Havana Bows to Miami

Its Meekness Is Startling!!
{Sunday, June 18th, 2017}

       As of June 16th, 2017, Havana has meekly and mildly capitulated to being ruled by the hostile and foreign northern city of Miami. That startling conclusion relates to Cuba's official statement following U. S. President Donald Trump's visit to Miami's Little Havana this week -- June 16-2017. Trump not only rolled back some key aspects of former President Obama's peaceful Cuban overtures but, far more significantly, he essentially put two visceral Cuban-American counter-revolutionaries from Little Havana -- Mario Diaz-Balart and Marco Rubio -- in charge of America's Cuban policy, something not even the Bush dynasty ever stooped to. In other words, Mario Diaz-Balart and Marco Rubio -- from their perches in Little Havana and in the U. S. Congress -- can now dictate to Cuba in much the same manner the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia rulers dictated to Cuba from 1952 till the first day of January, 1959.

             Cuba's official statement following Trump's Miami ceremony this week said: "The government of Cuba denounces the new measures toughening the embargo." After that meek and mild statement, Cuba then capitulated to Miami by proclaiming "its willingness to continue the respectful dialogue and cooperation." IN OTHER WORDS, for the first time since the halcyon revolutionary days way back in the 1950s, Cuba has meekly submitted to being ruled by a hostile foreign entity from Little Havana in Miami.

      The three main architects and creators of Revolutionary Cuba were Celia Sanchez, Fidel Castro, and Haydee Santamaria. They are shown above in 1958 before they had defeated the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship but the photo shows them after their revolutionary war had begun capturing and holding key Cuban towns and cities between the island's two main cities -- Santiago on the southeastern tip and Havana on the northwestern tip. If any of the three rebels depicted above were alive today, Cuba's official statement following Trump's Little Havana visit would not have even hinted at capitulation to Miami.

       With Fidel Castro's full blessing and support, Celia Sanchez "WAS THE WOMAN" at the forefront of both the Cuban Revolution and Revolutionary Cuba, the WOMAN who chased the Batistianos to Miami.

          As the above quotation by Celia Sanchez so emphatically and historically points out, instead of meekly submitting to Trump's Batistiano pronouncements in Little Havana this week, Celia Sanchez would have ripped them to shreds -- first with a heated quotation and then, if necessary, as history's all-time greatest female revolutionary. As noted by THE WOMAN PROJECT.ORG above, Celia Sanchez's depiction of the Batistianos and Mafiosi she chased to Miami was: "We rebels...get far too much credit for winning the revolution. Our enemies deserve most of the credit, for being greedy cowards and idiots." That quotation was rendered after she noticed how the "greedy cowards and idiots" were "hiding behind the skirts of the superpower while hurling grenades at innocent Cubans, not at us rebels who can fight back." During that period, several times Celia Sanchez laid down this proclamation: "The Batistianos will never regain control of Cuba as long as I live or as long as Fidel lives." Celia died of cancer on January 11, 1980; Fidel died at age 90 on Nov. 25th, 2016. The prophetic Celia Sanchez proclamation, against overwhelming odds, survived both her lifetime and Fidel's. IN FACT, it survived until June 16, 2017.

      This photo shows President Trump -- on June 16, 2017 -- signing his roll-back of President's Obama's sane and decent Cuban overtures. More significantly with this display of extreme cowardice and stupidity, Trump signaled that Marco Rubio and Mario Diaz-Balart would now be allowed to dictate U. S. Cuban policy from their perches in Miami's Little Havana stronghold and in the United States Congress. Note in the above photo that the grinning Rubio is standing directly behind and over Mr. Trump's right shoulder.

