Cuba Exposes USA Myths

David Reveals Goliath's Lies!!
{Wednesday, January 9th, 2019}

    The little guy above has a scientific name. It's Anurogryllus Celerinictus. But he is better known just as Cricket. This week -- Jan. 8th, 2019 -- Cricket was featured in a GIANT and LONG headline in America's top newspaper -- USA Today. The headline: "Remember That Mysterious 'Attack' On U. S. Diplomats In Cuba? Scientists Think It Was Crickets." And to be specific, the cricket in question is Anu Cele...to shorten his real name.

   Two years ago as the Batistiano-aligned Republican presidency of Donald Trump was replacing the decent Democratic presidency of Barack Obama, it was known that the Batistiano remnants in Miami and in the U. S. Congress would have another GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY to finally recapture Cuba after being chased to U. S. soil by the Cuban Revolution on the first day of 1959, going on 7 decades ago. But even Batistiano zealots operating freely in the U. S. need excuses...also known as pretexts...to have U. S. tax dollars and U. S. Congressional laws to mount all-out assaults on Revolutionary Cuba. The BIG pretext during Trump's first two years as Commander in Chief has been accusations against Cuba for "Sonic Attacks -- the new kind of Warfare" against U. S. "diplomats" stationed in Havana at the U. S. Embassy, which the brave and decent President Obama had reopened for the first time since 1961. Cuba and most unbiased people maintained all along that the Sonic Attacks were perpetrated by Cuba's enemies, were bogus, or merely were a pretext crafted by Miami and Washington right-wingers to reverse the mammoth normalization efforts Obama courageously mandated prior to the weird election of President Trump. All along for two years Cuba has begged for the USA to work with Cuban and Canadian experts to determine the cause of any alleged "sonic attacks" harming Americans. And Cuba and many others pointed out that Cuba itself was suffering from the allegations and Cuba's enemies in Miami, Newark, and Washington were rejoicing as the winners. So...if there were sonic attacks at all, who might be responsible, the government of Cuba that was the punished victim or the ones who benefited and were rejoicing about them?

   President Obama's reopening of the U. S. Embassy in Havana for the first time since 1961 had greatly helped Americans, Cubans, and especially all the decent Cuban-Americans who regularly react with Cuban relatives on the island. But the U. S. Cuban policies since the 1950s have been designed to whet the greedy and revengeful appetites of a few extremist Cuban exiles and their political and economic sycophants, such as the Bush dynasty. And the latest Republican present, Trump, has surprised no one by capitulating to the Batistiano extremists. Thus, Trump gutted the embassy entirely as one of the first uses of the "sonic wave" pretext, and many more pro-Batistiano/anti-Cuban/and anti-American punishments against Cuba, meaning everyday Cubans, have followed in the past two Trumpian USA years.

    While the mainstream U. S. media will not admit it and U. S. citizens are programmed to deny it, President Trump's most egregious, but least controversial, decision has been to anoint the greedy, self-serving, Little Havana "choirboy" Marco Rubio as America's latest Cuban dictator.

     When former President Barack Obama very bravely opened the U. S. embassy in Havana for the first time since 1961, democracy-lovers in America and around the world rejoiced.

    But as the above photo indicates, Senator Rubio can go back to Little Havana in Miami and LAUGH, while addressing his usual choir, about how easy it is for a handful of extremists from Little Havana to dictate "U. S. POLICY TOWARDS CUBA." Although it is NOT LAUGHABLE to democracy-lovers around the world, that's the way it has been for decades now as, somehow, the island of Cuba, the quintessential David, has remained a sovereign nation since 1959 even as the quintessential Goliath, the United States, has put "U. S. POLICY TOWARDS CUBA" into the greedy hands of Rubio-types.

    When he reopened the U. S. Embassy in Cuba for the first time since 1961, President Obama -- as shown above with First Lady Michelle -- named the perfect person to be America's Ambassador to Cuba...and not a single decent person in Washington disagreed with that. And that decent, perfect man shown accepting the appointment was the extremely dedicated Cuban expert and brilliant diplomat Jeffrey DeLaurentis. But very quickly Marco Rubio, as one biased and revengeful U. S. Senator, blocked that appointment forever...revealing once again how an extremist minority of pro-Batistano Cubans can dictate the U. S. Cuban Policy to suit their revenge against Cuba while enhancing their economic and political fortunes.

