America's Darkest Cuba Images

Relate to its genocidal Cuban policies!!
{Updated: Friday, November 3rd, 2017}

      I would like to invite democracy-loving Americans to study the first three photos is this essay. The photos were taken this week at the start of November, 2017. They show a little Cuban boy named Diego and his friend, a little Cuban girl named Mariana. On the island of Cuba, there are people who love them dearly and do all they can to care for them. But in a neighboring country, the superpower United States, there is a small contingent of self-serving and revengeful Cuban-Americans who, through several generations now, have punished these children...as well as their parents and grandparents...all their lives. The punishment dates back to January of 1959 when the Cuban Revolution overthrew the vile U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship, which essentially and quickly resurfaced on U. S. soil, particularly nearby Miami. After a record number of assassination attempts in 1959 and 1960; after a blistering series of terrorist bombings throughout the 1960s and 1970s, after a failed Bay of Pigs military attack in 1961, and after a genocidal embargo-blockade imposed in 1962, Revolutionary Cuba, against all odds, remains a beleaguered sovereign nation. But the genocidal embargo-blockade imposed against the vulnerable island in 1962 remains to this day and is already enshrined in history as the all-time longest and cruelest embargo-blockade ever imposed by a strong nation against a much weaker nation. As we study this week's photos of the two Cuban children, I believe Americans should be ashamed that they have allowed a handful of rogues...for all these decades...to continually threaten and punish totally innocent foreign children.

Cuban children -- Mariana & Diego.

      Cuban children -- Mariana & Diego. Most of the whole wide world truly believes that a few rouges hiding behind the skirts of the world's superpower should not be allowed to punish and threaten totally innocent children in a much smaller, sovereign nation. AND THAT PRECISE ISSUE, to America's everlasting shame, was vividly examined this week -- November 1, 2017 -- on the global stage at the United Nations.

         "Genocide" is a word that the United States has used to describe what powerful rogue nations sometimes do to masses of people in weaker nations. The billboard above accuses the United States of "genocide" against the Cuban people because of the U. S. embargo-blockade against Cuba that was first imposed in 1962 and continues to this day, with the U. S. government and, more importantly, the U. S. people, apparently oblivious to the image this projects around the world. That "genocidal" image came up for a vote again this week in the United Nations...and never have such votes on the global stage done anything other than condemn the United States in the eyes of the entire world. There are many Americans who are appalled about this image but, unfortunately, they are not the decision-makers.  

Photo courtesy: Doug Mills/The New York Times.

       The photo above was taken in September of 2017 and it shows President Trump, his Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, and his Chief of Staff John Kelly when they all appeared at the United Nations in New York. By the time this photo was taken, it was known that the Trump administration would reverse the decent and sane overtures that the Obama presidency had made to correct the issue -- Cuba -- that has most defiled and soiled the image of the United States and democracy since the 1950s. And now, ten months into Trump's first year as U. S. President, his UN Ambassador Haley this week defiled and soiled America's image at the UN.

     On the global UN stage this week, U. S. Ambassador Nikki Haley tried to defend what the entire world considers indefensible -- the genocidal U. S. embargo of Cuba. She, of course, didn't mention that the embargo was imposed way back in 1962 for the purpose of straving, depriving and bringing misery to the innocent masses on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. Incredibly, neither that cruel fact nor many other cruel facts have succeeded in regaining control of Cuba but Nikki Haley is shown above trying to justify it this week at the UN. In doing so, she fully knew that all the other nations -- 192 of them -- knew she was lying. And in doing so she was assuming the American people and the mainstream U. S. media were/are too stupid or too afraid to challenge her statements. Her lies included: {1} "The United States does not fear isolation in this chamber or anywhere else." With that statement she was reminding the other 192 nations that the U. S. is the world's nuclear superpower and thus their opposition to America's Cuban policy was/is pointless. And {2} "We want to demonstrate continued solidarity with the Cuban people." That sentence was Nikki Haley's cruelest lie at the UN this week and to emphasize that point was the reason I opened this essay with the three photos of the two precious Cuban children that she so coldly referenced.

