Florida Thugs Attack A Great Lady

U. S. Cuban Insanity Firmly Embedded
Deeply Within America's Fabric!!
{Wednesday, May 16th, 2018}

    Americans who care about America, I believe, should know Alicia Adams. She is an extremely decent, patriotic, and democracy-loving American. She happens to believe that, for the past six decades and perhaps for another six decades, a mere handful of thuggish, self-serving miscreants from Miami and in the U. S. Congress should not, in the name of the United States, be allowed to harm millions of totally innocent and decent people in a smaller, weaker nation. And for those reasons, in May of 2018, Alicia Adams is being rudely and unconscionably assaulted by the Governor of Florida and extremists Counter Revolutionary politicians from Miami. Meanwhile, of course, neither the gutless mainstream U. S. media nor many cowardly U. S. citizens give a damn. Permit me to explain why Alicia Adams is the latest democracy-loving American to be victimized by revengeful, self-serving thugs feathering their own economic and political nests on the backs of innocent people in a much smaller and weaker nation...and Cuban-Americans on the United States side of the Florida Straits.

     As the curator at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C., Alicia Adams oversees that august body's international endeavors in supporting the arts and cultures of other nations. She meticulously created the Kennedy Center's current recognition of much-maligned, very talented, and totally innocent Cuban and Cuban-American artists -- over 400 of them who are performing at the Kennedy Center for two weeks -- from May 8th till May 20th. That simple gesture of sanity and decency by Alicia Adams is taking place now at the Artes de Cuba Festival. She said, "This is cultural deplomacy. Arts are the best tool we have to bring people together. Cuba punches way above its weight in the artists it has created and given to the world." But those words and her Artes de Cuba Festival now underway at the Kennedy Center has resulted in this great lady being gutlessly assaulted by Florida's Governor Rick Scott and the usual Cuban-American suspects entrenched in the United States Congress.

    As if he had nothing better to do as the Governor of Florida, Rick Scott has unmercifully assailed Alicia Adams for treating totally decent and innocent Cubans on the island and Cuban-Americans in Florida with decency and respect. But such insanity can get you elected Governor of Florida and get you enshrined in the U. S. Congress from Florida. Knowing all that, Scott and the usual suspects that make up the Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American contingent in Congress fired off blistering letters to the Kennedy Center and to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo crudely, bitterly, ignorantly, and typically denouncing Alicia Adams because she happens to be a decent, democracy-loving American who had the audacity to make a sane and decent gesture toward innocent Cubans...in stark contrast to, say, a terrorist bomb that sent the civilian CUBANA FLIGHT 455 into the ocean killing all 73 on board or the car bomb that silenced Miami's top Cuban-American journalist EMILIO MILIAN for having the temerity to criticize such things.

   The photo above reflects how extremist Counter Revolutionary Cubans and their sycophants like Florida's Governor Rick Scott are in High Heaven whenever a Republican controls the White House. Scott is the bald-headed...and bald-faced...man clapping over President Trump's right shoulder when Trump visited the Manuel Artime Theater {named for a leader of the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba in 1961} in Miami's Little Havana section to sign vicious and cowardly anti-Cuban executive orders. At Scott's right shoulder is U. S. Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart from Miami; Mario's father was Rafael Diaz-Balart, a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship and then, after the overthrow of that vile regime, one of the richest and most vehement Counter Revolutionary figures in the history of Miami. At Scott's left shoulder is U. S. Congressman Marco Rubio from Miami, Trump's choice as America's new Cuban dictator ala Batista-Luciano. The lady in front of Rubio and looking down over Trump's left shoulder is Martha Beatriz Roque who was born 72-years-ago in Havana and has for decades been a fierce Counter Revolutionary in Cuba, Miami, and Washington.

     Extreme Cuban dissidents like Martha Beatriz Roque since 1959 have had massive influence on all six Republican presidents, the latest being Donald Trump, and...of course...on all politicians in South Florida. They not only dictate America's Cuban policies but also control the Cuban narrative in the United States...policies and narratives that stress that all Counter Revolutionaries in Miami and in Congress are saints while the majority of Americans and Cuban-Americans who disagree with them...like Emilio Milian and Alicia Adams...are pariahs to be punished and shunned.

