And Why They Are Successful!!
{Wednesday, November 7th, 2018}
{Wednesday, November 7th, 2018}
As a democracy-loving American, I am ashamed at how America's Cuban policy, decade after decade, demeans both America and Democracy on a worldwide level more than any other single topic. It also explains why even the ultra-powerful left-wing U. S. media, which is trying so hard to eliminate President Trump, is too afraid to criticize Trump's most egregious action in the two years he has been President, and that is his anointment of Marco Rubio as America's no-holds-barred, tax-scamming Cuban dictator. Rubio is now, without any scrutiny from the mainstream U. S. media, cramming U. S. agencies such as USAID, the State Department's Western Hemisphere Affairs division, John Bolton's National Security team, etc., with only the most vicious all-time career Counter Revolutionary extremists -- from Mauricio Claver-Carone to Otto Reich to Tomas Regalado, etc., etc., etc. Along the way Rubio is being held accountable only by a handful of America's bravest and most decent journalists -- such as Ken Silverstein, Fabiola Santiago, and Tracey Eaton. Silverstein's undeniably brilliant and deeply researched article labels Rubio "head and shoulders above everyone else in Washington when it comes to corruption and chicanery;" Fabiola Santiago was born in Cuba and since 1980 has been a top anti-Castro reporter for the Miami Herald and now she's also the top Editorial Writer on Rubio's hometown newspaper. Ms. Santiago has sharply branded the self-serving Rubio as only caring about himself and his political donors and unconcerned about the welfare of most Americans, including most Cuban-Americans, and is particularly cruel in his cowardly assaults on innocent Cubans in Cuba; and Ms. Santiago has assailed Trump for putting Rubio in charge of America's Cuban policies. Tracey Eaton, a renowned and fair-minded Cuban expert and now a college Professor in Florida, has written six brilliant articles in the last couple of weeks on his Cuban Money Project blog detailing down to the penny, courtesy of data squeezed out of the government via the Freedom of Information Act, how Rubio is busily bestowing massive gobs of tax money on anyone and any group that apparently can even remotely convince him they'll help punish Cubans or overthrow Cuba...and also the undeniable Eaton research indicates Rubio is gifting old Counter Revolutionary mentors, such as Tomas Regalado, with lush anti-Cuban jobs and even HUGE tax grants to anti-Cuban extremists such as a former Chief for Staff for legendary Havana-born Counter Revolutionary Ileana Ros-Lehtinen who remains in the U. S. Congress from Miami's Little Havana since the Bush dynasty self-servingly put her there in 1989, though she is retiring after 3 lucrative decades representing Little Havana in Congress. Rubio's anointment by Trump -- as well as the recent brave journalism from Ken Silverstein, Fabiola Santiago, and Tracey Eaton -- help explain how the image above depicting the USA's evil and greedy designs on Cuba can exist -- decade after decade after decade. First off, the USA's two-party political system has evolved into a situation whereby both parties can be purchased by the highest bidder. And further, the greatest weakness of all for the U. S. democracy is the precipitous deterioration of the media, which now consists of left-wing propaganda machines or right-wing propaganda machines, leaving the 80%-or-so of moderate Americans out in the cold when they search for real journalists reporting real news that they so badly need. In that milieu, there is only one explanation as to why the left-wing media, clearly involved in a print-and-broadcast conspiracy to eliminate Trump at all costs, refuses to criticize Trump for his most atrocious behavior, which is empowering Rubio's "corruption and chicanery" -- as Ken Silverstein calls it -- on Cuban issues that grossly enrich selected pals with tax dollars while cruelly and unconsciously assaulting totally innocent Cubans, as Fabiola Santiago has bravely pointed out in the Miami Herald. Also, don't forget the six recent articles by Florida's most respected Cuban expert, Tracey Eaton, because they may make democracy-lovers and tax-payers cry if they happen to be concerned about untold gobs of Tax Dollars being doled out to selected people -- often the veritable usual suspects -- and to incredibly gross and stupid projects and excuses designed to hurt Cubans on the island for the purpose of turning them against their government and persuading them to condone a return of remnants of the Batista-Mafia thugs who brutally ransacked their island from 1952 to 1959. And with that backdrop, permit me to answer the question concerning why I think the mainstream left-wing media that hates Trump so much is afraid to criticize Trump for his most egregious action to date, which is anointing Rubio as America's first real Cuban dictator since the Bush dynasty back in the early 1980s bestowed the same mantle on the Bay of Pigs soldier/soon-to-be-billionaire Jorge Mas Canosa. I'll begin the answer to that question with the photo below.