      Exactly one year ago President Obama's very decent Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, as shown above, stood proudly and told the other 192 nations that the United States was not so heartless that it would support the Congressionally-mandated genocidal embargo against Cuba. The delegates of all the other nations, including Israel, responded to Samantha Power with what the Associated Press called "sustained, standing-room-only applause." And then, one year ago, those nations voted in unanimity...191-to-0...to condemn the cruel U. S. embargo against Cuba. The U. S., refusing to support its own embargo, abstained from voting. Thus, so did Israel, which is dependent on massive economic and military aid from the United States. But Israel's abstentions or votes merely point out that the U. S., the world's richest and most powerful nation, is unable to buy off or scare off any other nation in the entire world to get it to support its Cuban policies.

    So this week, instead of the unanimous 191-to-0 condemnation of the United States last year when Barack Obama was President, the UN vote during the first year of the Trump presidency was a 191-to-2 condemnation of the U. S. embargo against Cuba. The photo above registered that vote -- Yes 191; No 2; and Abstain 0. Again, only bought-and-paid-for Israel voted with the United States to support the genocidal embargo against Cuba. If Americans had enough courage to study the photo above, which registered that vote this week at the United Nations, I believe they would...and certainly should...be ashamed of themselves for letting that vote condemn what once was by far the world's most admired and most respected nation. But this week -- Nov. 1, 2017 -- at the United Nations the U. S. Ambassador, Nikki Haley, coldly reminded the world that, because of America's unmatched nuclear power, "The United States does not fear isolation in this chamber or anywhere else." With that statement, the Trump presidency reminded the world that America's Cuban policy was back fully in the hands of a handful of Batistiano benefactors and while Trump is President there is nothing the rest of the world can do about it.

     At the United Nations this week, Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said, "The United States lacks the slightest moral authority to criticize Cuba or to even criticize other strong nations that prey on smaller, weaker nations." With their votes, all the other 190 nations -- other than bought-and-paid-for Israel -- agreed with Cuba's official statement delivered by Bruno Rodriguez. The New York Times and the Associated Press also used basically the same sentence to say that the U. S. destruction of its international image is "self-inflicted related to Cuba and the Trump administration is undermining its goals to improve relations with Latin America because all Latin American nations vehemently oppose and resent America's targeting of Cuba." And not surprisingly, on the CBS News website that reported on this week's UN vote, the first two comments were: {1} "What utter hypocrisy..." in scathingly comparing the U. S. sweet trade deals with Big Boys like China compared to bullying little Cuba; and {2} "Americans are such hateful rotten people." That latter comment atop the CBS News website is not true, of course, but America's cruel Cuban policy generates such opinions to the acute embarrassment of America's best friends and to the massive joy of America's worst enemies around the world.

     The graphic above depicts the worldwide image of America's Cuban policy. It is one that the United States cannot justify at the United Nations or any other domestic or international forum, and even Nikki Haley as well as her boss know that is true.

       Revolutionary Cuba, through hell and high water, has been a sovereign nation since January 1, 1959. It is not beyond being criticized. But it has tried so hard to take care of its people far better than they were cared for during the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship and also far better than the Batistiano-Mafiosi dictation of America's Cuban policy since January 1, 1959. The rest of the world understands that even if propagandized Americans do not. But with each yearly vote at the UN, the world reminds Americans that America's Cuban policy is acutely cruel and unjust.

Mariana & Diego.

     The rest of the world agrees that these two precious Cuban children, photographed on their island this week, do not deserve to be targeted in 2017 by a United States embargo first imposed way back in 1962 for the stated purpose of starving, depriving, and making misery on the island to induce Cubans to overthrow their revolutionary government, presumably so the U.S.-backed Batistianos-Mafiosi can regain control and once again allow rich American businessmen to partake of the spoils. The UN vote this week revealed yet again that worldwide opinion favors Cuban children, like the two shown above, over vile and greedy urchins who target them from the sanctuary of a nearby Superpower, the United States of America.

And by the way:

    On November 1, 2017, Iberostar Hotels & Resorts announced that it will have 12,000 rooms in Cuba by the year 2020. Iberostar is located in Palma, Majorca, Spain. It specializes in 4 and 5-star hotels and shows faith in Cuba's "exciting future."

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Cuba: Defending the Indefensible

The Vile U. S. Embargo of Cuba!!

   Today -- Wednesday, November 1st, 2017 -- the administration of U. S. President Donald Trump will shame America and Democracy on a global stage at the United Nations in New York. Trump's stooge at the UN, Nikki Haley, will defend the U. S. embargo of Cuba before a world that has the guts and the decency to oppose it.

