The US-Cuba Conundrun In 2025!!
Born in Manzanillo {Cuba} 71 years ago, Mike Hernandez's parents brought him to the U. S. in 1964, five years after the Cuban Revolution had overthrown the US/Mafia-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Growing up in the U. S. he received huge advantages afforded by counter revolutionary Cubans, the Catholic Church, the U. S. government, and the U. S media. As an adult the well-educated and well-positioned Cuban-American Mike Hernandez, like many other U. S. refugees from Revolutionary Cuba, became a millionaire and then a multi-billionaire. He founded MBF Heathcare Partners in 2005. In the USA's two-party political system, he was a Republican and tried to promote Republican Jeb Bush's presidential bid. But in 2016, as a billionaire, he accompanied Democratic President Barack Obama on the historic goodwill trip to Cuba. Over the years he supported various politicians but became disenchanted with Miami's and the USA's treatment of everyday Cubans in Cuba, especially with Miami's and Washington's recent tightening of the 7-decade-old U. S. economic Embargo/Blockade that has helped leave everyday Cubans with drastic food shortages and island-wide power blackouts, a situation that Americans are routinely told "is ONLY Cuba's FAULT." Therefore, the multi-billionaire Mike Hernandez in this year of 2025 has sponsored billboards and other ads lambasting Cuban-American politicians in Miami-Washington such as Marco Rubio, Carlos Gimenez, and Maria Elmira Salazar that he seems to believe have grown rich and powerful in Miami on the backs of grossly mistreated Cubans in Cuba.
The Madrid, Spain-based media giant El Pais has also taken notice of Miami's Cuban-born multi-billionaire Mike Hernandez in late August of 2025 as he feels sorry for devastated Cubans in Cuba and he blames much of the genocide-like treatment of the island on Miami's key Cuban policians such as Marco Rubio, Carlos Gimenez, and Maria Salazar. In late August of 2025 shown below is what El Pais is telling the world about Mike Hernaandez, Miami, and Cuba:
And take particular note of the last two El Pais sentences shown above: "And people like Mario Diaz-Balart, with decades in the House, I'm sure that at one point he meant well. But these guys are drunk with power and they have to be removed. These guys have lost their backbone."
The El Pais mention of "Mario Diaz-Balart" aptly updates in late August of 2025 the US-Cuba/Miami-Havana conundrum that has existed frantically since the early 1950s when the United States wildly supported the Mafia-riddled Batista dictatorship in nearby Cuba. Massively backed by U. S. tourism and greedy U. S. companies that flocked to Batista's Cuba created a Las Vegas-like gold mine in Cuba starting in the early 1950s. Any Google search will inform you that Batista's Interior Boss and also the "Majority Leader of the Batista-controlled Cuban House of Representatives was Rafael Diaz-Balart." On January 1st in 1959 Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution overthrew Batista and then Rafael Diaz-Balart {and others} fled to nearby Miami. Rafael's son Lincoln, who was born in Havana, became a powerful lawyer in Miami and then represented the Miami area in the U. S. Congress for many years but recently died of natural causes. Rafael's next son, Mario, was born 63 years ago in Key Biscayne and for two decades has represented the Miami area in the U. S. Congress. Thus, as referenced this week by El Pais, the Diaz-Balart family in Batista's Havana and then starting in 1959 in Miami has had a profound political and financial influence in the vast US-Cuba/Havana-Miami conundrum since 1959.
Amazingly, Rafael Diaz-Balart and Fidel Castro were childhood friends and that friendship extended to their days as classmates at the University of Havana's Law School. Both of them were born in 1926 in Banes, Cuba. Fidel in 1948, who was by then well-known as Cuba's Athlete of the Year, married Rafael's sister Mirta Diaz-Balart!!!!
A son named Fidelito for several years made the Fidel Castro and Mirta Diaz-Balart family happy, at least till the Batista dictatorship in the 1950s caused Fidel and Mirta's brother Rafael to take very bitter opposite sides. Fidel started a revolution to overthrow Batista while Rafael was a key offical in the Batista dictatorship. {Mirta and Fidel divorced and ended up fighting over custody of Fidelito, a battle that Fidel won just as he won his anti-Batista Revolution that was a bitter revolutionary war that primarily lasted from July 26th of 1953 till January 1st of 1959.
After defeating "Cuba's Mafia-backed dictator Batista" on the first day of January in 1959, Fidel Castro then had to try to defend his island against the superpower United States.
Starting on January 1st in 1959, the nearby superpower United States has tried to overthrow Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution. As shown above, in April of 1961 Fidel Castro had to lead a defense of Cuba when the U. S. and Miami-based Cuban-Americans launched a air-land-and-sea military attack that is known as "the Bay of Pigs invasion."
Both before and after the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, history also registers that Fidel Castro almost surely survived the most assassination attempts of anyone in history. One famous documenary claims there were "538" serious efforts to kill Fidel Castro.
Even CNN News, as shown above, tried to determine how many assassinations Fidel Castro had survived and then came up with a number of "600"...and researched the famed time a beautiful German spy, Marita Lorenz, had been in on one of the CIA plots to kill Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro died of old age in Havana in 2016.
But, for sure, at the end of August in 2025 the seven-decade-old battle between Miami and Havana continues with no end on the horizon. And, of course, rich Miami is winning that battle but somehow it is not over...at least not YET!!!
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