     The long letter above assaulting the Kennedy Center's awesomely decent Alicia Adams was crafted by Miami's gift to the U. S. Congress Mario Diaz-Balart, the son of a powerful Minister in the overthrown Batista dictatorship. Getting revenge on the Cuban Revolution -- while feathering their political and economic nests -- is par for the course for the normally unchallenged Counter Revolutionaries, and assailing decent Americans and Cuban-Americans is par for their course too. Believing they are the only ones who deserve opinions related to Cuba, Diaz-Balart and his ilk assault over 400 Cubans and Cuban-Americans performing during the current two-week Festival at the Kennedy Center...incredibly labeling them threats to America and, in the above letter, mentioning "Omaro Portuondo" in the first line of the second paragraph.

     The photo above shows Omara Portuondo as she was performing at the Kennedy Center during the current Artes de Cuba Festival. Omara is 87-years-old. She is the legendary singer for the internationally famed Buena Vista Social Club Band. IS OMARA A THREAT TO AMERICA BECAUSE SHE PERFORMED AT THE KENNEDY CENTER IN WASINGTON OR ARE THE COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY EXTREMISTS WHO HATE OMARA BECAUSE SHE HASN'T DEFECTED TO MIAMI THE BIGGEST THREATS TO AMERICA?? For the record, Marisa Arbono-Ruiz, the journalist at NPR, wrote these exhilarating words: "Omara Portuondo brought gasps of delight, then rapturous applause, just by walking out onto the stage at the Kennedy Center." And so again, as you study the photo above, I believe it is appropriate to ask this question: Is 87-year-old super entertainer Omara Portuondo a threat to America or are the latest iterations of Counter Revolutionaries, like Mario Diaz-Balart, and a small litany of sycophants, like Rick Scott, the greatest threats to the United States of America??

       Among the Cuban singers at the Kennedy Center's Cuban Festival that runs until May 20th is Symee Nuviola. She was born in Cuba but lives in Miami, Florida.

     Cuba's world-famed National Ballet performers are among the headliners at the Artes de Cuba Festival in Washington. In 1999 the Kennedy Center's Alicia Adams traveled to Cuba at the behest of the Smithsonian Institute and there she met Cuba's Alicia Alonso, the world's most famed ballet teacher now in her 90s but thrilled about the two-week Kennedy Center Festival that will feature Ms. Alonso's students.

      Cuba's heralded and talented Havana Lyceum Orchestra felt "honored and blessed" to be invited to the Kennedy Center in Washington by Alicia Adams.

      The Tiempre Libre band from Miami was also pleased to be invited to the Kennedy Center's extravagant tribute that blends talented Cuban artists with Cuban culture. 

               Diaz-Balart, Rubio, and Ros-Lehtinen -- in the U. S. Congress from Miami -- believe they should be able to dictate America's Cuban policies and America's Cuban narratives. In the state of Florida and in the overall United States since 1959 -- especially during the Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Bush #1, Bush #2, and Trump Republican administrations -- they have assumed, and I believe abused, that power as extensions from the Batista-Mafia dictatorship that fled the Cuban Revolution for U. S. soil beginning in the wee hours of January 1, 1959. Their vicious and self-serving Cuban distates are opposed by most of the two million-plus Cuban Americans in South Florida and, for sure, by the entire world as illustrated by the 191-to-0 condemnation in the United Nations during the decent Democratic Obama presidency. The U. S. democracy in 1952 sicced the Mafia and the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship on Cuba, and since 1959 has embraced the overthrown Mafiosi-Batistiano remnants of that regime. In the last six decades many decent Cuban-Americans, like Emilio Milian, and many decent Americans, like Alicia Adams, have been routinely and ungodly punished merely for having very decent but contrary views regarding the Cuban conundrum. But as indicated by the unanimity of the UN condemnation, the U. S. democracy has suffered even more.

     Propagandized and intimidated Americans are not supposed to care that another great American, Alicia Adams at the Kennedy Center in Washington, is being assailed by the latest iteration of a handful of Cuban extremists and their sycophants who dictate America's Cuban policies and narratives. It's been that way for six decades now and it seems that America no longer has a democracy capable of dealing with it. In other words, the Batistiano cancer on U. S. soil has been allowed to spread.

     The U. S. democracy currently led by Bolton, Trump, and Pompeo is the latest Republican example of a democracy that caters to the top Batistiano extremists.