      This is the worldwide image of the United States that the Trump administration will defend at the United Nations today. The U. S. embargo against Cuba was imposed in 1962 for the purpose, as revealed by de-classified U. S. documents, of starving, depriving and bringing misery to the Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government that had overthrown the vile U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in January of 1959. From 1962 till today -- November 1st of 2017 -- the embargo has remained in place at the behest of a handful of Batistiano-Mafiosi miscreants and their mere handful of thuggish right-wing sycophants.

      Exactly one year ago this week, the U. S. embargo of Cuba was unanimously condemned 191-to-0 with two abstentions -- the U. S. and Israel -- at the UN. Under the decent U. S. President Barack Obama, American did not vote to support America's own embargo of Cuba that is mandated by a handful of Batistianos in the U. S. Congress. Israel, which is dependent on billions of dollars in economic and military aid from the U. S., also abstained last year but the entire world saw and applauded the unanimity of the vote shown above, 191-to-0 condemning the imperialist embargo.

       Last year President Obama's very decent U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, as shown above, explained why the United States, under a decent President, could not support the cruel and genocidal embargo against Cuba.

     But President Trump's U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations is Nikki Haley and today she will speak before a totally disbeliving United Nations trying to defend the indefensible, which is the longest and cruelest embargo ever imposed by a strong nation against a much weaker nation. Haley was Governor of South Carolina when she accepted Trump's offer to become UN Ambassador. She considers it a stepping stone to, first, becoming Secretary of State and, then, using that as a foundation to sate her presidential ambitions or the presidential plans of her beloved Marco Rubio.

      As Governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley campaigned furiously for Marco Rubio AGAINST DONALD TRUMP during the 2016 Republican presidential race.

     While Haley was campaigning wickedly for Senator Marco Rubio against Trump, both of them mocked and demeaned Trump as a human being and as a presidential candidate. Stupidly, and perhaps fatally, President Trump now has the two self-serving foxes in his teetering Republican hen-house devouring his very favorite chickens behind his back while serious impeachment drums are pounding loudly as Trump desperately tries to survive this first year of his four-year term as President.

     Meanwhile, Rubio -- while not openly stabbing President Trump in the back yet -- has incredibly secured Trump's blessing as America's dictator of Cuban policy from Rubio's entrenched perch in the U. S. Senate from Miami's Little Havana.

     As the anointed prime dictator of America's Cuban policy, Senator Marco Rubio, as a vicious and cruel Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American, assumes no matter what undemocratic cruelty he directs at innocent Cubans, it will not adversely effect his insatiable presidential aspirations. That's because he brashly assumes...probably correctly...that the mainstream U. S. media doesn't have the guts to challenge him and this generation of Americans simply doesn't have the patriotism to challenge him.

     In addition to Rubio, Miami's other "contributions" to the U. S. Congress have also included only vicious and revengeful Cuban Counter Revolutionaries ALTHOUGH most Cuban-Americans even in Miami favor normal relations with Cuba. Democracy-lovers, of course, have a dire problem with that but, unfortunately, many Americas are simply too afraid to question it. Shown above celebrating their unchecked power at a Miami news conference are Havana-born former Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart on the left and current Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart on the right. The Diaz-Balart brothers are the sons of Rafael Diaz-Balart who was a key Minister in the overthrown Batista dictatorship who then, beginning in 1959, was one of the richest and most powerful Counter Revolutionaries in the history of Florida. Second from the left is Congressman Carlos Curbelo and at the microphones is Ileana Ros-Lehtinen who has been entrenched as a Counter Revolutionary zealot in the U. S. Congress since 1989 when Jeb Bush, paving the way for his two terms as Florida's governor, was her Campaign Manager. The entire world, except for self-serving American right-wingers, believes that leaving America's cruel and revengeful Cuban policies in the hands of a few revengeful miscreants is stupid, wrong, hurtful, and grossly undemocratic.

    The above graphic depicts a few Counter Revolutionaries defying most Americans, most Cuban-Americans and almost all the citizens of the world in defending the insanely cruel U. S. embargo against Cuba. This has shamed America for over half-a-century...and counting. And the indefensible shame will be defended today on the global stage at the United Nations by United States UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.

