BULLETIN: It's Still Fidel's Cuba:

A Known Fact on the Island;

Despite the USA Narrative!!
{Tuesday, November 27th, 2018}

     Yesterday was November 26th, 2018. It marked the second anniversary of the death of Fidel Castro at age 90. It was a special day on the island of Cuba...a sad day of mourning but also a celebratory day concerning the revolutionary life that he led. Although Fidel's younger brother and fellow revolutionary Raul is still alive and Cuba now has a non-Castro as its new President, it is still Fidel's Cuba and that will remain so, and even grow in the realm of reality...at least until and if some foreign-based coup changes the political dynamic on the island. While the Cuban narrative in the United States of America will disagree with that assessment, it should be remembered that the U. S. assessments of Fidel Castro have been faulty since 1952 and, particularly, since 1959. If that were not so, there would never have been a Cuban Revolution that overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship and, after that momentous event, faulty U.S.-Batistiano-Mafiosi assessments of Fidel Castro have accounted for another momentous event -- the amazing longevity of Revolutionary Cuba. The photo above attests to those basic facts as well as the continued faulty appraisals of Fidel Castro and his legacy. The young Cuban woman paying homage at Fidel Castro's tomb is Rosy Amaro Perez. Well-educated, extremely smart, and a brilliant broadcast journalist, Rosy put this photo on her Facebook page with a caption: "Vives dentro de mi y te guardo a mi manera." {"You live inside me and I keep you my way."}. If a coup or some other factor overthrows Cuba's revolutionary government, a second Fidel Castro-inspired REVOLUTION would commence immediately...and fight to the death to restore it. Yes, faulty USA assessments...sprinkled with self-serving lies...are one thing but the photo above speaks volumes of truths on the island itself. Rosy is not alone in her feeling. She is, in fact, among a strong majority on the island who worship Fidel Castro.

      A brilliant broadcast journalist, Rosy Amaro Perez has visited the great capitals of Europe and she has close relatives living in Florida, Virginia, Arizona, etc. But she is a Cuban-Cuban, not an American-Cuban. If there were not millions more like her on the island, the Cuban-American anti-Castro extremists headquartered in the Little Havana section of Miami since 1959 would have regained control of Cuba many decades ago. After all, being in almost total control of both America's Cuban policies and America's Cuban narratives gives Little Havana what, on the surface, is seemingly overwhelming advantages over Havana...and that's been the case for over six decades. Therefore, there must be some explanation for Revolutionary Cuba's longevity...and the Cuban narrative in the U. S. dictated by anti-Cuban extremists is built on lies regarding that phenomenon. But, I believe, Rosy Amaro Perez explained it with her sentence that described her visit to Fidel Castro's tomb: "You live inside me and I keep you my way." From 1952 till 1959 Americans were urged to flock to Cuba to partake in the rampant gambling, illegal drugs, prostitution, and other Mafia-like vices that permeated the island. From 1959 till today Americans have been the only people in the world discouraged from visiting Cuba, with Batistiano-based congressional laws actually making such visits illegal except under special circumstances. But those of us who have been to the island are not surprised that Rosy Amaro Perez worships Fidel Castro and would fight a revolutionary death to defend his legacy.

    Significantly, Rosy Amaro Perez has a precocious and beautiful lookalike daughter. Rosy has the wherewithal to permanently take her beloved child to any capital city in Europe or America but she believes her Mariana is best loved, best protected, and by far the safest and happiest living in Havana. I am well aware that Americans do not understand that reasoning, and I fully know that most Americans believe Rosy is misguided or brain-washed; but she is neither of those things. A brilliant journalist and a devoted mother, she knows all about Revolutionary Cuba and she knows all about what preceded Revolutionary Cuba -- relentless Mafia-style theft and brutality.

       From 1952-1959 the top leaders of the U.S.-based Mafia ruled Cuba with brutal force and extreme greed, a process supported by the United States because rich U. S. individuals and companies were allowed to also partake in the extreme thievery while pretending to ignore the extreme brutality heaped upon the majority peasants. Since 1959, with the retreat of the top leaders to U. S. soil, Americans have been propagandized to believe the basic truth depicted above is a lie. It is not. AND, BELIEVE ME, if it were a lie the longevity of Revolutionary Cuba would have ended...internally and externally...MANY DECADES AGO!!

