator Marco Rubio in August of 2022 sic's the ultra-powerful FBI on Carlos Lazo, it's a big deal. Neither the overall U. S. government nor the overall U. S. media will dare contest Rubio's extreme anti-Cuban policies because Little Havana, Miami, and the state of Florida are simply too politically powerful to be riled. So...if anyone or anything tries to "roll back" Little Havana USA's control of America's Cuban policies, Marco Rubio alone can put a stop to it.
So, exactly, what is Marco Rubio's beef with Carlos Lazo? Especially during Donald Trump's four years as President, Senator Rubio was allowed to drastically expand the USA's already drastic six-decade-old assaults on Cuba. Rubio and Trump even activated Title 3 of Helms-Burton, something that the totally Miami-aligned two-term George W. Bush presidency refused to activate because even Bush believed that activating Title 3 would mean genocide against Cubans in Cuba. So Carlos Lazo and some of his students rode their bikes 3,000 miles from Seattle to Washington to beg President Trump and Rubio to at least ease Title 3 and the genocidal aspects of Miami's beloved and lucrative Helms-Burton Act. But when neither Trump nor the U. S. media paid any attention to his fervent plea, Carlos founded an organization he calls "Bridges of Love" to try to keep Cubans in Cuba from being starved, deprived, and made miserable by rich and powerful people in a Superpower nation. When he believed Trump's successor, President Joe Biden, would also not ease Title 3, Carlos walked the 300 miles from Little Havana in Miami to Washington to beg President Biden to at least ease Title 3. Again neither Biden nor the media paid any attention to Carlos.
Meanwhile, of course, Americans are not supposed to even know what Title 3 of Helms-Burton is!! But the astute and beloved professor from Seattle, Carlos Lazo, believes it legalizes genocide against his mother and other innocent Cubans in Cuba.
And meanwhile, of course, since 1996 Americans are not supposed to know nor care what Congress's massive Helms-Burton Law massively perpetrates!! But the great professor from Seattle, Carlos Lazo, believes that Helms-Burton has two distinct purposes: {1} to make sure that tax & tourist dollars create many millionaires and billionaires in Little Havana USA, while also {2} trying to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans in Cuba.
And so...fighting valiantly against Title 3 and Helms-Burton has become Carlos Lazo's passion. Expertly organizing protests in cities around the U. S. {including Little Havana USA}, and using Social Media platforms effectively, Carlos Lazo's "Bridges of Love/Puentes de Amor" foundation has grown more-and-more powerful. He now regularly flies planeloads of medicine, food, and other necessities to families in Cuba. In the Facebook/YouTube photo above, Carlos has just off-loaded boxes in Cuba that included children's medicine as well as cans of Tuna and other food.
A former U. S. soldier and now a professor, Carlos Lazo's fervent desire to keep families in Cuba from starving and otherwise being targeted has drawn the ire of Little Havana USA's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio. Obviously Rubio believes he has the support of the U. S. media and the U. S. government as he asks the FBI to investigate and presumably imprison Carlos Lazo. All this has left the Lazo vs. Rubio battle a David vs. Goliath tug of war.
In English and Spanish, Carlos Lazo uses his emphatic videos and speeches on Social Media platforms as well as massive caravan-long protests in cities from Vancouver to Miami to New York, etc., to fight for targeted families in Cuba...and now he also must direct his defense against Marco Rubio. Carlos Lazo knows that the U. S. media and the U. S. government will not support him as he responds to Senator Marco Rubio, but as shown above he uses his strong platforms on Facebook, YouTube, etc., to respond. Above he starts out saying: "Carlos Lazo's response: About Senator Marco Rubio's attempt to get the FBI to investigate members of the Bridges of Love humanitarian movement and war veteran and professor Carlos Lazo. I want to thank Senator Marco Rubio. I never thought a U. S. senator would take notice of our movement and lift us up like he has..."
The vicious Tug-of-War between Carlos Lazo and Marco Rubio is, of course, a classic David vs. Goliath struggle. But, nevertheless, don't expect the compassionate Cuban-American Carlos Lazo to stop trying to keep his mother and other innocent Cubans in Cuba from being starved, deprived, and made miserable...by ultra-powerful forces such as Title 3 of the Helms-Burton Act.
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