Cuba Replies to Miami's & Trump's "Hitmen" Targetiing Cuba

 

     A vibrant Cuban who speaks for the Cuban government, Johana Tablada on April 7th, 2025 lashed out at "Miami's two hitman that Trump has charged with fatally hitting Cuba." She was referring to Trump's U. S. Secretary of Stats Marco Rubio and Trump's Special Latin American Envoy Mauricio Claver-Carone. Johana Tablada believes Trump's "two hitmen" from Miami have spent their entire adult lives in Miami and Washington trying to overthrow the 1959 Cuban Revolution. She believes the Miami-born Rubio is now Trump's main Cuban antagonist but considers Miami-born Claver-Carone to be more dangerous because Rubio's top priorities are things such as bloody wars in Ukraine & Gaza and a high-stakes Trade War with China that don't involve Cuba. So, she thinks Claver-Carone is Trump's prime pointman when it comes to Latin America, which especially includes Cuba.

    Above on Facebook the observant Johana Tablada posted scathing words about "the psychopath Mauricio Claver-Carone." You can read above what she thinks about President Trump's Special Envoy to Latin America...and especially Cuba.

      From Havana Johana Tablada keeps close tabs on Cuban-Americans in Little Havana, which was created in the heart of Miami Florida starting in January of 1959 when the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the Mafiia-riddled Batista dictatorship that brutally overwhelmed Cuba for many years.

     The headline shown above particularly hurt Johana Tablada this week: "Cuban-born rep to lobby Trump administration for major actions to 'starve' Havana regime: 'The time is now." The "Rep" who made that comment was  U. S. Congressman Carlos Gimenez who was born in Batista's Havana but, after Fidel Castro overthrew the Batista dictatorship in 1959, settled in Miami and became the Mayor of Miami-Dade  County from 2011 till 2020 and then became a member of the U. S. Congress from Miami. His use of the word "starve" in that Miami Herald article/headline reminds Johana Tablada of the same word that the U. S. used in 1962 to justify the U.S. EMBARGO/Blockade against Cuba that started in 1962 and, more than six decades later in April of 2025, is being massively tiightened to finally overthrow the 1959 Cuban Revolution. In 1962 to justify the EMBARGO/Blockade the U. S. said the purpose was "to starve, deprive, and make miserable" the Cuban people to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. For over six decades, Johana Tablada claims, it has indeed starved, deprived, and made misrable three generations of Cubans on the island to appease Cubans in Miami/Little Havana. And so...that word "starve" as used by Carlos Gimenez in April of 2025 irks Johana Tablada greatly.

    Born in Havana 71 years ago in 1954 when Fulgencio Batista was the brutal, money-craazed, US-backed, and Mafia-backed Cuban dictator, Carlos Gimenez was one of the many Cubans who settled in Miami after the Cuban Revolution overthrew Batista in January of 1959. With typical and instant support from the wealthy Catholic Church, the superpower U. S. government, etc., Gimenez typically received superb educational opportunities, including at Harvard. Then Gimenez was the long-time Mayor of Miami-Dade County in Florida before following other Havana-born Cuban-Americans such Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln Diaz-Balart as powerful Counter Revolutionary members of the U. S. Congress in Washiington. And the endless line of Florida-born Cuban-Americans in the U. S. Congress have also included Mario Diaz-Balart, Marco  Rubio, Maria Salazar, etc. Thus, Liittle Havana in Miami Florida -- according to Johana Tablada -- "has dictated U. S. Cuban policies to their desires, personally and politically, for the past six decades. Maybe in 2025 it is time for the U. S. democracy to listen to some other people, including me, and not just Miami Cubans." 

       Indeed, on Cuban radio and television as well as at numerous other sessions, Johana Tablada regularly speaks forcefully about Cuban-US Relations.

      And now in April of 2025 Havana legend Johana Tablada believes that Miami-born Mauricio Claver-Carone -- not Donald Trump nor Marco Rubio -- is the biggest threat to Fidel Castro's Cuban Revoluion, which is now in its 66th year of ruling Cuba.

A Victor Toledo photo of Havana in April, 2025.

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Rubio Starts April Still Trying to Change Cuba.

