Cuba Leader Talks with U.S. Leader

Senator Corker {But} Not Trump!!

   Cuba has a new non-Castro, non-revolutionary President -- former Education Minister Miguel Diaz-Canel. Cuba's new Parliament has devised its new and drastically revised Constitution that is currently being discussed in public meetings all across the island and will be approved in a referendum nationwide vote early in 2019. Yet, the U. S. democracy remains in the rut of capitulating to and aligning with Cuban-American Counter Revolutionary extremists since 1959...and STILL hasn't been able to recapture the island. Those topical and historic truths reflect why the photo above is so important. It shows Cuba's new President, Diaz-Canel, being interviewed on the regional Telesur network this week. His pertinent comments included: "The main obstacle to prosperity for the Cuban people is the U. S. Blockade." He, of course, was referencing the U. S. Embargo against Cuba that has existed since 1962 when, according to DE-classified U. S. documents, the purpose was to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of ordinary Cubans to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. The blockade-embargo is the longest and cruelest ever imposed by a strong nation against a weak nation. And it has failed miserably "to induce" Cubans on the island to rise up against a revolutionary government that most of them to this day believe, for all its problems, to be vastly superior to the thieving, murderous U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship that preceded it from 1952 till 1959. So the comment by President Diaz-Canel in the above interview is undeniably correct although propagandized and intimidated Americans are supposed to believe the constant refrains of Little Havana's Marco Rubio when he incessantly declares that, as President Trump's newly anointed Cuban dictator, he is tightening the screws on Cuba to "hurt" Castro while "helping" the Cuban people. A democracy that continually allows such absurd propaganda to take hold is, in essence, ceasing to be a democracy. {P.S.: The sole author and the only contributor to these Cubaninsider essays is a democracy-loving American who believes America's Cuban policy shames America more than any other single topic has ever shamed the world's greatest form of government}.

    The above interview this week of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel was conducted by Patricia Villegas, perhaps the most influential Latin American broadcaster. She is the President and shining star of the regional network Telesur that is based in the troubled Venezuelan capital of Caracas. But Patricia Villegas is from Colombia and she is deeply respected as a broadcast journalist and for her abiding hatred of U. S. imperialism in Latin America -- and recognized as a leading expert on such things as the Nixon/Kissinger-inspired 1973 coup that killed beloved democratically elected Chilean President Allende to install the murderous general Pinochet as Chile's U.S.-friendly Dictator for the next 17 years. While Nixon, Kissinger, and the U. S. have never been held responsible in the U. S. for the death of Allende, the democratically elected President, nor for the long reign of Pinochet, the murderous but U.S.-friendly general, Patricia Villegas uses her broadcasting platform to continually remind Latin Americans of the difference between Allende and Pinochet. And now Patricia Villegas is reminding Latin Americans of the difference between Cuba's new President Diaz-Canel and the Counter Revolutionary extremists in the United States of America.

   The Influential regional Telesur broadcaster, Patricia Villegas, indeed integrates Latin America's historic and modern relationships to the Caribbean, always stressing Cuba's strategic and symbolic significance. From her interview with Cuba's President Diaz-Canel, many international news organizations headlined the new Cuban leader's belief that it is probably useless to discuss matters of "mutual concern" with President Trump or with any Republican U. S. President, but he at least indicated he is willing to do so just as the Democratic President Obama was willing to sit down with and discuss things with his predecessor Raul Castro, which Diaz-Canel says "mutually benefited" Cubans, Americans, and Cuban-Americans.

