Cuba's Dearest Friend

She's the World's Top Diplomat!!
{Wednesday, January 10th, 2018}

Photos courtesy of Reuters/Alexandre Meneghini.

   Cuba's best international friend is a 44-year-old Italian named Federica Mogherini. That's very important in the New Year of 2018, following the departure in the United States of President Barack Obama and the arrival of President Donald Trump, because she happens to be one of the most powerful and most respected people in the world. Her title is: The European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. She is, in fact, far more significant on the world stage than even that heady title suggests. She is easily the world's most respected and most influential diplomat. And she is appalled and outraged that U. S. President Donald Trump has turned America's Cuba policy "BACK OVER" to self-serving Counter Revolutionary extremists "IN MIAMI AND CONGRESS." And that's why Federica Mogherini spent the first week of January-2018 in Havana significantly boosting the morale of the Cuban people and significantly boosting Cuba's image to the world while excoriating America's renewed "bellicosity towards Cuba's people."

      When world leaders meet, as illustrated by the photo above, Federica Mogherini is often on center stage leading the discussions. In that manner, as the world's top diplomat, she helped persuade U. S. President Obama to normalize relations with Cuba, which he diligently and famously tried to do. But America's two-party, money-crazed political system, to her chagrin, followed the Democratic Obama administration with a Republican Donald Trump White House that seeks to reverse the long-overdo Obama overtures to Cuba. Additionally, Federica Mogherini is viscerally dismayed that the U. S. democracy allows a handful of Cuban-exile miscreants in the 535-member U. S. Congress to dictate a Cuban policy FOR THE PAST SIX DECADES that "we here in the European Union and the rest of the entire world opposes." With those SIGNIFICANT viewpoints, the world's most influential diplomat, Federica Mogherini, visited Cuba in the first week of January-2018.

In green, the 28 European Union nations!

All 28 EU nations are friendly towards Cuba.

   As shown above, the brilliant European Union leader, Federica Mogherina, this week in Havana stressed this inalienable fact: "CUBA IS CHANGING DEEPLY." With that theme, she spent two days excoriating the stupidity and the "anti-democratic stance" of the U. S. Trump administration for "eviscerating the positive Cuban measures of the Obama administration that the entire world cheered so profoundly." As before, Mogherina admitted she is "amazed" that the American people allow its government to maintain "such a very shameful" Cuban policy.

     On her latest visit to Cuba in January, 2018, Federica Mogherini once again asked to be shown around the historic capital city by Eusebio Leal, the highly respected intellectual and official Historian of Havana. She wanted Reuters and other worldwide news outlets to photograph her on a Leal-escorted trip because she has pointed out that "those who know the Cubans on the island love them." And she contrasts that with the basic fact that "Cuba's current most bitter enemies have never been to Cuba to engage with the Cuban people." With that comment, she is obviously referring to Cuba's "current bitter enemies" like Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Nikki Haley.

      As a knowledgeable Cuban expert, and as the world's top diplomat and one of the planet's most powerful people, Federica Mogherini in January-2018 wanted to remind the world that she was still interested in having historian Eusebio Leal continue to educate her about "one of the world's most fascinating cities, nations, and people."

     While the mainstream U. S. media is too afraid or too politically correct to report on positives related to Cuba, Federica Mogherini made it a point on this January-2018 trip to Cuba to counter America's "Cuban directives." That's why she openly thanked Marc Frank of Reuters, Sarah Marsh of the BBC, and other international journalists for "telling the world the truth about the truly remarkable Cubans on this island." At the news conference above in Havana on Jan. 5th-2018 Mogherini, the EU's international superstar, said, "I will do all in my power to make sure the EU is Cuba's leading trade partner. Cuba is very symbolic throughout the Caribbean and Latin America but also worldwide. The United States bellicosity towards Cuba shames America's best friends and inspires America's worst enemies and its biggest competitors. As the U. S. with Trump again turns its Cuban policy over to only the most visceral anti-Revolutionary sector, the EU desires to counter that mistake. The EU, not China and not Russia, needs to fill the American-created Cuban vacuum."

    While Federica Mogherini and the European Union were making big news in Havana the first week in January-2018, the inept mainstream U. S. media remained obsessed and focused only on impeaching President Trump, ignoring the fact that the ineptness of the mainstream U. S. media helped put him in the White House. But far better news outlets -- such as Reuters, the BBC, and the European Union External Action website and agencies gave proper coverage to Mogherini's scintillating Cuban trip. For example, still posted on the EU External Action website is every word Mogherini uttered at her news conference in Havana. Her important words included: "The EU nations are now Cuba's most important economic partners. The new agreements I have signed here this week provides more cooperation, trade, investments and also political dialogue. The EU has become Cuba's first trade partner and was already the first in investment and development cooperation, which means it is possible to increase the level of economic relations and investments even more."