    The first mistake Batista, the Mafia, and the United States made in Cuba in the 1950s was to not at least throw some crubs to the majority peasants on the island. While the wholesale rape and robbery of Cuba proceeded with unabated brutality and thievery, the photo above illustrates how the majority peasants were left with nothing -- no education, no health benefits, and...no nothing. That was a stupid mistake by the thieves in charge of Cuba in the 1950s.

    But the biggest mistake BY FAR made in Cuba in the 1950s by Batista, the Mafia, and the United States of America is, undeniably, depicted by the photo above. When the majority peasants and their supporters complained about the treatment they were receiving, the answer by Batista was to send out goons to murder peasant children as a warning for the peasant mothers and fathers not to resist. Instead, brave mothers marched in the streets in numbers far too large and far too brave to be mowed down by Batista's machine-gunners. Thus, a Revolution was born, one that would do the impossible -- which was to overthrow a powerful dictator backed by the Mafia, the strongest criminal organization in the world, and by the USA, the strongest nation in the world. The woman second from the left in the white blouse and sunglasses was the mother of little Willie Soler. With three other boys, Willie was murdered by Batista's goons and their bodies left in an abandoned warehouse as a warning to their parents to stop resisting. Willie's mother and thousands of others across the island didn't heed those warnings, and their marches created the Revolution. Americans, of course, are not supposed to comprehend all that...and Americans even today are not supposed to Google to ascertain why there is an important hospital in Cuba today that is named the William Soler Children's Hospital. Of course, if the well-funded Counter Revolutionaries in the USA today can deny either the authenticity or the significance of the two black-and-white photos directly above, I will be the first to admit that they have at least one legitimate point, but I simply don't believe they can deny the absolute and well-documented truth.

    The most important person in Batista's Cuba who reacted to the Mother's Marches was a doctor's daughter named Celia Sanchez. Many experts on the Cuban Revolution, including Fidel Castro, considered/consider Celia the most important anti-Batista rebel -- as a guerrilla fighter for sure but most importantly as the key recruiter of rebels and supplies that could take on Batista's powerful Mafia-backed and USA-backed forces. After her revolution triumphed on January 1, 1959, Celia, with the full support of Fidel Castro, was the prime decision-maker on the island right up till the day -- Jan. 11, 1980 -- she died at age 59 of cancer. In the early days of Revolutionary Cuba, therefore, it was Celia who famously issued the two quotations that best summed up her Revolution: {1} "The Batistianos will never regain control of Cuba as long as I live or as long as Fidel lives;" and, {2} "We rebels get far too much credit for winning the revolution...our enemies deserve most of the credit, for being greedy cowards and idiots." I've been to Cuba {legally} to research Celia Sanchez and, of her two most famous and definitive quotations, I tend to favor the first one depicted above. But others, including The Woman Project.org, favor the second one.

   It was the Mother's Marches that inspired Celia Sanchez to become the greatest female revolutionary in all of history.

    And it was, in fact, Celia Sanchez who inspired the famous revolutionary men whose fame tied to the Cuban Revolution will be indelible forever. Take for example the photo in the lower-left of the above montage; the London-based BBC, which actually has the freedom to report fairly about the Cuban Revolution, says this photo reflects the very first telescopic rifle Celia Sanchez gave Fidel Castro the day he joined her revolution in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra Mountains on the far southeastern tip of Cuba in late November, 1956.

    But Celia Sanchez long before she ever laid eyes on Fidel, or Che, or Raul, or Camilo, etc., was the incomparable guerrilla fighter and the vital recruiter of rebels and supplies that sustained and fueled her Revolution. So Cuba's renowned historian Pedro Alvarez Tabio summed up the Cuban Revolution best with these words: "If Batista had manged to kill Celia Sanchez anytime between 1953 and 1957, there would have been no viable Cuban Revolution...and no revolution for Fidel and Che to join." And so...while the Mother's Marches inspired Celia Sanchez and Celia Sanchez inspired Fidel Castro, the longevity of Revolutionary Cuba today, after both Celia and Fidel have died, depends...I believe...on a strong cadre of young-adult Cuban women inspired by both Celia and Fidel. And that Cuban cadre today...I believe...is epitomized by Rosy Amaro Perez.

