Cuba-US Relations in the Age of Trump

In March of 2025!! 

      Today is March 13th in 2023 and above are the Top Cuban Headlines flashing around the United States and the world. Since January 20th in 2025 the new Trump administration has been mostly obsessed with domestic and international problems but the Superpower USA's decades-long attempts to end the Cuban Revolution is taking a backseat to things like fierce wars elsewhere in the world...but there is no doubt that the USA's big problem with little Cuba will not be forever forgotten. As usual, today the most pertinent Cuban Headline is by the London-based Reuters News Agency: "Defiant Caribbean leaders dismiss trafficking accusations as US targets...{Cuba}." As usual, this important headline today -- on March 13th in 2025 -- indicates that the US remains alone with its fiercely and endlessly "targeting of Cuba."

     As shown above, today's London-based Reuters article points out correctly that the rest of the Caribbean as well as the rest of the world simply disagrees with the USA's war-like policies regarding Revolutionary Cuba "since Cuba's 1959 revolution" overthrew the lucrative but not-so-nice USA/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship.

     The USA in 1898 very easily won the Spanish-American War fought in Cuba, making the United States the latest imperative power to covet and then dominate Cuba. Then that war later in the 1950s spawned the Cuban Revolution.

     In mid-March of 2025 the neighboring flags of Cuba and the United States are still waving in the ever-shifting Caribbean winds. But, as usual, the David vs. Goliath battles of little Cuba trying to come to grips with its northern superpower neighbor continues. It actually began in 1492, which was the year explorer Christopher Columbus discovered both territories, quickly writing in his diary that the island that became Cuba "is the most beautiful land that these eyes have ever seen." Spain then began fighting with or against other imperative powers to maintain control of Cuba. By 1898 the United States felt it was powerful enough to launch the Spanish-American War on nearby Cuban soil and easily ended Spanish control of Cuba. But the U. S. influence by 1953 had spawned Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution that in 1959 shocked the world by overthrowing the Batista dictatorship that was considered invincible when it was supported by the superpower United States and by the powerful Mafia.

     But, as shown above, long before the thievery and brutality of the Batista rule in the 1950s, the United States, almost even as it became a nation in 1776, had longed to control Cuba. If you deny that historical fact, study the quotations shown above. The most important U. S. Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, by 1817 was loudly proclaiming "If we seize Cuba, we will be masters of the Caribbean." By 1823 Mr. Jefferson was still proclaiming "I candidly profess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could be made to our system of States." That was from the famed writer of the U. S. Declaration of Independence from England who then became the third President of the United States. Besides Thomas Jefferson other key politicians and newspapers routinely and loudly bellowed over the need of the United States to control Cuba...finally fueling the Spanish-American War in 1898.

      And yet, pugnacious little Cuba somehow has protected its Cuban Revolution since 1959, which was the year that powerful remnants of the ousted Batista dictatorship began to create Little Havana in nearby Miami Florida. And quickly while becoming very rich and politically powerful, the Cuban-Americans in Little Havana -- led by Cuban-born anti-Castro zealots such Rafael Diaz-Balart, Jorge Mas Canosa, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, etc. -- have always been at the forefront of the mammoth U. S. efforts to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba.

In other words............................

     ........but even with Cuba in Miami since 1959, Cuba in Cuba in mid-March in 2025 is still playing David to the United States Goliath. By no means is David winning, but at least it is still standing after being continually counted out daily since 1959.

       But, Yes, a third generation of Cuban mothers in Cuba are now barely able to survive the ageless decades of revolutionary leaders trying to oppose six decades+ of...Little Havana Miami Florida dictating U. S. Cuban policies.

      It has been argued that Cuba is the only little country that could have survived six-decades of a massive EMBARGO imposed by a much larger and much richer Superpower neighbor. But both history and topicality reveal that the U. S. EMBARGO of CUBA has existed continually since 1962 and has also been routinely expanded, including by the new Trump administration in 2025. So Trump is merely the latest U. S. President to try to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba since 1959. Below in mid-March in 2025 the Spanish El Pais News Agency explains why Cuba is more vulnerable than ever in its defense of the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

    Of course, as shown below, U. S. headlines and articles daily promote "South Florida's" viewpoints regarding the complicated US-Cuba conundrum.

   With Miami-superstar Marco Rubio now the top official in the Trump administration as the U. S. Secretary of State, some observers are merely counting down the days till MiamiFlorida topples the Cuban Revolution's rule in Cuba.

      But the two Vladimi Molina photos shown above were taken this week in mid-March in 2025 and they actually show some Cuban women on the island still strongly supporting the Cuban Revolution. So...STAY TUNED. It ain't over till it's over.

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