Trump's Venezuelan Mess

With Rubio Dictating The Mistakes!!
{UPDATED For: Tuesday, May 21, 2019}

       As you can see from the date in the lower-left of the above graphic, it was way back on January 23rd, 2019, when President Trump recognized Juan Guaido as Venezuela's new President. Considering the dire economic and political chaos in Venezuela, it was anticipated that Trump's Venezuela regime-change would only take a day or two.

 In the closing days of May, 2019, Trump's man Guaido is still trying to replace the embattled Maduro as President of Venezuela. The USA's past history of bloody, self-serving regime-changes from 1953 till the mid-1970s still rankle all of Latin America but only Trump's stupidity has prevented or at least prolonged the U.S.-friendly takeover in troubled Venezuela.

     The top man at the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, is the type diplomat that should oversee any regime-change in Venezuela or any other nation, not some opposition group or some self-serving foreign country. Mr. Guterres still cringes when he thinks about the 1973 coup that Nixon-Kissinger engineered in Chile replacing the killed Democratically elected President Salvador Allende for 17 bloody years with the murderous but U.S.-friendly Pinochet dictatorship. For sure, Mr. Guterres doesn't want Trump right-wingers in Venezuela to replicate what Nixon-Kissinger so shamefully did in Chile. Yet, the wise Mr. Guterres believes that an honest broker BUT NOT ANOTHER REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATION IN WASHINGTON should diplomatically help resolve the dire situation in Venezuela.

     Therefore, as an expert on Latin American history, the top man at the UN, Antonio Guterres, does not think that the USA has the credentials or the right to name Juan Guaido as Venezuela's President. In his official statement above, fully aware of Venezuela's problems, Antonio Guterres says, "Maduro is the only legal president of Venezuela." That was meant to shut Trump up but, of course, Trump has a veto in the UN and Trump is Commander-in-Chief of the world's strongest military.

   The stupidest, most gutless thing President Trump has done was to anoint Marco Rubio as the USA's Cuban dictator. Viewing his 2020 reelection, Trump is convinced he needs Little Havana's support to secure Florida's huge passel of electoral votes. But Rubio, promoted as Little Havana's choirboy, is only "Little Marco" just as Trump designated him back during the Republican 2016 primary.

    After Rubio's unceremonious debacle in the 2016 presidential race, he vowed to "quit" even his Little Havana-gifted Senate seat. Unfortunately, he changed his mind and then was gifted a second 6-year term.

     So as the USA's Cuban dictator, Rubio also gets to dictate the regime-change in Venezuela because that's his prelude to his Little Havana-invested goal of securing a regime-change in Cuba.

    Phone calls from Rubio to Guaido promised Venezuela's opposition leader the regime-change was imminent and unstoppable.

    The Rubio trip to the volatile Venezuelan border with Colombia turned out to be more of a joke and a show than a regime-change.

    There are far more intelligent anti-Cuban zealots in Little Havana than Rubio, who has and needs his lushly funded publicity team that tries to correct his misdeeds and outright lies. He reached the U. S. Senate saying his parents escaped the Castro tyranny in Cuba when, actually, they fled the Batista tyranny in Cuba. The best investigative journalist in Washington, Ken Silverstein, penned a massive article that begins: "Marco Rubio is head and shoulders above everyone else in Washington when it comes to corruption and chicanery." Take for example, Rubio Tweets like the one above designed to facilitate the regime-change in Venezuela. German Dam is a journalist in Venezuela that Rubio believed was a, uh...real dam. Out of that ignorance, Rubio thought the explosions that caused massive blackouts in Venezuela would end the Maduro presidency.

    Uh, there is no German Dam in Venezuela but there is a journalist named German Dam.

     Actually, as you can see above, it was the journalist German Dam who corrected Rubio's ignorance regarding the non-existent German Dam in Venezuela. Study the graphic above to ascertain that Rubio is the last person that should orchestrate the political situation in Venezuela or anywhere else.