    A powerful Republican U. S. Senator, Bob Corker of Tennessee, has paid an unannounced visit to Havana to sit down and talk with Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel. Corker is the Chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. Corker and many like him in the 535-member U. S. Congress believe Cuba's new President "should at least be listened to even by Trump who certainly loves to listen to Xi in China, Putin in Russia, and even Kim in North Korea." Of course, as Corker fully realizes, Cuba's uniqueness in Republican administrations is the fact that the little island nation is the only nation that overthrew a vile U.S.-backed dictatorship and chased those leaders to their Little Havana stronghold in Miami. Corker has been a powerful Republican in the Senate since 2007 but at age 66 he is retiring from Washington's incredibly dysfunctional two-party political system, as are other Cuban-friendly politicians, such as Senator Jeff Flake from Arizona. That means people like Corker and Flake, who have visited Cuba multiple times, have given up on trying to inject sanity and decency into America's Cuban policies that are staunchly dictated by Counter Revolutionary extremists who, as far as Cuba is concerned, totally control both the Republican Party and the overall U. S. Congress. But Corker's discussion in Havana with President Diaz-Canel was otherwise fruitful. Corker assured Cuba's new President that the embargo "shames" the U. S. "even more than it harms Cubans over here." Corker was very impressed with Diaz-Canel.

   The retirements of veteran politicians like Bob Corker, Senator Jeff Flake, and even young Congressmen like Trey Gowdy reflects a disturbing U. S. trend in which their replacements are likely to be non-servants eager to use government service as the economic bonanza it has become for thousands of lobbyists and the politicians they can so easily be purchased by rich Lobbyists.

     As shown above, Senator Bob Corker was one of the powerful Republicans who helped Donald Trump pull off the most astounding upset in American history by becoming President of the United States. Of course, Bob Corker, currently the omnipotent Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is appalled with President Trump for, among other things, reversing former President Obama's decent Cuban policies and turning them back over a few self-serving Counter Revolutionary extremists in Miami's Little Havana sector. And Bob Corker flew to Havana to express those sentiments directly to Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

     Yes, America, the Patricia Villegas regional interview with Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel was very important and enlightening. You can easily dial it up anywhere in the world on YouTube and listen to what he has to say...and see his Spanish words transcribed in English on the screen. To do so would be far better for America and for Democracy than forever as an American being subjected only to extremely self-serving propaganda from Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American extremists. You see, there is a reason that President Obama in 2016 supported the 191-to-0 unanimity in the United Nations that loudly condemned the U. S. embargo-blockade of Cuba that has existed since 1962. So, in the above interview, President Diaz-Canel is correct when he says, "The main obstacle to prosperity for the Cuban people is the U. S. blockade."

     President Obama and the entire world in 2016 condemned this shameful image of the U. S. embargo against Cuba.

    Cuba calls the U. S. embargo "a genocidal blockade" and "the largest in history" being perpetrated against the Cuban people since 1962. Cuban extremists like Senator Marco Rubio from Little Havana get away daily in the mainstream U. S. media with insisting that the embargo is "to hurt Castro and help the Cuban people." That lie has been allowed to shame the U. S. democracy for 6+ decades...while the rest of the world agrees with the billboard depicted above.

     Perhaps more shameful -- and ironic -- than the Genocidal Billboard denouncing the U. S. embargo of Cuba is the definitive Editorial Statement depicted above. Ironically but emphatically it points out that a mere handful of Counter Revolutionary extremists from Little Havana and in the U. S. Congress can, decade after decade, dictate history's all-time longest and cruelest embargo against totally innocent people in a much weaker nation...as they hide behind the skirts of the world's Superpower and the ignorant apathy of United States citizens.

     A handful of Miami elite, some of them born in Havana {see above} and some of them the offspring of leaders of the Batista dictatorship {see above], have been allowed since 1959 to create a vast and lucrative multi-generational Castro Cottage Industry in the United States, resulting in the embargo/blockade and countless other self-serving tactics. This has been allowed to persist on American soil within the bowels of the precious United States democracy for 6+ decades...AND COUNTING!!

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Cuba's Female Martyrs

Revolutionary Heroines Remembered!!

     To a very large extent, as Fidel Castro often stressed, the Cuban Revolution was a female-powered revolution that began in earnest in 1953 when extremely brave mothers took to the streets with huge placards accusing the Batista-Mafia dictatorship of murdering their children as warnings not to dissent. From the outset of the guerrilla war to overthrow the U.S.-and-Mafia-backed Batista, omnipotent Cuban women were on the front-lines of the war as fighters, recruiters of rebels and supplies, and as decision-makers. Those famed women included...Celia Sanchez, Haydee Santamaria, Vilma Espin, Tete Puebla, and thousands like them. Although she died of cancer at age 59 on Jan. 11, 1980, there remain in Cuba today many statues of Celia Sanchez but none of Fidel Castro, who wanted it that way.

