cubaninsider: Cuba Accuses US of Lying About Its Cuban Provacations

8.8.25

Cuba Accuses US of Lying About Its Cuban Provacations

When it comes to issues between the United States and Cuba, Johana Tablada is the most forceful and ubiquitous spokesperson for Cuba. Recently at the Cuban Embassy in Washington she held forth about the latest ongoing disputes that divide the neighbors, one of which is the world's economic and military superpower and the other being the largest island/nation in the Caribbean. The U. S. media, as usual, ignored what Johana Tablada had to say at that session but, as usual, Reuters -- the London-based international superstar News Agency -- reported worldwide about what this important Cuban had to say. If you want to read about the "Reuters" article its headline is: "Top Cuban official accuses US of trying to provoke conflict." One of the key sentences in the Reuters worldwide article quoted Johana Tablada as saying, "An armed clash between the two old Cold War rivals was 'not a good idea.'"

This photo shows Johana Tablada pointing out one Cuba's scenic attactions to a friend. Very fluent in Spanish and English, she often speaks before groups of Cubans about the hardships they are facing and she blames most of it on the United States. Below, using her English words, is one such example of her prime points about what she labels the U. S. "policy" regarding Cuba:

When she speaks, Johana Tablada speaks {as above} for Cuba.

Johana Tablada says that the U. S. EMBARGO against Cuba, which has existed since 1962, is genocidal against the masses of everyday Cubans "but somehow has not overthrown the revolutionary Cuban government that has existed since 1959."

Johana Tablada says, "Back in the 1950s the United States supported and armed Cuba's brutal dictator Fulgencio Batista because he allowed rich U. S. companies to rob Cuba blind along with Batista's U. S. Mafia friends such as Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky."

The photo and caption shown above shows rebels and regular citizens in Havana January 1st in 1959 trying to find Batista cronies before they could find sanctuary in Miami or in dictator Trujillo's Dominican Republic. Johana Tablada says, "Of course, most of the Batista and Mafia cronies by daylight on January 1 in 1959 had fled with lots of loot with Miami being their main final and lucrative destination. That's how Little Havana in Miami formed, of course."

The Little Havana of Miami destination was created starting in 1959 by key members of former dictator Batista's dictatorship such as Batista's minister Rafael Diaz-Balart who quickly created The White Rose unit in Miami that was the first counter revolutionry group on U. S. soil. Since 1959 Little Havana in Miami has not yet overthrown Revolutionary Cuba but it has surely produced a vast array of extremely rich and politically powerful Cuban-Americans.

After being a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship in the 1950s, Rafael Diaz-Balat, starting in 1959, became one of the richest and most-powerful Cubans with connections to Miami and to Washington. He is shown above in the photo above in the middle wearing a holstered gun while he was attending a Batista rally in the last full year {1958} of the Batista dictatorship in Cuba.

In the photo above that is Rafael Diaz-Balart in the middle flanked by his father Rafael on the left and two of his sons Lincoln, who was born in Havana, and Mario, who was born in Florida. Both Lincoln and Mario became powerful counter revolutionary members in the U. S. Congress in Washington...Lincoln starting in 1993 till 2011 and Mario starting in 2011 until the present day. Lincoln was born in Havana in 1954 and died at age 70 in southern Florida on March 3rd in 2025. Mario was born in 1961 in Fort Lauderdale in southern Florida and is 63 years old.

This was a rural family in Batista's dictatorship.

After the victory of the Cuban Revolution that overthrew Batista on January 1 i 1959, Revolutionary Cuba guaranteed every Cuban things such as free food if needed, free educations through college, etc. Both Cubans in Cuba who support the Revolution and Cubans in Miami who hate the Revolution identify closely with The White Rose, which was the name of one of Jose Marti's most famous poems and also the name of the first counter-revolutuionary unit in Florida.

The images above of Jose Marti and Fidel Castro reveal an intriguing aspect of the legendary divide between Havana and Little Havana as well as the difference between Cuba and the United States. For example, Cubans in both Havana and Little Havana love Jose Marti but the love and hatred for Fidel Castro to this day in August of 2025 still reaches historic, topical and vastly different parameters in the two neighboring countries. Jose Marti has been loved as an artist and revolutionary in both Cuba, the U. S., and the world; Fidel Castro is still mostly loved in Cuba but still roundly hated in the U. S., mostly in Miami. Jose Marti was born in Havana on January 28th in 1853 and died fighting Spanish soldiers on Cuban soil at the Battle of Dos Rios on May 19th in 1895. Fidel Castro died peacefully of old age in Havana at age 90 on November 25th, 2016.

Back in the 1950s during the Batista dictatorship both the U. S. government and the U. S. media wildly supported and promoted tourism to Cuba when the Batistianos, Mafia kingpins, and top U. S. companies were making financial fortunes on the island. Above ubiquitous ads like this one saturated the United States promoting tourism to Cuba in Batista's Cuba touting prime lures such as the famed Varadero Beach in the 1950s.

But starting in 1959 after the Cuban Revolution ousted dictator Batista, the U. S. has tried desperately to restrict tourism to Cuba...even though Varadero Beach, just a few miles south of Florida, has been rated "The Greatest Beach in the World." A drastic lack of tourism in 2025 has helped cause drastic food shortages and island-wide power blackouts in Cuba. The U. S. loudly claims that Cuba's own mistakes have created the problems...although Cuba is the only nation in the world that has ever suffered from such a prolonged Embargo/Blockade imposed by the world's srongest and richest nation, and IT has existed since 1962!!!!!