       Above is a photo of Rosy Amaro Perez that was taken this week -- on November 26, 2018 -- in Havana. She is abundantly aware that day was the second anniversary of the death of Fidel Castro at age 90. All this week, if Cuba is mentioned at all in the United States, Americans will be reminded that everything about Revolutionary Cuba is bad and everything about the Batista-Mafia dictatorship that preceded it was good and that the Batistiano dictating of America's Cuban policies and narratives since 1959 is the absolute truth. As a democracy loving American, I believe that lie shames America far more than it shames Cuba. I believe that any American who loves America should have the guts and the patriotism to ask...or at least consider if you are not in a position to ask... WHY Rosy Amaro Perez thinks as she does. After all, Rosy has lived all of her life in Revolutionary Cuba and so have her mother Carmen and her daughter Mariana.

     Americans are programmed not to believe it, but young Cuban females in Cuba...like Rosy Amaro Perez and like the young women above...are the most ardent worshippers of Fidel Castro, a man who did not want a cult following and insisted that no statues of him should ever be built in Cuba and no roads or other edifices ever named for him. But these young women are writing on their faces "Yo soy Fidel" -- "I am Fidel." And, no...there are no Cuban soldiers holding guns on them and they don't need outside influence to express their worship of Fidel Castro on their faces.

      Two years after Fidel Castro's death at age 90, "YO SOY FIDEL" on the island means "I AM FIDEL." I don't know what it means in Little Havana, Florida, but I do know what it means in Big Havana, Cuba. It means that...if Fidel's revolution is overturned, another revolution will immediately start to reinstall it.

     Yes, Rosy Amaro Perez...has a right to pay homage to Fidel on the second anniversary of his death at age 90. That's because the extremely smart and well-educated Rosy knows a helluva lot more about Revolutionary Cuba and Batista's Cuba than Americans who have been propagandized about both issues for all the decades since the 1950s.

Is this U. S. truth or is it U. S. propaganda?

This photo was taken in Havana on....

November 26th, 2018!!

Rosy Amaro Perez, journalist.

And, yes, she has some opinions too!!!

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Cuba Friends, Cuba Enemies

They Abound and They Change!!
{Monday, November 26th, 2018}

     With Donald Trump midway through his first 4-year term as President of the United States and Jair Bolsonaro just starting his first term as Brazilian President, in the USA the remnants of the Batista dictatorship in Cuba think they have a golden chance to regain control of the island after 6+ very determined decades of trying. In the United States Trump has turned America's Cuban policies totally over to the Little Havana extremists in Miami and in the U. S. Congress while Bolsonaro, an extreme right-winger, has done the same in Brazil.

     Prior to the startling election of President Trump in 2016, the more decent U. S. President Barack Obama had bravely and astutely done all he could to normalize relations with Cuba. As shown above, he went to Cuba and assured the Cuban people, "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." But now, in the closing days of 2018, 11.4 million Cubans on the island are well aware that they face a dire threat from Trump's United States of America, the world's Superpower, and now from Brazil, Latin America's Superpower.

    When Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro can stand side-by-side with thumbs-up gestures, the Little Havana U. S. Cubans, at long last, assume Havana will soon be theirs again, and it well may happen.

   The photo above shows Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff in 2013 with some of the Cuban doctors she sent to the poorest areas of Brazil where there had never been doctors. When Brazil goes from a Rousseff to a Bolsanaro and the U. S. goes from a Obama to a Trump, Cuba is in deep trouble...but so too may be Brazil and the U. S.

