The Rubio Lies

How They Harm Americans!!
{Updated: Tuesday,, January 16th, 2018}

     The lies about Cuba by U. S. Senator Mark Rubio usually go unchecked by the mainstream media and by the U. S. government. The two-term, 8-year Obama administration mostly kept anti-Cuba extremists from Miami in check. But, in his first year as Obama's presidential successor, Donald Trump has essentially named the man he mocked as "Little Marco" during the 2016 presidential primary as America's newest Cuban dictator, ala Jorge Mas Canosa during the Bush presidencies and Fulgencio Batista and Lucky Luciana when the U. S. supported the thieving & ruthless Batista dictatorship in Cuba during the 1950s, at least till 1959 when the Cuban Revolution chased the Batistiano-Mafiosi leaders to their new capital -- Little Havana in Miami. Have you read Marco Rubio's propaganda about Cuba's "health care" that is included within the black graphic? You should read it and, moreover, you should be intelligent enough and brave enough to know that it is a typical Rubio lie that harms innocent Americans, including Cuban Americans, as well as totally innocent Cubans on the island. In the last few days both the Miami Herald and USA Today have had major articles explaining that many Americans are "breaking U. S. laws" by going to Cuba for treatments against cancer, diabetes, etc., that many health officials agree is the best in the world. Americans, propagandized senselessly and endlessly by the likes of Rubio, need to be brave enough and patriotic enough to decide whether Rubio's hometown newspaper and America's largest newspaper are lying or whether Rubio is the self-serving liar.

Next 5 photos courtesy of Emily Michot/Miami Herald.

     A major article written by Mimi Whitefield in the Miami Herald is entitled: "U. S. and Cuban Researchers Join Forces to Bring Lung Cancer Patients New Hope." The article lauds Cuban medical researchers like Dr. Pedro Camilo Rodriguez at Cuba's famed Center for Molecular Immunology in Havana. They have developed drugs that have Americans breaking U. S. laws and defying Rubio to go to Cuba for treatments.

   While  a few revengeful and self-serving Cuban-Americans in Miami and the U. S. Congress try to starve Cubans on the island with history's cruelest economic embargo, the Miami Herald article explains that SOMEHOW Cuba scrounges up enough money to keep brilliant medical scientists like Mabel Cruz Rodriguez working and finding treatments for cancer, diabetes, and other diseases. Some such inventions are so remarkable that many Americans are now breaking Rubio-like United States laws to go to Cuba to benefit from such medical advancements.

     While Marco Rubio and his ilk in the United States Congress try to starve decent Cubans like Dr. Anabely Estevez, Rubio's hometown newspaper, the Miami Herald, heaps praise on her for the great work she does at Havana's famed La Prada Medical Center where many Americans go for treatment not available in the United States.

     The Miami Herald explained that top American cancer experts -- like Dr. Igor Puzanov at the famed Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York -- have great faith in Cuba's remarkable medical advances. Yet, Americans are programmed to believe Marco Rubio's lies and ignore the expertise of people like Dr. Puzanov.

     A lung cancer vaccine developed in Cuba named CIMAvax is what many Americans are risking jail time in the United States to go to Cuba to purchase.

     From Wisconsin, USA, Mick Phillips was supposed to have died from lung cancer years ago. But he drives to Canada and then flies to Cuba regularly for what he and his doctors consider the best lung cancer treatment in the world. Mick Phillips told Marco Rubio's hometown newspaper, the Miami Herald, that Cuba's CIMAvax vaccine has kept him alive for years now. He said, "My doctor says it's either divine intervention or CIMAvax that is keeping me alive, and I happen to know it's CIMAvax."

     At the airport on his way back from Cuba, Mick Phillips returns with a supply of the life-saving CIMAvax. To get it, he is breaking a Rubio-like U. S. law. But he says, "I want to live and my family and friends agree with that even if some politicians don't."