     Uh..."not enough people are making fun of Rubio for thinking German Dam was the name of a dam in Venezuela and not the name of a journalist..." NO KIDDING!! But this is the USA's Cuban dictator who seems intent on gifting his Little Havana/Miami supporters with a regime-change in Cuba...after his regime-change in Venezuela and before his regime-change in Nicaragua. Rubio's goal is not only to eviscerate Revolutionary Cuba but to eliminate Cuba's friends.

     The Rubio stamp on America's foreign policy is a tragedy waiting to happen. Incredibly, Rubio figureheads now in ultra-powerful positions include a Who's Who of well-known Cuban Counter Revolutionaries, war-mongers, and/or Latin America's most feared regime-changers -- John Bolton as National Security Adviser, Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State, Mauricio Claver-Carone as Western Hemisphere Chief, Elliott Abrams as Special Envoy to Venezuela, etc., etc., etc.

One of Rubio's smartest quotes.

  Hometown journalists who know Rubio best...such as the editors and writers at the Miami-based Progreso Weekly...are aware of what the "TRUMPIFIED MARCO RUBIO" is all about.

     While intelligent diplomacy is necessary in Venezuela if the United States is to rise above its past coups/regime changes and play a role, Marco Rubio's ignorant Tweet on Feb. 24-2019, as shown above, warned Venezuelan President Maduro that the bloody Gaddafi model in Libya awaited him. Just as ignorantly, Rubio Tweeted Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel, "See you soon," meaning right after the regime-change in Venezuela. A Rubio hiding behind the skirts of the world's economic and military superpower while leading the way in spouting off regime-changes makes the United States of America resemble the world's Superpower Bully.

     Millions of decent people in Cuba specifically blame Rubio for this photo. It shows an elderly Cuban woman passing her last egg to her friend, the elderly Cuban woman in the next apartment. Rubio, as reported by many U. S. media sources, persuaded Trump to activate Title 3, a genocidal starvation part of the already extremely cruel Helms-Burton Act that not even the Batistiano-aligned George W. Bush presidency would activate as a starvation measure against innocent Cubans. And yes, Title 3 has already caused food shortages in Cuba, including eggs, chicken, rice, etc. Exacerbating the Rubio problem is the fact that this generation of Americans as well as the mainstream U. S. media are apparently too afraid of Little Havana to rein in Rubio.

     For example, Trump's unholy collusion with Rubio is far more dangerous than Trump's alleged collusion with Russia or Trump's avowed "love" for the likes of North Korean dictator Kim. Yet, the powerful left-wing U. S. media that devotes most  of their efforts to impeaching and imprisoning Trump seems far too afraid to even mention Trump's most ghastly failure, misdeed, or miss-step -- his capitulations, for whatever reasons, to Rubio. When the fiercely anti-Trump left-wing media -- CNN, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, Washington Post, New York Times, etc. -- is too afraid to mention the Rubio-Little Havana hold on Trump, a vital cog in the U. S. democracy, journalism, has let Americans down by becoming pundit-driven propaganda forums as opposed to real journalists collecting and dispensing news!!

     With Rubio minions like John Bolton calling the regime-change shots and pointing out the targets, the question might not be IF but WHEN the next war will start. On Bolton's world map at the White House, you might note that, in the left-center above, the island of Cuba shows up as a TINY speck. But in the White House War Room, Cuba is a HUGE speck.

     And to Rubio and Bolton, the island of Cuba looms LARGEST in their gunsights. Recapturing Cuba is Rubio's obsession and as far back as 2002 Bolton was concocting excuses for President George W. Bush to execute a regime-change in Cuba.

     The ONLY two "qualifications" Marco Rubio has to dictate Trump's FOREIGN RELATIONS is that Cuba is a FOREIGN COUNTRY and Trump wants Rubio and Little Havana in Miami to deliver Florida's crucial electoral votes to his reelection campaign. 

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Can Cuba Survive Trump?

It's Now About 50-50!!