     The Eraldo Peres/Associated Press photo above shows two Cuban doctors holding Brazilian and Cuban flags at the airport in Sao Paulo on their way back to Havana. It is featured in an informative AP article written by Evan Marshall. Shortly after 2013, in a deal negotiated with Cuba by Brazil's left-wing President Dilma Rousseff and the Pan American Health Association, about 14,000 well-trained and dedicated Cuban health professionals were employed in the poorest areas of Brazil where previously there were no doctors or nurses. Even though Rousseff was forced out by what she calls a left-wing coup before she finished her second democratically elected term, there were 8,300 Cuban health officials in Brazil when extreme right-winger Jair Bolsonaro was amazingly elected president. Even with Cuban-friendly left-wingers in charge of the Brazilian government for almost four complete presidential terms, the U. S. along with Brazilian left-wingers had bribed Cuban medical personnel  to defect, and some did. Now with both extreme anti-Cuban Presidents in Washington and Brasilia, President Bolsonaro has invited the Cubans to defect to Brazil. Meanwhile, the poor Brazilians loved and appreciated the medical care provided by the now-departed Cubans, but Bolsonaro said they will be replaced.

     The AFP photo above shows the first group of Cuban doctors that have returned to Havana after being booted out of Brazil by that country's new right-wing, anti-Cuban President Jair Bolsonaro.

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      Above is a very important photo taken in Havana on Friday, November 23rd, 2018. It shows Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his wife strolling the streets of Havana and greeting everyday Cubans. The significant man just to the left of Diaz-Canel is the Prime Minister and leader of Spain Pedro Sanchez, who arrived on the island Thursday.

Credit: BALLESTEROS/EFE.

    Thursday -- Nov. 22, 2018 -- Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrived in Havana for an important two-day stay. Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel had enjoyed a nice meeting with Sanchez back in September in New York City. It is the first time in 32 years that a Spanish Prime Minister has visited Cuba, reflecting a long Spanish-Cuban chasm but now finally challenging and changing three decades of capitulations to the USA's economic Embargo-Blockade of Cuba. Sanchez also confirmed that Spain's King and other members of its Royal Family will be in Cuba in 2019 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Spanish explorer Diego Velaquez de Cuellar's arrival on the island. But mostly Sanchez announced on his arrival in Havana yesterday that, "My visit to Cuba is to normalize, stabilize, and deepen bilateral ties with this island nation." And then Sanchez opened a business forum in Havana's 5-star Grand Packard Hotel that is operated by Spain's huge Iberostar hotel chain that appreciates a lack of competition on the island from U. S. companies. Three leading dissident groups on the island -- Elizardo Sanchez, Guillermo Farinas, and Damas de Blanco {Ladies in White} pressured Sanchez to meet with them, but Sanchez resisted that pressure. Meanwhile, Sanchez on Friday, Nov. 23rd, 2018, attended a business forum in Havana that included Spain's Foreign Minister Jose Borrell, Industry Minister Reyes Maroto, and Treasury Secretary-General Carlos San Basilio as well as dozens of Spanish business executives.

     This is the newly opened 5-star Iberostar Grand Hotel Packard in Havana. Despite the Trump administration's tightening of the U. S. embargo-blockade against Cuba, a record 4,750,000 tourists have visited the island this year. Spain's Iberostar hotel chain, even prior to the Packard, already had 27 hotels with 7,881 rooms on the island. Uh, did I say that Iberostar loves the fact that it doesn't face any Cuban competition from USA's hotel chains. Yet, while Spain is displaying some brave independence in resisting the long-standing U. S. belligerency towards Cuba, other nations -- most notably Brazil -- are suddenly buying into President Trump's current effort to recapture Cuba by at last starving or overthrowing the Cuban Revolution, as indicated below.