      For two days in Cuba last week -- Jan. 4th & 5th, 2018 -- Federica MogherinI toured Havana and verily marveled at the "beautiful, healthy, well-educated, and resilient Cuban people who so massively love their sovereign island nation. It is these talented young adults, especially, who deserve the right to make the most of their lives here in Cuba without continued hindrance from less-purposeful foreign obstacles." With each step and almost with each word, she showed her love for the Cuban people and her dire hatred of America's "bellicose" Cuban policies.

     The visit to Cuba by the European Union's superstar Federica Mogherini is a stark reminder that non-American democracies can still produce ultra-talented politicians and diplomats while the U. S. is producing unpopular leaders that the majority of Americans grossly disapprove of. Unfortunately, those leaders include the likes of Trump & Rubio that Mogherini referenced in Havana a few days ago as being responsible for the post-Obama "bellicosity towards Cuba that shames America's best friends and inspires its worst enemies and biggest competitors." Such undemocratic stupidity, Mogherini opined in Havana, "stuns me regarding how long the American people are allowing it to prevail as a lingering democratic insult."

    While Federica Mogherini had that one major news conference, she spent most of her time in Havana meeting with everyday Cubans and addressing conferences like the one above. In vowing to help Cuba survive the Trump "bellicosity," perhaps the most significant conclusion Mogherini made in Cuba was this:

               "I marvel at the beautiful, healthy, well-educated, and historically resilient Cuban people who so massively love their sovereign island nation. It is these talented young adults, especially, who deserve the right to make the most of their lives HERE IN CUBA without continued hindrance from less-purposeful foreign obstacles."

    These are some of the talented, healthy, well-educated, young adults in Cuba that Federica Mogherini truly believes should be allowed to "make the most of their lives here in Cuba without continued hindrance from less-purposeful foreign obstacles."

      The five talented young adult journalists shown above are the type Cubans on the island "HERE IN CUBA" that Federica Mogherini believes should decide Cuba's fate, not imperial-minded foreign miscreants. From left to right above are Yari Hedz, Yanet Perez Moya, Ivyliet Ventura Kessel, Rosy Amaro Perez, and Antonio Guzman Morales. The little girl is Rosy's 4-year-old daughter Mariana. Believing the eternally propagandized American people are stupid and gullible, President Trump and Marco Rubio claim they can better care for Cuban children like Mariana than can the Cubans on the island. Of course, Federica Mogherini knows that is a huge lie. 

     The photo above was taken on January 5th, 2018, while Federica Mogherini was visiting Cuba on behalf of the 28 European Nations. That's television anchor Rosy Amaro Perez flanked by two journalistic colleagues right after a live news broadcast. It's Cubans like these that Federica Mogherini "marveled at" because of their talent and because they "so massively love their sovereign island nation." Federica Mogherini made it plain that she believes it is Cubans like these in Cuba that should predicate the island's future, not a few self-serving foreigners hiding behind the skirts of a nearby Superpower. In other words, the European Union's top superstar, Federica Mogherini, believes in decency, sanity, and, of course, Democracy.

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PRETEXTS to Hurt Cuba

Any Excuse Will Work!!!!
{Monday, January 8th, 2018}

pretext: noun -- A reason presented as an excuse to justify a course of action but it is a fabricated lie and not the real reason, such as Operation Northwoods against Cuba.

       On Saturday, Jan. 6-2018, a frustrated U. S. Senator Jeff Flake stated what most American politicians were afraid to opine. He said what had been common knowledge for weeks in Washington, which is that the Trump administration's claim that Cuba injured U. S. diplomats in Havana with some mysterious sonic-acoustic attack is bogus...merely a lie. Senator Flake said, "Classified briefings have left me with no reason to doubt what Cuba has claimed all along." In making that announcement, Senator Flake indicated that he was ashamed the U. S. government would concoct should a PRETEXT so, back on Nov. 8th-2017, it could have an excuse to reverse positive Cuban overtures made by former President Barack Obama.

Photo courtesy: Associated Press/Scott Applewhite.

        Also, Senator Jeff Flake clearly indicated that he was frustrated with both the American citizens and the mainstream U. S. media that accepts ridiculous PRETEXTS from right-wing Republican politicians and hard-line Cuban-Americans in the U. S. Congress to destroy Cuba's sovereign government. Senator Flake said, "I won't talk about what I have seen in a classified setting, but nothing is inconsistent with what the Cubans have said, and the FBI will also say that." Yet, the sonic-attack PRETEXT has been used by the United States to gut the Obama-reopened embassies in Havana and Washington and to assault Cuba's tourism and its Obama-inspired private business opportunities that had benefited many Cubans and many Cuban-Americans.

     From the outset no responsible U. S. government source actually accused Cuba about using mysterious sonic or acoustic attacks to harm U. S. diplomats or anyone else in Cuba. The island depends mightily on tourism and the U. S. accusations were/are more in line with Counter Revolutionary anti-Cuban Miami extremists.