      This photo shows President Trump -- on June 16, 2017 -- right after he had signed that cowardly anti-Cuban and anti-American document in Miami's Little Havana stronghold. Note that standing just behind Trump -- and with his right hand closest to Trump's raised right hand -- is Mario Diaz-Balart. Mario's father Rafael was one of the top Ministers in the Batista-Mafia dictatorship and, after 1959, was one of the richest and most powerful counter-revolutionaries in Miami, the one...in fact...who created The White Rose, the very first of the paramilitary units designed to recapture Cuba. On June 16-2017 by anointing Mario Diaz-Balart and Marco Rubio the U. S. dictators of America's Cuban policy, Trump in essence declared war on Revolutionary Cuba AND THAT IS PRECISELY HOW CELIA SANCHEZ WOULD HAVE INTERPRETED IT. But Celia Sanchez...as well as Fidel Castro and Haydee Santamaria...are now dead. And on June 16-2017 Revolutionary Cuba capitulated to being ruled by counter-revolutionaries in Miami's Little Havana.  

       "The Batistianos will never regain control of Cuba as long as I live or as long as Fidel lives."       

        If she or Fidel had been alive on June 16-2017, Havana would not have capitulated to Miami.

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Cuba Reacts to Trump

With Gazes to Friendlier Nations!

       Back in October-2016, two weeks before he incredibly was elected President of the United States, Donald Trump in the photo above was in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood making a speech with a huge Brigade Assault 2506 banner as the backdrop between smaller U. S. and Cuban flags. Brigade 2506 in mid-April of 1961 led the ground assault in the air-sea-land attack on Cuba known to history as the Bay of Pigs. Brigade 2506, created by the CIA and trained at great expense to U. S. taxpayers, was composed of Cuban exiles from the Batista-Mafia dictatorship overthrown on Jan. 1-1959 by the Cuban Revolution. After numerous assassination attempts against Fidel Castro failed, and after numerous terrorist attacks against Cuba's coastal areas, the highly funded Bay of Pigs attack was expected to recapture Cuba but was emphatically defeated by Cuba rebels long-tired of the centuries-old dominance of the island by imperialist Spain and, starting in 1898, America. Trump's message during the above session was to promise the elderly Miami survivors of the Bay of Pigs attack that he, essentially, would finally avenge their April-1961 defeat if they would help him get elected. Today -- June 16-2017 -- he's back in Miami as President.

       To be properly prepared for the Trump visit to Miami today, Americans should have access to Will Grant's reports from Havana for BBC World News, the incomparable broadcast network based in London. It's Channel 346 on USA Direct Cable. In the hours leading up to Trump's gutless capitulation in Miami, the BBC featured several unbiased and incisive reports from Havana and Miami with titles such as "U.S.-Cuba Rollback" and "Trump and Cuba." Will Grant pointed out that Trump is claiming Cuba's "dismal human rights record" is cause to roll back Obama's positive overtures to the island. But, even dealing with foreign-funded and encouraged dissidents, Cuba has few such encounters and even then prideful regular citizens are often the interveners. Also, the U. S. itself has many well-publicized encounters with often innocent civilians, some fatal resulting in HUGE financial settlements. And Will Grant this morning pointed out that the U. S. readily accepts vast human rights violations in U.S.-friendly countries today and, of course, in U.S.-friendly dictatorships in the distant and recent past. Also, Will Grant named names of such countries and the BBC this morning even had a report of Western nations selling extremely sophisticated surveillance equipment to extremely repressive nations, one of which was named, and the equipment could be "classified as weapons" because they spied on "all the people all the time, even in the bedrooms." But, of course, none of those nations had a successful revolution that chased vile leaders to United States soil. 

