Havana Mafia to Miami Mafia

And Its Indelible Imprint on America!!!

      Even to this day, with 2018 winding down, neither the U. S. media nor the U. S. government -- for the most part -- has either the courage or the inclination to tell the truth about the everlasting impact of the American democracy's dalliance with the highest echelons of the Mafia in Cuba from 1952 till 1959 and then in the United States from 1959 till today after the Cuban Revolution chased the Mafiosi to Little Havana in Miami. Yes, the Mafia in Cuba beginning in 1952 was backed by the United States and since 1959 the fleeing or fled Batististiano/Mafiosi elements, in their quest to regain control of Cuba from the victorious Cuban Revolution, have also been backed by the United States, which remains, during all that time, the world's #1 Superpower. Fascinating stuff, I think you'll agree, but how Cuba has maintained its sovereignty since 1959 is just Part One of a multi-faceted odyssey. Vying for Part Two is the consummate truth embodied in "SCARFACE" that neither the U. S. government nor the U. S. media has bothered to admit after all these decades. Yes, "Scarface" is a Hollywood movie from 1983 that was directed by the great Brian DePalma, and written by the great Oliver Stone. It starred the A-list actor Al Pacino as Tony Montana, who today is a major American cult figure. The movie opens with actual film of Cuban exiles arriving on a dock in Miami. The arrivals, as written into the movie, included Tony Montana. Tony, to Oliver Stone's mind and pen, epitomized Havana's famed Mafia-drug empire actually leaving Revolutionary Cuba and setting up a far more lucrative...and murderous...drug haven in Miami. The Batistiano-Mafiosi had already totally overwhelmed South Florida politically and economically with their unmatched, ill-gotten wealth from Cuba. Tony Montana just took that to another level and stratosphere on U. S. soil. Before and after Tony's bloody demise, Miami's splendorous skyline exploded with cocaine wealth as vividly explained by famed journalists like Edna Buchanan, famed authors like Julia E. Sweig, Ann Louise Bardach, and T. J. English as well as famed Hollywood icons like Brian DePalma and Oliver Stone.

   While the brilliant historians-authors Julia E. Sweig and Ann Louise Bardach deftly document the Havana-to-Miami takeover of the Mafia, two great books by T. J. English chronicle the step-by-step evolution of that re-shaping of both Cuba and America because of the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution and, since then, the pugnaciousness of Revolution Cuba to fend off a re-capture of the island by the ultra-rich-and-powerful Batistiano-Mafiosi elements headquartered in both Miami and in the U. S. Congress...and all Republican White Houses. If you haven't read the T. J. English classic depicted above, the lies you've been told about the Mafia in Havana and the Mafia in Miami obviously grip your perceptions of U.S.-Cuban relations since the 1950s.

     This is the second T. J. English book that tells the true, fascinating, and important "Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld" that all 325 million Americans need to read. If you haven't read it, you're probably too afraid to question the Cuban-Mafia's grip on the politics and economies of Miami,  the state of Florida, and the USA capital of Washington, D. C. 

    While you can forget depending on the U. S. media or the U. S. government to spill the truthful beans about the Havana-Mafia becoming the Miami-Mafia after 1959's victory by the Cuban Revolution over the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship, excellent movies based on the truth and very truthful documentaries do provide the truth about this ongoing and indelible alternation of the Cuban and American landscape. Particularly potent with their truth-telling are the two "Cocaine Cowboys" documentaries. Study, for example, the poster above that proclaims the fact that a  "Godmother" in Miami -- in real life -- made "Tony Montana look like Mother Teresa."

     The real-life Griselda Blanco was known, among other things, as the "Cocaine Queen of Miami" as you can see above. Her Wikipedia bio claims her cocaine empire took in "$80 million a month" and during that time it was reported that all other drug kingpins, including Pablo Escobar, were afraid of Griselda Blanco. Notice her Miami-Dade mugshot above. When she was finally arrested, she continued to run her drug cartel from a Florida prison, till she was released and deported to Columbia, where she was born in 1943 in the city of Cartagena. Back in Colombia, at age 69 on Sept. 3-2012, Griselda Blanco was murdered by two motorcycle-riding gunmen believed to be working for a rival cartel.