As a high-profile and highly decent Cuban-American newsman in Miami, Emilio Milian had the decency and the audacity to sharply criticize Cuban-American extremists for dastardly terrorist acts against totally innocent Cubans, such as the airplane-bombing of the child-laden {plus two-dozen teenage athletes} civilian Cubana Flight 455 in which all aboard were killed. At the time that Emilio dared to criticize such things, car-bombings were the favorite terror-tactic in Miami itself. And, of course, Emilio became the victim of a car-bomb. Such things, I think, sent a message to journalists that still resonates in the USA today, accounting, I believe, for the reason even the viciously hate-Trump media in the U. S. will not criticize Trump for the first thing he should be criticized for -- putting America's Cuban policy in the hands of the vicious but unchecked Rubio.
The mainstream U. S. media is so direly afraid of the Rubio-led mainstream Counter Revolutionaries that it won't dare report on or even discuss contentious Cuban issues.
Yet, Cuban-born Fabiola Santiago -- the top journalist at the Miami Herald, Rubio's hometown newspaper -- has unveiled Rubio for the hypocrite he is.
It was Fabiola Santiago who invited four young Cuban females on the island to use the pages of the Miami Herald to emphatically upbraid Rubio for the cowardly, cruel manner he is hurting their young families.
It was the highly respected journalist Ken Silverstein who wrote the above very detailed and uncontested article that labeled Rubio "head and shoulders above everyone else in Washington when it comes to corruption and chicanery." And, yes, this is the same Rubio from Little Havana that the mainstream media promotes as a choirboy in the U. S. Senate and as a viable presidential contender.
Just about every major news organization in the United States -- from the New York Times and USA Today to NBC and even the Pulitzer Center -- have utilized Tracey Eaton's expert and fair-minded reporting on Cuban issues.
Today Tracey Eaton is a Journalism Professor at Flagler College in Florida. For six years he was stationed in Havana as head of the Dallas Morning News bureau in Havana. He still travels back and forth to Cuba to do video-interviews featuring regular Cubans, dissidents, Cuban journalists, etc., for the Pulitzer Center and other outlets. He also has two blogs -- Along the Malecon and Cuba Money Project. If you care about America and Democracy, you may want to dial-up his recent six articles that, as I said, may make you weep if you care about America, Democracy, or your tax dollars. Tracey minutely uses fresh Freedom of Information data to document, down to the penny, the Cuban Tax Piggy Bank that, apparently, Rubio is using to lushly reward any person or any group that seemingly lets him know they will help hurt Cubans on the island or overthrow the Cuban government. You will note that those seemingly endless and highly questionable bundles of tax funds are listed down to the penny in million-dollar and multi-million-dollar "grants" to both well-known very questionable entities and sometimes totally unknown sources. And, as you dry your tears if you love Democracy and like to know how your taxes are being used, you will note that Tracey explains, while he has listed the names of many recipients of such largess, there still remain, apart from the Freedom of Information Act, many different ways the U. S. government hides many of its most expensive and controversial Cuban enterprises. And lastly, let me stress that in his long and lustrous journalistic career, Tracey Eaton has never been accused of being pro-Cuba or anti-Cuban Americans in Miami or anywhere else. He is merely a great journalist.
The Trump-Rubio axis is both the strangest and the most dangerous alliance facing America today, more dangerous than alleged Trump-Russian or Trump-Saudi connections, for example. It's the strangest because they hate each other, and have since they called each other vile names back during the 2016 Republican presidential primaries. And now Trump knows the back-stabbing Rubio is more of a threat to the Trump presidency than even the left-wing U. S. media. So, how did the Trump-Rubio axis evolve into Rubio being anointed by Trump as America's new Cuban dictator??? Well, Trump agrees with the famous line Mafia kingpin Michael Carleone spoke in The Godfather II classic: "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." And that's why President Trump put two vicious anti-Trump foxes in his own hen-house.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and U. S. Senator Marco Rubio viciously mocked presidential candidate Trump to whet their own Presidential ambitions...and they still hate Trump. But, remembering Michael Carleone's sage Mafiosi advice, Trump named Haley his high-profile Ambassador to the United Nations and he anointed Rubio the coveted and lucrative prize as America's new Cuban dictator, which as everyone knows quickly made Jorge Mas Canosa, the Bush dynasty's long-ago first U. S. Cuban dictator and one of the many South Florida Cuban-American billionaires.
