A U. S. Politician Not Afraid to Speak Truth About Cuba

 In fact, One U. S. Journalist Does Too!!

    Top respected U. S. polls, including the Gallup Poll, reveal that most Americans "don't trust" what the mainstream U. S. media tells them, and most Americans "don't trust" lawmakers in the U. S. Congress. As an 83-year-old Democracy-loving American, those revelations concern me deeply. In 2004 the anti-Cuba George W. Bush adminitration in Washington permitted me to go to Cuba for the purpose of investigating why the famed Cuban revolutionary icon Celia Sanchez remained, long after she died at age 59 in 1980 from cancer, so revered in Cuba. Making it a point to spend my time with everyday Cubans, including overnight stays with six very poor rural families, I indeed discovered their abiding love for Celia Sanchez, but it was not what my support of Republican administrations, such those of George W. Bush and his father George H. W. Bush, had educated me on regarding their disdain for Cuba since the 1959 Revolution. You see...the U. S. media and the U. S. government, I have discovered, have steadfastly replicated the Bush family's agenda regarding Cuba. I sincerely believe that policy has drastically hurt and harmed the U. S. as much, maybe more, than it has hurt and harmed Cuba. In that milieu, it is hard to find a prominent U. S. politician or a prominent U. S. journanist that has the courage to speak truthfully and correctly about U.S.-Cuba Relations. Yet, there are in December of 2023 two such brave and honest Americans!! As a long-time member of the U. S. Congress, Jim McGovern has long fought bravely for the U. S. to change its drastically harmful and cruel policies regarding Cuba. As a long-time Washington journalist, Ryan Grim has also consistently told the truth about the massive harm, to both the U. S. and to Cuba, that Washington's Cuban policies have done. The hugely important article shown below, first posted today on December 14th in December of 2023, is written by Ryan Grim about the views of Jim McGovern regarding the U. S. politices regarding Cuba. I believe Americans should read it:

    The massive Ryan Grim/Jim McGovern Headline and Article today -- on December 14th of 2023 -- very uniquely speaks the truth about U. S.-Cuba Relations. It starts with the fact that the Biden adminstration for the past three years has KEPT IN PLACE the Trump administration's decision to put Cuba on the USA's very short List of Nations that Sponsor Terrorism. That decision vastly hurts Cuban families in Cuba but also vastly enriches and empowers already rich and powerful Cuban counter revolutionaries in Miami and in Congress. One brave Washington politician, Jim McGovern, and one brave Washington journalist, Ryan Grim, have both the courage and the insight to explain why the current and ever-lasting U. S. policies regarding Cuba are drastic and harmful for both counties!!

     Today -- on December 14th in 2023 -- I would like to say this: I do not think a few rich people in a large rich nation should be allowed to Embargo poor families in a much-smaller nation. The greatest shame, I believe, is that the rich people in the large nation get away with merely saying, "Our Embargo is meant to starve only the mean leaders in Cuba and, of course, is meant to help the rest of the Cuban people." That lucrative lie has created a lot of rich Cubans and politicians in Miami but for six decades has starved, deprived, and made miserable Cuban families in Cuba. Therefore, I agree with great and honest Americans like Congressman Jim McGovern and Journalist Ryan Grim that the worldwide image shown above shames the United States even more than it starves Cubans in Cuba!!!

*&***********************&*