     The difference between the BBC's Will Grant reporting on Cuban issues as opposed to necessarily biased and intimidated American journalists is like the difference between daylight and dark. By sunrise in Cuba and the United States today, June 16th, Will Grant had repeatedly informed BBC viewers that Trump's rollback of key aspects of former President Obama's efforts to normalize relations with Cuba will defy the wishes of all segments of North American and international populations, including the vast majority of Cuban-Americans in Miami. And Grant debunked the absurd claims by the counter-revolutionary zealots in Miami and in Congress and now in the White House that reversing Obama's policies related to Cuba will bring about a LONG-AWAITED "REGIME-CHANGE" ON THE ISLAND. It was duly reported that instead Trump would just force Cuba, as it prepares for post-Castro leadership, to once again gaze almost exclusively in the directions of friendlier countries, especially mighty Russia and prolific China, both of whom are very eager to fill the U. S. void -- with Chinese financial investments and Russia's vast oil and military "persuaders." The U. S. economy can intimidate all nations, except China; and the U. S. military can intimidate all nations, except Russia. The BBC thus believes the U. S. is "unwise" to push "nearby" Cuba into the arms of its two big competitors -- China and Russia. In fact, a letter this past week signed by 55 of the 100 U. S. Senators pleaded with Trump to consider precisely that point -- to no avail, of course. Trump, like other Republican presidents, is far more concerned with recapturing Cuba for the counter-revolutionary zealots than considering how harmful it would be to the vast majority of Americans, Cubans and Cuban-Americans. Will Grant and the BBC have both the guts and the integrity to air such reality.

        The other London-based media giant, REUTERS, regularly features fair, insightful and unbiased reports directly from Cuba by its superb journalists such as Sarah Marsh, Marc Frank, etc. They teamed for a very informative and unbiased article today about "Trump To Limit Cuba Travel, Restrict Business."

     There are multiple nefarious reasons that a handful of counter-revolutionary Cuban-Americans in Miami and in Congress want to curb or stop the Obama-orchestrated influx of tourists, like the one above, from visiting Cuba. First off, the anti-Cuban zealots want to continue to dictate the Cuban narrative in the U. S. and that's why, since 1962, everyday Americans have been the only people in the world without the freedom to visit Cuba, lest they might form opinions of the island that differ from the Miami-directed propaganda. Also, from 1962 to today, the U. S. embargo against Cuba has existed for the purpose of starving and depriving Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their government. It hasn't worked, like most U. S. hostile action against Cuba hasn't, but it has greatly harmed everyday Cubans, again like most U. S. hostile action against Cuba has. We know about the purpose of the embargo...starve and deprive...because of de-classified documents. Classified documents, of course, are often designed not to protect the nation but to protect individual crooks, as the great Peter Kornbluh at the U. S. National Archives has often pointed out regarding Cuba. So Trump's further tightening the Obama-loosened Congressional "laws" against tourism to Cuba suits only a handful of extremists at the expense of everyone else, similar to the U. S. Cuban policy that so correctly now has a 191-to-0 UN condemnation.

    This Cuban is watching the final touches being put on one of four luxury 5-star hotels opening in Cuba, two managed by the giant U.S.-based Starwood Hotels and Resorts and two by a giant Swiss company. The hotels are created for rich tourists but they also provide work for Cubans like this man. Such step-forwards for Cuba infuriate the powerful handful of counter-revolutionary zealots in Miami and Congress, the vicious minority in this post-Obama era that is determined to regain TOTAL CONTROL of America's Cuban policy, the starve and deprive policy that provokes the embarrassing 191-to-0 denunciation of America in the UN, embarrassing to everyone except, of course, the counter-revolutionary zealots.

The bedroom at a Starwood luxury hotel in Havana.

       This ribbon-cutting ceremony depicts American Airlines opening a plush office in Havana, and this was followed by other major U. S. companies, even including Google, doing the same thing. Such ventures created jobs for Cubans and Americans, but counter-revolutionary zealots couldn't care less about that.