And by the way:

      One of the major headlines in the Washington Post today -- Monday, May 14th, 2018 -- screams: "TRUMP PLEDGES TO HELP CHINESE PHONEMAKER ZTE 'GET BACK INTO BUSINESS.'" Communist China is the biggest threat to America economically and militarily thanks to decades of sweet Chinese trade advantages with the United States, the same United States that has tried mightily to, as documented by declassified U. S. documents, to starve, deprive, and make miserable totally innocent Cubans on the nearby island. Of course, America's sharp dichotomy as related to harmless Cuba and dangerous China is two-fold: {1} The U. S. is mightily afraid of superpower China and has no reason at all to be scared of little Cuba; and {2} unlike the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba, no Chinese dictatorship has ever been overthrown and then reconstituted itself on U. S. soil. China, of course, was also the reason the U. S. didn't win the bloody Korean War way back in the early 1950s and Vietnam is now united as one COMMUNIST nation that is a top trade partner of the U. S. after beating the U. S. and its South Vietnam allies in the bloody Vietnam War.

     As a Big Boy that no international bully wants to mess with, China's economy is on a path to overtake America's and the ultra-modern Chinese jet above is one reason China's exploding nuclear-powered military is not afraid to intimidate the U. S. and its allies concerning disputed islands in the China Sea and elsewhere around the globe.

Ultra-modern Chinese bomber & fighter jet.

       China, meanwhile, is spending billions of its excess dollars gaining influence on the African continent but also in Latin America and the Caribbean, with Cuba being the biggest and most influential island in the Caribbean. The United States has a naval base that Cuba abhors at Guantanama Bay, Cuba; China's rapidly expanding naval prowess would love to have both a Caribbean and a Latin American port and it believes it now has the economic and military might to make that happen soon.

     With Trump "tightening the screws on Cuba that Obama had loosened," Cuba's brand-new President Miguel Diaz-Canel is concentrating on building closer ties to China's President Zi while also revamping Cuba's struggling, U.S.-embargoed economy to replicate Vietnam's. Diaz-Canel is less inclined than his predecessor Raul Castro was when it comes to trying to normalize USA relations. The week before he officially took over as Cuba's leader on April 19th, Diaz-Canel said, "Wasting time dealing with the U. S. can better be spent dealing with available friendly nations."  

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UN CONDEMNS Embargo -- AGAIN

Supports New Cuban Leader!!
{Saturday, May 12th, 2018}

       A powerful contingent from the United Nations in New York arrived in Cuba this week and showed its support for the island's first non-Castro/non-revolutionary leader since 1959. This photo shows Alicia Barcena, the UN's Latin American & Caribbean leader, chatting with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

     A Mexican, Alicia Barcena heads the United Nation's Commission for Latin America and the Carribbean {ECLAC}. In Cuba, as reported by journalists Nelson Acosta and Sarah Marsh of the London-based Reuters News Agency, Alicia Barcena made this important and updated statement: "This country which welcomes us today is testing its own ways to face the brutal human costs it has sustained during an unjust blockade. We evaluate it every year as an economic commission and we know that the blockade costs the Cuban people more than $130 billion at current prices and has left an indelible mark on its economic structure." But Alicia Barcena's conclusions are so important, so updated, and SO CORRECT that the U. S. mainstream media is, generally speaking, not courageous enough to report those words to Americans.

     The U. S. embargo/blockade of Cuba, as depicted above by Brazilian journalist Carlos LaTuff, was first imposed in 1962 after the 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack, repeated terrorist attacks and assassination attempts, and a myriad of other salacious efforts had failed to recapture Cuba for the Batista-Mafia dictatorship that had fled to Little Havana in Miami after being overthrown by the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959. That entrenchment on U. S. soil, and eventually in the bowels of the U. S. government, has shamed America and Democracy for over six decades, as the UN's Alicia Barcena explained again this week. While generations of Americans have not had the patriotism or the courage to correct that insult to democracy, the unanimity of the UN vote condemning it...191-to-0...in 2016 during the final year of the decent presidency of Barack Obama...preceded the UN's blistering update this week.  