     This photo was taken by Eraldo Peres for the Associated Press. It shows a Cuban doctor taking a selfie of herself this week as she prepared to board a plane in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia to return to Havana. She is one of thousands of Cuban doctors booted out of Brazil by Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's newly elected but extremely controversial right-wing President. Thousands of Cuban doctors had been working diligently in Brazil's most remote and poorest areas, many that never before even had a single doctor. The Pan American Health Association as well as the United Nations and other international organizations have supported the projects, as have the prior left-wing Lula-Rousseff Brazilian governments. But things have changed drastically in Latin America's largest, most populated, and richest nation -- and not just the change from prime Cuban supporters to a prime Cuban enemy but also now, with an extreme right-wing President in Brazil aligned with USA President Trump, the chance of right-wingers destroying Revolutionary Cuba have sky-rocketed. Even during the 4 democratically elected terms when Cuban-protectors Lula and Rousseff ran the Brazilian government, the USA had mounted massive and expensive projects to get Cuban medical personnel in Brazil to defect, which in many cases were successful. But now that Brazil has elected an extreme right-wing President, the USA no longer has to bribe Cuban doctors to defect to the USA from Brazil, like the Cuban doctor shown above flying back to Havana from Brasilia this week, while making sure of taking a selfie with the Cuban flag next to her face.

       The ultra-powerful Batistiano/Mafiosi-fueled Cuban Counter Revolutionaries in the United States have tried desperately to regain control of Cuba for over six decades -- every day since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959. The best chances came during the 12 years of the three Bush presidencies but many of the Batistiano-Mafiosi leaders in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood believed the incredible election of Donald Trump as U. S. President in 2016 affords them the best-ever chance to recapture Cuba. But now, with the equally incredible election of right-wing extremist Jair Bolsonaro as President of Brazil in 2018, the zealots in Little Havana and in the U. S. Congress are doing celebratory hand-stands, and well they should. The USA, the world's economic and military Superpower, is now aligned with Brazil, Latin America'a economic and military Superpower, in agreement that Cuba's revolutionary government must be overthrown so rich Americans and rich Brazilians can exploit the Caribbean's largest and most coveted island the way rich Americans exploited it from 1952 till 1959 during the brutal Batista-Mafia dictatorship. And now, as you study the Jair Bolsonaro image above, consider this: Prior to Trump's 2016 election in the USA, President Obama for the previous 8 years had been America's all-time most-friendly U. S. president regarding Cuba; and prior to Bolsonaro's 2018 election in Brazil, the almost 4 terms of the Lulu-Rousseff presidencies in Brazil had been the all-time most-friendly Brazilian presidents regarding Cuba. So considering that the USA is the world Superpower and Brazil is the Latin American Superpower, please consider what those  recent incredible elections in the USA and in Brazil mean for the vulnerable island of Cuba.

  Internationally known as a Superstar journalist, Anthony Boadle has headed bureaus for London-based Reuters in both Cuba and Brazil and he is a highly respected Latin American expert. And Mr. Boadle now openly feels sorry for poor Brazilian children who no longer have their skilled and dedicated Cuban doctors to take care of them. Boadle headlined: "Cuban Doctors Head Home, Leaving Poor Towns With No Health Care."

     On Nov. 22nd-2018 Anthony Boadle used the above photo on both Reuters and his Twitter page. The photo shows two young Cuban doctors, holding Cuban and Brazilian flags, booted out of Brazil by staunch right-wingers and flying back to Havana. Boadle described the photo this way: "The first of 8,500 Cuban doctors returning home, some happy to see their families and arrive back with a 49-inch TV, others sad to leave their work in poor and remote parts of Brazil, and the affection of Brazilian patients who were sad to see them go." In other words, in Brazil now the rich supporters of their new right-wing President will get much richer while the poorest Brazilians will get poorer, and millions of them are once again without any medical care.

     Probably still the most popular politician in Brazil, and the champion of poor Brazilians, is Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a left-winger who worshiped Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. Lulu was twice democratically elected President of Brazil as was his protege Dilma Rousseff who was also a worshiper of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. But, accused of corruption, right-wingers forced Rousseff out of office before her second term was completed...and Lulu? Well...Lulu is in prison. Lulu and Dilma...and millions of their poor supporters like the ones above...claim the right-wingers framed them with corruption charges because Lulu and Dilma were spending huge amounts of Brazil's wealth on the long-neglected poorest Brazilians, and that included the expenditures for the Cuban doctors that all unbiased sources acknowledged were performing excellent and extremely necessary work in Brazil.

