US Cuba Policy: Sane or Insane

Fair or Unfair/Honest or Criminal?

   History registers the fact that both Cuba and the United States were discovered in 1492 by the Spanish explorer Columbus. Since then...and especially since the years 1898, the year the U. S. won its Spanish-American War in Cuba to become the new imperative power to dominate Cuba; and 1959, the year Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution overthrew the US's Cuban dictator Batista...there have been very few historians and journalists in the United States that have had the courage, integrity, and ability to tell the truth about the contentious US-Cuba relations. But for many years William LeoGrande has had those three traits and used them to be the USA's overall best and most honest expert related to the much maligned U.S.-Cuba saga. William LeoGrande is the renowned Professor of Government Studies at American University in Washington.

    Today -- November 21st-2022 -- above are the TOP FOUR Cuban headlines flashing around the world. The Foreign Policy Magazine article is headlined: "WHY DEMOCRATS SHOULD FORGET ABOUT FLORIDA and FOCUS on CUBA." You should dial it up and study it carefully because it is written by the great William LeoGrande.

     Above are some of the paragraphs in today's article by William LeoGrande, the top U. S. expert regarding U.S.-Cuba Relations. With the data provided above, you should dial up the entire article and then not JUST read it but devour it.

 Anyone concerned with U.S.-Cuba Relations should consult the aforementioned article today by William LeoGrande. And also, if you can't attend his classes at American University in Washington, at least read his books...especially "BACK CHANNEL TO CUBA" that he co-authored with the great Peter Kornbluh. For example, the Nixon-Castro photo shown on the cover of that seminal book has been grossly lied about for decades to comply with the USA's counter revolutionary assaults on Revolutionary Cuba since January of 1959. The photo was taken in April of 1959 when Fidel Castro flew to the U. S. to tell President Eisenhower that Revolutionary Cuba would be democratic and be the U.S.'s friend and trading partner. Both the U. S. Society of Newspaper Editors and the U. S. government assured him that he could meet Eisenhower face-to-face but that turned out to be a lie; instead he met Vice President Nixon who famously told Fidel Castro that none of that would ever happen because the U. S. would quickly recover control of Cuba. During the 12 days of Castro's trip to the U. S. in April of 1959, he was wildly treated as a revolutionary hero by the American people in both Washington and New York...but he returned to Cuba shaken by Nixon's prediction, which he famously resisted and kept from happening till he died in Havana at age 90 in 2016.

     During his 12-day visit to the U. S. in April of 1959, the new rebel leader of Cuba, as shown above, was on TV's famous Meet the Press program to tell the American people what he had been promised he would be allowed to tell President Eisenhower. But Nixon was the one who shamefully met with Fidel Castro to let him know that the U. S. would quickly recapture Cuba.

    During his 12 days in the U. S. in April of 1959 as Cuba's post-Batista leader, the American people treated Fidel Castro as a hero...and he visited places such as the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. If he had met President Eisenhower, and not Vice President Nixon, it is possible that U.S.-Cuba Relations from 1959 until 2022...and counting...would have been drastically different.

     From April of 1959 until November of 2022 the American people have been grossly lied to about this famous Castro-Nixon photo. And that's a damn shame...for both the U. S. and Cuba.

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