     Born 51-years-ago in Miami, Kathy Castor has represented the Tampa area of Florida in the United States Congress since 2007. In all those years she has always -- on behalf of her constituents, America, and totally innocent Cubans -- brilliantly and bravely defied the visceral Counter Revolutionaries in Florida and in Congress, fighting tirelessly to normalize relations with Cuba.

      The photo above shows Congresswoman Kathy Castor, in the red sweater, being hugged by a decent Cuban, Julia de la Rosa, while another decent Cuban, Yamina Vicente, claps and smiles her approval. The two Cubans had flown to Washington to beg the Trump administration to allow them to continue their successful businesses in Cuba that they had opened after decent overtures from U. S. President Obama. Julia owned a thriving Bed & Breakfast that employed 17 Cubans; Yamina own a successful company called Decorazon that planned weddings and other events. The two Cuban women and dozens more like them felt it necessary...as did Congresswoman Castor...for them to come to Washington to beg the United States -- namely Trump and Rubio -- to allow them to continue to make decent livings for their families in their nearby sovereign nation, the island of Cuba.

     Study the photo above. It shows Yamina Vicente in Washington begging the Trump administration to allow her to continue to make a living. Yamina is a decent, well educated Cuban. She was a college professor till U. S. President Obama gave her a chance to start her own business -- Decorazon. The McClatchy Washington Bureau quoted her as saying: "I have an older sister who is a photographer and her work complemented my idea of organizing weddings and birthday celebrations. I truly love design and manual arts and this was a business that would not demand a lot of capital to start. I love it and it is successful." Have you studied the photo of Yamina begging the United States to allow her to continue to make a living in her own sovereign country? Are you ashamed as an American that she had to do this?

      Above is another quotation that Yamina Vicente left behind in Washington on her heart-wrenching visit from Cuba. Only heartless cretins would not support her.

       One thing is for sure: Yamina Vicente is a more decent and more honorable person in Cuba than any of the Cuban-Americans or Americans trying to punish her...and that includes Trump, Rubio, the Diaz-Balart brothers, Ros-Lehtinen, etc.

And it also includes:

U. S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley.

      Today at the United Nations in New York, she will defend the indefensible -- the U. S. embargo against Cuba. It's a self-inflicted American albatross and tragedy that was first imposed in 1962 TO STARVE, DEPRIVE, AND BRING MISERY TO INNOCENT CUBANS ON THE ISLAND TO INDUCE THEM TO RISE UP AND OVERTHROW THEIR REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT. Over a half-century later, the failed embargo remains in place to the everlasting shame of America and Democracy. While self-serving miscreants like Trump, Rubio, the Bush dynasty, and Haley are primarily to blame, the biggest indictment of all lies with the gutlessness and lack of patriotism of the American people for allowing it happen in our name for all these decades.

On behalf of America and Democracy...

Nikki Haley's sharp claws...

will be on display today at the United Nations.

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Anti-American Cuban-Americans

Dictating Vile Cuban Policies!!
{Updated: Tuesday, October 31st, 2017}

       The Washington-based Center for Democracy in the Americas is one of the many democracy-loving organizations that work tirelessly advocating for the U. S. government to bring, at long last, some decency and sanity to its Cuban policy.

      The Executive Director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas is Emily Mendrala. Each Friday her weekly review of U.S.-Cuban relations on the CDA's Cuba Central is the best online update related to the island of Cuba, which says as much or more about America as it does about Cuba itself. On her current update, She decried the fact that a mere handful of extremists Cuban-Americans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress still essentially dictate America's Cuban policy, the policy that currently has America condemned worldwide by a unanimously loud 191-to-0 vote in the UN. Emily Mendrala put it this way on October 27th: "Indeed, support for engagement with Cuba is now a mainstream opinion among the public and in Congress. And yet, somehow, a minority group of lawmakers continues to stymie engagement."

      Emily Mendrala's Center for Democracy in the Americas, as her quotation above indicates, is appalled that the United States' Cuban policy primarily targets and harms totally innocent everyday Cubans on the island, especially young-adult Cubans trying to become entrepreneurs to support their families on the U.S.-EMBARGOED island.