    A Republican Senator from Arizona, Jeff Flake, is so disgusted with a Republican Party led by President Trump that Flake has announced he is not running for re-election in 2018. In the Trump era Flake is appalled that Trump uses attack dogs like Senator Marco Rubio to target Cuba and Rubio ally Ambassador Nikki Haley to attack, threaten, and "take names" of any nation that disagrees with any of their policies.

      Cuba itself exhaustively used 300 of its top doctors, scientists, and security leaders to investigate the sonic-attack "mystery." They concluded the U. S. was lying in order to justify the Trump-Rubio efforts to reverse the positive Obama overtures. 

      President Obama's detente with Cuba was approved by the entire world, based on the 191-to-0 vote in the United Nations. It also was approved by most Cuban-Americans even in Miami. But democracy has never factored into America's Cuban policy and history is replete with cruel and even deadly PRETEXTS fabricated by right-wing thugs and Cuban-exile extremists to justify the totally unjustifiable.

    Right-wing thugs within the framework of the U. S. democracy have long dictated salacious PRETEXTS to justify greedy and brutal assaults on Cuba. Back in 1898 the U. S. warship, the Maine, blew up in Havana Harbor killing hundreds of young sailors. That was the PRETEXT for the Spanish-American War that finally replaced Spain's conquest of Cuba with America's. That U. S. dominance of the Caribbean's largest and most coveted island lasted from 1898 until the first day of January-1959 when the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the thieving and brutal Batista-Mafia dictatorship. Incredibly, right-wing thugs within the framework of the U. S. democracy permitted the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to resurface immediately and permanently on United States soil -- first in the Miami area of South Florida, then within the fabric of the United States Congress, and massivly deep within the bowels of all Republican administrations.

    The Associated Press photo and caption above shows that by January of 1960 U. S. warplanes were flying from Florida on murderous bombing missions in Cuba. In 1959 the U. S. had already secretively sent infamous anti-Castro Cubans to Fort Benning in Georgia to prepare for the war that was designed to recapture Cuba. That attack, which also involved expensive training operations in U.S.-friendly dictatorships like Somoza's in Nicaragua, became known as the Bay of Pigs in April of 1961. The startling defensive victory at the Bay of Pigs by Revolutionary Cuba served to crown the revolutionary legend of Fidel Castro. So, in 1962 the U. S. created what is now known as history's longest and cruelest embargo ever imposed by a strong nation against a weak one. De-classified U. S. documents prove that the intent of the embargo was to starve, deprive and make miserable the lives of ordinary Cubans on the island to encourage them to rise up and overthow their revolutionary government. Since 1962 the embargo has come to be viewed, around the world, as even more anti-democratic than the murderous 1960 bombings of Cuba depicted above or the 1961 military attack at the Bay of Pigs. Also, of course, all the while the U. S. democracy was doing nothing to quell what history now records as the all-time most assassination attempts. The Guinness Book of World Records lists 638 unsuccessful assassination attempts against just one man -- Fidel Castro. Meanwhile, generations of American citizens -- whose democracy it was and is -- accepted the cowardly bombings from Florida, the military attack, the assassination attempts, the embargo, the terrorist bombing of the civilian and child-laden Cubana Flight 455 airplane, the car-bombing in Miami of the Cuban-American newsman, Emilio Milian, who had complained against such terrorism, etc. AND EVEN TODAY -- in January of 2018 -- the U. S. citizens are not expected to take the time to Google such assaults on their democracy nor is the mainstream U. S. media generally brave enough or competent enough to fairly report on such things...unlike the mainstream AP that did, in 1960, report on events like the warplanes flying from Florida to bomb Cuba.

    Similarly, neither the U. S. citizenry nor the mainstream U. S. media are concerned that the rest of the world, with that 191-to-ZERO UN vote, condemns both America and Democracy for the cruel Embargo against Cuba that has existed from 1962 till today -- and counting! When a handful of self-serving thugs and miscreants, aided by a handful of self-serving sycophants, can demean the United States and Democracy so powerfully for so long with a Cuban policy so expertly depicted in the Latuff graphic, then perhaps it is time for a brave democracy-loving generation of Americans to at least weigh in on the topic. Beyond doubt, in the eyes of the world no issue has demeaned and mocked America and its Democracy so consistently as the insanely cruel and incredibly inept U. S. Cuban policy.

     One of America's greatest heroes is investigative journalist James Bamford. His book "Body of Secrets" exposed the Operation Northwoods PRETEXT that was designed to kill innocent Americans and blame it on Cuba to justify an attack.

       Most PRETEXTS used by the U. S. government to attack Cuba have been covered up by the self-serving convenience of routinely classifying-hiding U. S. documents. But,  as shown above, a great investigative journalist named James Bamford was able to DE-classify U. S. documents that proved, at the highest levels, the U. S. considered Operation Northwoods, a secretive plan concocted by General Lyman Lemnitzer and his Joint Chiefs of Staff that called for terrorist acts, even murders of innocent people, if it could be blamed on Cuba as PRETEXT for a military attack.