    Incredibly, the quintessential David...the island of Cuba...has remained an independent nation since 1959 although the quintessential Goliath...the Superpower United States...is a mere 90 miles to the north, as the above map shows. On the southeastern tip of the island, this map also shows the dimensions of the U. S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The U. S. stole that luscious land and port "in perpetuity" way back in 1903 simply because it could. Five years earlier, after the easy victory in the 1898 Spanish-American War, the U. S. had replaced Spain as the dominant imperialist power reigning over Cuba. Anytime from 1898 till 1952 the U. S. could have made Cuba a democratic jewel as the largest and most beautiful Caribbean island. The U. S. chose not to do so, preferring other forms of Cuban governments that would be better suited for rich Americans to plunder the island, while a democracy would have prevented much of that thievery in deference to helping Cubans on the island.

    In 1952 a handful of right-wingers in the Republican Eisenhower administration sicced the Mafia on Cuba, again so rich Americans could partake in the robbery of the island.

    Beginning in 1952 the U.S.-backed Mafia dictatorship in Cuba was led by the highest echelon of the U. S. Mafia -- from left-to-right Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Fulgencio Batista. While getting kick-back dollars from major U. S. businesses, the Mafia in Cuba feasted on its evil enterprises such as drug trafficking, prostitution, and gambling. All the while, U. S. muscle propped up the Mafia in Cuba, including its then-secretive ARMY OF THE AMERICAS where the U. S. was beginning to train soldiers and police from friendly dictatorships -- Batista's in Cuba, Trijillo's in the Dominican Republic, Somozo's in Nicaragua, etc. -- and then send them back so those friendly dictators could stay in power...and help rich U. S. businessmen plunder helpless nations.

      But beginning in 1952 the right-wingers in Washington and the Mafia leaders in Cuba did not have enough intelligence to even throw some crumbs at the majority peasants on the island. A case in point is the photo above that was typical of the peasants' plight in Batista's Cuba while rich Batistianos, Mafiosi, and Americans ravished the island.

     But this photo...and many like it...document what fueled the first Revolution that would threaten a U.S.-backed dictator. In order to supposedly quell dissent, the Batista dictatorship...as challenged by these brave Cuban mothers...murdered Cuban children as warnings. The sign above says: "STOP THE ASSASSINATIONS OF OUR CHILDREN. CUBAN MOTHERS." Extremely brave marches like this fueled the Cuban Revolution far more than the extreme poverty as depicted in the previous photo.

     History registers the fact that Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the Batista-Mafia dictatorship on January 1, 1959.

     When Fidel Castro waved good-bye to the fleeing Batistiano-Mafiosi leaders in January of 1959, he thought -- as he told his friend Barbara Walters at ABC-News decades later -- that the U. S. government would be "too embarrassed about the Batista atrocities to accept them back on American soil." That, of course, was a totally wrong assumption. In the six decades since January of 1959, the Batistiano-Mafiosi remnants have waged both war and terrorism against Cuba from U. S. soil and via punitive Congressional laws in an all-out and ongoing effort to regain control of Cuba.

     On November 25-2016 Fidel Castro finally died at age 90 and his 87-year-old revolutionary brother Raul resigned as President of Cuba on April 19, 2018. Cuba's new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, was born after the revolutionary triumph and is the island's former Education Minister. On February 24th, 2019, Cuba will get a new Constitution, its first since 1976 and one that has been meticulously discussed at countless public sessions across the island.

     Meanwhile, as noted earlier, the viciously greedy and revengeful Marco Rubio from Little Havana has full clearance from President Trump, the U. S. media, and the sufficiently propagandized U. S. citizenry to wage whatever type of war or deception he chooses to execute a regime-change in Cuba before Trump is impeached or voted out of office. 

