USA's Troika of Tyranny?

 Or Triangle of Troglodytes??
{Sunday, May 12th, 2019}

     This week -- May 10, 2019 -- the Miami-based Progreso Weekly used the photo above to point out that the USA may have a "Triangle of Troglodytes" -- President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and National Security Adviser John Bolton. The Progreso Weekly called these three America's "war cabinet." The article hinted that the trio may be leading America into another war -- Iran?...Venezuela?...Cuba? It was a reference to Bolton's declaration in Miami that Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua constitute the "The Troika of Tyranny," apparently to justify Bolton's long-held desires for a regime-change in Cuba preceded by a regime-change in Venezuela and then followed by a regime-change in Nicaragua. The expected regime-change in Venezuela dating back to January has stalled, obviously delaying the Troglodytes' desired regime-changes in Cuba and Nicaragua. Meanwhile, the Progreso Weekly suggests that the Troglodytes at the moment seem more intent on a regime-change in Iran, which is a dire proposition that figures to delay the dire propositions closer to home at least for a time.

Trump vs. Iran.

   Tangling with Iran would surely create a conflagration involving supposed USA allies such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey. And Israel, the region's unmatched nuclear Superpower, would obviously love to join the USA in a war against Iran.

    Of course, no matter how much President Trump claims he "loves" North Korea's unpredictable dictator Kim, the fact remains that the USA is afraid of North Korea's nuclear threat.

      And all that doesn't even get us to the USA's two primary threats and competitors -- nuclear Superpowers Russia and China.

     A war in the USA's backyard with Cuba as the prize and Venezuela as the excuse/pretext became a distinct possibility when Trump turned over his Cuban/Latin American policies to Rubio, Bolton, Pompeo, Abrams, Claver-Carone, Reich, etc., with not a single moderate directing the USA's Cuba/Latin American/Western Hemisphere affairs.

     Even AFTER the United States won a war in its backyard, the United States would likely end up as the BIGGEST LOSER.

    And make no mistake, as indicated by this Trump Tweet, Cuba would be the prime target in any backyard USA war, with the Venezuelan crisis being the prime excuse for the Little Havana return to Havana.

     For sure, John Bolton believes these Cuban soldiers would provide little resistance to a military attack from the USA. While that might be true, Cuba's revolutionary spirit would still not likely capitulate.

     For two decades, John Bolton's reputation for wanting to attack just about everyone and everything not named Russia or China has been well-known. Not even the Batistiano-directed George W. Bush administration accepted Bolton's famous pretext to attack Cuba beginning in 2002. During this first full week of May-2019 President Trump was quoted as saying that Bolton wants to "get me into a war." Yet, John Bolton remains National Security Adviser...Rubio remains in charge of Cuban affairs, anti-Cuban extremist Claver-Carone remains in charge of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Pompeo remains as Secretary of State, and Abrams remains as the USA's Special Envoy to Venezuela. In other words, it seems there is no one in Washington at the moment WILLING OR ABLE to rein in John Bolton. God Bless America!!!

AND BY THE WAY:

    The photo above, taken by Bill Hackman, shows the family of Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo in Havana. Gerardo was the last of the "Cuba 5"/"Cuba Heroes" to be released from U. S. prisons in 2015 when U. S. President Barack Obama was trying so hard to normalize relations with Cuba. Gerardo had spent 16 years in a California federal prison and both he and his Havana wife thought he was there was life. His wife back in Cuba wanted his child and Obama allowed his sperm to be sent to the island to impregnate her. The baby was the little girl in the lower-right above. Since her birth, as you can see, Gerardo and his wife have had another little girl as well as a little boy between the births of the girls.

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CUBA JUSTICE: It's Possible

And An European Court Can Act!!
{Friday, May 10th, 2019}

    Since the Trump administration activated Title 3 of the Helms-Burton Act as a final step  to starve the Cuban economy once and all, it might have been a bridge too far for the USA's Batistiano-driven Cuban policy. That's because in addition to hurting Cubans on the island it also hurts other nations, as reflected by the typical international headline above. Translated from Spanish to English, the headline says: "The Activation of Title 3 of the Helms-Burton Act Is Rejected Beyond the Borders of Cuba." INDEED IT IS!!! In fact, the top officials of the 28-nation European Union are threatening to sue the USA in NON-U.S. COURTS and in forums such as the World Trade Organization. In Miami federal courts, unrepresented Cuba has routinely and successfully been sued for often ridiculous reasons, with the Batistiano-directed U. S. government guaranteeing some questionable rewards with frozen Cuban assets including cash and property. The EU leaders call the U. S. Embargo of Cuba, in place since 1962, "cruel and illegal." SO WHAT IF CUBA COULD SUE THE U. S. IN A EUROPEAN COURT FOR THE ILLEGAL EMBARGO, FOR THE THEFT OF GUANTANAMO BAY, FOR NUMEROUS TERRORIST ACTS INCLUDING THE BOMBING OF THE CIVILIAN CUBANA FLIGHT 455 IN WHICH ALL ABOARD WERE KILLED, etc., etc. And guess what? There indeed is such an European Court. I'll explain.

    This week -- on May 8th, 2019 -- the sensational trial in Italy of Amanda Knox was back in the headlines.  In 2007 she was an American exchange student in Italy when she was convicted in the murder of her roommate, British exchange student Meredith Kercher. Knox served four years in an Italian prison before her verdict was overturned. On May 8th she announced she was returning to Italy to participate in an Innocence Project for people unfairly imprisoned. That revelation also revealed this tidbit: The European Court of Human Rights ordered Italy to pay Amanda Knox $20,600 "for failing to provide her a lawyer and an appropriate interpreter when she was first detained."