A DE-classified March 13-1962 document.

Northwoods remains a classic PRETEXT.

De-classified Operation Northwoods.

De-classified material had protected perpetrators.

     A reluctant President Bill Clinton signed the infamous Helms-Burton Act into law on March 12, 1996, and to this day -- January of 2018 -- it remains the most severe catalyst to punish innocent Cubans despite the efforts of great men like President Obama to end it. Prior to signing Helms-Burton, President Clinton thought he could begin the dangerous process of normalizing relations with Cuba. At the signing he was surrounded by hard-line anti-Castro Cuban-Americans such as Bob Menendez and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen looking over his right shoulder and Lincoln Diaz-Balart, second from the right, whose father Rafael was a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship and the rich creator of the first U. S. anti-Castro paramilitary unit.

     Immediately after signing the Helms-Burton Act into law, I believe it was a very scared President Clinton who glanced up at the clapping Bob Menendez who is still a U. S. Senator and who, in a trial that ended in a hung jury in 2017, survived an expensive and diligent 3-year effort by the U. S. Federal Government to convict him of multiple corruption and bribery charges related to a wealthy Miami resident.

     So let's return to the photo of Senator Jeff Flake taken on January 6th, 2018. It shows his frustration over the latest PRETEXT -- the mystery "SONIC" attacks -- being used by the Trump-Rubio masters to punish innocent Cubans to feather the political or economic nests of a handful of miscreants. Senator Flake remembers when Cuba extremists in Miami hastily needed a PRETEXT to keep President Clinton from normalizing relations with Cuba; thus, Brothers to the Rescue airplanes from Miami began to taunt Cuba, resulting in a catastrophe that not only derailed Clinton's plans but forced him to sign the ultra-punitive Helm-Burton Act into supposedly everlasting U. S. law. No wonder decent politicians like Jeff Flake are too ashamed to seek re-election to Congress although, of course, there are countless rogue extremists ready and eager to take advantage of this ever-widening and embarrassing vacuum.

      Even the Miami Herald seems fed-up with the likes of Miami's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio appeasing his billionaire right-wing supporters by using the Trump administration to hurt totally innocent Cubans in Cuba and totally innocent Cuban-Americans in Miami, most of whom fully supported President Obama's efforts to normalize relations with Cuba. Thus, as depicted above, the Miami Herald published a blistering anti-Rubio article written by four decent, hard-working, female entrepreneurs on the island that Rubio is attacking while hiding behind the powerful {if outrageous and cowardly} skirts of President Trump while, of course, insisting he is hurting the Castros instead of hard-working, non-political Cubans like the four women who excoriated Rubio in Rubio's home-town newspaper.

       Meanwhile, the likes of Rubio, Menendez, etc. remain in the U. S. Senate while the likes of Jeff Flake has decided he's had enough of such things as the Helms-Burton Act and fabricated anti-Cuban PRETEXTS that supposedly defend the indefensible.

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USA's Batista Dictatorship

From Cuba to America...

with Greed!!
{Sunday, December 7th, 2018}

    A couple of weeks ago someone sent me a copy of "The Breaking Point" by best-selling author James Dale Davidson. It's almost 600 pages and I just finished it. The 14th chapter -- entitled "The Domino Effect" -- is, I think, the best documentation I'm aware of that depicts the gigantic effect on the U. S. democracy of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba. It chronicles how the overthrown Batista-Mafia leaders were primarily chased to U. S. soil by the Cuban Revolution on Jan. 1, 1959. James Dale Davidson minutely documents what has since become, in his words, a massive "Domino Effect" cascading through America and Democracy. In one of his Chapter 14 footnotes he credits as a source a Cubaninsider essay that I entitled "The Cruel War on Innocent Cubans." I published that post on Sept. 17, 2013 but it is still quickly available by just Googling "The Cruel War on Innocent Cubans." I am proud that an economist and author of Mr. Davidson's statue seems to agree with me concerning how the proud United States of America has been so drastically transformed by first supporting the brutal-thieving Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba from 1952 till 1959 and then -- after it was overthrown on the first day of 1959 -- the USA has simply allowed it to reconstitute itself on U. S. soil with Little Havana in Miami as its new and current capital.