{Let's Take an HONEST Look}

     One of Miami's most important journalists is Arturo Arias-Polo. In English he writes for the Miami Herald and in Spanish he writes for the Miami El Nuevo Herald. On the eve of this weekend in mid-May 2019 -- on Friday, May 17th -- Arias-Polo's propagandized-fueled article was/is entitled: "Visit Cuba Without Leaving Miami." The theme, of course, suggested that tourists yearning for Cuba should continue to visit Little Havana in Miami, at least until the Trump administration recaptures Cuba for the remnants of the Batista dictatorship that fled the victorious Cuban Revolution and, beginning in January of 1959, established their new capital city -- Little Havana in Miami. So, Arias-Polo's Miami Herald propaganda on May 17-2019 urged tourists to visit Cuba by visiting Little Havana while the Trump administration continues to starve Cubans on the island until Trump recaptures Havana for LITTLE HAVANA.

     Since January of 1959 the U. S. democracy has included a second government...the Batistianos...within the bowels of the U. S. government with Little Havana USA in Miami being its capital. Americans have been programmed since 1959 via intimidation and via the Batistiano dictation of the Cuban narrative to dismiss this cancerous fact, and yet it's true.

    But please understand this: As a democracy-loving American, I have been to both Havana and Little Havana. I have no problem with the majority of Cuban-Americans in the Miami area, except for the fact that a handful of two generations of Batistianos have dictated Miami's economic and political structures with questionable money and strong-arm tactics basically since January 1, 1959. Along the way...while picking up sycophants such as the Bush dynasty and out-of-state converts like Jeb Bush and Rick Scott...Little Havana's reach inundated Washington beginning in 1989 when the self-serving Jeb Bush was Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's Campaign Manager, putting her as the fierce ultra-zealous Counter Revolutionary in the United States Congress.

    So this photo from 1989 marked the beginning of the Batistiano government becoming a second government in Washington, following the takeover of Miami by the Batistianos in 1959. Jeb Bush had reason to smile in this photo because putting the Havana-born Counter Revolution-zealot Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in the U. S. Congress paved the way for Jeb to become the two-term Governor of Florida. Ros-Lehtinen served in the U. S. Congress for three decades, from 1989 till 2019. She recently retired from Congress to take a lucrative job with a Washington Think Tank that has Cuban dealings. While recapturing Cuba has since 1959 been a priority of the Batistianos, the main priority -- just like in Cuba from 1952 till 1959 -- has been MONEY. Since the 1980s Batistianos in Congress have legalized extremely cruel anti-Cuban laws such as Helms-Burton to punish Cubans on the island BUT they are also responsible for legalized laws such as Radio-TV Marti, an exceedingly lucrative anti-Cuban operation in Miami that, since the 1980s, has literally gushed on a daily basis tons of tax dollars from Washington to Miami, supposedly to overthrow the Cuban government but mainly, of course, to enrich Batistiano Cubans. So, if you're interested in knowing the origin of the Batistiano government, study the photo above; it became entrenched when Jeb Bush used the economic and political power of the Bush dynasty to put Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in the U. S. Congress in 1989. Shortly, she was followed by a continuing line of Batistiano stalwarts from Little Havana -- including Marco Rubio as well as the Diaz-Balart brothers Lincoln and Mario who are the sons of key Batista Minister Rafael Diaz-Balart, the man who formed Miami's first anti-Castro paramilitary unit known as the White Rose.

So, to recap what you just learned:

     The latest {May 17-2019} propaganda speil by Arturo Arias-Polo in the Miami Herald is entitled: "Visit Cuba Without Leaving Miami." That's typical Batistiano propaganda since 1959 but it is also, to a significant degree, sadly true.

   This photo, also sadly, aptly and amply illustrates that latest propaganda piece in the Miami Herald. Miami since 1959 not only evolved into Little Havana, it also -- thanks to its control of the Republican Party in Washington -- leads the way in trying to starve the Cubans in Havana prior to the anticipated recapture of Havana while Donald Trump is the U. S. President. So, now that you understand that undeniable update from Little Havana, I'll turn to a real journalist reporting for the Associated Press on today's actual conditions in Havana.

