22.9.22

The US-Cuba Conundrum

 SEPTEMBER 2022

    Since 1492, the year that both Cuba and the US were discovered by Columbus, American writers have written endlessly about The Cuban Conundrum. One day they perhaps will begin to comprehend Cuba, but that simply has not happened and now we are in September of 2022!! Until 1898 the US simply watched across the Florida Straits as the world's imperative powers fought over the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island. But in 1898 the U. S. believed it was strong enough to easily beat Spain on Cuban soil, which it did in quickly winning the Spanish-American War. It was believed by some that the U. S. would install a democracy in Cuba, but that didn't happen. Thus in January of 1959 the Cuban Revolution surprised the world by defeating the U.S.-backed & Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship, which quickly spawned the creation of Little Havana on U. S. soil in the heart of Miami, Florida.
     Of course, the American writer who has best chronicled the Cuban Conundrum has been the great T. J. English in his classic book Havana Nocturne, which told us "How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution."
     Without studying and understanding Havana Nocturne, Americans have no comprehension of why and how the USA's dire efforts to regain control of Cuba have been so direly futile since January of 1959...even as the world's Superpower is determined to utterly destroy the rebels in the much smaller, weaker, and poorer island nation.
    That very brief synopsis of the very expansive Cuban Conundrum leads us to today -- September 22, 2022 -- when the top Cuban Headlines shown above saturate the U. S. media. Of course, since January of 1959 the U. S. media has consistently provided Americans a distorted and biased view of the Cuban Conundrum -- namely declaring that all the Cubans in Cuba are bad and all the Cubans in Miami and Congress are good!!
     But for the record, and for what it's worth, above is the Associated Press article on Thursday, September 22nd, 2022. Incredibly, one result of the vast Cuban Conundrum changing the U. S. landscape since 1898 and especially since 1959 is the sheer fact that few Americans now trust the U. S. media, which has always been considered a vital part of a viable democracy. One recent poll lists U. S. trust in its media at 11% of the American people. And YES, the Cuban Conundrum that since 1492, since 1898, and since 1959 has so drastically changed the United States has also had a deleterious affect on the drastic decline of the U. S. media in the United States of America.
    As suggested by T. J. English's great book Havana Nocturne, perhaps the U. S. has been affected more than Cuba by the Cuban Conundrum...especially since 1898 and 1959. Beginning in these last few days in September of 2022, perhaps it is time for more intelligent and more honest Americans to be allowed to be included in the crafting of the USA's Cuban policies.
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