     As a best-selling author and renowned investor, James Davidson's latest book -- "The Breaking Point" -- is, I believe, a must-read for anyone interested in how the USA has been affected, effected, and infected by the transformation of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to the U. S. in 1959. And I say that not because in the crucial Chapter 14's "The Domino Effect" he credits Cubaninsider as one of his sources. Below are some pertinent excerpts from that Chapter 14 that Americans need to know about the "domino effect" the Batista-Mafia dictatorship has had on America since it was chased...in perpetuity, it seems...to the United States:
                "It is a little known fact that Cuba would have become a U. S. state in the wake of the 1898 Spanish American War if not for the fierce opposition of Western sugar beet farmers. Cuba had become the chief sugar producer in the world after 1860. Following the Spanish American War, the Treaty of Paris assumed the United States would occupy Cuba. As a result of U. S. occupation, tariffs on Cuban sugar were reduced by 52 percent. This exposed Western sugar beet farmers to competition, to which they proved predictably allergic. Not to worry: Senator Henry Teller of Colorado had proposed and enacted the Teller Amendment prohibiting the annexation of Cuba out of fear that annexation would open the inefficient U. S. sugar market to competition.
              "Remember, Cuba's penultimate dictator before Castro, the klelptocrat Fulgencio Batista, governed in conjunction with Mafia kingpins Meyer Lansky, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, and Santo Trafficante Jr. The Mafia bosses preferred to do business with Batista. It was well known that Batista's bag-men would call every night on Trafficante's casinos, including the iconic Tropicana Club, to collect 10 percent of the day's take."
            After those indelible facts, James Dale Davidson in his Chapter 14 -- "The Domino Effect" -- explains how Batista's Cuban and Mafia henchmen regrouped in South Florida starting in January of 1959, after being booted off the island by the Cuban Revolution. On United States soil they immediately and eternally began to apply what they had learned in Cuba, which is how to purchase corrupt leaders. To quote Mr. Davidson:
               "You probably don't know the Fanjuls, unless you see them lording around Palm Beach, as I sometimes do. To understand what happened next {After the Cuban Revolution's 1959 victory}, you have to appreciate the luminously corrupt way that business was conducted in pre-Castro Cuba. As the leading sugar plantation in mid-century Cuba, the Fanjuls had honed their political skills in dealing with a corrupt government whose leaders were only too keen to enrich the few at the expense of the many, especially when they could rake off a piece of the action for their pains."
          Then James Davidson in "The Domino Effect" chapter of his great book explained how the Fanjul sugar monoply in Cuba prior to the Revolution became the far more lucrative sugar monopoly in the USA after the Revolution, and by employing the exact same tactics -- buying off the necessary corrupt politicians. Mr. Davidson wrote:
                       "They {the Fanjuls} rigged the markets so that American consumers and taxpayers had to lavishly subsidize them. The CNN/GAO estimate that rigged sugar markets put about $60 million a year into the Fanjuls bank accounts is really a gross underestimation. The total costs are much higher than that. Economists put the dead weight loss to consumers from inflated sugar prices to $3.5 billion annually, and that doesn't count the follow-on costs. The sugar barons also convinced politicians to make taxpayers absorb the lion's share of the costs for cleaning up the mess they made." {That latter fact referenced the Fanjuls' vast sugar operation that has caused billions of dollars in environmental damage to Florida's crucial Everglades, costing taxpayers billions of additional dollars to subsidize the Fanjuls' sugar monopoly in the United States}.
           With those and many other documented facts, James Dale Davidson chronicles how Cuban monopolies prior to the Revolution became far bigger monopolies in the U. S. after the Revolution beginning in 1959. And both in Cuba and then in the United States, easily purchasing politicians fueled the Cuban monopolies in both nations. The fiercely Counter Revolutionary Bush political-economic dynasty, for example, has been massively supported for decades by Cuban-American billionaires.

     For example, if in 2018 you Google "Jeb Bush's major billionaire supporter" you will instantly be engaged with numerous historic and topical reports about how Miguel "Mike" Fernandez has fueled and funded Jeb Bush's political success that has included such things as two-terms as Florida's governor as well as a lushly funded 2016 presidential bid. Mike Fernandez was born in Manzanillo, Cuba...the southeastern Cuban city where the greatest of all revolutionary heroines, the incomparable Celia Sanchez, so bravely started the Cuban Revolution. Of course, Mike Fernandez didn't make his billions-of-dollars in Manzanillo, Cuba; those Mike Fernandez billions have been made in Miami-Coral Gables, Florida.

      And of course, after her revolution chased the Batistianos and Mafiosi to South Florida in January of 1959, the incomparable Celia Sanchez, as chronicled above by The Woman Project.org, made the most definitive quotation regarding the Cuban Revolution: "We rebels get far too much credit for winning the Revolution. Our enemies deserve most of the credit, for being greedy cowards and idiots."

     These are the Fanjul brothers that control the USA's Fanjul sugar monopoly. Prior to the Cuban Revolution it was a monopoly in Cuba. That's Alfonso "Alfy" Fanjul on the left with Jose "Pepe" Fanjul on the right. Any Google search takes you to a Bloomberg article that not only reveals their multi-billions-of-dollars but also the billions they have spent on politicians to buttress their billions. The incredible subsidies and other advantages the Fanjul brothers receive from Washington politicians has caused sugar prices in the USA to be by far the highest in the world. 