      Colombia-born Andrea Rodriguez is the excellent journalist the Associated Press has stationed in Cuba. Her May 17-2019 article heading into this weekend is entitled: "Cuba Still Welcoming Tourists Despite Trump Restrictions." She reports that the island had 4.7 million tourists in 2018 and is on a pace in 2019 to reach 5 million. In the first four months this year, 257,000 Americans visited Cuba, mostly arriving on cruise ships. Andrea Rodriguez wrote: "The battle for Cuba's economic future is being waged on its beaches. And at its all-inclusive resorts, dive sites and cobblestone colonial plazas. The country has launched a full-scale effort to turn virtually the only bright spot -- tourism -- into an engine...." Andrea Rodriguez earlier had pointed out Cuba's herculean effort to produce more food products as well as also trying desperately to increase renewable energy as well as its own oil production with the help of Canadian, Australian, and Vietnamese drilling companies. But..."tourism" still remains the immediate key to Cuba's surviving the Trump presidency that, like previous Republican administrations, totally takes it Cuban orders from only the most extremist Little Havana zealots. In the May 17-2019 AP article, Andrea Rodriguez said: "On the paradise-like beaches of Varadero...the little city alone has 21,200 hotel rooms and is adding 1,000 more per year, managed in partnership with Spain's Melia and Barcelo hotel chains and with Mexico's Fiesta Americana Corporation."

     Every day since January 1-1959, with expectations that Cuba would be recaptured for the Batistianos "any day now," Little Havana Cubans have longed to regain control of all aspects of Cuba, including pristine beaches like this.

     The city of Varadero has 21,200 high-quality hotel rooms and contracts for 1,000 more to be built each of the next five years...and as of May-2019 Little Havana is not involved with any of Varadero's assets.

Varadero

Varadero

Varadero

Varadero

Varadero

   Since January of 1959, the Little Havana USA leaders just across the Florida Straits in Miami  have expected every Republican President...there have been six...to recapture Cuba for them. It hasn't happened but in the last six decades Little Havana has exacted extreme revenge against totally innocent Cubans on the island while also, of course, using its dominance of the Republican Party to grossly enrich a multitude of Little Havana Counter Revolutionaries.

     But of the six U. S. Republican Presidents since the 1960's, all of whom have been tightly tied economically and politically to Little Havana, the Trump administration is the most dangerous as far as Cuba is concerned and as far as getting the USA entangled in a neighborhood war, meaning the Caribbean and Latin America. When Trump anointed Little Havana's Marco Rubio as the Cuban dictator on U. S. soil...it is no surprise that the USA's two top foreign policy stooges are two of America's most famed anti-Cuban war-mongers -- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton. In other words, if dictator Rubio can't recapture Cuba with Trump as Commander-in-Chief, Pompeo as Secretary of State, and Bolton as National Security Adviser, than even Cuba's new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, will probably be surprised. {And as for me, I give Rubio a 50-50 chance as long as Trump is President and as long as the American people tolerate people like renowned war-mongers such as Pompeo and Bolton in such extraordinary positions of power}.

  Meanwhile, speaking of Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel, he happens to be very popular on the island as indicated by three photos taken this week by Boris Fuentes. Born after 1959's triumph of the Cuban Revolution, Diaz-Canel has been beloved by Cubans since his days as the island's Education Minister. As shown above, he is known for having extremely compassionate feelings for Cuba's children and its elderly citizens but today's all-important, and restive, young-adult generation on the island at the moment also strongly supports Diaz-Canel. With Diaz-Canel's insistence, and with a very helpful Google presence on the island, most Cubans have ready access to the social media, which fiercely reveals their love of Diaz-Canel as well as their hatred of...Trump, Rubio, Pompeo, Bolton, and Mauricio Claver-Carone, the career Counter Revolutionary zealot that Rubio has maneuvered into the strategic position of the USA's Chief of Western Hemisphere Affairs because Cuba is in the, uh, Western Hemisphere.

    This photo this week shows President Diaz-Canel out among everyday Cubans who adore him. Such mingling is his trademark, and he has ordered his Ministers to "make regular appearances on state radio and television outlets to let the people know exactly what you are doing, or not doing, to help them."

     This photograph this week shows President Diaz-Canel, in the blue shirt, doing what he apparently loves the most...mingling and talking to everyday Cubans. Although he is Cuba's first non-Castro and first non-Revolutionary leader since 1959, Diaz-Canel is known to be a hardline defender of the Revolution. Even on his Twitter page Diaz-Canel has affirmed that "no matter the Superpower aligned at the moment against us, the Revolution must be and will be defended with every ounce of strength and blood we can muster."