      With that being said, this week in September-2018 there were special ceremonies honoring the lives of two of the Revolution's greatest heroines -- Lidia Doce and Clodomira Acosta. Their images, courtesy of Radio Rebelde, are depicted above.

             Lidia and Clodomira were Mountain Messengers during the war. They took vital messages from battlefield to battlefield and from rebel strongholds to the Commanders, working directly under and reporting to Celia Sanchez, Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, and Che Guevara. Their work was considered the most dangerous because they had to constantly maneuver between Batista check-points and, yes, Batista's bounties for their capture were huge and paid in cash. Batista's goons wanted the Mountain Messengers captured, not killed, because they wanted to unmercifully torture them as long as possible before they died from the extreme torture. Such was the historic fate of Lidia and Clodomira.

   Lidia was 20 years older than Clodomira, who was mentored by Lidia. Lidia was born on August 27, 1916, in Vetazco in Holguin territory; Clodomira was born on February 1, 1936, in Manzanillo, the city on the southeastern tip of the island where the doctor's daughter, Celia Sanchez, began the war's most vital early recruitments of rebels and supplies. Two of Celia's most important recruits turned out to be Lidia and Clodomira.

         In 1958, as the war began to heat up and -- incredibly -- turn in favor of the rebels, Batista's huge bounties on the heads of the Mountain Messengers were paying off, and the two largest bounties were for the capture of Lidia and Clodomira. The two precious women, so vital to the war effort, were in a safe-house coordinating their missions with four young male rebels. They were betrayed and Batista's soldiers surrounded the house, capturing the six rebels. The young men were tortured and then quickly murdered and they were: Alberto Alvarez, 21; Leonardo Valdes, 23; Anelio Dampier, 22; and Reinaldo Cruz, 20.

     The four young rebels after they were executed the day Lidia Doce and Clodomira Acosta were also captured.

      Lidia and Clodomira were spared only so, as the most famed Mountain Messengers, they could be tortured as long as possible before they died.

     By 1958 Batista's most infamous murderers included Esteban Ventura. He was in charge of torturing Lidia and Clodomira. 

    The details of  how Lidia and Clodomira died are known because of the accounts of their heartless captors. For days they were tortured as punishment but also to induce them to reveal vital information about the rebel offensive that Batista and Ventura knew they possessed.
    But to the consternation and amazement of Ventura, based on data his aides reported directly to Batista, never -- NOT ONCE -- did either Lidia or Clodomira utter a single word to their torturers, NOT to plea for mercy and NOT to reveal a single word about the vital information that knew would harm the war efforts of Celia Sanchez, the Castro brothers, and Che Guevara.
     Based on the Batista-Ventura records, it is believed that Lidia died  just a few agonizing minutes before Clodomira succumbed to the relentless torture. Clodomira's very last smile in Cuba was when she at last knew that her beloved friend and mentor Lidia had finally died and could be punished no more.
     It is believed, based on Ventura accounts, that their deaths occurred on September 17, 1958. Thus, on that date each year -- INCLUDING THIS WEEK IN THE YEAR 2018 -- ceremonies honoring two of the all-time greatest rebels are commemorated. NO ONE DESERVES IT MORE.
      After they were tortured to death, Batista ordered that their bodies be thrown into the sea, and they were never recovered.

Clodomira Acosta and Lidia Doce.

Batista's Colonel Esteban Ventura.

     The Cuban Revolution's incomparable Celia Sanchez in 1965, almost seven years after overthrowing Batista, told Bohemia Magazine:

     "In September of 1958 we began winning the war...capturing cities and holding them as our forward units, led by Che and Camilo, were on a direct path to Havana, hoping to get there before the Batistianos fled. But I remember in the Sierra it was on September 24 when we got confirmation that four of our young rebels had been executed at the home where Lidia and Clodomira had been captured. I've never been a crier but after hearing that I cried for two whole days and nights. Then we learned Lidia and Clodomira were being kept alive so they could be tortured as long as possible. Finally, in the end two reliable sources informed us that Clodomira, just before she died, managed a smile because she had learned that Lidia had died and could no longer be tortured. I'm trying to say, despite all of the tragedies of the war and the tragedies that caused the war, most of the tears from my eyes were for Lidia and Clodomira. And I will never apologize for that...NEVER. They meant that much to me and to the war."