    Is Marco Rubio the liar about things related to Cuba or did Kaiser Health News lie this week -- on Jan. 10-2018 -- when it released a major article about "Cuba's Free Health Care"?? The KHN article is entitled: "A Poor Neighborhood in Chicago Looks to Cuba to Fight Infant Mortality." The article points out that Cuba's Infant Mortality Rate is lower than it is in the United States and, of course, considerably lower than in the ghetto areas of otherwise rich U. S. cities like Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, etc., etc. 

     This photo is courtesy of Kaiser Health News. It shows Dr. Jose Armando Arronte-Villamarin. He is one of the dedicated doctors in poor little Cuba responsible for the fact that Cuba has a lower Infant Mortality Rate than the richest nation in the world, the United States of America. Dr. Arronte-Villamarin is in Chicago now with the team of Cuban doctors that Chicago urgently summoned to help that huge America city lower its alarmingly high Infant Mortality Rate. Chicago has enough wealth in the rich areas of its city that it could have summoned doctors from anywhere in the United States and anywhere in the world. But Chicago CHOSE THE DOCTORS FROM POOR LITTLE CUBA TO BAIL IT OUT FROM A SEVERE HEALTH CRISIS, and as always poor little Cuba obliged. Meanwhile Rubio's usually unchecked lies insult not only brilliant doctors like Jose Armando Arronte-Villamarin but they grossly insult America and Democracy. Rubio's main theme is that the U. S. should make sure to tighten the embargo against Cuba because every dollar that reaches the island goes into the Castro bank accounts. Well, poor little Cuba, since the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, has guaranteed totally free health care for all Cubans and totally free educations through college for all Cubans. The richest nation in the world, the United States, does not do either of those things. The World Bank and the World Health Organization both confirm that Cuba spends a far largest percentage of its wealth on health and education for its people than do rich countries like the United States. And universally, Cuba's health care and its educational institutions are considered excellent. The U. S. embargo against Cuba...the cruelty that Rubio wants to expand...was started in 1962 for the exact purpose, as revealed by de-classified United States documents, to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. When the decent Obama administration refused to support the cruel embargo, it was condemned by a 191-to-ZERO vote in the United Nations. But Rubio's effective lies in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave proves to the world that the United States, since 1962, has not been as Free nor as Brave as it was before the Batistiano-Mafiosi leaders resettled on U. S. soil beginning in January of 1959. Now go back and study the photo of Cuba's Dr. Arronte-Villamarin. Chicago apparently believes he is far more decent, honest, and sincere than Rubio, America's latest Cuban dictator.

Photo courtesy: Desmond Boylan/PRI.

     One of the biggest articles in America's biggest newspaper so far in January-2018 was written by Sally Jacobs and published in USA Today on January 9th. It's entitled: "Cuba Has A Lung Cancer Vaccine. Many U. S. Patients Can't Get It Without Breaking the Law." Lung cancer patient George Keays of Colorado, shown above, is one of the many cancer and diabetic sufferers in the USA who are breaking America's Cuban laws to go to Cuba for treatment that apparently is the best in the world to treat lung cancer and to prevent diabetic amputations, etc. The photo above shows Mr. Keays at the famed Pradera International Health Clinic in Havana as he breaks a USA law but he also believes Cuba's medical advances are saving his life. The photo topped the major article in America's major newspaper, USA Today. But Americans are not supposed to read it or pay attention to it because they are programmed -- via relentless anti-Cuban propaganda and even threats -- to believe every word that self-serving Counter-Revolutionary Cuban-Americans LIKE MARCO RUBIO say about Cuba to feather their own revenge, political, and economic nests.

  This week -- on January 9th, 2018 -- Marco Rubio CHAIRED YET ANOTHER anti-Cuban and anti-American assault on innocent Cubans and Americans in a session of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the Western Hemisphere. Unbelievably, the session was co-chaired by Senator Bob Menendez who recently had his corruption trial end in a hung jury after the U. S. Justice Department had spent 3 expensive years trying desperately to convict him for Miami-related shenanigans that also involved some of the Dominican Republic playgrounds.