As America's newly installed Cuban dictator, Rubio is abundantly aware he has the support of President Trump who also happens to be Commander-in-Chief. But also, Rubio apparently knows he can dip as deeply as he chooses into the U. S. treasury for as many tax dollars...and don't forget the pennies that notable journalist Tracey Eaton has also documented in the past month...to apparently fund anybody and anything that merely promises to aid his self-serving Cuban ventures. All the while, Rubio is totally aware that the fully intimidated mainstream U. S. media is his giant lap-dog and probably would afford the ego-driven Rubio whatever airtime or print-space he needed to, fully uncontested, explain his vile Cuban ventures, perhaps even the most vilest and least wiliest such as sub-fired nuke missiles. So, you see, the movie Godfather, Michael Carleone, and the truly brave and historic Cuban-American journalist in Miami, Emilio Milian, both help explain why President Trump anointed Rubio as America's Cuban dictator and why the mainstream U. S. media is much too afraid to hold Rubio accountable for anything he has done or will do in regards to Cuba, an island where about 11.2 million innocent people -- plus the U. S. democracy -- deserve a lot better than Trump and Rubio...especially in an era and environment when the U. S. media has neither the guts nor the integrity to question anything that relates to the evisceration of one particular island nation, Cuba.
And most important of all, the image above needs to embarrass every American, including every Cuban-American. It is, in fact, the accurate world image of America's Cuban policy. Any American not embarrassed by this image, I believe, plays directly into the greedy fingers of Marco Rubio. The 1898 Spanish-American War, which the U. S. waged to take Cuba from Spain, was the "Remember the Maine" war because the pretext for it was the bombing of the USS Maine warship in Havana Harbor which killed almost 300 young U. S. sailors...and few historians believe Spain would have risked an unwinnable war near U. S. shores to do it. From 1898 till today -- in November of 2018 -- America's Cuban policy has been built on lies, including the 1903 "in perpetuity" theft of luscious Guantanamo Bay from Cuba; the Bay of Pigs attack in April-1961; the methods that got the infamous Helms-Burton Act passed and signed by a very scared President Clinton in 1996; etc.; etc.; etc. But the biggest lie of all is reflected in the famous Carlos LaTuff image shown above -- the Embargo that Cuba calls a genocidal Blockade. Here's why I make that statement. The Embargo was first imposed on Cuba in 1962 after the Bay of Pigs attacks, a deadly series of hotel and coastal attacks, and many assassination attempts had failed to recapture the island. For decades after 1962 Americans, taught that the U. S. was always the Good Guy, accepted the Embargo against Cuba...and, incredibly, they have accepted it even after the whole world condemns it and after de-classified U. S. documents confirmed the purpose of the Embargo, which was and is to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their government. And that is why I say that the biggest U. S. lie related to Cuba is not...the Spanish-American War, the theft of Guantanamo Bay, the Bay of Pigs, the Helms-Burton Act, or any of those extreme right-wing cruelties. The biggest U. S. lie related to Cuba is the Embargo that Cuba calls a genocidal Blockade, the Embargo-Blockade that former President Obama and the whole world tried to end. Yes, the image above from 1962 till today in November-2018 is the biggest Cuban lie in American history and it has been allowed to demean America's and Democracy's image around the world more than any other topic in America's history.
This is a young, well-educated, and very talented television News Anchor in Cuba. Her name is Rosy Amaro. All Rosy's life and all her mother Carmen's life they have been unmercifully targeted by right-wing, unchecked thugs in a foreign country, the United States of America. Rosy has vacationed in famed European capital cities and she has close relatives and friends in the U. S. that visit her on the island, included a favorite uncle that arrives again later this week from the USA. But Rubio does not have enough tax or donor money to entice Rosy to defect to Little Havana or anywhere else in the USA.
And Rosy Amaro has a precious, precocious, and gorgeous daughter named Mariana, who turned 5-years-old back in October. Like her mother Rosy and like her grandmother Carmen, Mariana has been targeted all her life by right-wing thugs hiding behind the skirts of the U. S. government. As a democracy-loving American, that undeniable fact shames and embarrasses me. And it makes me wonder why it doesn't shame and embarrass more Americans, especially sanctimonious and cowardly Americans who, like trained seals, are quick to condemn Russia, for example, for annexing Crimea or for pounding Ukrainians.
This is Mariana with her grandmother Carmen, who is Rosy Amaro's mother. This photo was taken by Rosy on November 4th, 2018, in Havana. That was three days after John Bolton in Miami and Nikki Haley at the United Nations essentially declared war on Cuba on behalf of their puppeteers Donald Trump and Marco Rubio. Mariana, Rosy, and Carmen are typical of three generations of Cubans on the island who don't deserve to be grossly targeted by thugs from a foreign country like Trump, Rubio, Bolton, and Haley.