     The photo above was taken in August of 1958 by Celia Sanchez herself. The lady in the middle in the white shirt is Lidia Doce about a month before she was murdered. The lady next to Lidia is Grizelda Sanchez, Celia's lookalike sister. And, of course, at Lidia's left shoulder is Fidel Castro. Lidia had just turned to Fidel and happily said, "Estamos ganando ahora, verdad?" {"We're winning now, aren't we?"}. The Commander on the left is Juan Almeida, who also reviewed Lidia's latest messages.

Lidia Doce.

This is believed to be.......

....the last photo ever taken of.....

22-year-old Clodomira Acosta.
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Cuba President to Visit U.S.

Diaz-Canel's First U. S. Trip!!
{Updated: Monday, September 17th, 2018}

    Cuba's new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, will make his first-ever trip to the USA later this month of September, 2018. He's coming to New York to represent Cuba at the United Nations. But he's set one day aside --  September 28th -- to also meet with friendly Cuban-Americans as well as U. S. business leaders interested in possibly investing in Miguel Diaz-Canel's Cuba.

     Since Miguel Diaz-Canel took over as Cuba's President on April 19th, the Cuban parliament, including the Council of Ministers, has been sharply revamped with Diaz-Canel's stamp.

     The Cuban parliament has devised a new Constitution to replace the one that has prevailed since 1976. President Diaz-Canel sees the urgent need to improve the island's economy by seeking foreign investment but also by allowing for more private enterprise and also stressing agricultural production because Cuba purchases most of the food consumed on the island, which Diaz-Canel thinks should be produced by Cubans. The new constitution has already been ratified by the parliament and currently is being publicly debated nationwide before it will surely be passed into law by a referendum vote early in 2019.

    Since the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution, women -- such as heroines Celia Sanchez, Vilma Espin, and Haydee Santamaria as well as modern leaders like Josefina Vidal -- have held powerful positions in the Revolutionary Government. But President Diaz-Canel has elevated many current women to strong positions, such as Johana Tablada, who has served as Cuba's Ambassador to Portugal. But this past week the photo above shows Tablada at the podium in Washington as she led a strong Cuban delegation that not only debunked but ridiculed the Trump administration's claim that Cuba -- or some ally like Russia or China -- is responsible for so-called sonic-or-health attacks on U. S. diplomats in Havana. She, for example, asked the U. S. to reveal how many of the "26 injured diplomats were CIA agents."

    As reported in major articles by NBC, ABC, the NY Times, the Washington Post, etc., in Washington this week the feisty Johana Tablaba accused the U. S. of "fabricating or withholding vital information about the alleged attacks" that she maintained were intended solely to be used as an excuse to reverse President Obama's positive overtures to Cuba. She claimed that the "the Cubans in Congress and in the Trump White House" want Americans to believe that Cuba, not the anti-Cubans in the U. S., wanted to destroy Cuba's vital tourism industry and she said, "that's ridiculous but I guess those who control the narrative or the intimidation factors can get away with it if the world's most powerful nation allows it to happen."

     Cuba's frustrations with America regarding the "health attacks" that Cuba has begged the U. S. to investigate fairly since 2016 were left this week in the hands of Johana Tablada and the Cuban experts she brought with her to Washington. "To claim we would hurt ourselves in such a manner doesn't meet the smell test, and the United States knows it," Tablada said, adding, "so why not come clean. Start with admitting who's being hurt and who is benefiting from the attacks."

