US Greed Craved CUBA

From Jefferson To Biden!!

     Since 1492, the year Columbus discovered Cuba and wrote in his diary that the island is the most beautiful sight these eyes have seen, all the imperative powers in the world have coveted taking control of Cuba. That included the nearby United States that, by the 1800s, had also developed a salacious obsession in controlling and exploiting Cuba's lush potential and its extremely strategic geographical location, as you can see by a sampling of the historic quotations listed above. In 1898 the U. S. concocted the Spanish-American War to capture Cuba from the weakened Spanish empire, and the U. S., among other things, by 1903 had taken the plush Guantanamo Bay port, made it legal to use its military on the island whenever it chose, etc., etc.

      Starting in 1898 the United States had a grand opportunity to make Cuba the greatest Democracy in the Caribbean's history. But in the 1930s, the 1940s, and the 1950s the powers-that-be in the United States decided they wanted a U.S.-friendly dictatorship in Cuba...determining that a Democracy in Cuba would make sure that most of the island's natural resources would be devoted to helping Cubans on the island, not reserved for rich U. S. businessmen. The photo above is one that Americans are not supposed to understand. It shows U. S. businessman Edmund Chester with Cuba's brutal and thieving dictator Fulgencio Batista. During Batista's two stints as Cuba's brutal and thieving dictatorship from the 1930s into the 1950s, prime U. S. businesses and businessmen reaped huge fortunes...to the detriment of everyday Cubans on the island and to the reputation of the United States democracy.

      After his first stint as Cuba's thieving and brutal dictatorship, the ultra-rich Fulgencio Batista retired and had a mansion in South Florida where he became dear friends with ultra-rich Mafia kingpins, notably Meyer Lansky who was top Mafia kingpin Lucky Luciano's financial czar. At one point in South Florida Meyer Lansky mentioned to Cuba's retired dictator Fulgenicio Batista, "You know, Fulgenicio, I have always wanted the Mob to own its own country." Well, that thought evolved into Batista's second Cuban dictatorship starting in 1952...which was Mafia-riddled and far more brutal and thieving than Batista's first dictatorship. The photo above shows Meyer Lansky leaving one of his Havana hotel-casinos with that night's satchel-full of loot. The photo is emblematic of the vast fortunes that Mafia kingpins and U. S. businessmen were raking in starting in 1952...with the U. S. government making sure that massive tourists from the U. S. to Cuba were indulging in Mafia schemes such as gambling, drugs, prostitution, etc. There, however, was one mistake that Batista, the Mafia, and the U. S. made: They didn't bother to throw some crumbs to the majority Cubans who were not involved with the wholesale rape and robbery of the island; OF COURSE, the belief was that there was no need to toss some crumbs to the majority of Cubans because, after all, Batista had his own strong army and police force and Batista was backed by the strongest nation in the world, the United States, and by the strongest criminal organization in the world, the Mafia.

     As far as the U. S. media and U. S. historians are concerned, photos such as the two depicted above didn't exist in Batista's Cuba DURING THE 1950s...but very emphatically they did exist and, in fact, defined Batista's Cuba in the 1950s. While the Mafia and U. S. businesses were making obscene fortures in Cuba, there was no need to even toss some crumbs to the majority Cubans, like those shown above. No education, no healthcare...no nothing for the peasants!!!

    Thus, by 1952 virtually every one of the majority peasants in Cuba supported Fidel Castro's Revolution that was designed to boot the Batistianos, the Mafia, and the United States off the island. Incredibly, on New Year's Day in 1959 it succeeded and shocked the world!!! And at the end of JULY of 2023, almost seven years after Fidel Castro died at age 90 in 2016, the United States IS STILL TRYING TO OVERTHROW THE Cuban Revolution!! Thus the Cuban Revolution and its LONGEVITY remain two of the most amazing feats of all-time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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