            The photo above famously illustrates precisely how powerful the Fanjul brothers can influence USA Presidents and members of Congress that gullible voters send to Washington. One afternoon when First Lady Hillary Clinton was out of town, President Bill Clinton was having sex with intern Monica Lewinsky. Presidential aides made sure Bill and Monica weren't disturbed...and they weren't until a phone call from Miami was patched in to President Clinton because it was a Democratic billionaire that couldn't be put on hold until the Clinton-Lewinsky session was over. The caller was the Fanjul brother that took care of Democratic politicians and the Fanjuls just wanted to make sure that President Clinton supported the sugar subsidy bill that was upcoming. The call, as documented by history only after DNA proved there was sperm on Monica's now historic blue dress, lasted well over 20 minutes. The iconic Clinton-Lewinsky episode, and that phone call, corresponds with what James Dale Davidson proved in Chapter 14 of his book "The Breaking Point" and what I proved in the Cubaninsider essay that he referenced -- "The Cruel War on Innocent Cubans." Of course, it has also been a CRUEL WAR on innocent American taxpayers since 1959, as the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal also conclusively proved.

     Miami's most famed author and most popular columnist for the Miami Herald -- Carl Hiaasen -- has amassed a fortune writing about the Cuban-related corruption of Miami and Florida politics, which long-ago extended to Washington -- both Congress and the White House. In 2001 Hiaasen was quoted in Variety as saying: "The most telling thing about Alfy Fanjul is that he can get the President {Clinton} on the phone during the middle of a blow-job. That tells you all you need to know about their influence."

        Miami, of course, was America's Tropical Paradise but Carl Hiaasen and other brave Miami residents realize it has been a "Paradise Screwed" since January of 1959 when the Cuban Revolution chased top leaders of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to their new haven, Little Havana in Miami. That included Mafia thugs like Meyer Lansky who returned to their homes in Miami...and Rafael Diaz-Balart, a key Batista Minister. Rafael quickly created the first anti-Castro paramilitary unit in South Florida. Two of his sons, Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart, have been elected from Miami to the U. S. Congress. To this day Miami sends a steady stream of only Counter Revolutionary extremists to Congress although, as Hiaasen has referenced, most Cuban-Americans in Miami favor normalizing relations with Cuba. So, since 1959 "Paradise Screwed" pertains not only to Miami but to America. The ease with which Cuban monopolies and corrupt politics transferred from Cuba to the U. S. after the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution has not only reshaped Miami but all of America. The Fanjul sugar monopoly is only one of the examples of how pre-revolutionary Cubans learned to deal with corrupt politicians and then expanded that knowledge in the U. S. after 1959. If you disagree with that, you should read Chapter 14 -- "The Domino Effect" -- of James Dale Davidson's book that is entitled "The Breaking Point" regarding the U. S. democracy...a breaking point that started in 1952 when right-wingers in the Eisenhower administration were allowed to team the U. S. with the Mafia to support the wicked, thieving Batista dictatorship in Cuba so rich American businessmen could partake in the rape and robbery of the plush island. Then in 1959 that assault on Democracy was exacerbated when right-wingers in Washington welcomed the remnants of the overthrown Batistianos into the basic and cherished fabrics of the American Democracy. So Carl Hiassen's Paradise Screwed analogy, like James Dale Davidson's book, is both accurate and precise.

     Remember the still famed 1976 "Taxi Driver" movie that starred Robert De Nero and Jodie Foster. Decades later both of them were among the most powerful actors-directors-producers in Hollywood...and they had the power to make any movie they desired...and they desired to make a movie entitled "Sugar Kings" about the Fanjul sugar monopoly that to this day causes Americans to pay by far the highest price in the world for sugar. But...tuh...the normally fearless De Nero was in for a rude awakening regarding ultra-rich Cuban-Americans "Domino Effect" on America.

     There are few Hollywood superstars as powerful as Robert De Nero. He spent a lot of time and money preparing to make "Sugar Kings." He was the producer and he would have played Alfy Fanjul. He hired high-priced Jodie Foster as the director and she would have played a lawyer fighting for the sugarcane workers that the Fanjul sugar monopoly was...huh...allegedly mistreating. After incoming flak, De Nero agreed to change the title from "Sugar Kings" to "Sugarland." But incoming flak persisted. 

     Even teamed with the equally super-powerful Jodie Foster, Robert De Nero's "Sugar Kings" was not made into a movie. They were, in fact, very naive.

     Now 78-years-old, Edna Buchanan is renowned as one of America's most successful authors of crime novels. But prior to that career she was America's best actual crime reporter for the Associated Press and the Miami Herald. As a journalist, Edna Buchanan won a plethora of awards, including a Pulitzer Prize.