     After her important mission in Washington, Johana Tablada took the above photo as her airplane returned her to her beloved Cuba. She posted the photo on her Facebook page with this caption: "La mas bella que ojos humanos han vista" {"The most beautiful human eyes have seen." Johana's sentence replicated the words Columbus put in his diary in October of 1492 when he described Cuba's la tierra {"the land"} the most beautiful his eyes had ever seen. [NOTE: I've been to Cuba and I happen to agree with both Johana and Columbus regarding Cuba's beauty].

Johana's airplane photo.

 Cuba's Johana Tablada believes that self-serving Counter Revolutionaries led by Senator Marco Rubio from Miami's Little Havana brigade are taking advantage of President Trump's many other distractions as well as Trump's need for the political support provided by Little Havana to "devise a Cuban policy in Washington designed to destroy Cuba but one that also harms most Cuban-Americans and Americans of all stripes too." And Johana Tablada this week, allowed to speak in Washington with major U. S. news organizations on hand, seemed to drown out Rubio who is more accustomed to speaking before the choir in Little Havana, as shown above, or to his equally self-serving and sycophantic members of the United States Congress.

     It is well known that Johana Tablada in Cuba studied some of Fabiola Santiago's recent columns in Rubio's hometown Miami Herald that scathingly denounced Rubio's self-serving actions regarding Cuba. Santiago was born in Cuba and since 1980 has been one of the Miami Herald's most anti-Castro journalists. She is now that newspaper's top Editor and Columnist regarding all things, not just Cuba. She recently assailed President Trump for putting Rubio in charge of America's Cuban policies, pointing out that Rubio is so self-centered that he ignores the best interests of everyone but himself and his billionaire political donors, disrespecting the majority of Cuban-Americans in Miami. And, yes, Johana Tablada, representing Cuba in Washington this week, had read what Miami's top journalist, Fabiola Santiago, has said about Marco Rubio, the man Tablada for sure and Santiago seemingly believe is most responsible for pressuring the unpredictable President Trump with excuses to annihilate Revolutionary Cuba -- as if the city of Miami, the state of Florida, and the United States of America don't have enough problems already, such as...gun epidemics, drug epidemics, and epidemics of unpopular but entrenched politicians getting elected in a money-crazed/two-party political system in which both parties can be purchased by the highest bidders. 

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U.S. Hides "Mystery" Facts

Says A  Respected Neuroscientist!!

     The highly respected leader of Cuba's Neuroscience Center, Dr. Mitchell Valdes, was in Washington yesterday -- Sept. 13th, 2018 -- at the head of a large team of Cuban medical and scientific experts who met with their American counterparts. They were discussing the alleged sonic attacks on 26 U. S. diplomats in Cuba, allegations that have been used as the pretext for the Trump administration to reverse the decent and peaceful Obama overtures to Cuba. The mainstream U. S. media normally doesn't consider it necessary, or healthy, to treat Cuban issues fairly but Dr. Valdes' position regarding the contentious sonic topic has been treated fairly by NBC News in a major interview conducted September 13th by NBC's top Foreign Correspondent Andrea Mitchell. The report, which can be dialed up easily online, is entitled: "Cuban Doctor Says There's No Proof Any Attacks On U. S. Diplomats Ever Happened." If you bother to listen, you'll hear Dr. Valdes explain that Cuba has not only cooperated fully with the U. S. regarding the attacks but begged for far more cooperation than the U. S. has been willing to provide. He believes that's because Cuba is the nation that is being drastically hurt by the claims while anti-Cuban extremists in the U. S. are the prime beneficiaries.  He told Andrea Mitchell, "Their is no evidence of brain damage. The idea there is brain damage in a large group of subjects and that the brain damage occurred in Havana is not demonstrated. The explanation of data has not occurred. Any of the hypotheses that have been proposed simply violate the laws of physics. We in Cuba hope that this would be the beginning of a collaborative and detailed exchange of data so we can establish what happened." Dr. Valdes, who is respected by his American counterparts, challenged the U. S. to cooperate with Cuban experts and admit that the situation hurts Cuba and helps anti-Cuban elements. Dr. Valdes told NBC News this basic fact: "In Cuba everyone was happy with the advance under President Obama when Cuba and the U. S. were cooperating on important medical issues that benefited everyone."