     It seems that only anti-Cuban Cuban-American extremists like Rubio & Menendez can get elected to the United States Congress from Miami and New Jersey. Once there, they all seem to flock to the Foreign Relations & Western Hemisphere committees because, of course, Cuba is a foreign nation in the Western Hemisphere. Rubio reached the U. S. Senate with his bio conveniently claiming his parents escaped the Castro tyranny in Cuba for the freedom of Miami but, of course, his parents escaped the Batista tyranny in Cuba long before Castro chased the Batistianos to Miami. Also, one of America's greatest investigative journalists, Ken Silverstein, has a long and easily Googled article labeling Rubio the most corrupt, bought-and-paid-for politician in Washington. Rubio's vicious anti-Cuban co-chair in the Senate this week, Menendez, in 2017 escaped those 18 felony corruption-bribery charges because of a hung jury after a 3-year federal investigation and a 3-month trial in New Jersey. Yet, no fellow Congressman and no U. S. journalist would dare ask the Chair and co-Chair, Rubio & Menendez, this question: I know y'all say that U. S. laws must keep every penny from reaching Cuba because it all goes in the Castro bank accounts, but somehow Cuba, unlike the U. S., provides excellent free health care and free college educations for all its people...and Cuba's medical scientists have developed what appear to be the best lung cancer drugs and the best drugs that prevent diabetic amputations, etc., so would, uh, it be alright with you guys if Americans, including Cuban-Americans, could benefit from such things?

     Projected by the intimidated, incompetent, or politically correct mainstream United States media as a sweet choirboy from Miami, U. S. Senator Marco Rubio and his ilk for decades have been permitted to use the U. S. media to thrust their anti-Cuban propaganda down the throats of Americans. Even Rubio's hometown newspaper -- the Miami Herald that features Cuban-Americans in its most powerful positions -- has recently soured on Rubio's lies that also hurt Cuban-Americans in Miami, Florida.

      Decent, brave, democracy-loving Americans -- like Emily Mandrala at the Washington-based Center for Democracy in the Americas -- saluted the four Cuban women who excoriated Marco Rubio in a recent blistering Miami Herald article, which the top Cuban-American executives at the Miami Herald apparently agreed with. And note in that CDA graphic above that the four Cuban women who wrote the Miami Herald article accused Marco Rubio of being a coward for refusing to meet with them to at least learn how his anti-Cuban crusade is hurting totally innocent women and children on the island. The women assumed he already knew that and didn't care.

And by the way:

     Remember the official purpose of the U. S. embargo against Cuba from 1962 till today? According to de-classified U. S. documents, the purpose, after the failure of the 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack, was to starve, deprive and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to overthrow their revolutionary government. Well, it hasn't worked...except to get the United States condemned 191-to-ZERO in the United Nations. The photo above was taken this second weekend in January, 2018. The two beautiful, well-fed, healthy, well-educated young women are Yanet Perez Moya and Rosy Amaro Perez. Like most Cubans, they are passionate about baseball and they are shown at Saturday's playoff game pitting the Havana Industriales vs. Los Tunas. By the way, their team, the Industriales, won the game.

     Neither Rosy nor Yanet hate Americans and they deeply admire what former President Obama tried to do for their island, which both Rosy and Yanet massively love with even more passion than they love baseball. And yes, Rosy and Yanet are aware that, with Obama having been replaced by Trump, America's Cuban policy is back in the hands of vicious Counter Revolutionaries like Rubio and Menendez.

      When they are not together at events such as baseball games and concerts, Rosy and Yanet are often side-by-side as talented young television news anchors. Regardless of what Rubio thinks in Miami and in Congress, Rosy and Yanet believe that the young-adults on the island, like them, will be the key to predicating Cuba's future and the last thing they want is for their beloved island nation to be ruled from Miami and Washington. After Rosy watched a live telecast of Trump excoriating Cuba in a speech in the Little Havana section of Miami, she immediately posted this sentence on her Facebook page: "The Cuba that President Trump just described is not the Cuba I know, and I've lived here all my life."

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A Bittersweet Visit to Cuba

A Special Visitor Returns!!
{Friday, January 12th, 2018}

Photo courtesy: Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press.