      The quotation above by Emily Mendrala referenced this heart-wrenching photo of a young Cuban entrepreneur named Yamina Vicente who came to Washington to beg -- YES, TO BEG!!! -- the Trump administration to allow her and other young Cuban mothers like her to be able to continue to make decent livings for their families thanks to a brief opening provided by the decent former U. S. President Obama.

      The quotation above by Yamina Vicente in Washington BEGGED the U. S. government to allow her to continue to make a decent living for her family in the sovereign nearby country of Cuba. {Please re-read & study that sentence}. Yamina and many other young female entrepreneurs in Cuba who signed the letter that she held aloft, were BEGGING the Trump administration not to reverse the decent overtures that the previous Obama administration had so bravely provided them. Most decent, democracy-loving Americans -- such as Emily Mendrala -- are ashamed that a young Cuban mother like Yamina Vicente had to come to Washington TO BEG the U. S. government to allow her to make a decent living IN A NEARBY SOVEREIGN COUNTRY. But that's the way it has been in the United States democracy since 1959 {except for the two-term Obama presidency} since the Cuban Revolution overthrew the vile Batista-Mafia dictatorship on the island only to see it quickly and permanently, it seems, resurface violently on U. S. soil with Little Havana in Miami as its new capital. The U. S. government that backed the Batista dictatorship in Cuba in the 1950s now in the Trump era in 2017 backs Rubio as America's latest Cuban dictator.

     The Marco Rubio dictatorship of Cuba is located in Washington and not Havana because the Miami-Batistianos, after all these decades, have yet to recapture Cuba despite having the Superpower support of the U. S. economy, the U. S. military, the U.S. CIA, the U. S. Congress, and all U.S. Republican presidents...as well as the apathy of two generations of unpatriotic Americans. It is that situtation that angers decent Americans like Emily Mendrala AND the majority of Cuban-Americans even in Miami.  

       Americans are not supposed to know this man. Yet, from his home-base in Miami, he is a prolific and brilliant journalist and author. His name is...Alvaro Fernandez. His journalistic endeavors include the founding of Progresso Weekly, a starkly pro-American/anti-Batistiano/anti-Counter Revolutionary publication in the heart of Miami. He believes the polls that reveal a strong majority of Cuban-Americans even in Miami desire normal relations with Cuba, and thus he believes that the majority of Cuban-Americans -- not just a minority cabal of extremists -- should have input in Miami, in Florida, and in U. S. political circles on issues related to Cuba. He is aware that most Americans, most Cuban-Americans, and the entire world -- based on the current 191-to-0 vote in the UN -- agree with him. So, he truly believes the Cuban-exile use of the U. S. democracy to assault Cubans on the island since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 should be confronted by the less revengeful majority of Cuban-Americans and, possibly, by a more patriotic majority of Americans.

         And indeed, with 2017 being the first year in America's Era of President Trump, Alvaro Fernandez seems to believe conclusively that Miami choirboy Marco Rubio is now the self-anointed and Trump-anointed dictator of Cuba, not so unlike the U.S.-anointed Fulgencio Batista was in the 1950s on the island itself or the Bush-anointed Jorge Mas Canosa was beginning in the 1980s in the United States.

For example:

     In a recent -- Oct. 27-2017 -- Progresso Weekly update, Alvaro Fernandez used the above photo-montage to illustrate an article entitled: "The Made-for-Miami Fairy Tale of Marco the Good vs. Cabello the Bad." Here are the first two paragraphs:
               "It's hard to comprehend how people still believe Marco Rubio, or swallow the manufactured PR stunts that the press falls for that paint a picture of the U. S. senator from West Miami as the hero of some tall tale.
                "A closer and more detailed look at Rubio would show a Little Marco that is more fairy tale character than the responsible politician he pretends to be. Which goes to show how gullible Miami and so many American voters are -- a nice way of saying that too many of us are just plain stupid when voting."
        That understandable critique of Marco Rubio and the Miami-infested U. S. democracy proves that Alvaro Fernandez is both an astute and very brave observer of post-Cuban Revolution politics in Miami and, unfortunately, also in Washington.

    In another recent Progresso Weekly update, Alvaro Fernandez used the above photo-montage to illustrate an article referencing Marco Rubio entitled: "Two-faced? Cowardly? Both." The article alleges that U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillotson's Cuban policies are dictated by America's current Cuban dictator Marco Rubio. In another article, a blistering Alvaro Fernandez headline screamed: "Follow the Money...and Marco Rubio." That article, in excruciating detail, vividly discussed "a dark alley called Marco Rubio." Unfortunately, it is that "dark alley called Marco Rubio" who currently is Dictator #1 of America's cruel, undemocratic Cuban policy.