     And meanwhile, as also noted earlier, Rubio for the past two years has used the alleged mysterious sonic wave attacks against Americans in Havana as a prime pretext, or excuse, to tighten the screws on Cuba and, as many top experts like Tracey Eaton are predicting, to actually attack Cuba perhaps by the spring of 2019. Eaton, America's top Cuban expert, recently wrote that he would "not be surprised" if the Trump/Rubio/John Bolton/Maurico Claver-Carone quartet launch an attack on Cuba "from Brazil" now that Latin America's largest and strongest nation has a new Trump-like, extreme-right wing President in Jair Bolsanaro, who is extremely anti-Cuba, anti-poor people and gays, and pro-military.

    The U. S. mainstream media is so incompetent and the American people are so propagandized that there was little outcry when President Trump named the infamous war-monger John Bolton as his top National Security Adviser. Bolton, like almost all of the extreme right-wingers in the Trump administration, is a product of the Bush dynasty where Bolton strongly advocated a regime-change in Cuba. When Bolton, as shown above, quickly flew to meet Brazil's new right-wing President, Jair Bolsonaro, many experts on U.S.-Cuban relations believed Bolton's intention was to get Bolsonaro's inclusion for a spring offensive against Cuba. AND TO REPEAT: America's top Cuban expert, TRACEY EATON, wrote that he would "not be surprised" if Trump/Rubio/Claver-Carone/Bolton launched their expected spring attack on Cuba "from Brazil." American citizens, who would pay for such ignorance, are not supposed to believe that any such thing is brewing...and when-if it happens, they are supposed to accept it...meekly, or course.

     But meanwhile, as also mentioned earlier, Rubio may have to concoct some new excuses to continue to wage warlike intrigue against Cuba. For the past two years, much of Rubio's cowardly activity against Cubans on the island has been waged from Little Havana, Congress, and the White House based on the SONIC WAVE attacks even though most unbiased people never thought Cuba would harm itself and help its enemies by perpetrating such stupidity. And now today -- January 8th, 2019 -- the USA's top newspaper, USA Today, finally screams this headline: "REMEMBER THAT MYSTERIOUS 'ATTACK' ON U. S. DIPLOMATS IN CUBA? SCIENTISTS THINK IT WAS CRICKETS." Yes, a cricket like the one above screaming loudly during the mating season to try to impress a potential female mate. But deadly U. S. excuses to harm Cuba are actually a dime-a-dozen -- and you can Google them such as...Remember the Maine in Havana Harbor; Operation Northwoods; Brothers to the Rescue Planes from Miami Dropping Items over Havana; etc. and if you are still interested after Googling those three, remember there are many more. So Rubio and his large, highly paid staff can, and probably will, quickly replace the Cricket as with other pretexts/excuses. And whatever they are, the mainstream U. S. media and the mainstream U. S. population will likely...and meekly...accept them, as always. {But USA Today's love-lorn Cricket is a cute little guy, isn't he? I hope he found a mate, or two, after all that yelling.}.

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What's New In Cuba?

Well, A Whole Lot!!!

      The photo above was taken in Havana on this very first weekend in the New Year of 2019. It's important because it actually reflects the current pulses and rhythms taking place on the island, superseding even the Trump administration's apparent willingness to allow a trio of vicious Counter Revolutionaries -- Marco Rubio, John Bolton, and Mauricio Claver-Carone -- to execute what might be a bloody regime-change this spring. While Cubans on the island...including eleven million everyday Cubans...are well aware Rubio and his cabals in Miami and Washington remain unchecked by Trump as well as the U. S. media and the U. S. citizens, the Cubans in Cuba are focusing on internal issues, not diabolical threats from the world's nearby Superpower that has tried, each day since 1959, to execute another U.S.-friendly regime change in Cuba. In the photo above -- taken Saturday, Jan. 5-2019 -- Rosy Amaro Perez is excitedly pointing to a landmark in Havana. Rosy is quite aware of the Rubio-led intentions but her excitement remains undeterred because she is a prime advocate of dramatic changes on the island, which started on April 19, 2018, when former Education Minister Miguel Diaz-Canel became Cuba's first non-Castro and first non-revolutionary President since 1959. Beyond that, Rosy and 11 million Cubans on the island are excited about what will happen on February 24th of this New Year. That's the day Cuba will get its first new Constitution since 1976. Rosy posted a giddy caption to this photo: "Si esta arrimando un dia feliz." {"It is getting closer to a happy day."}. That's an important sentence, far more important than most of the media coverage of Cuba in the Western World.