     For the most part, Americans get their Cuba-related news spoon-fed to them from Counter Revolutionary propagandists or from extreme right-wing rags like Brietbart that are lushly funded and promoted by extreme right-wing billionaire dollars. But Americans seeking the truth on Cuba-related news should depend on sources like Anthony Boadle of Reuters, which is the world's best news agency and, thankfully, has wide worldwide reach including the USA. Otherwise, the mainstream U. S. media is simply too afraid or too politically correct to anger Counter Revolutionary Cuban extremists in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. One way, in addition to Reuters, to get important and accurate Cuba-related news is to also follow the social media pages of Anthony Boadle, especially on Facebook and Twitter.

       For example, yesterday -- on Nov. 22nd, 2018 -- Anthony Boadle used the photo above on Twitter to preview an important Reuters article. Mr. Boadle explained that: "Brazil is hosting air combat exercises for 14 air forces including the United States Air Force." And, of course, as Anthony Boadle well knows...and as Cubans and Americans should know...both Brazil and the United States are awash with sophisticated air power that could easily do to countries like Cuba what the ultra-modern Saudi Air Force, purchased from arms sellers like the US and UK, is doing to Yemen. And, of course, the current Commanders-in-Chiefs of Brazil and the United States are two anti-Cuban zealots -- Jair Bosolnaro and Donald Trump. Thus, these war exercises in Brazil surely don't appear to be defensive in nature because neither Russia nor China has any interest in attacking Brazil; so they are, instead, offensively minded...it seems.

    And meanwhile, as he hosts Spain's friendly Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez this week in Havana, Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel is trying to adjust to the new USA-Brazil axis that is poised to starve-out or to simply just recapture his island. Diaz-Canel back in September in New York City and at the UN tried to enlist new friends and also reinforce old friendships. Then after John Bolton, America's newly appointed extreme right-wing National Security Adviser, essentially declared war on Cuba during a speech in Miami, Diaz-Canel this month made a whirlwind trip that took him to France, England, Russia, China, Vietnam, North Korea, and Laos. Now back on the island Diaz-Canel is trying to solicit investments from friendly nations even as he spends much of his time promoting the island's New Constitution that is being discussed at 24,000 forums across the island and will then be voted on in early 2019, changing Cuba's Constitution for the first time since the 1970s. Also, Diaz-Canel, Cuba's former {and very popular} Education Minister, is trying to prioritize the Revolution's two proudest achievements -- free educations through college and free healthcare for life. In his Tweet above this week, Diaz-Canel was offering "Felicitaciones" -- "Congratulations" -- to "Mariam Nicado." Diaz-Canel, Cuba's former Education Minister, had just named her the first female Rector at the University of Havana in the school's "290 years" of existence.

  Mariam Nicado, the University of Havana leader.

       This photo of a precious little Cuban girl was taken Nov. 22-2018 by Roberto Garaycoa Martinez, one of Cuba's most notable professional photographers.

      This was extreme right-winger John Bolton, speaking on behalf of United States President Donald Trump. Bolton is shown here adjusting his classes in Miami as he declared war on Cuba, at least that remains the significant interpretation by Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

    Declaring war on Cuba, of course, is also declaring war on the little Cuban girl that Roberto Garaycoa Martinez photographed this week. Like all Cuban children born on the island since 1962, this little girl has been severely targeted by the U. S. economic embargo that, according to DE-classified U. S. documents, was in 1962 as it is still today intended to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of everyday Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. Somehow, remarkably, little girls like this...through three generations now...have survived the embargo, rather beautifully as you can see. Hopefully, little girls like this will also survive the war that, apparently, the Trump-Bolsonaro forces are preparing to unleash on their island.

      Perhaps the cruelest cut of all...even above such atrocities as the unending embargo and the impending war...is the fact that vicious and self-serving Counter-Revolutionary U. S. Cubans -- like Mario Diaz-Balart and Marco Rubio -- can get away with repeatedly proclaiming that, "WE ARE TRYING TO HELP THE CUBANS ON THE ISLAND." That is a bald-faced lie.