 

    After starting his second 4-year term as President of the United States on January 20th in 2025, Donald Trump's first major decision was to name Marco Rubio as his ultra-powerful Secretary of State. It makes Rubio the leader of the USA's foreign relations, both around the war-torn world and closer to home involving the Caribbean and especially Cuba. Rubio was born 53 years ago in Little Havana/Miami to fierce anti-Castro counter-revolutionary Cuban parents. In his entire adult Political life Rubio, in both Miami and Washington, has tried desperately to overthrow Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, which on January 1st in 1959 overthrew the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship. But now in 2025 as Secretary of State, Rubio presumably has the power to finally overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. In fact, many of the most astute US-Cuban experts believed that Rubio would have completed his task of overthrowing Revolutionary Cuba by April but we have now entered the first week of April in 2025 and Cuba is still standing as it closely monitors...Rubio.

    Entering April of 2025 the two top Cuban Headlines flashing around the world, as shown above, are from CNN in the U. S. and from El Pais in Spain. CNN  says Marco Rubio is fiercely targeting Cuba and El Pais tells the world that famed Cuban singer Haydee Milanes, from her new home in Miami, is "hurt" about how "devastated" Cuba is "is becoming."

    Above are excerpts from CNN starting April of 2025 by reporting that Marco Rubio is using his Secretary of State airplane to lobby Caribbean leaders to support his effortts to finally overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. As you can see above Rubio was getting some pushback from leaders such as Andrew Holness, the Prime Minister of Jamaica. At the Press Conference that CNN showed above in Kingston, Jamaica, Rubio tried to tell Holness to stop paying and using Cuba's famed medical doctors in Jamaica. But, as you can see above, Holness bravely told Rubio that those beloved Cuban doctors were providing much needed medical services for the Jamaican people and therefore he wanted even more of them. Note in the CNN photo shown above that Rubio was looking at Holness who was praising Cuba's doctors.

     And, meanwhile, the famed Cuban singer Haydee Milanes is shown above proudly wearing a "actually I'm in Havana" shirt. But, anticipating that Marco Rubio is about to change the political leadership in Havana, Haydee Milanes has moved to Little Havana in Miami, Marco Rubio's hometown.

     This photo shows Pablo Milanes and his daughter Haydee Milanes. As a guitarist, singer, and songwriter, Pablo was for many decades one of Cuba's greatest musicians and he supported Fidel Castro's revolution. In her long interview with El Pais about why she moved to Miami, Haydee expained that her father died two years ago but her mother Zoe Alvarez remains in Cuba. Below are key exceprts from Haydee Milanes speaking to El Pais from her exile in Miami,, and you will readily detect how she described the "devastation" in Cuba that caused her to leave her homeland for Miami after her father Pablo died. Note her  comments below:

Above...Haydee Milanes article in El Pais.

     Meanwhile, as we enter April in 2025 U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pointing directly at Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel. As Cuba's leader since 2018, Diaz-Canel is abundantly aware of his precarious hold on power but he says, "Rubio and other Miami politicians since 1959 have had the power of the superpower behind them in their efforts to destroy the revolution. It has not happened and it has been predictted to happen each day for the past 66 years." 

    This photo shows Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel paying homage at Fidel Castro's tomb in Santiago de Cuba. The revolutionary leader died at age 90 in 2016 in Havana. Miguel Diaz-Canel was born a few months after the victory of Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959. But Diaz-Canel worships Fidel's legacy and he believes most Cubans agree with him. Also, including his pre-presidential career as Educatiion Minister, Diaz-Canel is generally well liked despite the "devastation" on the island that Haydee Milanes and others talk so loudly about after they become exiles in Miami.

     But, still, a few determined foreign tourists make it to Havana lured by things such as those 1950s-era convertibles that stiil drive as well as they did back in the 1950s when the U. S. media and the U. S. government wildly promoted tourism to Batista's Mafia-run, money-crazed dictattorship. Of course, much has changed in Cuba since 1959 when the Cuban Revolution became the surprise change-maker.

And Cuba somehow still exists!!