     There are now 12 U. S. airlines and cruise lines taking U. S. tourists to Cuba and, thanks to Obama, this started even before Cuba had the capacity, such as with hotel space, to handle such an influx. Many of these airlines-cruise lines as well the airports and seaports they depart from are owned by or controlled by Cuban-Americans who are among the vast majority of Cuban-Americans who desire normal commerce and social relations with Cuba. The commercial airline and cruise-line trips to Cuba from the U. S. had been barred SINCE 1961, PRIOR TO OBAMA, but all those decades of trying to starve and deprive Cuba didn't work, and so today with gutless stupidity Trump wants to reinstate such insanity to appease zealots.

       Despite being starved & deprived for over half-a-century by its nearby superpower, Revolutionary Cuba -- SOMEHOW -- has managed to provide all its people with totally free and excellent educations and health care. In fact, in open defiance of the U. S. embargo, Americans have been traveling to Cuba to get highly publicized and successful treatment of advanced lung cancers that cancer experts, including those at the famed Roswell Park Institute in Buffalo, NY, say is superior to any known U. S. treatment. Also, Cuba has the world's largest medical school and, SOMEHOW, has provided thousands of totally free scholarships, including room and board, to poor foreign students, including MANY from the U. S. Cuba, even after Trump's Batistiano stance in Miami, is not likely to deny free medical educations for poor Americans nor deny treatment Cuba is currently providing to Americans suffering from ills such as lung cancer.

      While Batistiano-pressured Trump today further tightens restrictions against Americans having the freedom to visit the nearby island, Cuba -- as indicated above -- provides visas to allow even its most famed counter-revolutionary dissident -- ubiquitous blogger Yoani Sanchez -- to fly around the world.

        Of course, on her well-funded 80-day world tour, Yoani Sanchez took time to broadcast her anti-Cuban vitriol over Radio-TV Marti, the colossal anti-Cuban propaganda machine in Miami that has sucked up hundreds of millions of extremely biased U. S. tax dollars for decades, including right up till today.

       And, of course, on her worldwide tour, Yoani Sanchez's most important stop was the U. S. Congress where rich and powerful Cuban-American counter-revolutionaries were loving hosts as well as prime architects of America's Cuban policies. When she arrived back in Havana as Cuba's most famed dissident blogger, she announced she also had enough funds to hire the necessary staff to start her own powerful dissident-digital-dandy newspaper, which she has surely done. While dissidents like Yoani Sanchez in Cuba are wildly heralded and promoted in the U. S...and, many believe, wildly funded...they are a decided minority on the island. And if they weren't, the very omnipotent and unchecked counter-revolutionaries backed by the superpower United States would have been back in control of the island decades ago.

      My friend Rosy Amaro Perez, her husband Gilberto, and their daughter are, I believe, typical Cubans on the island -- non-rich but healthy, well educated and absolutely decent people. AND...THEY LOVE CUBA.

Rosy is a superb Cuban broadcast journalist.

    All of her life, Rosy has been punished by a handful of unscrupulous counter-revolutionary miscreants hiding behind the skirts of the world's superpower. If she doesn't show it here, it's only because she is a very strong woman. All of her much-younger life Rosy's daughter has been punished by the same miscreants, despite the renowned resilience by generations of Cubans to cope and to survive. I believe that dissidents in a foreign superpower who punish Cubans like this mother and daughter year-after-year are wrong, and so are the people who callously and cowardly allow them to do it...YEAR AFTER YEAR!!!

      I have been to Cuba and I remain a patriotic, democracy-loving American. I believe America's asinine Cuban policy is the only topic in this extremely diverse world that could possibly garner a unanimous 191-to-0 condemnation in the UN. I believe the Cuban Revolution and Revolutionary Cuba say a helluva lot more about the superpower United States they they say about the island of Cuba. And knowing Rosy Amaro Perez, I believe she is a far more decent and honorable person than the foreign miscreants who bask in the glory of being her enemies as they dictate Cuban policy to a now apathetic and uncaring America.

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Cuba-Trump, What Now?

Surviving Trump and Rubio?