     And as a democracy-loving American, I sincerely believe that the parents and the grandparents of this little Cuban girl know very well that Mario Diaz-Balart, Marco Rubio, and their USA enablers are, indeed, bald-faced liars. The people who really care about little Cuban girls like this one are the people on the island, certainly not people like Mario & Marco who are feasting on their bald-faced lies in both Miami and in the U. S. Congress.

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Trump's Cuban War Excuse

PERHAPS Americans Should Know!!

Photo credit: REUTERS/Carlos Garcia.

    It is apparent to unbiased and unafraid observers that the Trump administration in Washington is gearing up for an overthrow of Cuba's revolutionary government, with the spring of 2019 being the outside timetable for the denouement. While this is actually the most diabolical scheme being currently hatched-up by the Trump White House, it is interesting to note, I believe, that even the left-wing U. S. media that is primarily devoted to overthrowing the Trump presidency is too afraid to report this not-so-secretive development, and that includes CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. But a far better and much braver news agency, the London-based Reuters, as usual is journalistic enough and brave enough to report fairly on U.S.-Cuban affairs. Yesterday -- Nov. 21-2018 -- Reuters used the above photo to illustrate an article that, essentially, informs the world about the Trump administration's pretext, or excuse, for its planned "regime change" in Cuba. For American taxpayers about to pay for that war, yesterday's informative Reuters update is entitled: "Exclusive: U. S. Weighs Sanctions On Cuban Officials Over Role In Venezuela Crackdown." The verb "Weights" to describe new "Sanctions" against Cuba is not newly as significant as the last two words in that headline: "Venezuela Crackdown." You see, the highly respected Reuters News Agency is brave enough to do something that the mainstream U. S. media is far too cowardly to report, and that is: The drastic turmoil in oil-rich Venezuela has been chosen by extreme right-wing Cuban-Americans as the excuse to overthrow the Cuban government and, MOREOVER, that pretext has been SUCCESSFULLY transmitted to Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump. And also please note that this Reuters article on Nov. 21-2018 correctly identifies the person who has successfully convinced President Trump that "VENEZUELA" is the excuse that the America people will accept as the reason it is NECESSARY to execute even a bloody overthrow of the Cuban government. And without pussy-footing or tip-toeing gently around the issue, let's discuss the man Reuters identifies as the war-monger who has, it seems, already convinced President Trump of a second U. S. war in Cuba {after the 1898 Spanish-American War} and the need for a second military attack in Cuba {after the embarrassing failure of the 1961 Bay of Pigs attack}.

    It is apparent that Mauricio Claver-Carone is the man President Donald Trump has pointed at to become the director of the impending overthrow of Cuba's Revolutionary government. The aforementioned Reuters article that correctly pinpointed the turmoil in Venezuela as the pretext...the excuse...for Trump's Cuban war, also correctly stated, "Trump's top Latin American adviser, Mauricio Claver-Carone..." For sure, Claver-Carone is an obvious choice for that delicate Cuban assignment now being finalized in the White House.

    All his adult life Mauricio Claver-Carone has worked tirelessly for the overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba. It seems that every major anti-Cuban tactic in the past two decades has Claver-Carone's foot-prints and finger-prints all over them. That includes his own anti-Cuban propaganda on his own as well as other radio & television programs, his anti-Cuban writings in major publications, his vicious Capital Hill Cubans blog, and...MOST OF ALL...his massive anti-Cuban fund-raising and anti-Cuban lobbying both inside Washington's Capital Hill and elsewhere...or anywhere he could hurt Cuba.

     So, Mauricio Claver-Carone was the logical choice to be Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump's mastermind involving the upcoming regime-change in Cuba, which Claver-Carone fervently champions and finally, with Trump, appears capable of achieving.

     In the Cuban endeavor, President Trump is flanked by his two most powerful Foreign Policy advisers -- the mustachioed National Security Adviser John Bolton and the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Both Bolton and Pompeo have long lobbied for the overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba but, unlike Claver-Carone, they also have other priorities such as loving Saudi Arabia's oil money and the sophisticated U. S. weapons the Saudis can buy, tolerating Russia's ultra-powerful nuclear arsenal, trying not to make mighty China too mad, encouraging nuclear-armed North Korea to be nice, and...so forth. Therefore, the Trump-Bolton-Pompeo troika needed someone who could concentrate fully on the Cuban overthrow and their choice is anti-Cuban extremist Mauricio Claver-Carone.