    Although ignored by a U. S. media that is afraid to challenge the Counter Revolutionary zealots in Miami and in Congress, Cuba's new Constitution is a big deal. It was proposed by the island's diverse parliament, as shown above, and then it has been discussed and debated by everyday Cubans at 24,000 sites across the island, affording referendum-type changes and approval. It will be ratified into law on Feb. 24-2019 although the Rubio-types who dictate America's Cuban narratives and Cuban policies don't want Americans to know its the first new Cuban Constitution since 1976 and it will bear the imprint of the island's everyday majority.

    If Rosy Amaro Perez is excited about the "happy day" that arrives for Cuba on Feb. 24-2019 with the new Constitution, that indeed is important. The definitive photo above shows Rosy in Santiago de Cuba on January 1st-2019 where she covered {as a key journalist} and celebrated {as a high-profile citizen} the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution's victory over the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship. Indeed, Cuba's new Constitution that becomes effective on Feb. 24-2019 mandates major changes from the previous 1976 Constitution. The reason Rosy's excitement about it is important is this: She not only influences but also represents the views of everyday Cubans, especially the restive young-adult generation that is expecting their new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, to survive the Trump administration in Washington and improve their lives on the island, starting with the Cuban economy that has been assaulted since 1962 by the longest and cruelest Embargo ever imposed by a powerful nation against a much-weaker nation. At the moment, Rosy and most Cubans on the island support their new President and eagerly look forward to their new Constitution that takes effect on February 24th, 2019. While the mainstream media in the U. S. is too afraid of the Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami and Washington to report fairly about Cuba, the state-owned Cuban media is actually more democratic in that regard than the American media. And, yes, Rosy Amaro Perez epitomizes Cuba's state-owned media. {And that opinion, I should point out, comes from me, a democracy-loving American who is ashamed that America's Cuban policies since the 1950s have been conducted with vile self-serving criminal-intent but remains a stupid, ageless, and shamefully undemocratic practice to this day}.

     A key and influential News Anchor on Cubavision International television, Rosy Amaro Perez is neither afraid nor reluctant to criticize the Cuban government if she deems it is doing something that harms Cuban citizens, especially the island's children that include Rosy's own precocious 5-year-old daughter Mariana.

    The photo above shows Rosy Amaro being interviewed on Cuban television by Cristina Escobar. Both are brilliant young, influential News Anchors in Cuba and both totally agree with this comment, which happens to be theirs: "Cuban journalists have more freedom to tell the truth about the U. S. than U. S. journalists have to tell the truth about Cuba." And, as you can easily confirm on YouTube and other non-Cuban venues, Rosy & Cristina subscribe strongly to another of their own quotations: "Cuba's fate should be left up to Cubans on the island, not Cubans in Miami and Washington." And if Americans disagree with Rosy and Cristina, perhaps those same Americans should get off their timid behinds and show some courageous and decent input into America's despicable Batistiano/Mafiosi-controlled Cuban policies.

     As a Cuban on the island Rosy Amaro Perez is a more decent person than the Cubans off the island like Marco Rubio who hide behind the skirts of the world's Superpower to boost their bank accounts and political prowess by punishing Cubans on Rosy's vulnerable island.

      In Cuba Rosy Amaro has a precious 5-year-old daughter that she has vacationed with in the major European cities and she has relatives living in Miami, Virginia, Arizona, etc. But Rosy wants her daughter to be a Cuban in Cuba...and she believes she has a right to make such decisions as a mother and as a Cuban living on their island that she believes has been a sovereign, independent nation since the Cuban Revolution chased the Batista-Mafia leaders to the U. S. way back on January 1st, 1959.

    In a more decent, saner world, Rosy Amaro would prefer that the American airplanes that can fly around or over her island would be peaceful and not warlike. But she can't control what the likes of Rubio are allowed to do in the Superpower United States. But that doesn't mean that Cubans on the island, like Rosy, won't fight to preserve the Revolution whose leader died at age 90 on Nov. 26-2016.