    But in her heyday in the 1970s and 1980s Griselda Blanco took full advantage of the Havana-to-Miami transition of the Batista-Mafiosi enterprise that had ransacked Cuba from 1952 till 1959. Yes, Griselda Blanca by the 1970s had become the most feared drug deader not only in Miami but also NY, LA, and Colombia. She's a legend. In August-2018 the Discovery channels are showing an updated documentary about her that is chillingly narrated by her son Michael Carleone Blanco.

Griselda Blanca in her prime.

    Yes indeed, truth-tellers and Hollywood all love the "real-life story of Miami's most ruthless drug lord" -- Griselda Blanco -- even if the U. S. government, the intimidated U. S. media, and Miami's Little Havana politicos don't. I mean, AFTER ALL, the Batistianos-Mafiosi sincw 1959 have dictated the Cuban narrative in the United States and thus they are portrayed as Mother Teresa-type angels while the Cuban rebels who chased them to Florida are painted as the worst villains in the world. The poster above is for the Hollywood movie "Cocaine Godmother: The Griselda Blanco Story" that starred super actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, the wife of superstar Michael Douglas, as Griselda.

     And now we're told that superstar Jennifer Lopez will be the next Hollywood A-list actress to play Miami's all-time Cocaine Superstar Griselda Blanco. In other words, since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 spawned Little Havana in Miami, Tony Montana & Griselda Blanco have emerged as that drastically changed American city's two most famous and infamous celebrties, even ahead of such famed Cuban exiles as...Jorge Mas Canosa, Rafael Diaz-Balart, Orlando Bosch, Luis Posada Carriles, etc. -- historic names that can be easily Googled but who, so far at least, don't have Hollywood championing their notoriety in the U. S. city of Miami that the Cuban Revolution so drastically RE-SHAPED.

      Many Mafia kingpins, from Havana visitor and investor Al Capone to Havana legends and dictators Meyer Lansky and Fulgencio Batista owned homes and other property in South Florida prior to the 1950s. But Miami and the Mafia didn't become synonymous as the Miami Mafia {cigars & all} until the Cuban Revolution chased the leaders of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship from Havana to Miami in January of 1959, permanently re-defining both Cuba and the United States.

    The historic Havana Mafia to Miami Mafia transition was perhaps best defined by a famous quote by the Cuban Revolution's incomparable heroine Celia Sanchez: "We rebels...get far too much credit for winning the revolution. Our enemies deserve most of the credit, for being greedy cowards and idiots." And after that gem, Celia, who died of cancer in her re-shaped Cuba in 1980, also famously and prophetically stated: "The Batistianos will never regain control of Cuba as long as I live or as long as Fidel lives." Fidel died at age 90 in 2016 in Revolutionary Havana. In other words, Celia Sanchez was undefeated as a guerrilla fighter, revolutionary decision-maker, and as the definitive chronicler of both the Revolution and Revolutionary Cuba.

   A petite doctor's daughter, Celia Sanchez was not greedy, not a coward, and not an idiot. That's probably why her revolution won and chased her enemies to Miami...because she had the 100% support of not only the well-to-do lawyer Fidel Castro but also the entire everyday Cuban population, the portion not-aligned with the Mafiosi.

    Most people are aware that the Al Pacino, Brian DePalma, and Oliver Stone Hollywood classic "Scarface" established Tony Montana as Miami's all-time most notable celebrity. But 'lo  & behold, a new slew of documentaries and movies are making a very salient point, dropping Tony down to #Two.

     YES INDEED: "The Godmother...Griselda Blanco..."makes Tony Montana look like Mother Teresa." And TRUTH be known both Tony & Griselda were gifts to Miami and the United States from the victorious and still viable Cuban Revolution.

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Russia Boosts Cuba to Anger U.S.

Countering the Trump-Miami Assaults!!
{Updated: Tuesday, August 28th, 2018}

    Unlike China, Russia is not overflowing in cash that could readily be used to counter the renewed anti-Cuban assaults from the U. S. Trump administration. Yet, like China, Russia views Cuba as a key to usurping the USA's declining influence in the Caribbean and Latin America. The Moscow Times used the photo above to illustrate this recent headline: "Russia Allocates $10 million to Restore Cuban Capital's Golden Dome." Cuba itself is completing an expensive 8-year restoration plan for the historic capital that is an important tourist attraction in Havana.