      The two prime puppeteers pulling President Trump's Cuban strings, of course, are Mario Diaz-Balart and Marco Rubio, two incumbents in the U. S. Congress and lifelong products of the vicious Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American contingent in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. Mario's father Rafael was a key Minister in Cuba's Batista dictatorship and, after 1959, one of the all-time richest and most powerful Counter Revolutionaries on U. S. soil. Marco, Trump's dire enemy during the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, actually is being allowed by Trump to oversee all Cuban projects and that is a gift Trump hopes will help secure him Little Havana's political and financial support as well as Florida's truck-load of the often decisive electoral votes heading into the 2020 presidential race. And Marco has used his designation as essentially America's and Trump's Cuban dictator to inject only viciously anti-Cuban operatives into the most advantageous positions capable of influencing the actual overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba's government...and that includes the positions now occupied by the likes of Claver-Carone, Bolton, and Pompeo on Trump's National Security, State Department, and Western Hemisphere teams. While there are at least twenty anti-Cuban extremists atop Trump's Cuban cabal, the Big Five are clearly, in this order: Rubio, Claver-Carone, Diaz-Balart, Bolton, and Pompeo.

    Probably the best journalism about how only the most extreme Cuban-American Counter Revolutionaries took over the Cuban portion of the Trump presidency is an article written by highly respected investigative reporter Andy Kroll. I believe every American, so as not to be surprised about what is in store for Cuba by the spring of 2019, should read Kroll's informative article, so I'll give you its title: "How A Crew of Hardliners Hijacked Donald Trump's Cuba Policy." That's the exact title and Andy Kroll is a great journalist. If more Americans got their Cuban news from great journalists like Andy Kroll, and not from Cuban-American propaganda pros or intimidated mainstream journalists, I don't believe my America would have been in the unenviable position of getting condemned by President Obama and the entire world 191-to-0 in the UN the last year America had a decent President, which was 2016...which was the year the extreme left-wing tilt of the Democracy Party put the Republican Party's Donald Trump in the White House. And since then, Andy Kroll has done the best job of explaining how a mere handful of Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American extremists "hijacked" Trump's Cuban policies and then made plans for a relatively brief  and unannounced, unnamed war whose aftermath will be extremely volatile, consequential, and long-lasting.

     But when all is said and done about what is planned for Cuba by the spring of 2019, I sincerely do not believe that the primary culprit is President Donald Trump nor do I believe that the primary culprits are the Miami hardliners depicted above -- Rubio, the Diaz-Balart brothers, and Ros-Lehtinen. The primary culprits, I believe, are the many millions of gutless Americans who have neither the courage nor the patriotism to even weigh in on the mendacious Cuban policies that, at the very least, make the United States of America resemble a Batistiano/Mafiosi-like Banana Republic.

     Yes, America...President Trump's Assault Brigade 2507, or whatever it euphemistically will be called, plans in the spring of 2019 to avenge the humiliating defeat of Assault Brigade 2506 at Cuba's Bay of Pigs in the spring of 1961. And, yes, America...Trump has the power to accomplish that goal, goaded along by Miami's Little Havana sector and massively aided by a cowardly generation of apathetic Americans. But after 2507 avenges 2506, two things are assured: {1} More Cuba-related shame and humiliation for the United States and for Democracy; and {2} the immediate start of another do-or-die Cuban Revolution that will try to overthrow another foreign domination.

     And what about Mr. John Bolton and his ilk? Well, for example... after his stint as President Trump's top National Security Adviser, Mr. John Bolton will doubtlessly return seamlessly to his old job, which is his Political Action Committee that will resume raising tons of extreme right-wing dollars to fund the campaigns of more extreme right-wing thugs...like the ones planning to aim Assault Brigade 2507 at Cuba. And so, the money-crazed right-wing/left-wing cycles will continue in an America that deserves a return to both Democracy and Decency.

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