       Normally the mainstream media in the U. S. takes one of two stances regarding Cuba: {1} Ignore the island as insignificant; or {2} report only what the counter-revolutionary forces in Miami and the U. S. Congress want it to report or perhaps suffer the fates dished out to the two bravest Miami journalists -- Emilio Milian and Jim DeFede. But in recent days the U. S. media has featured countless articles about Cuba leading up to tomorrow's {June 16th} announcement IN MIAMI by President Trump about the latest Republican-Batistiano efforts to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government, efforts that have failed miserably but have been brutal and continuous since January 1-1959, succeeding primarily in regularly brutalizing totally innocent everyday Cubans as well as projecting America internationally as a colossal imperial bully, a fact currently registered by a 191-to-0 condemnation of the U. S.'s Cuban policy in the UN.

       The plethora of U. S. articles about Cuba prior to Trump's cowardly announcement tomorrow in Miami have followed the U. S. media's pattern of being too afraid to depart from blistering counter-revolutionary/regime-change propaganda. But there are notable exceptions, such as Tracy Wilkinson, the superb Washington correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Her article this week, in case you're interested, is entitled: "Trump Considers Reversing Historic Obama Opening With Cuba." She had the integrity, courage and insight to make these points:

                      "President Trump is expected to roll back parts of the historic Obama-era with Cuba, siding with hawks who oppose detente and rejecting demands from U. S. businesses for whom the island is a ripe potential market. Lobbying Trump against Cuba ties are two Cuban-American Republican lawmakers from Florida, Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart. The move will be controversial. It will dull a boom in tourism by Americans to Cuba...and it could allow Russia and China to more easily step in to fill the void." 

       For Americans today to sit back and allow self-serving counter-revolutionary Cuban-American zealots from Little Havana in Miami, like Marco Rubio and Mario Diaz-Balart, to dictate America's Cuban policy is equivalent to 1952 when that generation of Americans sat back and permitted Mafia thugs like Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky to align with the U. S. government in supporting the thieving Batista dictatorship. While the U. S. media is generally not permitted to mention it, Mario Diaz-Balart's father Rafael was a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship and, following Batista's overthrow in 1959, was one of the richest and most powerful counter-revolutionary forces in Miami and, in fact, the founder of "The White Rose, the very first of many paramilitary groups in Florida aiming to regain dictatorial control of Cuba.

          As for Marco Rubio, whom the American media portrays as a cute Mother Teresa-like choirboy, President Donald Trump's astounding path to the White House had to include a successful take down of highly financed Republican contender "Little Marco," whom then presidential-candidate Trump labeled as being "For Sale" to the highest bidders -- such as controversial multi-billionaire Sheldon Adelson.

       One of America's most respected investigative journalists is the Washington-savvy Ken Silverstein. He earned that reputation after many years with the Associated Press, Harper's Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, etc. In one of his most deeply researched articles, he called Marco Rubio the most "For Sale" and most "corrupt" politician in Washington. As far as I know, he wasn't sued and the article wasn't refuted.

Graphic for Ken Silverstein's Rubio article.

       And so, you ask, How in the world can President Trump turn America's Cuban policy over to Mario Diaz-Balart and Marco Rubio -- one the son of a former Batista Minister and the other also a visceral counter-revolutionary Cuban-American from Miami? Well, Trump can do it and get away with it the same way vicious right-wing operatives in Washington along with self-serving entities such as the Bush dynasty have gotten away with supporting first Batista in Cuba and then the Batistianos in the U. S. since the 1950s. Also, in recent days even the mainstream U. S. media has indicated that Mario and Marco have nudged Trump towards their vindictive Cuban policies with what some might call BLACKMAIL. It's reported that Mario reminded Trump that he is on the House Appropriations Committee that doles out federal money Trump may need to fund his projects AND Marco has reportedly reminded Trump that he sits on the Senate committee that is INVESTIGATING TRUMP'S ALLEGED IMPEACHMENT-THREATENING TIES TO RUSSIA.