     For sure, Rosy Amaro is well aware that Cuba has a new non-Castro President and, beginning on Feb. 24-2019, will have a new Constitution for the first time since 1976. Even as Rosy keeps tuned to the Trump-Rubio plans to destroy Revolutionary Cuba, Rosy excitedly tells her television viewers that they too should be both proud and excited about: {1} The AMAZING longevity of the Cuban Revolution; and {2} the AMAZING new changes taking place in Cuba.

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Cuba Today -- January of 2019

Now Just Trying To Survive!!!
{Sunday, January 6th, 2019}

     A former highly regarded U. S. government official and diplomat, Emily Mendrala is now the Executive Director of the Washington-based Center for Democracy in the Americas. Ms. Mendrala epitomizes precisely why Americans need to include democracy-lovers into the Cuban narrative, a narrative that since 1959 has been dictated by extreme Miami-based Counter Revolutionary benefactors such as the Bush-anointed billionaire Jorge Mas Canosa to today's billionaire-hopeful Trump-anointed Marco Rubio.

   While today's mainstream U. S. media is far too intimidated to include the decent, fair-minded Cuban expert Emily Mendrala into the Cuban narrative, the self-serving Rubio-types are afforded as much television airtime and print headlines as they want regarding the denunciation of Cuba to feather their own revenge, economic, and political nests.

   Meanwhile, Emily Mendrala's highly respected Center for Democracy in the Americas brilliantly works to promote sanity and decency in U.S.-Cuban relations. And her CDA has now teamed with The Cuba One Foundation and Cuba Education Travel to begin a weekly half-hour video program on YouTube dealing exclusively with U.S.-Cuban relations and key updates. And the democracy-loving Emily Mendrala herself anchors that must-see program that is easily accessed on YouTube. Thus, I urge you to take a half-hour of your time and view Emily Mendrala hosting this week's program on the series entitled "Cuba Hangouts." Two taps on the video below will take you to Emily Mendrala's inaugural 36-minute "Cuba Hangouts" program.

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Cuba EXPECTS U. S. Attack

In the Spring of 2019!!
{Friday, January 4th, 2018}

  The photo above shows Raul Castro delivering the main speech in Santiago de Cuba to highlight the 60th anniversary celebrations of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959. In the lower-left you can see the tomb of Fidel Castro, who died at age 90 on Nov. 26, 2016, symbolically guarded by two Cuban soldiers. The 87-year-old Raul stepped down as Cuba's President on April 19th, 2018. In this speech, Raul made it plain that Cuba anticipates a military attack from the United States, probably by this spring and probably launched from Brazil {as I will explain}. He said: "Once again the North American government is taking on the path of confrontation with Cuba. Increasingly high-ranking officials in the Trump administration are trying to blame Cuba for the region's ills."

    The high-ranking National Security Adviser in the Trump administration is, incredibly, John Bolton. Late in 2018, as shown in the above photo, Bolton, speaking on behalf of President Trump, went to Miami and essentially declared war on Cuba. Of all the high-ranking U. S. officials in the last half-century, Bolton is considered the greatest war-monger...not against big boys like Russia or China but against small nations. Bolton has long advocated an all-out military attack on Revolutionary Cuba, once famously goading President George W. Bush by advising that Cuba was a dire threat to the United States. Bush shamefully appointed Bolton as the U. S. Ambassador to the UN but that was a joke and only a short recess appointment, meaning Bolton's shameful Bush appointment was withdrawn before it could come up for Senate approval, which Republicans as well as Democrats would have voted down. Now Trump's shameful appointment of Bolton as National Security Adviser is considered a harbinger of an all-out military attack on Cuba by this spring, and Cuba's friends in Latin America agree with that appraisal.