    For anyone who missed Andrea Mitchell's September 13-2018 fair-minded NBC News update on the "Cuba Mystery" that anti-Cuban extremists in the U. S. are using to target Cuba, it is still posted all over the Internet, including YouTube. Of course, Senator Rubio and the other Cuban-American extremists who benefit so much from assaulting Cuba much prefer that all Americans listen only to their one-sided propaganda.

     And so, Americans...for the most part...will continue to meekly get their definitive Cuban propaganda from three prime sources -- Rubio, Rubio, and Rubio. That, of course, is not the way it's supposed to work in a Democracy but no one can pinpoint any period since 1898 when the United States applied Democratic principles to its conquests or attempted conquests of Cuba. But, of course, one man -- former President Obama -- did his best to correct that long-standing abomination.

   As President of the United States, Obama had the guts and the decency to go to Cuba and personally tell the Cuban people: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." President Obama meant those words but a few months later he didn't expect Donald Trump, of all people, to be elected President. That put another Republican in the White House and history reveals that all six Republican presidents since the 1950s have been tightly aligned to the Batistiano-Mafiosi extremists who have either ruled Cuba {1952-1959} or tried desperately to recapture Cuba {1959 till today} while hiding behind the skirts of the world's nearby economic and military superpower. Little Havana's Senator Rubio, of course, can't deny such facts but he can bask in the knowledge that an ever-weakening U. S. democracy is not in a position to reign in whatever plans {diabolical or just cunning} that he concocts to regain control of Cuba. "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." Those twelve words meant something when the USA had a decent President, but they mean very little now.

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Has Trump's War Against Cuba Started?

The NY Times Thinks So!!
{Updated: Friday, September 14th, 2018}

Photo courtesy: Michelle Eve Sandberg/Corbis/Getty Images.

    A lot of headline-grabbing things are happening in the USA right now but the majestic New York Times yesterday -- Sept. 12, 2018 -- used a massive article to explain that the Trump administration's impending war against Cuba is getting underway and perhaps that deserves a headline too. The above photo illustrated that article, depicting a street in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood where a boisterous protest against the U. S. opening an embassy in Havana occurred during the Obama administration in 2015. Now the NY Times seems to think that the Trump administration's war to both overturn Obama's overtures to Cuba AND overthrow Cuba's government is now underway.

     The huge NY Times article on Sept. 12-2020 highlighted the above photo, which is courtesy of Raul E. Diego/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images. It shows President Trump in Miami's Little Havana assuring the Counter Revolutionary Cuban extremists that he will reverse Obama's Cuban overtures as well as their {and America's} humiliating defeat at the Bay of Pigs in April of 1961. The Trump speech was in Little Havana's lavish Manuel Artime Theater, named for a leader who led the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba. The NY Times now believes alarming new developments in Little Havana portend Trump's war on Cuba to appease the Little Havana extremists that he deems necessary to again secure Florida's massive array of Electoral Votes he would need for a 2020 re-election {if he survives a first-term impeachment, which now may be about a 50-50 proposition}.

    The gripping Sept. 12th-2018 article was written by Frances Robles, the NY Times' greatest expert on events in Little Havana. For years, Ms. Robles covered Little Havana for the Miami Herald. Her insightful and scary article is entitled: "The FBI Is Quietly Contacting Cubans in Florida, Raising Old Alarm Bells." NO KIDDING!! Among her scary revelations was: "At least five Cuban-Americans have been surprised by FBI agents" because they  support Obama's overtures to Cuba, NOT TRUMP'S??

     When the New York Times' greatest expert on Little Havana, Frances Robles, believes fresh incidents in Miami may be a preclude to President Trump keeping his promises to the Counter Revolutionary extremists, Americans should, but probably won't, take notice. Extreme intimidation and almost total control of the Cuban narrative in the U. S. by Cuban extremists has, since 1959, sufficiently scared and programmed Americans not to even weigh in on the U.S.-Cuban conundrum, as Frances Robles and other Cuban experts seem to understand and, as brave journalists, have the integrity to report. In yesterday's article, Frances Robles details the ongoing FBI harassment of Cubans in Miami who support Obama-like decency towards Cubans on the island. And if the FBI is overtly doing that, what in the hell is the CIA, which orchestrated the Bay of Pigs and many other attacks on Cuba, doing covertly??