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Punish Everyone To Starve Cuba

 Will The USA Win?
{Updated: Friday, May 17th, 2019}

     Cuba's Minister of Commerce is Betsy Diaz. She has been tasked with trying to keep the Trump administration's activation of Helms-Burton Title 3 from causing starvation on her vulnerable island. She said this week, "President Obama, for the first time in six decades, gave our new generation of well-educated, talented young-adult entrepreneurs the chance to thrive...and they did, briefly. Then came the Trump term as President, the antithesis of Obama. Our adjustment is painful. The activation of Title 3 of Helms-Burton, we know, is meant to starve us and stop other nations that would be our trade partners from dealing with us. It might be called genocide but, for us, it is survival...life or death but not surrender."

    Cuba's Commerce Minister Betsy Diaz, as shown above, appears on state television and radio to inform the Cuban people why Title 3-Helms-Burton has made it necessary for her to order rationing of important foods and health products. "I ask for calm," she said, "and for the understanding that I and others in government service are doing everything we can to ease the pain."

    One of the food staples that Betsy Diaz has been forced to ration in Cuba are eggs. She said, "Since Title 3 added to the Helms-Burton assault on this island, we have produced or acquired about 900,000 fewer eggs than the 5.7 million eggs we need each month. Along with eggs, we are struggling to stock the needed amount of items such as rice, beans, chicken, and soap. When the American people, whom I consider mostly nice people, allow their government to treat foreign people, including children and the elderly, in this manner...well, it makes me wonder if their democracy is just a facade that mean people hide behind. To me, as I have learned from the generation that preceded mine, it reminds me of when the Mafia hid behind the facade of the U. S. democracy to rape and plunder Cuba prior to the Revolution's victory. We hoped for an American leader like Obama, and we were rewarded. But how can the next leader be permitted to turn all of that into ashes?" Her name is Betsy Diaz. Her title is Cuba's Minister of Commerce. She longs for the day Cuba can do commerce with its neighbor, the United States. Oddly, every U. S. farm organization and every U. S. port from the East Coast to Florida to New Orleans wants to do commerce with Cuba. Yet, a handful of unsavory creatures want to starve Cubans on the island, and it is those miscreants that hold the upper hand from the dark side of the U. S. democracy.

   Canada's outraged Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland flew to Havana yesterday to discuss the Trump administration's activation of Title 3, the portion of the infamous 1996 Helms-Burton Act that called for the total starvation of Cubans on the island, the portion of Helms-Burton that NOT EVEN the George W. Bush presidency would activate because of its extreme genocidal cruelty. But to appease extreme Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress, Trump activated Title 3 last month, on April 17th. Along with starving Cubans, Title 3 punishes companies and countries that might do business with Cuba. Chrystia Freeland, as any leader of a sovereign nation would be, is upset that Canada and Canadian companies are being punished by Title 3. For example, the Montreal-based National Bank of Canada has a branch in Havana. And Canada's Sherritt International Corporation has major nickel, cobalt, and oil operations in Cuba. That's why Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland flew to Havana yesterday. She doesn't believe right-wing extremists in the Trump administration should be allowed to punish other nations and other companies in order to starve Cubans on the island to appease a few Cubans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress.

    Former Florida governor {2007-2011} Charlie Crist now represents Florida in the U. S. Congress. Crist is shown above on his recent visit to Havana where he discussed Title 3 with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. Unlike Florida's two U. S. Senators Rubio and Scott, Crist is outraged that Title 3's activation hurts the majority of Cuban-Americans in Florida who adamantly do not want fellow Cubans in Cuba starved or harmed. Such Cuban-Americans in Florida, for example, yearly send several billion dollars worth of cash and goods to Cubans on the island. Of course, Title 3 sharply curtails that decency.

    On April 17, 2019, it was U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who announced the activation of Helms-Burton Title 3. With a gutless lack of consideration for Cubans on the island, for most Cuban-Americans, and for Democracy, Pompeo's shameless announcement also added this totally gutless exact sentence: "Any person or company doing business in Cuba should heed this announcement." In other words, to totally starve innocent Cubans on the island, Pompeo warned that nations or companies that tried to prevent the starvation of Cubans would be punished by the Superpower United States of America.