   Another headline in the Moscow Times heralded this surprising article: "Russia Eyeing $200 million Investment in Cuba Airport with UAE." Ummmm...............................................????????

       Oil-rich Russia's economy is many times smaller than that of the United States, but it's nuclear-powered military remains incredibly awesome, verily matching the USA's nuclear might and delivery systems. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shogu has gleefully said, "Our Tu-160 and Tu-22m3 hypersonic bombers are raising such hackles in the West, we are producing even more than we need." NATO's code-name for the Tu-160 {shown above} is "Blackjack" and it can cruise at enormous heights, protected by Tu-22m3 squadrons armed with nuclear missiles, while reportedly being capable of dropping nuclear weapons with pinpoint accuracy almost anywhere in the world. Russia military strength along with its size...it covers 11 time zones and is by far the largest nation in the world...can intimidate NATO and the USA but Russia's new investments in Cuba indicate a replicate of the old Soviet Union's strategic interest in the USA's backyard.

   Cuba's new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, welcomes new investments from countries like Russia and the UAE, of course, but he would much rather have closer ties with his close superpower neighbor, the United States. But President Diaz-Canel, during a closed-door session with his Ministers that reportedly ended up being secretly audio-taped, has said privately and openly, "The Obama decency towards Cuba was an anomaly that we can't waste our time hoping occurs again. Little Havana's Miami control of the U. S. Congress and all Republican presidents negates our hoping for better sustained U. S. ties. Our time spent hoping for that should better be devoted to all the other nations instead of the one that habitually is trying to destroy us." Before and after Diaz-Canel took over on April 19th-2018 as Cuba's first non-Castro and non-revolutionary leader since 1959, he had actively lived up to those words depicting the U. S. as "the one habitually is trying to destroy us." So yes, President Diaz-Canel not only welcomes investments from Russia, China, Vietnam, etc., but he is actively soliciting such interest as a means of combating the endless U. S. embargo and the latest Republican administration, Donald Trump's.

    As Cuba's new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel is tasked with two primary goals: {1} Maintaining Cuba's independence even with another Republican administration, Trump's, in Washington; and {2} improving Cuba's economy even deep into the 6th decade of the U. S. economic embargo that continues its goal of "starving" and thus destroying Revolutionary Cuba. President Diaz-Canel's plan is to ignore the omnipotent USA as much as possible while firmly embracing "the rest of the world that is not trying to annihilate us to appease a few remaining remnants from the long-ago Batista years." For example, Diaz-Canel wants to resume exploration of Cuba's promising oil reserves and he is making strides in that very significant endeavor with an Australian company brave enough to defy the U. S. embargo.

    Australia's Melbana Energy has an established imprint in Cuba and has now updated its estimate of oil in Block 9 on Cuba's northern coast to 15.7 billion barrels.

       The above map shows the location of Block 9 that Melbana Energy plans to develop.

    The CEO of Melbana Energy, Robert Zammit, says, "Melbana is seeking partners to drill two significant wells in Cuba's Block 9."

    Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, as reported by the UPI news agency, has informed Cuba's new parliament of his plan to emphasize relations with friendly nations like Australia while de-emphasizing relations with the unfriendly United States as much as possible. And the Financial Tribune followed up on Diaz-Canel's parliamentary address {depicted above} with this headline: "Cuba Reshaping Gov't,  Economy."

    With drastic economic and political problems in Venezuela, Cuba drastically needs to increase its domestic oil production and new President Diaz-Canel is emphasizing that fact with help from Melbana Energy of Australia.

    This is Melbana Energy's own graphic depicting its belief that Cuba oil, including Block 9 shown in the lower-right, holds promise for producing profits for both Cuba and Melbana.

Cuba's Block 9 oil field.

     It is meetings like the one above with friendly companies from friendly nations, such as Melbana Energy of Australia, that Cuba now wants to stress while, according to President Miguel Diaz-Canel, "We should stop wasting our time hoping for more Obama-like friendly relations with the United States."