      Throughout the 1960s and the 1970s Edna Buchanan was stationed in Miami for the AP and the Miami Herald because Miami had replaced Havana as the drug and crime capital. The Batista-Mafia leaders in Cuba were booted off the island with most of them debarking from their cash-and-gold-strewn ships, yachts, and airplanes in Miami. The drug wars alone in Miami fueled unspeakable violence along with unchallenged anti-Cuba terrorism from famed anti-Castro Cuban exiles. In 1976 a decent and well-known Cuban newsman in Miami, Emilio Milian, complained about the ceaseless crime such as car bombings but also the murders of totally innocent people caught in the crossfires or merely just killed to hurt or embarrass Cuba, such as the 1976 terrorist bombing of the child-laden Cubana Flight 455 in which all 73 aboard were killed. Then the brave Emilio himself was car-bombed. The great Edna Buchanan wrote the above article about the car-bombing that silenced Emilio.

   In 2006 Billy Corben's award-winning documentary "Cocaine Cowboys" brilliantly chronicled the transition of Cuba's Batista-Mafia dictatorship to Miami in 1959, transitioning Miami into a very rich but crime-ridden city with tentacles that spread across the USA as USA Today has repeatedly headlined regarding Miami as the "epicenter" of drug trafficking, Medicare fraud, etc. Of course, Edna Buchanan was a prime expert in the "Cocaine Cowboys" documentary. One of her typical revelations was: The entire Miami police academy graduating class ended up dead or in jail." She stressed that the police that didn't sell out to the drug-dealers were either killed or jailed. At the end of "Cocaine Cowboys" in 2006 Edna Buchana is shown pointing back at the magnificent Miami skyline. She then looked back at the camera and said that it "was built by drug money." Today Edna Buchanan is a great crime novelist but she is the journalist that best chronicled the unprecedented crime waves that, then and now, followed the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba to U. S. soil.

      The Fanjul Sugar Monopoly was founded in Cuba in 1924 but, unwittingly, it got a huge break in 1959 when it was chased to South Florida. If the Fanjuls made millions in Cuba, it is for sure they have made and are making MANY BILLIONS in the United States. And as James Dale Davidson's great book -- "The Breaking Point" -- expertly explains, the Fanjul Sugar Monopoly in the United States of America since 1959 learned about corrupt governments on the besieged Caribbean island. The Fanjul tie-in with the President Clinton-intern Monica Lewinsky scandal is merely one tip-off to how very, very much the USA has changed since the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship fled the Cuban Revolution only to resettle, stronger than ever, on American soil beginning on January 1, 1959. And that fact spawned the theme for Cubaninsider, which is: THE CUBAN REVOLUTION SAYS A LOT MORE ABOUT THE UNITED STATES THAN IT SAYS ABOUT CUBA. If propagandized Americans don't understand that, I believe Alfy and Pepe Fanjul do understand it, as do great American journalists like Edna Buchanan and great American authors like James Davidson.

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How Rubio Dictates Pain

To Cubans & to Americans!!
(Thursday, January 4th, 2018)

     The photo-graphic above is courtesy of the Washington-based Center for Democracy in the Americas. Of course, in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, Americans today are not not supposed to have the guts, the intelligence, nor the patriotism to either read or understand exactly what it means.

But I'll try to explain it:

          Massively aided by right-wing Republicans in Congress and in the White House and by an intimidated, politically correct or incompetent U. S. media, the internationally condemned U. S. Cuban policy enters the New Year-2018 dictated by a handful of extremely biased, self-serving, revengeful Cuban-Americans from Miami's Little Havana enclave. Their "choirboy" Senator Marco Rubio has shamefully been anointed by President Trump as America's latest Cuban dictator -- in the mode of Fulgencio Batista-Lucky Luciano on the island in the 1950s and, after 1959's triumphant Cuban Revolution, the likes of Jorge mas Canosa-Rafael Diaz-Balart in Miami. On November 9th, 2017 -- while President Trump was on an Asian trip sucking up to China and Vietnam -- the U. S. government announced Rubio's latest 180 "legal" assaults reversing the Herculean efforts of former President Obama who bravely defied the Batistiano-directed U. S. Congress to attach some decency to America's Cuban policy. With undisguised shame, Rubio bellowed that on Nov. 9th he could have gone further had it not been for a few liberals in Congress. Rubio -- like Batista/Luciano/Canosa/Diaz-Balart in the past -- is able to act like America's new Cuban dictator because another generation of proselytized-propagandized Americans are, frankly, too ignorant, too scared, and too unpatriotic to care about a U. S. Cuban policy that is condemned 191-to-ZERO in a UN vote and also condemned by America's bravest and most patriotic citizens...such as Emily Mandrela, the Executive Director of Washington's Center for Democracy in the Americas. When she posted the photo-graphic depicted above, Emily Mandrela wrote: "Cubans deserve better." Yes, Cubans deserve better than Marco Rubio. BUT BOTH AMERICANS AND CUBAN-AMERICANS DESERVE BETTER THAN MARCO RUBIO, and so does the rest of the entire world.

