The photo and images shown above reflect a basic fact: Since 1959 Cuban-American in Miami have dictated the drastic Cuban policies of the superpower United States government. Their first priority for almost seven decades has been to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government. Their second priority has been for the Miami Cubans to use their political clout to get rich in the richest nation in the world. In the photo above the man third from the left, Mario Diaz-Balart, is the son of a powerful Cuban leader in the Batista dictatorship that the Cuban Revolution ousted on January 1st in 1959, and starting in 1959 generations of the Diaz-Balart family have been rich and powerful in Miami-Florida. Rafael Diaz-Balart, the powerful Batista official, fled to Florida in January of 1959 with his family that included one son, Lincoln, who was born in Havana, and then had three more sons, including Mario, that were born in southern Florida. Till he died at age 79 in 2005 Rafael helped lead the U. S. effort to overthrow revolutionary Cuba and two of his sons --- Lincoln and Mario -- spent decades in the U. S. Congress as powerful counter revolutionary Congressmen in Washington, where Mario remains. In the photo the woman third from the right is Yoani Sanchez, the famed dissident journalist in Havana who flies to Miami and to Washington to meet with U. S. dissidents and U. S. politicians including her now ultra-powerful friend Marco Rubio, now the U. S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration. The woman on the far right in the above photo is Ileana Ros-Lehtilen who was born in Havana but then spent many years (1989-2019} in the U. S. Congress as the most powerful counter revolutionary Cuban-American who has groomed Rubio and so many others in Little Havana/Miami and in Washington.
The historic and abiding US-Cuban Conundrum actually began in earnest when these two childhood friends -- Rafael Diaz-Balart and Fidel Castro -- were both born in 1926 in Banes, Cuba. As they grew up they both attended the University of Havana and Fidel married Rafael's sister Mirta Diaz-Balart who gave birth to Fidelito. But in the early 1950s politics changed that friendship drastically. Rafael became a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship while Fidel, a young lawyer and former National Athelte of the Year in Cuba, started a do-or-die revolution in 1953 to overthrow Dictator Batista, which meant that Rafael and Fidel became dire enemies. On the first of January in 1959 Fidel's sensational Cuban Revolution overthrew the powerful Batista who had been supported by the powerful Mafia and by the superpower United States. Rafael fled to Florida and to Spain to escape Fidel's wrath.
A part of the great US-Cuba Conundrum since the 1950s has been "The Diaz-Belart Brigade" that extended from dictator Batista's Cuba to Little Havana in Miami and to Little Havana's enormous political power in Washington. It started with Rafael Diaz-Balart as a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship in Havana and then his power in Little Havana in Miami after 1959's victorious Cuban Revolution. In southern Florida he began The White Rose as the first anti-Fidel Castro group. He died in 2005 in Key Biscayne, Florida, at age 79. But his four anti-Castro sons were/are all rich and powerful: Havana-born Lincoln suddenly in March-2025 at age 70 but he and his brother together have spent over three decades as Miami stalwarts in the U. S. Congress, where Mario remains. Another son Jose Diaz-Balart is a News Anchor at NBC and Telemundo and another son Rafael is a banker. So from the 1950s till October of 2025 first in Havana and then in Little Havana/Miami/Washington The Diaz-Delart Brigade has been formidable, but somehow has not yet overturned the revolutionary rule in Cuba.
U.S./Miami Congreswoman Maria Elvira Salazar.
In this month of October in 2025 Litttle Havana/Miami Cubans still dominate U. S. Cuban policies. The long, long line of Cuban-Americans from Miami to Washington now include Maria Elvira Salazar in the U. S. Congress. Congresswoman Salazar spent a couple decades as a TV journalist famed for two iconic interviews with Fidel Castro that are still easily dialed up on YouTube. Of course, now in the U. S. Congress she, as shown above, has supported and initiated some of the current most contrary revolutionary bills designed to finally end the hated Fidel Castro's revolution after Fidel himself died at age 90 in Havana in 2016.
Not many Americans are supposed to know about it but in September of 2025 the New York Post had a major article about Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine, which is known to much of the world as ELAM. It is one way Cuba actually is trying to have good relationships with the nearby United States and Latin America. Over a quarter of a century ago, in 1999, Fidel Castro himself started ELAM to provide total free medical degrees for poor students that couldn't afford the high costs of such degrees in their own countries, with Cuba paying all the bills. Many American students have benefited from the respected 5-year program, and then returned to the U. S. as medical doctors. The only request by Cuba is that they work at least five years in poor areas of the U. S. before going to richer areas. The article, photo, and headline in the New York Post in September of 2025 saluted {above) some of those recent Cuba-traained U. S. doctors...although such positive Cuban news is generally not reported in the United States so as not to offend Miami's anti-revolutionary politicians.
Meanwhile, the U. S. economic EMBARGO on Cuba dates back to 1962.
This photo shows a famous Cuban journalist lying on Havana's famed Malecon Seawall watching the sun set on the Caribbean Sea. She is looking toward nearby southern Florida. We can only wonder what she is thinking about things such as...the EMBARGO.
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