    As Trump's USA has curtailed Cuba's record-setting tourism growth during the friendly Obama presidency, Cuba is still stressing mammoth hotel expansions with foreign companies in Spain and Switzerland. An example is the FIVE-STAR, 246-room Gran Hotel Manzana {above} built in the heart of Havana by Switzerland's Kempinski Hotels, which is headquartered in Geneva, while it tries to compete in Cuba with other hotel builders like Spain's potent Iberostar Hotels & Resorts.

   This is the brand-new 5-Star, 321-room Iberostar Grand Packard Hotel in Old Havana. Spain's Iberostar Hotels & Resorts already operates 20 hotels across the island and has 8 more now being built or planned in the near future. So, while one nation, the United States, tries to starve Cuba with an embargo that is condemned worldwide, there are other nations who treat the sovereign island as the independent nation it has been since 1959, the last year it was dominated by foreign, exploitative elements that included the Mafia and the U. S.

    Meanwhile, Havana's historic and domed capital building is completing an 8-year restoration project financed by Cuba and now aided by a fresh $10 million gift from, uh...Russia!.

    In OTHER WORDS, even with Little Havana's Marco Rubio having the full support of the Trump administration to lead the latest U.S./Miami effort to regain control of Cuba, the pugnacious island remains determined to protect the independence it finally gained in 1959 when the Cuban Revolution chased the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia leaders back to the United States.

     In the USA -- as widely reported by the Miami Herald, the Miami New Times, and other knowledgeable media sources -- the Trump administration has turned the recapturing of Cuba over to two particular Counter Revolutionary members of the U. S. Congress from Little Havana in Miami: Mario Diaz-Balart and Marco Rubio. Diaz-Balart is the son of a former Minister in the Batista dictatorship that quickly, after 1959, became one of the richest and most powerful Counter Revolutionaries in Miami. Rubio has long based his political and economic fortunes, which are considerable, on genuflecting ties to the Little Havana-Miami extremists along with, as widely reported even by his hometown Miami Herald, his extreme loyalties to billionaire donors in Miami, Las Vegas, Israel, the NRA, etc. The photo above shows Mario & Marco in dour, worried moods -- PERHAPS BECAUSE RECAPTURING CUBA, even with Trump as the USA's Commander-in-Chief, IS TAKING A LITTLE LONGER THAN EXPECTED -- seven decades LONGER!!!

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Is A Latin American War Imminent?

The BBC Seems to Think It Is?

     Probably the biggest threat to the United States is not Trump, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea nor global warming. Most likely, as August fades into September in 2018, the biggest threat to the USA is probably its extremely powerful, billionaire-powered extremist left-wing media. Comprised mainly of NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times, and the Washington Post, collectively that extreme left-wing juggernaut is nothing more and nothing less than an awesomely incessant propaganda machine. For going on two years that juggernaut has dispensed covering the news and concentrated almost solely on a media coup to eliminate President Donald Trump. While I and many millions of other Americans are anti-Trump, we -- unlike the juggernaut -- respect the electoral process that put the unqualified Trump in the White House, mostly because enough Americans were/are fed-up with left-wing and right-wing extremism along with a bought-and-paid-for, money-crazed Two Party political system. {The right-wing Fox News is also a propaganda machine but less threatening than the more omnipotent left-wing coalition}.

      The propaganda preamble paragraph above  takes us to the photo above. It shows a real journalist -- Stephen Sackur -- on a real broadcast news network -- the London-based international juggernaut known worldwide as the BBC. Sackur hosts one of the BBC's typically informative journalistic programs -- Hardtalk. On Hardtalk this week -- August 23rd, 2018 -- Sackur interviewed the new President of Colombia Ivan Duque because the brilliant Sackur and the BBC apparently think that Duque's election portends an imminent war for Latin America. I tend to agree and I will explain why.