      This photo, and the Brazilian media reports that accompanied it, refurbished the probability of John Bolton finally getting his war against Cuba thanks to the Trump presidency. After his Miami declaration against Cuba, Bolton flew to Rio where he is shown shaking hands with Jair Bolsonaro who this week took over as the new President of Brazil, Latin America's richest, largest, most populated, and strongest nation. Two previous and recent Brazilian Presidents -- Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff -- had been democratically elected four times and both were fiercely pro-Cuba and wildly popular with Brazil's majority poor population, but a right-wing movement in Brazil brushed them aside. Bolsonaro loves the Brazilian military and he is extremely scary because is an extreme right-wing zealot...and extremely anti-Cuba. Knowing that, Bolton flew to Rio to meet with Bolsonaro. It is believed they agreed on a U.S.-Brazilian military attack on Cuba.

    Now a journalism professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, Tracey Eaton is generally considered America's best and fairest journalistic Cuban expert. He headed a U. S. bureau in Havana for years and since then his Cuban expertise has been used by all major U. S. media sources...from the major U. S. television networks, especially NBC-TV, to the major U. S. newspapers, especially USA Today. After John Bolton's declaration of war in Miami against Cuba and after Bolton's meeting with Bolsonaro in Rio, Tracey Eaton wrote that he would "not be surprised" if the United States attacked Cuba from Brazil, supposedly by the spring of 2019. Tracey is married to a Cuban woman and they spent Christmas in Havana. AND TO REPEAT: Tracey Eaton knows more about current U.S.-Cuban issues than all the other U. S. journalists and politicians combined...and anyone deeply interested in U.S.-Cuban relations knows that fact.

     After his speech in Santiago de Cuba on Jan. 1-2019 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Cuba's Revolutionary victory, Raul Castro was joined by Miguel Diaz-Canel as they walked solemnly to pay homage at the tomb of Fidel Castro, as shown above. On April 19-2018 Diaz-Canel replaced Raul Castro as Cuba's first non-Castro and first non-revolutionary Cuban President since 1959. Diaz-Canel was born after the triumph of the Revolution on Jan. 1-1959 and his political rise came as Cuba's Education Minister in cities well south of Havana. President Diaz-Canel agrees with Raul Castro that U. S. President Trump will allow John Bolton, Marco Rubio, and Mauricio Claver-Carone to lead the United States into a springtime war against Cuba.

     This photo shows Cuban President Diaz-Canel with Russian President Putin. Alarmed by John Bolton's declaration of war against Cuba in Miami and by Bolton's meeting in Rio with Bolsonaro, Diaz-Canel made a whirlwind trip to discuss the situation with friends that included the leaders of Russia, China, Vietnam, and Laos.

    But, as shown above, it was in 87-year-old Raul Castro's speech in Santiago de Cuba this week that publicly revealed Cuba's expectation of an attack from the U. S. by this spring. Raul said, "When Fidel and I were young, our generation fought against Batista, the Mafia, and the United States for the soul of Cuba. We won that struggle 60 years ago today -- on January 1, 1959. Once again the North American government is taking the path of confrontation with Cuba. Once again we will be the underdog and no one expects us to survive. But I think we will. I base that prediction on what I detect all around this island. In the 1950s the main thrust of the revolution came from women like Celia Sanchez, Haydee Santamaria, my late wife Vilma Espin, Tete Puebla, Melba Hernandez, Marta Rojas and so many more. Today as I look over this island I see another generation of young women just as determined as Celia, Haydee, Vilma and the others were at the start of our Revolution. And that's the basis of my prediction. Cubans on this island will fight to the death for Cuba against all odds and those from another country who attack us may not be similarly motivated. But otherwise they will have all other advantages...so we will see. We will see, won't we."

    In his main speech and in two lesser-publicized speeches in Santiago de Cuba this week, Raul Castro surprised many on the island with his apparent anticipation of a U. S. attack by this spring. But his nostalgic mentions of the legendary female revolutionary women was also a bit surprising, as was his obvious dependence on "another generation of young women" whom he believes will defend Cuba in the spring of 2019 just as Celia Sanchez, Haydee Santamaria, Vilma Espin, etc. led the revolutionary fight in the 1950s. Raul Castro was obviously talking about young Cuban women today like the three depicted above -- singer Luna Manzanares flanked on her right by journalist Yisel Martinez and on her left by journalist Rosy Amaro. For example, Rosy Amaro -- an extremely talented and popular television news anchor in Havana on the strong Cubavision International outlet -- spent three days this week in Santiago de Cuba covering and participating in the 60th anniversary Revolutionary celebrations. And Rosy Amaro, and presumably a strong majority of young Cuban women like her, agreed with Raul Castro's comments and sentiments.