     So, even if it might require a modicum of courage and patriotism, I believe Americans should study the photo-graphic above. Like Batistiano-Mafiosi dictators in the past, Rubio -- hiding behind the skirts of Republican right-wingers in Washington and an intimidated-incompetent mainstream U. S. media -- says his attacks on Cuba are to hurt the Castros. Only propagandized idiots or extremists in Little Havana believe that, yet in the world's most famed democracy it is allowed to prevail. So here at the start of 2018 America's post-Obama Cuban policy has been handed to Marco Rubio, the Little Havana "choirboy" who got to the U. S. Senate still claiming his parents escaped the Castro tyranny in Cuba while, in fact, his parents escaped the Batista tyranny in Cuba long before Americans ever heard of Fidel Castro. And this is the Marco Rubio that a huge and easily Googled article by Ken Silverstein, one of America's most respected investigative journalists, minutely documented facts indicating that Rubio is perhaps the most corrupt politician in Congressional history...an article, of course, that Americans are not supposed to Google. As indicated above, even the Miami Herald, with Cuban-Americans in dominant managerial positions, has seemingly grown tired of Rubio and is lamenting the sheer fact that the majority of Cuban-Americans even in Miami support Obama's efforts to normalize relations with Cuba BUT ONLY CUBAN-AMERICAN EXTREMISTS like Rubio can seemingly get "elected" to the U. S. Congress from Miami. Recently in a a major article written by the Miami Herald's top journalist, Mimi Whitefield, it was pointed out that America's Batistiano/Mafiosi-ruled Cuban policies prevent Americans and Cuban-Americans from benefiting from proven treatments developed by renowned Cuban scientists that prevent such things as death from cancer and amputations from diabetic complications. The article pointed out that many Americans, such as cancer patient Mick Phillips, regularly defy Rubio's "legal laws" and bravely travel to Cuba for treatments and then return home with the Cuban medicine, but again...Americans are not supposed to Google the name Mick Phillips or the Cuban medical scientists like Dr. Pedro Camilo Rodriguez that have invented medicines that are saving Mick's life and are preventing diabetic amputations. The inference from that major Mimi Whitefield-penned Miami Herald article was this: Rubio and his ilk are willing to harm Americans and Cuban-Americans -- not to mention the U. S. DEMOCRACY -- in order to seek revenge against the Cuban Revolution WHILE ALSO garnering economic and political benefits for themselves. And this insanity has persisted for six decades because two+ generations of Americans have not had the guts or the patriotism to challenge the likes of Marco Rubio or entities, such as the Bush dynasty, that created them.

     Returning to the important and definitive photo-graphic that Americans need to study, both the Center for Democracy in the Americas AND the Miami Herald agree that Rubio's endless propaganda lie about hurting the Castros is, of course, hurting the most innocent Americans, Cuban-Americans, and Cubans on the island. The photo-graphic above references a heart-wrenching article in the Miami Herald completely written by four hard-working and totally innocent female entrepreneurs in Cuba - - Niuris Higueras, Yamina Vicenta, Julia de la Rosa, and Marla Recio. After U. S. President Barack Obama and the Cuban government defied the Batistiano-plagued U. S. Congress and brought decency and santity to America's Cuban policy, entrepreneurs on the island -- like the four aforementioned women -- created thriving businesses on the island that cared for their families and for the families that worked in those businesses. But in the past year as the decent Obama was incredibly replaced by yet another indecent Republican administration in Washington, the Rubio-orchestrated assaults on Cuba have virtually destroyed the magnificent businesses such as the ones created so successfully by the four Cuban women. THE ENTIRE WORLD -- 191-to-ZERO -- UNDERSTANDS RUBIO. So does the Miami Herald. And, of course, so do the brave and totally innocent four Cuban women who wrote that article in RUBIO'S HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER, THE MIAMI HERALD. The Cuban-American bosses at the Miami Herald refused to question, challenge, or contradict the gripping honesty in that article, an article that excoriated Rubio and exposed him as a coward for refusing to meet with the four Cuban women -- and many more like them -- to even discuss their issues. MARCO RUBIO, OF COURSE, DOESN'T HAVE TO MEET WITH THEM BECAUSE HE CAN HIDE BEHIND THE GUTLESSNESS OF THE MAINSTREAM UNITED STATES MEDIA AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.

It thus comes down to this:

 Either Rubio is a duplicitous liar......

          .........or the brave Cuban women who wrote that scathing article excoriating Rubio are the duplicitious liars. For the sake of all Americans, including Cuban-Americans, it is perhaps time for this generation of Americans to have the guts and the patriotism to render a simple but very important decision: Is Rubio a duplicitous liar or are those four Cuban women duplicitous liars?

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