     In continuing his excoriations of Marco Rubio in his Miami-based Progresso Weekly, Alvaro Fernandez used the above photo to illustrate an article entitled: "Ileana, Marco, Curbelo, and Mario: Crippled Trump Enablers." The photo depicts entrenched Marco Rubio-like Miami members of the U. S. Congress -- Carlos Curbelo, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Mario Diaz-Balart. Alvaro Fernandez wonders, if most Cuban-Americans even in Miami favor normal relations with Cuba, why only Counter Revolutionary extremists can get elected to the U. S. Congress from Miami.

     In another major Progresso Weekly update, Alvaro Fernandez used the above graphic to illustrate his article entitled: "Menendez Trial Update: Has the Supreme Court Legalized Public Corruption?" It is a legitimate question related to the federal trial in which the U. S. government charged U. S. Senator Robert Menendez with 18 corruption-bribery charges. Menendez, an ultra-powerful and entrenched Cuban-American Counter-Revolutionary U. S. Senator from New Jersey, is expected to be found "not guilty" despite years of expensive investigative work by the U. S. government and an expensive trial in Newark, New Jersey, that has consumed over two months as of today -- October 31st, 2017. Even the presiding judge has openly referenced the fact that the U. S. Supreme Court over-turned the apparently solid corruption charges against the convicted former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell. It was the same U. S. Supreme Court that earlier had legalized unlimited political donations by billionaires, drastically altering the U. S. politics that some, obviously including Alvaro Fernandez, now view as "for sale to the highest bidders." But while a very brave Alvaro Fernandez in Miami questions what is happening in the Menendez corruption trial -- and is the same Alvaro Fernandez who pens major articles about the "two-faced," "cowardly," and "For Sale" Marco Rubio -- the intimidated or politically correct mainstream U. S. media only portrays Rubio as a choirboy.

     One of America's most respected investigative journalists, Ken Silverstein, penned the above deeply investigated article...using a plethora of specific names, places, dates, real estate, etc...that, as far as I can recall, labels Marco Rubio the most "FOR SALE" politician I've ever read about. Interestingly, as far as I know, Ken Silverstein has not been sued by either Rubio or his wealthy supporters. Yet, aside from brave and highly respected journalists like Alvaro Fernandez and Ken Silverstein, the inept mainstream United States media lavishly promotes presidential wannabee Marco Rubio as the quintessentially American-made Mother Teresa-like saint.

   But in the heart of Miami Alvaro Fernandez and his incisive Progresso Weekly articles consistently oppose Miami's dictation of America's Cuban policies.

Which reminds me of:

     The top news anchor on Cuban television is Cristina Escobar. She is also a record-setter as the first Cuban to ask questions at a White House news conference, and she took full advantage of that opportunity by asking six very pertinent questions. Also on U. S. soil at one university in California, at two universities in Alabama, and on a Pulitzer Center-sponsored Tracey Eaton U.S./YouTube video, Cristina Escobar has made this firm statement: "Cuban journalists have more freedom to tell the truth about the U. S. than U. S. journalists have to tell the truth about Cuba." Americans, propagandized since the Batista-Mafia dictatorship retrenched in Florida and New Jersey following the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution, are supposed to quickly dismiss that observation by a respected Cuban on the island, Cristina Escobar. But she is a well-educated and brilliant Cuban broadcast journalist who also happens to believe her comment depicted above as well as her second most referenced quotation: "Cuba's fate is up to Cubans on the island, not Cubans in Miami and Washington." In other words, as a leader of the vital young-adult generation of Cubans on the island, Cristina Escobar staunchly disapproved the American-backed Batista dictatorship in Cuba in the 1950s and she staunchly disapproves of the American-based Rubio dictatorship of Cuba now -- IN 2017!

     While even notable Miami journalist Alvaro Fernandez calls Marco Rubio "two-faced" and "cowardly," NO ONE either in Cuba or the U. S. has ever used such adjectives to describe the thoughtful Cristina Escobar. She is a talented Cuban jewel.

Making history at the White House.

Cristina Escobar.

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