      With the help of a mere handful of right-wing thugs in Washington, a mere handful of Counter Revolutionary Cuban exiles in 1962 were rich enough and powerful enough to create the embargo/blockade. DE-classified U. S. documents have since revealed the purpose of the embargo/blockade: To starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. It hasn't worked because, obviously, there have always been enough Cubans on the island who remember {or now know of} the unconscionable brutality and thievery of the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship from 1952 till 1959. As the graphic above clearly illustrates, a mere handful of self-serving Cuban-exiles in Miami and in the U. S. Congress have, decade-after-decade {even during the Obama presidency} managed to keep the embargo/blockade in place...defying the wishes of most Cuban Americans and the entire world.

      So this week a great and powerful lady, Alicia Barcena, representing the United Nations, again powerfully condemned the U. S. embargo of Cuba. But a few miscreants hiding behind the skirts of the World Superpower can overrule the sanity and decency of someone like Alicia Barcena, a disaster that has existed since 1962.

United Nations stalwart Alicia Barcena.

   The Batista-Mafia dictatorship that ransacked Cuba from 1952 till 1959 has, deep into a third generation now, been allowed to ransack America from 1959 till May of 2018...with no end in sight.

      As long as the United States government has a two-party system and one of them is the Republican Party, the past 60 years of Batistiano-Mafiosi insults to America and to Democracy will undoubtedly continue for ANOTHER 60 years or so!!!!     

    And that seems to be precisely what Alicia Barcena, representing the United Nations, told Cuba's new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, this week. In other words, Barcena probably and Diaz-Canel possibly believe that the Cuban Revolution says a lot more about the United States than it says about Cuba.

      Brazil's Carlos LaTuff is among those who admire little Cuba's pugnacious defiance for six decades of the embargo-blockade that the UN's Alicia Barcena called "unjust" this week.

      But as the U. S. tries to secure its southern border, it seems, to some, to leave openings for "Anti-Cuba Terrorists Only." 

      But even during very fierce man-made or natural hurricanes, Revolutionary Cuba's Caribbean flag still waves...very fiercely.

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Cuba's Transition Takes Hold

USA and Florida Adjust!! 
{Wednesday, May 9th, 2018} 

    Yesterday -- Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 -- Financial Times reported that, "If Cuba is on your travel bucket list, you'll soon have more options..." It's update said, "JetBlue announced Tuesday that it will begin the first nonstop service to Jose Marti International Airport from Boston in November."

     Although Counter Revolutionary extremists/Batistianos dictate America's Cuban policies whenever Republicans control Congress and/or the White House {which is the case now}, Americans still have slivers of hope if they desire the freedom to visit the nearby island so they can judge it for themselves.  

      At 4:00 P. M. Monday -- May 7th, 2018 -- the Norwegian Sun made some more U.S.-Cuban history when it left Port Canaveral in Florida bound for Havana, Cuba. The 2,036-passenger ship then docked snuglyly in Havana while its passengers enjoyed what the new issue of Smithsonian Magazine calls one of the world's greatest tourist attractions in an 18-page article entitled "The Man Who Saved Havana." Actually since President Obama opened up commercial lanes to Cuba, now six cruise lines from the USA are making trips to Cuba despite efforts by the Trump presidency to reinforce and strengthened the U. S. Embargo against the island, which has been congressionally mandated since 1962. All the while Americans are supposed to be unaware that declassified U. S. documents state that the purpose of the embargo was/is to starve, deprive and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island for the purpose of causing them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. Perhaps that hasn't happened in six decades because there remain, lingering in the minds of enough Cubans, memories of the sheer brutality and thievery of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship that spawned the Cuban Revolution.

     Meanwhile, JetBlue Airlines continues to make regular flights to Cuba from Orlando International Airport while other USA airlines are both engaging with Cuba now and dialing for new routes to the island. As the Miami Herald has repeatedly pointed out, the Miami hardliners in the U. S. Congress -- led by choirboy Marco Rubio -- are successfully encouraging the Trump administration to "starve" Cubans on the island while even in Rubio's hometown of Miami the majority of Cuban-Americans are being harmed the most by such tactics as shutting down the U. S. embassy in Havana that Obama had opened for the first time since 1961. While hardline Cubans in Congress -- including Rubio, Diaz-Balart, Ros-Lehtinen, and Curbelo from Miami alone -- grossly exceed the overall Cuban-American population, it seems only hardline Cubans are eligible to get elected to Congress even though, within the bowels of the U. S. democracy, they don't represent the pro-Cuban views of most Cuban-Americans.