          TWO ongoing and ominously looming factors may well impeach the 71-year-old Trump's presidency, but not before he lowers the boom on Cuba in Miami tomorrow. ONE of those factors is Trump having so many Republican foxes, such as Diaz-Balart and Rubio, in his own Republican hen-house. THE OTHER FACTOR is indicated above by the infamous Tweet from Rachel Maddow, the top anchor on MSNBC, flatly and unequivocally stating that "Donald Trump has to be taken out before he ruins our country." Every single anchor and almost every pundit on both MSNBC and CNN devote almost every second of their airtime towards an electronic coup designed to get Trump impeached. They are joined by every single columnist at the Washington Post and New York Times, and that comprises four entities that might be powerful enough to get the job done, as indicated by extreme left-wing antics that include...the Alexandria, Virginia shooting rampage this week, Madonna calling for the bombing of the Trump White House, Kathy Griffin's shamefully touting the bloody beheaded image of Trump, etc. Left-wing zealots, like right-wing zealots, abound but perhaps the biggest threat to America is not Trump but probably the MSNBC-CNN-NY TIMES-WASHINGTON POST media pretending to be journalists while primarily engaged only in left-wing, anti-Trump propaganda. "Donald Trump has to be taken out before he ruins our country." If a kook says such things in a democracy, it's very bad. But when the so-called mainstream media says it, it's downright scary to democracy-lovers.

       The former head of ExxonMobil and the former or current friend of Russia's Vladimir Putin, Rex Tillerson is now, as Secretary of State, the most powerful member of President Trump's cabinet. He strongly advocates lowering the boom on poor little Cuba but certainly not on big, strong threats like Russia or China. Tillerson told Congress: "We believe it is important that we take steps to restore the purpose of the Helms Burton legislation, which was to pressure the regime to change, and that pressure, in our view, has been largely lifted." The right-wing gutlessness of that anti-Obama, anti-American statement assumes that Americans are too stupid or too unpatriotic to know that the Helms Burton legislation was written by and rammed through Congress by the most vicious counter-revolutionary forces in Miami, such as Jorge Mas Canoso. Decades of uncontested Batistiano-dictated propaganda, of course, dispute that but there is no respectable Cuban expert in America that would dispute it. Helms Burton, pure and simply, was designed to bring about regime-change in Cuba while also enriching and empowering selected Cuban-American zealots and defying the wishes of most Cuban-Americans, even in Miami. I assume Tillerson understood that when he mentioned "Helms Burton" in that exact asinine quote depicted above.

America's greatest Cuban expert IS Julia E. Sweig.

      In her book -- "CUBA: What Everyone Needs To Know" -- Julia E. Sweig expertly explains how Helms Burton, as the dismal congressional linchpin of America's disgraceful and failed Cuban policy, came to shame both America and democracy while also cruelly punishing millions of totally innocent Cubans.

America's 2nd greatest Cuban expert IS Ann Louise Bardach.

       In her truly great book -- "CUBA Confidential: Love And Vengeance In Miami And Havana" -- Ann Louise Bardach expertly explains how Helms Burton, as a cruel linchpin of America's disgraced and failed Cuban policy, came to shame both America and democracy while also cruelly and unjustly punishing millions of totally innocent Cubans, including children in Cuba and children aboard the terrorist-bombed Cubana Flight 455 civilian airplane. Since the 1950s, Americans have loutishly swallowed bucket-loads of Batistiano propaganda while they should have shown more respect for America and for democracy by absorbing truthful Cuban information from unbiased experts like Julia E. Sweig and Ann Louise Bardach.