    And in other words, Pompeo and his henchmen in Miami and in Congress should be very proud of the above photo. The image is accurate and unstaged; the elderly Cuban women did not know they were being photographed. Because of Title 3, Cuba has been forced to ration products such as eggs, which are vital to normal Cuban diets. Cubans since 1959 have been famed for sacrificing whatever they have to help others. The lady on the left above was caught doing that: She was giving her last egg to her dear friend in the adjoining apartment. While I assume Mike Pompeo and a handful of dictatorial miscreants in Miami and Washington are very proud of this photo, I believe it should shame every decent Democracy-loving American and Cuban-American.

    The Helms-Burton Act, written by lawyers working for extreme Counter Revolutionary Cubans such as Cuba-born Miami extremists Jorge Mas Canosa and Lincoln Diaz-Balart, was, in the minds and hearts of many decent people, a legal USA genocidal act against everyday Cubans on the island.

     The Helms-Burton Act became law in 1996 when a very scared President Bill Clinton reluctantly signed it because, as I and many others believe, he was afraid of Cuban-American extremists in Miami and Newark. Indeed, earlier in 1996 President Clinton had indicated he was determined to normalize relations with Cuba. Study the photo above that depicts the day Clinton signed Helms-Burton into law. The obviously scared Clinton is glancing up at Newark's contribution to the U. S. Senate Bob Menendez and the man standing directly above Clinton's right shoulder is Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Menendez remains in the Senate to this day because in 2017, after a massively expensive investigation and trial in Newark in which the U. S. government charged him with multiple corruption charges related to Miami and the Dominican Republic, Menendez was spared prison time only by a hung-jury verdict, and then was, of course, re-elected again to represent New Jersey in the U. S. Senate to this very day. And what about Havana-born Lincoln Diaz-Balart, the Miami Congressman above Clinton's right-shoulder? Lincoln's father Rafael Diaz-Balart was a key Minister in Cuba's Batista dictatorship and then beginning in 1959 one of the all-time richest Counter Revolutionary zealots in Miami. Now today, of course, Lincoln's younger brother Mario represents Miami in the U. S. Congress. So, photos like the 1996 Helms-Burton signing above illustrate, I believe, the extreme grip that Miami and Newark have maintained over the United States democracy for all these decades since 1959.

    The Batistiano-driven Helms-Burton Act also, I believe, graphically illustrates, defines, and codifies another huge weakness within the bowels of the U. S. democracy. As indicated by the graphic above, Jesse Helms and Dan Burton were the names forever etched to the infamous Helms-Burton Act. Whether it was uniting the U. S. government to the Mafia in supporting the brutal-thieving Batista dictatorship in Cuba in 1952 or conspiring with the Batistiano-Mafiosi exiles in Miami and Newark from 1959 till today, it has never been a problem for a handful of Counter Revolutionary U. S. Cubans to acquire the necessary assistance of right-wing politicians such as Congressmen Jesse Helms and Dan Burton who eagerly attached their names to the Helms-Burton Act.

    And now in MAY OF 2019 this authentic, unstaged photo reminds Democracy-lovers that the U. S. DEMOCRACY, AFTER ALL THESE DECADES, is still not strong enough to prevent a mere handful of thugs from hiding behind the skirts of the Superpower U. S. government while {1} Trying to starve innocent people in a much-weaker nation; and {2} even punish America's best friends, like Canada, if they try to prevent such extreme cruelty. And through it all, I don't believe the thugs who benefit from such genocide are most to blame. I believe we, the majority of Americans and the majority of Cuban-Americans, are most to blame for allowing it to happen. AGAIN, as a Democracy-loving American, I ask you to study the poignant and authentic May-2019 photo above. Because of Title 3/Helms-Burton, the elderly Cuban lady on the left is passing her last egg to her next-door neighbor in a typically heroic and unselfish gesture. I truly wish that the last three generations of Cubans on their island had not and have not been forced to act so...unselfishly.

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