    A 41-year-old right-winger, Ivan Duque has been drug-ravished Colombia's President only for a couple of weeks. But that's long enough for the BBC and others to wonder aloud if Duque, backed by the powerful right-wing coalition of Counter Revolutionary Cubans and Venezuelans congregating in Miami, will launch a U.S.-backed war across the Colombian-Venezuelan border to eliminate besieged Venezuelan President Nicolas Madura as a Big Blow to Cuba, which both Duque and the Trump presidency in the USA believe is ripe for overthrow in the supposedly more vulnerable post-Fidel Castro era.

      Extreme anti-Cuban right-wingers in Miami and in the U. S. Congress rejoiced uncontrollably when Ivan Duque was elected President of Colombia. Dire political and economic turmoil in oil-rich Venezuela has caused thousands of Venezuelans to cross over into Colombia, now providing Duque and his ally, the U. S., the excuse to take military action. The BBC's Stephen Sackur on Aug. 23-2018 asked Duque face-to-face if such an attack is imminent, and Duque demurred. Sackur also asked Duque IF THE MAIN PROBELM IN COLOMBIA RIGHT NOW IS NOT ITS LEGENDARY DRUG PRODUCTION BUT INSTEAD THE WHOLESALE MURDERS, ALLEGEDLY BY GOVERNMENT FORCES, OF CONSERVATIVE AND LEFT-WING OPERATIVES?? And again Duque demurred. But clearly the scariest thing about Duque being the new Colombian President is his ties to right-wingers in Miami and Washington. Duque, in fact, is a lawyer educated at American University and Georgetown University in the very political heart of the USA.

     But this is the photo used by the BBC that should most concern anyone who does not want an imminent Latin America War that would surely involve the United States and perhaps other world powers as well as create revolutionary-type resistance in Venezuela and perhaps elsewhere. On the left above is former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and on the right is his pupil Ivan Duque, the newly elected President of Colombia. Here's why this photo is scary: When he was Colombia's President, Uribe was tightly aligned with U. S. President George W. Bush in their fierce anti-Cuban endeavors. As ex-Presidents, Uribe, George W. Bush, and the rest of the Bush dynasty have remained extremely close, reportedly including social meetings and family vacations. And now with Duque as Colombia's new President tightly aligned with Uribe as well as the Bush dynasty and the anti-Cubans in Miami and Washington, ASK YOURSELF THIS QUESTION: Does the world's best news source, the UK's BBC, have a right to wonder if a Colombian-USA military regime change in Venezuela is imminent OR NOT?? Well, the great BBC journalist Stephen Sackur in that August 23-2018 interview asked President Duque that question. Duque replied, "I am not a puppet and Uribe is not the puppeteer." Really? It appears Duque is a puppet and Uribe, the anti-Cuban zealot aligned with the Bush dynasty, is Duque's puppeteer. And that direly concerns the BBC.

     This famous photo has added relevance today. It shows Alvaro Uribe, then the President of Colombia, being driven around the Bush Ranch in Texas by George W. Bush, then the President of the United States. At the time, Uribe & Bush represented the two biggest  economic and military threats to Revolutionary Cuba and its Latin American allies, especially Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia. Uribe's drug-infested Colombia was/is not a destitute country but it still receives billions of dollars in U. S. aid, supposedly to battle the drug cartels and not other countries that might at least SEEM to be unfriendly to the United States.

     As the influential ex-President of the United States, George W. Bush and the rest of the still very vibrant Bush dynasty remain extremely tight with the ex-President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe. The best news organization in the world, the BBC seems to be thinking this week -- late in August of 2018 -- that the Bush-Uribe ties once again represent the biggest threat to Cuba and thus also to direly troubled Venezuela. WHY? Because Colombia now has, in right-wing Ivan Duque, a new President that is a Uribe protege and therefore another Uribe-like Bush ally.

In other words:

    While the mainstream USA news media is almost exclusively devoted to creating a regime change in Donald Trump's American White House, the best news organization in the world, the BBC, is actually covering that aspect with journalistic impartiality but also actually covering OTHER pertinent news. Therefore, the BBC is studying the above map and wondering if Colombia's new Bush & Uribe-like President {Duque} is about to team with the U. S. militarily to provoke a regime change across the border in Venezuela. If so, America's ongoing bloody, trillion-dollar, 16-year war in Afghanistan might pale in comparison to a possible Latin American conflagration that would likely be unending and spark new Revolutions like the U. S. earlier sparked and lost in Cuba to Castro and in Nicaragua to Castro-disciple Daniel Ortega, who is still Nicaragua's President today.