       Emblematic of a great failure of the U. S. democracy is the fact that truly decent members of Congress, like Senator Patrick Leahy, have not been permitted to have major impacts on America's Batistiano-driven Cuban policy. That is so even though most Americans, most Cuban-Americans, and, yes, that 191-to-0 vote in the UN agree with Mr. Leahy's sane approach to Cuba. On the eve of President Trump's announcement in Miami on June 16th about turning back former President Obama's sane and decent overtures to Cuba, Mr. Leahy wrote an article, which you can go online to read in its entirety, in which he begged President Trump not to do it. He wrote: "It would not only harm U. S. business and the Cuban people, it would leave a gaping vacuum, just over 90 miles offshore, for our adversaries to fill. Russia is eager to regain its diminished sphere of influence over our island neighbor. Recent events indicate the Kremlin may be seeking to return in full force to Cuba. The American people and the Cuban people overwhelmingly want closer relations."

       Prior to the election of Donald Trump, the brave and decent President Obama went to Cuba and, in the emotional and heartfelt speech above carried live on state television, he told the Cuban people: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." Unfortunately for both Cuba and America, Mr. Obama's two terms as President are over and now the Miami-based Batistianos are back in charge. President Trump will remind the world of that tomorrow in Miami, reminding Cuba of THE U. S. THREAT.

       The above image of America drastically embarrasses decent Americans like Barack Obama. As President, he tried his best to correct it. But Donald Trump is now President. And Trump is about to allow Marco Rubio and the Diaz-Balarts to resume the Batistiano dictation of America's Cuban policy. Meanwhile, the majority of Americans and Cuban-Americans will not have the guts or the patriotism to intervene.

      Cuba's brilliant Minster of North American Affairs, Josefina Vidal, negotiated every aspect of the island's positive relationship with the Obama administration. She will meticulously defend Cuba {note her quote} but remains very willing to cooperate with the Trump administration. Ms. Vidal is very proud that, thanks to the overtures from Obama, everyday Cubans have markedly benefited, with well over 8,000 private Cuban homes renting out accommodations, via AIRbnb traffic, to the increase in U. S. tourism.

       Note the above Tweet exchange between Josefina Vidal in Havana with Jose Ramon Cabanas, the head of Cuba's Embassy in Washington. It's about the Obama-orchestrated increase in U. S. tourism to Cuba. The counter-revolutionaries in the U. S. don't like it and much prefer an aspect of the embargo, since 1962, that still makes everyday Americans the only people in the world without the freedom to visit Cuba, an anti-democratic law designed, many assume, to just keep Americans from making their own Cuba judgments.

And by the way:

        The two photos below are courtesy of Cuba's superb young broadcast journalist Rosy Amaro Perez. The photos show a 12-year-old girl helping the doctor deliver her baby brother. Was she a bit excited? 

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Cuba Awaits Trump Decision

With No Capitulation Plans!
{Wednesday, June 14th, 2017}

      This photo, courtesy of Rosy Amaro Perez, shows a calm and peaceful Havana Harbor on the eve of U. S. President Donald Trump's pro-Batistiano and anti-Cuba announcements in Miami on Friday, June 16th.

 Superb Cuban broadcast journalist Rosy Amaro Perez.

       Revolutionary Cuba has survived 14 U. S. Presidential administrations, including the two-timers, and it plans to survive the Trump era even with what Cuba expects to be Trump's announcement in Miami of Marco Rubio as the island's next U.S.-backed dictator, the first since Fulgencio Batista back in the 1950s.

Whether the Trump-Rubio plan works, remains to be seen.

        A young generation of Cubans on the island, including Rosy Amaro Perez, is not at all anxious to be ruled by a Marco Rubio from Miami and Washington. So, fresh predictions of the long-awaited apocalyptic nihilism finally about to inundate the always vulnerable but pugnacious island may be premature...again. 

      The Cuban conundrum in June of 2017 pits underdog sovereignty-loving Cubans like Rosy Amaro Perez against the imperial-minded super-colossus just across the turbulent waters of the Florida Straits.

     A laughable but serious Rubio-Trump Cuban coup attempt?

    But Rosy thinks Cuba can ride out the Trump-Rubio era too.

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