    This is Rosy Amaro on a street in Santiago de Cuba this week, almost 500 miles from her Havana home and her Cubavision International studio. Rosy has a gorgeous and precocious 5-year-old daughter; she has visited the famous capitals of Europe; and she has close relatives in the USA from Florida to Virginia to Arizona. But she would fight on the front-lines of another revolutionary war to preserve Cuba's independence.

   In Santiago de Cuba this week, Rosy Amaro played the drums in a Cuban band; 11 million Cubans on the island know her and love her.

       Although her hometown remains Havana on the northwestern tip of Cuba, Rosy Amaro perhaps has an even stronger affection for Santiago de Cuba, which is almost 500 miles from Havana and on the island's southeastern tip. Rosy, like most Cubans, credits Santiago de Cuba as the soul of the Revolution and the launching point for the astounding rebel victory that ousted the Havana-based and U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship on January 1, 1959.

   This was the last photo taken of the photogenic Rosy Amaro on her 3-day stay in Santiago de Cuba this week to cover and celebrate the 60th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. That's Rosy reclining on the "C" in "CUBA" on January 2nd just before she made the long trek back to Havana. The huge sign fronts a major shopping mall in Santiago de Cuba. Rosy captioned this photo with these words:"Ya mi voy de Santiago, pero Santiago queda en mi." {"I'm leaving Santiago, but Santiago remains in me."}. Rosy adamantly wants to preserve the Revolution-provided sovereignty for...Santiago, Havana, and all of Cuba while opposing any hint of a return of foreign domination. But those lofty hopes and dreams will, in all likelihood, be severely tested this spring by the military designs of the Rubio/Bolton/Claver-Carone axis that adorns the USA Trump administration and now apparently includes Bolsonaro, who this week took over as the new extreme right-wing/anti-Cuban President of Brazil.

    Back in December Rosy Amaro spent a week on a journalistic assignment in Nicaragua. As shown above, Nicaraguan journalists wanted to know how Rosy felt about U.S.-Cuban relations "in the Age of Trump?" She prefaced her answer with that sad, worried look.

    This was Rosy Amaro in Nicaragua in December just before she flew back to Cuba. In the United States, I believe, the best source for deciphering the rhythms and pulses of U.S.-Cuban relations is the aforementioned journalist Tracey Eaton. In Cuba, I believe, the best source for deciphering the rhythms and pulses of U.S.-Cuban relations is journalist Rosy Amaro. I find it quite interesting on January 3rd-2019 that both Tracey Eaton and Rosy Amaro believe that a war-mongering quartet -- Rubio/Bolton/Claver-Carone/Bolsonaro -- will make war on Cuba this spring in the name of the USA, the world superpower, and Brazil, the Latin American superpower. If it happens, I wonder if the cowardly U. S. media will forge enough courage to ask the war-mongers if they really believed they could execute a regime-change in Cuba without creating a fiery conflagration not only in the Caribbean but also in Latin America, and perhaps beyond. But win or lose, Rosy Amaro and eleven million other Cubans on the island are far more decent human beings than the war-mongers in much stronger countries.

    This photo of Rosy Amaro Perez was taken today when she was back on the set anchoring the Cubavision International news program. In the USA the right-wing news media and even the intimidated mainstream news media only programs the Cuban narrative from the likes of Rubio, Bolton, Claver-Carone, and the Diaz-Balart brothers whose father was a key Minister in the ousted Batista dictatorship and then became one of the all-time richest and most vehement Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami. My point, which I deem valid as a democracy-loving American, is this: Rosy Amaro Perez and other Cubans like her on the island have viewpoints too...and views that the U. S. democracy should have the guts to consider. And that, I believe, is true concerning Cubans like Rosy who have no intention to defect to the wealth of Miami.

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