    All that brings me back to a real broadcast network, the BBC, and a real broadcast journalist, Stephen Sackur. {By the way, the BBC is readily available in the USA at, for example, Channel 346 on my Direct TV cable}. While the mainstream U. S. media insults journalism with its incessant anti-Trump/pro-Trump propaganda, the BBC superbly and impartially covers the news. Stephen Sackur and the BBC this week reminded the world of the imminent possibility of the U. S. for sure, and other world powers perhaps, getting involved in a Latin American war if Colombia's new U.S.-trained President Ivan Duque decides on a regime change across the border in Venezuela. Americans, instead of being trained-seals putting up with left-wing and right-wing extremist propaganda that dictates and saturates their media, should at least demand that the United States has at least one major news organization that resembles the BBC.

     The USA networks have saturated the airways with propaganda-anchors and propaganda-pundits as opposed to broadcast journalists. That's in stark contrast to the BBC's true journalists as illustrated above. The BBC is available in at least 210 nations, including the USA. You can easily Google to see what channel your cable provider has BBC World News on.

   Getting your USA and World news from Stephen Sackur and the other real journalists at the BBC is far better than being saturated with left-wing and right-wing propaganda anchors and pundits from the U. S. networks. There appear to be about 10% of Americans who are left-wing trained seals and 10% who are right-wing trained seals. It's the other 80% of Americans who should search for real news coverage, such as the BBC provides.

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Cuba Makes U.S. Resemble Russia

Collusion? Yes! Annexation? Yes! Etc.? Yes!

Photo courtesy: Carmon Steinbach/U.S. Army/Miami New Times.

     A huge investigative article published this week in the Miami New Times was expertly researched and, to the chagrin of Democracy-lovers like me, revealed anew how the U. S. Cuban policy -- since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 chased the Batista-Mafia leaders to their new capital of Little Havana in Miami -- has shamed both America and Democracy. The above photo was used to illustrate a massively important Miami New Times article entitled: "U.S. Government Has Plans to Spread Hidden Facebook Propaganda in Cuba." At the podium above is extreme Cuban-American Counter Revolutionary Tomas Regalado, a former Mayor of Miami who has spent his adult lifetime in the U. S. trying desperately to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government using the non-patriotic apathy of the American people as well as their tax dollars and the incomparable power of the United States government as well as the Cuban-exile control of Florida's politics. So why, you ask, haven't unchecked Cuban-Americans like Regalado managed to regain control of Cuba after all these decades? The answer, most likely, is this: There have always been millions of Cubans on the island who do not want a return of the murderous, thieving U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship that brutalized and robbed the island at will from 1952 to 1959.

  That brings us back to Miami superstar Tomas Regalado and, specifically, that important article this week in the Miami New Times. I'll provide the title once again to stress that all Democracy-loving Americans and Cuban-Americans should dial it up: "U.S. Government Has Plans to Spread Hidden Facebook Propaganda in Cuba." Those plans were devised by Tomas Regalado and they are a reminder once again that America's Cuban policy -- condemned 191-to-0 by all nations of the world in 2016 when Obama was still the decent U. S. president -- tightly resembles Russia's. For example, Russia is sanctimoniously accused by Americans and by the U. S. media of using Facebook to help Donald Trump get elected President of the United States. And for example, Russia is sanctimoniously accused by Americans and by the U. S. media of annexing Crimea and other easy targets. But neither the propagandized American citizens nor the the politically correct mainstream U. S. media have the guts or patriotism to criticize the United States or Counter Revolutionary extremists like the powerful Tomas Regalado when vast sums of U.S. tax dollars are used to devise anti-Cuban programs to use Facebook and other omnipotent Digital giants to undermine sovereign Cuba's government. Yes, Regalado's scheme, according to the aforementioned Miami New Times article, rates Facebook, YouTube, and Google as the three most used Online outlets by Cubans in Cuba. So, hacking those sources -- or whatever -- like Russia supposedly hacked them to undermine the U. S. democracy is now the latest ploy of Counter Revolutionary extremists in Miami and in the U. S. Congress to undermine Cuba. And, of course, those same Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American extremists think it's perfectly American for the U. S. to steal plush Guantanamo Bay from Cuba just like it was perfectly Russian for Russia to steal Crimea, a theft that equates to the U. S. taking Guantanamo Bay.