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Cuba Says It Is "Strong" enough to survive Trump and Rubio

      In these last few days In March of 2025 there remain many predictions that President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio will soon overthrow Cuba's Revolutionary government that has ruled the island nation since January of 1959 when it overthrew the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatroship. The top image above shows Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel trying to let the world know that Cuba doesn't believe the island deserves the six-decade-old U. S. Embargo nor that it doesn't deserve to be on the USA's very short list of Nations that Sponsor Terrorism. Out-spoken revolutionary Cubans such as Yohana Tablada and Gerardo Hernandez Nordela are shown strongly agreeing with their President. Among the two YouTube videos shown below are some of the non-Cuban comments circling around the world about Cuba:

         And meanwhile...while top news agencies in the U. S. and around the world report that "Cuba is IMPLODING," and is far too weak to resist the designs of U. S. President Trump and Secretary Rubiio to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba, the state-run Cuban media ubiquitously shouts about how "fuerza" {"strong"} the island is:

"STRONG CUBA"

      Above is a discussion aired on the Cuban media in which President Miguel Diaz-Canel, Johana Tablada, and Gerardo Hernandez Nordela talk about how Revolutionary Cuba can improve relatiions with the United States so the island can better deal with massive domestic problems that include food and medical shortages as well as constant nationwide power blackouts caused by poorly maintained energy plants. 

      At the end of March-2025 this was Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel using Cuba's radio and television media to tell the Cuban people that "the revolution is working tirelessly to improve every hardship the people are facing each and every day." Meanwhile...the U. S. media led by the Miami Herald is upset that the Trump administration is trying to shut down Miami's Radio-TV Marti operation that, for over three decades, had raked in hundreds of millions in tax-dollars to tout Little Havava Cubans in Miami while broadcastting continuous Courter Revolutionary programs.

    In an effort to cut out vast "fraud and waste" in the federal government President Donald Trump has appointed Kari Lake to hopefully curtain the fraud and waste involved in projects such as Radio-TV Marti in Miami and even the World War Two-famed Voice of America network.

 

     The purpose of Radio-TV Marti has been to use millions of tax dollars to enrich Little Havana Cubans in Miami as well as to encourage Cubans in Cuba to rise up and overthrew their rvolutionary government. Of course, Cuba blocked the broadcasts and even if by chance it was heard in Cuba it was not effective. So, of course, the prime purpose of Radio-TV Marti is to enrich selected Cubans iin Miami.

      For the past three decades all of the best U. S. journalists -- such as Tracey Eaton and Jeffrey Kofman -- are experts reporting about Cuba and have repeatedly reported about Radio-TV Marti as a financial scam to enrich Cubans in Miami.

     Above is just one example of the great Tracey Eaton explaining that the purpose of Radio-TV Marti is to provide millions of tax dollars to selected Cubans in Miami.

    And above is just one example of the great Jeffrey Kofman reporting on ABC News that the purpose of Radio-TV Marti was/is to provide millions of tax dollars to selected Cubans in Miami. Jeffrey Kofman's most famous report about the scam that is Radio-TV Marti was entitled "Newscasts to Nowhere" but, of course, they have been making Cubans in Miami very rich for over three decades!!

   Of course, as March comes to an end in 2025 the Trump presidency is including Radio-TV Marti in Miami as one of tax-provided U. S. agencies that should be shut down because of waste and fraud. But, of course, ultra-powerful Miami Cubans such Carlos Gimenez powerfully object. Carlos Gimenez was born 71 years ago in Havana-Cuba in 1954 in the heyday of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship that was fleecing and brutalizing Cuba as top U. S. companies partook in the spoils. But after the triump of the Cuban Revolution on January 1st in 1959, Cubans flocked to Miami and found power and riches...thanks to eager help from the U. S. government, the Catholic Church, etc. Typically, Gimenez got top educational opportunities, including Harvard, and became the powerful Mayor of Miami-Dade County from 2011 till 2020 and since 2023 has represented Miami powerfully in the U. S. Congress.

     And meanwhile...at the end of March in 2025 the top Cuban Headlines included The Economist telling the world "How Cuba competes with Uncle Sam in the Caribbean island." Of course, the competition is a David vs. Goliath affair.

      And, meanwhile, as Cuba braces for the month of April in 2025, the Caribbean's largest island remains uniquely embroiled in trying to survive the stifling U. S. EMBARGO that has existed since 1962. But, who knows?...maybe something in April in 2025 could happen that helps. Yes, who knows.

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