May I Please Ask Andres Oppenheimer 3 Questions?

Just 3 Questions...and a few addendums??

    Almost since January in 1959 -- when the Cuban Revolution overthrew the Miami/Mafia/U.S.-backed Batista DICTATORSHIIP in Cuba -- the Miami Herald has daily promoted the demise of Revolutionary Cuba while implying that dictator Fulgencio Batista, who wildly allowed U. S. companies to partake in his massive Mafiosi-fueled financial windfall, was a U.S.-friendly leader and the rebel leader Fidel Castro was a anti-U.S. fiend. In  February in 2025, as he has done for many years, Andres Oppenheimer uses his forums such as the Miami Herald to one-sidedly present only Little Havana's views regarding US-Cuba Relations.

    Now in February, 2025 -- if you research Cuba News on Google...you will see the two headlines shown above. One headline regards "UN experts express concern over Trump decision to reinstate Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism." The other top Cuban headline was written by Andres Oppenheimer in the Miami Herald: "Trump's foreign aid cuts are a boon to dictators in China, Venezuela and Cuba." As has been the case for decades, Oppenheimer and the Miami Herald today are appalled that ANY hint of ANYTHING that might help the starved and deprived Cuban people must receive an even STRONGER HIT from the endless embargo and blockade from the U. S.

   Born 73 years ago in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Andres Oppenheimer was well educated at Colombia University, etc. He loves the Cubans in Miami/Little Havana but seems to massively hate the Cubans in Havana.

    Therefore he is unquestionably allowed to have as many forums in the United States as he chooses...such as a columnist, paid speaker, author, etc.

   As an 84-year-old American who is a lifelong and pasionate democracy-lover, I would like to ask Mr. Oppenheimer about his Cuban-Miami rants and about his self-proclaimed honesty related to journalism. I happen to believe that even honest media coverage of Cuban-U.S.-Relations is crucial to Democracy in the USA. So, Mr. Oppenheimer, will you take time to at least ponder my three main questions and, if possible, even try to answer them.

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              Mr. Oppenheimer, you seem to believe that all Cubans in Miami Florida are saints and thus should be rich and politically powerful while all Cubans in Cuba are fiends that thus should be starved into oblivion. But as a Democracy-lover I believe that a few rich and powerful people in any superpower nation should not be allowed to lump masses of everyday people in a much-smaller nation as being worthy of being "starved, deprived, and being made miserable." Thus, remembering the Miami-backed purposes of the six-decade-old EMBARGO/blockade of Cuba, my first question to you, Mr. Oppenheimer, is: "Explain to me why you think a few rich and powerful Cuban-Americans in a superpower nation should be allowed to starve and deprive vulnerable masses of people in a nearby, much weaker nation? 

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    For decades, Mr. Oppenheimer, Cubans in the U. S.. have supported U. S. laws such as Helms-Burton and the EMBARGO fully knowing they are designed to enrich and empower Cubans in Miami and starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans in Cuba to entice them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. And, Mr. Oppenheimer, you seem to have eagerly supported additions to such laws as PUTTING CUBA ON THE DREADED SHORT LIST OF NATIONS THAT SUPPORT TERRORISM. So my second question to you, Mr Oppenheimer, is this: "There are pitiful everyday families in Cuba who are suffering even more now that two rich and powerful men, Trump and Rubio, have put Cuba back on that list. Do you also not care, Mr. Oppenheimer, about families in Cuba who are still grieving about their close relatives that were killed by Batista terrorism in Cuba in the 1950s and by terrorism orchestrated by Cubans in Miami since 1959?" 

    Cuban madres {mothers} bravely marching in Batista's Cuba because Batista was killing their ninos {children} as warnings not to resist his rule. Cuban mothers like these, Mr. Oppenheimer, not only helped fuel the start of the Cuban Revollultion but also paid a huge role in winning it on January 1, 1959. The mother on the left in the white blouse and sunglasses was the mother of the murdered Little Willie Soler. Today the William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana is Cuba's largest children's hospital.

     In Revolutinary Cuba a sister and mother are shown above waiting at the Havana airport the moment they learned that their teenage brother/son, a prime athlete, had just been killed when the airplane he was is in had just been blasted into the ocean by a terrorist bomb, killing all 72 people on board. That mother grieved about it for the rest of her life; the sister is still grieving. "Mr. Oppenheimer, did well-known Cuban terrorists in Miami commit such terror against innocent Cubans?" At least, Mr. Oppenheimer, you should know that history and declassified U. S. documents have documented what happened to the civilian Cubana Flight 455.

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     And so, Mr. Oppenheimer, have you written about Cuban-born Miami heroes such as Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles? And that third and last question to you includes this addendum: "Do you, Mr. Oppenheimer, agree that totally innocent sisters and mothers in Cuba are also capable of shedding uncontrollable and endless tears?" 

     

    And thank you, Mr. Oppenheimer, for perhaps allowing some consideration regarding my prime questions regarding your latest Miami Herald article  on the Havana-Little Havana conundrum. You endlessly seem to use your various forums to present only one-sided and distorted journalism about US-Cuban Relations. As an 84-year-old passionate United States-lover and Democracy-lover, I believe that the U. S. Democracy deserves and badly needs honest media coverage, not self-serving propaganda. And most of the time now we Americans believe we are not getting much-needed honest news from the media. The Gallup Poll and others confirm that sad fact. In decades past great journalists told us the truth, such as Edward R. Murrow in World War Two, Walter Cronkite during the Vietnam War, Bernard Shaw during the Iraq War, and more recently media giants such as David Brinkley, Peter Jennings, Harry Reasoner, John Chancellor, Chet Huntley, Tim Russert, Hugh Downs, Howard K. Smith, Eric Sevareid, Dianne Sawyer, Douglas Eswards, etc., etc. did the same. I believe that U.S.-Cuba Relations in recent decades has, among other undemocratic things, been at the forefront of the demise of honest journalism in the United States, a superpower that needs great and honest journalism to keep the tenets of democracy flourishing!!!

      As a print journalist at United Press International and then when he was a television journalist at CBS News, Americans believed what the great and honest Walter Cronkite told them. And that was important, Mr. Oppenheimer.

 What about Andres Oppenheimer's journalism now?

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