     The Miami New Times has a strong reputation for investigative journalism by some of the most respected journalists in Miami's history, such as former New Times and Miami Herald journalist Jim DeFede who is still the best journalist in Miami as a superstar television anchor/reporter.

     The Miami New Times article about how the Miami Counter Revolutionary extremists are taking a page out of Russia's playbook to finally destroy Revolutionary Cuba was written by Jerry Iannelli. A graduate of Temple University who got his Masters in Journalism from Columbia University, Iannelli is a highly regarded investigative journalist in Miami. So, again...if you care even a little bit about the long-standing Batistiano-Mafiosi assault on the U. S. democracy...I urge you to read Iannelli's article this week in the Miami New Times. Then if you agree that a handful of Counter Revolutionary extremists should dictate, for going on seven decades, America's Cuban policies that are condemned 191-to-0 worldwide, FINE!! But Iannelli begins his insightful article with these words: "The United States has even condemned the Russian government and sanctioned its leaders. But at the same time, the U. S. has put together its own plans to use Facebook to foment dissent clandestinely in Cuba." Then Iannelli pointed out that Miami's infamous Gold Mine known as Radio-TV Marti is not alone but "at the center of those plans" to recapture Cuba and supposedly give it back to the Batistiano-Mafiosi remnants who fled the Cuban Revolution for safer havens...such as Miami...in the wee hours of January 1, 1959.

    The Miami New Times article this week quotes John S. Nichols, a Democracy-loving American who also is a Communication and Cuban expert as the highly respected Professor Emeritus at Penn State University's College of Communication. Regarding the plan of Counter Revolutionaries to use Facebook, etc., to undermine Cuba, John S. Nichols said: "It's the most recent of a long line of efforts by Radio and TV Marti. Every time they fail in getting their message into Cuba, they say there has got to be a technological solution. Congress can't seem to recognize that the schemes are a colossal failure. It's small, mean, and not worthy of a great power." In other words, other than making a few Cuban-Americans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress very rich and powerful, such endless schemes as Radio-TV Marti in Miami do two primary things: {1} Suck continuous pipelines of tax dollars from Washington to Miami; and {2} shame the U. S. democracy similar to the way other non-democratic nations shame themselves internationally. A decent Democracy-loving American like John S. Nichols clearly understands such tax-sucking Cuban schemes in Miami as Radio-TV Marti but propagandized Americans are programmed, decade after decade, to cowardly and ignorantly fund it.

    The first great investigative journalist to tell Americans what a money-grabbing farce Radio-TV Marti was-and-is was the great Jeffrey Kofman, who has won every major broadcasting award. A quarter of a century ago Kofman's famous report on ABC News was/is entitled: "Newscast to Nowhere." Again, if you are interested in the USA or Democracy, you should Google it and heed it. Kofman started with these words: "It's the newscast to nowhere -- courtesy of the U. S. taxpayers." He concluded with these words: "The Marti broadcasts are zealously protected by Miami's three Cuban-American congressional representatives who reward their hard-line supporters with jobs. But the 'news' goes on, the Newscast to Nowhere. And no one sees it. The intended audience is the people of Cuba." Kofman explained that Cuba easily blocks the newscasts and, in any case, they are poorly crafted propaganda by mostly non-journalists and even if they got through no sane Cuban on the island would believe such material coming from Counter Revolutionary zealots in Miami. But yet, for decades right up until today the spigots of tax dollars have flushed from Washington to Miami to support Radio-TV Marti.

     The most famous dissident in Cuba is Yoani Sanchez and Cuba allows her to travel around the world to bolster support for her Counter Revolutionary empire back in Cuba. The photo above shows her broadcasting Counter Revolutionary vitriol from MARTI in MIAMI studios.

