Top Caribbean Experts Speak Out!!!
One of the leading experts on US-Cuba Relations is American University professor Fulton Armstrong. His comments shown below update his views regarding how President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio since January of 2025 have tightened the already very tight U. S. sanctions on Cuba and appear ready to force a regime change in Venezuela also.
Many believe that the Miami-born U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with ultra-power regarding Foreign Affairs since January of this year, would have already orchestrated a regime change in Cuba except for the fact he is also so massively engaged in ending international wars including the bloody Russia-Ukraine War.
Meanwhile, the notable photograher Vladimir Molina is one of the best Caribbean journalists chronicling the pulse of the Cuban people on their island. He shares his work on social platforms to provide insightful views and viewpoints of the often misunderstood everyday Cuban people while the U.S.-Miami media basically presents only extremely negative images of the island's revolutionary leaders who took power in 1959 by overthrowing the US-backed Batista dictatorship. Molina in November-December of 2025 is more-than-ever distressed about the plight of yet another generation of Cuban children facing dire conditions with much of their problems obviously related to the tightening of the endless U. S. EMBARGO.
Both topical news and history confirm that the U. S. EMBARGO surrounding Cuba has existed since 1962 for the purpose of ending revolutionary control of the Caribbean's largest island. The expected easy overthrow of revolutionary Cuba has not taken place even though in 2025 the U. S. continues to tighten harsh sanctions on Cuba that include the EMBARGO.
On the first day of 1959 Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution overthrew the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship that U. S. support and U. S. tourism had helped to become very rich and supposedly too powerful to be overthrown...until the Cuban Revolution chased Batista off the island in the wee hours of January 1sr, 1959.
Since 1959 generations of Cubans and Cuban-Americans who dominate nearby Miami have dictated U. S. policy regarding Cuba. That is particularly true in 2025 with more-and-more Cuban-Americans from Miami such as Maria Elvira Salazar tightly control Cuban policies in the U. S. Congress. Salazar is shown above loudly demanding that the already vicious U. S. sanctions against Cuba should be more vicious!!
For almost seven decades little Cuba has resisted Miami.
But for sure, Miami dictates the USA's Cuban policy.
Miami loved dictator Batista but hated the rebel Castro.
The struggles of little Cuba against the mighty United States -- especially the historic Batista-to-Castro transition that came about on January 1st in 1959 -- has been epic for many decades. After the U. S. victory in the brief-and-easy 1898 Spanish-American War fought on Cuban soil, the U. S. celebrated its victory over Cuba, even establishing a powerful U. S. Naval Base on the island's plush southeastern tip in 1903 at Guantanamo Bay, which the U. S. still owns. But in 1959 after Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution ousted Fulgenico Batista's US-backed dictatorship, Revolutionary Cuba became the USA's pugnacious enemy. Although Castro died in 2016 at age 90, his legacy and stubborn rebel streak shakily still holds off total U. S. dominance, except for the 45-square-acre U. S. military base at Guantanamo Bay.
This Vladimir Molina photo taken this week as November turned into December in 2025 indicates why Revolutionary Cuba, against all odds, has survived since 1959. It shows a meeting of everyday Cubans discussing their island's awesome problems but stressing strongly that the prime topic was their desire to remain loyal to Fidel Castro. As 2025 begins to turn to 2026, Rubio and Trump need to tred at least softly on that fact of life in Cuba more than 90 years after "Fidel" died in Havana at age 90.
Yes, Fidel is still loved by most Cubans in Cuba.
Rubio & Salazar hate Fidel but should not hate everyday Cubans.
This photo and caption by Vladimi Molina was posted on Facebook and other social media outlets this week. He said: "Children are born to be happy, especially Cuban children." He was pointing out that Cuban children such as this little boy have for generations now have suffered terribly in Cuba since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution over US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959. Molina mostly blames that dire situation on the drastic and endless US EMBARGO that has existed since 1962. Most of the world agrees with Molina although Miami stalwarts such as Rubio and Salazar deny that basic fact.
The Cuban headlines shown above in late November of 2025 reflect what the world is being told about the vast economic problems existing in Cuba. Of course, neither the Miami nor US headlines blame the US EMBARGO but that is simply not true just as pretending that the Mafia-Batista dictatorship back in the 1950s was a paradise for everyday Cubans. It, of course, was only a paradise for Batista, the Mafia, and the many rich U. S. companies that partook in the spoils simply didn't bother to toss even a few crumbs to the everyday Cubans on the island.
At least, after 1959, the Revolution tried to toss food, shelter, and education to every Cubans on the island. To deny that fact is to deny Batista-Castro history.
The photo above in Batista's Cuba was/is "wrong."
The two Cubans above know "changes" & "sanctions."
The photo shown above shows Marco Rubio and other rich Little Havana Cubans in Miami directing President Trump's U. S. Cuban policies. The problem is this: decent but poor everyday Cubans in Cuba should also have a say about such things.
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