   The Frances Robles-NY Times article should rekindle memories of Emilio Milian this week. Like most Cuban-Americans in Miami, Emilio strongly opposed deadly terrorist attacks by Miami's extremist Cubans against totally innocent Cubans on the island and Cubans in Miami. Emilio was the top Cuban-American newsman in Miami and he bravely voiced those opinions on his news programs in 1976 when he starkly denounced such horrendous events as the terrorist bombing that killed all aboard the civilian, child-laden Cubana Flight 455 aircraft. Then Emilio was silenced by a typical Counter Revolutionary weapon in Miami, a car-bomb. Most significantly is the fact that the intended message, sent to the U. S. media and to the U. S. citizens, has largely been heeded since 1976's typical example involving Emilio. To this day, the vast majority of Americans, even in the digital age, are too afraid to Google such things as Cubana Flight 455 or Emilio Milian or yesterday's Frances Robles article lest they upset the Counter Revolutionary extremists in Little Havana, in the U. S. Congress, and, of course, in all Republican White Houses.

     And that's why this week's use of the above photo by Frances Robles and the New York Times is so significant to the United States democracy that a mere handful of Counter Revolutionary Cuban extremists have been allowed to demean since 1959 when they fled the Cuban Revolution for their Little Havana sanctuary in Miami and later in the U. S. Congress. Of all the anti-democratic things President Trump has done since January 20th of 2017, the above speech to the Counter Revolution choir in Little Havana was/is probably the MOST anti-democratic Trump endeavor. Yet, the programmed and intimidated U. S. citizens and U. S. media -- including those who are fiercely advocating Trump's impeachment -- can once again be expected to be too afraid, too stupid, or too unpatriotic to question Trump even as he appears, as Frances Robles suggests this week, to be creeping closer to his war on Cuba to appease a handful of Little Havana extremists he deems necessary to his political survival. Would such an unwinnable war...even if he nukes Cuba...create an endless conflagration throughout the region? Yes, most likely. But who cares? After all, THE TOPIC IS CUBA and the Cuban Revolution MUST BE DESTROYED even if the effort finishes destroying the America we once proudly knew.

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U.S. Blames Russia for Cuban "Attacks"

But It's Still "Inconclusive"!!

Photo courtesy: Alexandre Meneghini/Reuters.

   The photo above shows a Russian Lada passing by the Russian embassy in Havana. It was used to illustrate a major article/report by NBC News today entitled: "U. S. Officials Suspect Russia In 'Attacks' Mystery On Diplomats In Cuba, China." It said, "The evidence is not yet conclusive." The attacks started "in late 2016," which was the last year of the Cuba-friendly Obama administration that had greatly helped Cuban tourism and other aspects of its economy. The attacks have thus hurt Cuba drastically and greatly pleased the vast Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress. NBC said "26 U. S. government workers were injured in the still unexplained attacks" but added that "the victims included multiple CIA officers" and NBC also used the word "spies" to describe many of the "U. S. workers" affected. Spies or not, the blaming of Cuba has hurt Cuba and greatly pleased Cuba's legendary enemies in Miami and in the U. S. Congress, and that aspect of the investigation is rarely mentioned in the U. S. media or by the U. S. government. NBC mentioned that "Russia and China" have spies in Cuba but probably not as many as the United States.

      The photo above -- courtesy of Desmond Boylan/Associated Press -- was also used to illustrate the exhaustive NBC article. It is well worth reading for an update on the "mystery attacks" in Havana that have supposedly been going on and massively investigated since 2016, Obama's final year as President. As long as the investigations and the updates continue, they will continue to be used by the vast Counter Revolutionary forces in Miami and in the U. S. Congress to massively hurt Cuba. For the sake of fairness, that equation should be mentioned in evaluating the "mystery" but NBC News today at least stressed that "the victims included multiple CIA officers" as opposed to regular U. S. embassy workers in Havana, and that is an interesting revelation to ponder.

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