     During his 8 years as President of the United States, Barack Obama bravely did his very best to correct the Batistiano-grip on the U. S. democracy -- starting with the end of the Embargo that was first imposed in 1962 for the purpose, as revealed by de-classified U. S. 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. And, of course, Obama tried to correct other such cruel farces as the tax-funded Radio-TV Marti gold mine in Miami. But in the end Obama was thwarted by a Batistiano-dictated U. S. Congress and by the gutless lack of support from another generation of non-patriotic American citizens. Then after his two terms as President, the extreme left-wing tilt of the Democratic Party in a two-Party system incredibly elected the totally unqualified Donald Trump as President, the 6th Batistiano-aligned Republican U. S. President since the 1950s.

      As the new Batistiano-aligned President of the United States, Donald Trump anointed Miami's contribution to the U. S. Senate, Marco Rubio, as America's latest Cuban dictator and Commander-in-Chief. In that capacity, among Rubio's many ongoing and major Counter Revolutionary decisions was to gift his old political and financial mentor, Tomas Regalado, as the new head of...you guessed it!!...one of Miami's tax-funded gold mines, Radio-TV Marti.

  The vast two-generational nexus of Tomas Regalado as mentor and Marco Rubio as the eager student defines the past six decades of Cuban-American Counter Revolutionary extremists making out politically and economically on U. S. soil even more than the overthrown U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictators had made out in Cuba from 1952 till 1959. For sure, beginning in 1959 the exiles from the Batista-Mafia dictatorship had more than enough money to overwhelm Miami politically and economically, and that situation has not only continued for all these decades but been exacerbated because it has provided educational, business, and political opportunities not available to the less fortunate and less well-heeled everyday citizens of Miami and South Florida.

    And so, out of all that anomalous fall-out from the astounding victory by the Cuban Revolution on Jan. 1-1959, in August of 2018 Tomas Regalado now has the cushy job as head of the Miami gold mine known as Radio-TV Marti. While an intent of Marti is to overthrow and humiliate Revolutionary Cuba with vile, unceasing propaganda, the primary intent -- as so correctly explained decades ago by the great journalist Jeffrey Kofman -- is to reward fellow Counter Revolutionaries in Miami with tax-paid jobs. In Tomas Regalado's case, one of the Counter Revolutionaries he mentored, Miami's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio, rewarded Regalado the job of head man at Radio-TV Marti, a tax-draining enterprise that no unbiased person on the planet can justify. So who is Tomas Regalado?Well, he was born 71 years ago in Havana on May 24th, 1947. In Miami as a part of the Cuban-exile dominance of Miami's political and economic scenes, Regalado was the Counter Revolutionary Mayor of Miami from 2009 till 2017. His new job in 2018, courtesy of his well-trained Marco Rubio, indeed defines how generations of exiles from the long-ago Batista dictatorship in Cuba has re-defined the U. S. democracy...and there actually is very little democracy-loving Americans can do about it. So, how did it happen? Is it all because, beginning in the early 1950s, American citizens allowed right-wing politicians in the White House and in Congress to get away with aligning the U. S. democracy with vicious dictators such as Somoza in Nicaragua, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Pinochet in Chile, Batista in Cuba, etc., etc. etc.? That surely is one-half of the equation, and the reasoning was that such U.S.-backed/non-democracy dictators would allow rich Americans to partake in the fleecing of their helpless countries. But the other more everlasting half of the equation relates to the unique phenomenon known as the Cuban Revolution, which, for sure, says a lot more about the United States than it says about Cuba. The Rubio-Regalado nexus in 2018 is a prime example.

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     Tomorrow I will resume this essay from this point with an explanation of how two generations of America's Bush dynasty, without ever being held accountable by U. S. citizens or the U. S. media, elevated Counter Revolutionary Cuban exiles into what today is essentially a powerful government within the bowels of the United States government. To make that case, I will rely on data from unimpeachable experts such as Julia E. Sweig whose must-read seminal book is very appropriately entitled: "What Everyone Needs to Know About Cuba." And not to know what she details in that book is to NOT KNOW a damn thing about U.S.-Cuban relations since the 1950s, and to not know how and why the U. S. democracy has been so altered by what I consider the unholy but mutually beneficial Bush/Cuban-exile alliance.

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