     The prolific Cuban-born Fabiola Santiago since 1980 has been a top writer for the Miami Herald and is now its top Editorial Writer. She is notable for being a staunch Counter Revolutionary but she has repeatedly assailed the hometown choirboy Marco Rubio for putting his own personal ambitions -- both politically and economically -- ahead of what the majority of Cuban-Americans desire in relations with Cuba.

       This "Shame on you Rubio" banner flew over Senator Marco Rubio's home turf in South Florida when it was revealed he had taken $3.3 million from the NRA.

       Even fellow Republican Donald Trump accused Rubio of being owned by controversial Jewish billionaires like Sheldon Adelson, and thus Trump is not the only American who sorta thinks that's why Rubio puts Israel far ahead of America.

     In the Florida Republican presidential race, Trump wiped out Rubio on his home turf and Rubio then declared he would not run for a second term in the Senate, which he said couldn't get "anything done" and that was the excuse he used to explain why he missed so many votes in the Senate, except, of course, when hurting Cuba or aiding Israel. Despite low poll numbers, Rubio ran and was reelected to the Senate because it's his platform for another presidential bid and, of course, it again raised the specter that only Counter Revolutionary extremists can get elected in Miami although polls show most Cuban-Americans in Miami favor Obama-like decency towards Cuba.

    Meanwhile, Rubio, shown peering over Trump's right shoulder as the new President signed harsh anti-Cuban executive orders in front of the choir in Little Havana, Miami, USA. Although Rubio is a dire threat to both Trump's presidency and his leadership of the Republican Party, Trump tossed Rubio a bone by anointing him as America's new Cuban dictator. With Trump & Rubio, America, on a much larger scale, might be in more trouble than little Cuba where new President Miguel Diaz-Canel must confront such threats as the U. S. embargo and, of course, Rubio.  

      Meanwhile, Cuba's new President {as of April 19th}, Miguel Diaz-Canel, is firmly in place as the first non-Castro and the first non-revolutionary leader since 1959.

    But make no mistake, President Miguel Diaz-Canel's #1 idol is Cuba's #1 revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, who died at age 90 on Nov. 25, 2016. The photo above was taken in Santa Clara when a young Diaz-Canel was a popular educator on his way to becoming Education Minister and, for the previous five years, First Vice President. Insiders in Cuba know Diaz-Canel as being less inclined than former President Raul Castro to trust "United States capitalism", as Raul did when he negotiated with former President Obama to normalize relations between the two neighboring nations.

     With Miguel Diaz-Canel as Cuba's new leader, look for the island to concentrate on forging stronger ties with friendly and powerful nations like China as a counter-balance to the anti-Cuban Republican control of the White House and Congress.

     But this Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images photo reflects the fact that Cuba's new President knows he must concentrate less on Washington and more on what's happening in Havana. The Cubans shown above watching their island's transition -- Raul Castro to Miguel Diaz-Canel -- will expect their new leader to improve the Cuban economy despite obstacles such as the Embargo and what Diaz-Canel openly considers "a Batistiano-and-Mafiosi-loving Republican cabal in Washington." He expects to wait-out the Trump administration and he assumes "something more sane might transpire in 2020 or before then, as most of the world is hoping for."

    In stark contrast to his predecessor Obama, U. S. President Trump quickly went to Little Havana in Miami and turned America's Cuban policies back over to the few remaining survivors of the humiliating 1961 U.S.-Cuban exile defeat of Brigada Asalto 2506's disastrous {for Miami and for the United States} attack at the Bay of Pigs.

      In very significant contrast to Trump's highlighting the Brigade 2506 Cuban-exile attackers at the Bay of Pigs, Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel has emphasized photos like the one above, which highlights Cubans that rallied behind Fidel Castro's defense of the Revolution at the Bay of Pigs in April of 1961. "Marvel at Cuba's love of independence, Cuba's love of the Revolution!!" President Diaz-Canel told Bolivia's President Evo Morales on April 20th as he stressed this photo. "THAT brightly shown through in April of 1961 and it will shine through as we go forward today."

  Presidents Diaz-Canel & Morales.

They agreed about the Bay of Pigs. 

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