     This week one of the all-time greatest supporters of the Cuban Revolution, Michelle Bachelet, paid a nostalgic visit to the island. She is finishing up her second term as President of Chile and will leave office in March. She was President from 2006 till 2010 but Chile does not allow for consecutive terms. So she was a civilian humanitarian for four years before she was once again elected President in 2014. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and Cuban President Raul Castro are shown above this week in Havana viewing an honor guard in Revolutionary Square. Even prior to her two democratically elected terms as Chile's President, she was a huge supporter of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. Her father and Fidel Castro were key supporters of Chile's wildly popular democratically elected President Salvador Allende until the day in 1973 when the U.S.-backed {Nixon-Kissinger} coup resulted in the death of Allende to install, for 17 extremely bloody years, the brutal U.S.-backed Pinochet dictatorship. Michelle Bachelet's own father was one of the many victims of Pinochet's murderous reign.

    And so, this week now marks the final visit Michelle Bachelet will make to Cuba as the President of Chile. With Raul Castro retiring as Cuba's President in April, her visit highlights the changes taking place in Cuba, which is also basking in the Obama-to-Trump transition in the American White House that greatly and adversely affects every Cuban on the island. Michelle Bachelet was born 66-years-ago in Santiago, Chile. With only a few weeks left in her second and last term as Chile's President, it also marks a major loss for Cuba as far as Latin American support is concerned.

     As of March 11, 2018, the new President of Chile will be 68-year-old Sebastian Pinera. Educated at USA's Harvard University, Pinera is a right-wing multi-billionaire. He already served one term at Chile's President from 2010 to 2014 when Michelle Bachelet couldn't run for consecutive terms. And now once again the Harvard-educated billionaire Pinera is about to replace Bachelet as Chile's President...and Pinera is and will be again the only right-wing or conservative President that Chile has had since the vile and violent Pinochet dictatorship ended in 1990. Like Trump replacing Obama in the U. S., Pinera replacing Bachelet in Chile is bad news for Cuba but good news for America's vast Anti-Castro Cottage Industry.

    The vast and lucrative Anti-Castro Cottage Industry headquartered in Miami reacted typically to Chile's Cuba-loving President Michelle Bachelet's visit to Cuba this week. Unwilling to merely wait for the right-wing Pinera presidency, thuggish right-wing Miami journalist Andres Oppenheimer cowardly assailed the great Chilean lady with a scathing article in yesterday's Miami Herald. The shameful article was entitled: "Bachelet's Trip to Cuba Was Shameful, And A Blow to Latin America's Democratic left." Of course, Oppenheimer -- born 66-years-ago in Buenos Aires -- seems to pine for right-wing thugs to take over in Cuba, Chile, and elsewhere. The more politically correct or the more intimidating the anti-Castro Cottage Industry in the U. S. becomes, the larger become the bank accounts of one-sided "journalists" such as Oppenheimer. His syndicated column, his books, and his "Oppenheimer Presenta" on CNN's En Espanol are all slanted, right-wing rants and jokes. To bellow that Michelle Bachelet's visit this week to Cuba was "shameful and a blow to Latin America's Democratic left" is purely an example of Oppenheimer and his ilk preaching to the choir but also assuming that others are either too stupid or too afraid to question their lucrative right-wing propaganda.

     The photo above shows President Michelle Bachelet of Chile as she arrived in Cuba this second week in January, 2018. The reason right-wing journalist Andres Oppenheimer used a huge headline in the Miami Herald calling her Cuban visit "Shameful" is because Oppenheimer apparently considers her the exact opposite of vile right-wing dictators of old such as Jorge Rafael Videla in his native Argentina, Pinochet in Chile, Batista in Cuba, etc. Meanwhile, as the Anti-Castro Cottage Industry thrives in Oppenheimer's Miami, a great lady, Michelle Bachelet, is closing out two 4-year terms as Chile's President, and as Cuba's dear friend, and as the absolute antithesis to Oppenheimer, Videla, Pinochet, Batista, etc., etc. etc.

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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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