      The European Court of Human Rights is located in Strasbourg, France, and it has delivered more than 10,000 judgments since 1959. Since 1959, after the Cuban Revolution chased leaders of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to Little Havana in Miami, thousands of Cubans...including some in Miami...have suffered massive Human Rights violations perpetrated by Cuban exiles, many of whom were U. S. government workers, such as the infamous Luis Posada Carriles.

    For centuries prior to the 1898 Spanish-American War, Cuba was dominated by Spain but after beating the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in 1959 it has been a sovereign nation -- neither the property of America or Europe. The European Court of Human Rights in France could consider Cuban cases now that Title 3's activation of the "cruel and illegal" Helms-Burton Act includes violating what the European Union nations believe is their own Civil or Human Rights as independent nations that believe they should not have to abide by or be punished by the USA's harsh dictates regarding Cuba.

    In fact, this book published by Oxford University in England minutely explains "How to take a case to the European Court of Human Rights." And now with the international stretch of the "illegal and cruel" Helms-Burton Act, Europeans as well as totally innocent Cubans can possibly sue the United States for Human Rights violations.

   The High Representative and Foreign Affairs leader of the 28-nation European Union, Federica Mogherini, loves the Cuban people and visits the island often. She is shown above with Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. I am surprised that Rodriguez has NOT ALREADY solicited the help of his friend Mogherini to get Cuba some justice in international courts against the gross excessives the island has suffered since 1959 at the hands of the U.S.-backed Little Havana Batistianos.

   The European Court of Human Rights in France is one forum that might address Cuba's grievances against the United States, especially with EU leader Federica Mogherini strongly and famously defining the United States embargo against Cuba {since 1962} as "exceedingly cruel and grossly illegal." Beyond that, what about...the World Court, the World Trade Organization, etc.?

      NOW LET'S SEE: The undeniably "cruel and illegal" economic embargo of Cuba has cost the island how many billions...or trillions...of dollars since 1962? The Miami or Newark courts, of course, would say "zero." And U. S. courts would say the same about such things as the theft of Guantanamo Bay way back in 1903. The strong-armed treaty called for the U. S. to pay $2,000 a year for the lush land, which it did, but since 1959 Cuba has refused to cash the checks, which with interests now total just over $4,000 a year. What is Guantanamo Bay, for well over a century, worth? In an unbiased courtroom, Cuba would have a case...as it would, using de-classified USA documents, if the island nation could sue the USA for multiple terrorist acts, including but not ending with the civilian CUBANA FLIGHT 455.

       De-classified U. S. documents like this one could be used to support Cuba's claims that U. S. operatives were the terrorists that bombed Cubana Flight 455 into the ocean, killing all on board. This document and others indicate that the U. S. government almost immediately knew who the perpetrators were.

    In an international court, could the families of all the victims of Cubana Flight 455 sue the United States government???

     You know, Cubans on the island cry too. The sister and mother in this photo were waiting at the airport in Havana for the return of their brother and son on Cubana Flight 455 after he and 27 other teenage Cuban athletics had just won Gold Medals in the Central American Championships. When the photo above was taken, that sister and mother had just learned that the airplane had crashed into the ocean and there were no survivors. If Cuba could sue the U. S. for that tragedy, the sister shown above, still distraught as an adult, would surely travel to France if Cuba could sue the U. S. in a non-U. S. courtroom concerning such things as...Cubana Flight 455.

    If the European Court of Human Rights in France could successfully force Italy to pay American Amanda Knox $20,600 for two minor violations, what could the same court rule concerning what the United States owes Cuba and Cubans for such things as...the Embargo, Guantanamo Bay, Cubana Flight 455, etc., etc., etc.???

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U.S. Sanctions or Bombs

Awesome Regime-Change Tools!!

     After facing economic sanctions by the U. S., Venezuelan General Christopher Figuera has defected from the Nicolas Maduro government to the U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido. U. S. Vice President Mike Pence made the announcement at the State Department Tuesday, May 7th. Pence also repeated that "all options are on the table" to ensure the end of the Maduro regime, meaning U. S. military operations -- especially if it assumes that Russia and China will both sit on the sidelines after being assured their financial investments in Venezuela will be honored AFTER the regime-change.

    As with Israeli warplanes striking Gaza in recent days {above} or with Saudi Arabian warplanes pounding Yemen, top-of-the-line U. S. military assets are given or sold to nations considered U.S.-friendly. In the Venezuelan conundrum, such countries as Brazil and Colombia may likewise be at the forefront of any Venezuela military exercise.

   After General Figuera defected from Maduro, VP Mike Pence said the U. S. immediately lifted the sanctions against him and said others still under sanctions would be treated similarly. Recently the U.S.-backed Venezuela opposition had accused Figuera of "gross abuse and torture" violations, which induced the U. S. to sanction Figuera in the first place. Obviously, switching sides takes care of the accusations.

    The key to Maduro's continued survival in Venezuela is Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino. Last week both Miami and Washington as well as opposition leader Guaido were all convinced Padrino was defecting and therefore it was believed Maduro's reign was over. But Padrino responded by standing beside Maduro and proclaiming that the bulk of the Venezuelan military would remain loyal to the government and they were not "mercenaries to be bought by dollars."

   As long as the U.S.-trained {at Fort Benning} Venezuelan Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino remains loyal to the embattled President Maduro, the Venezuelan stalemate's longevity may continue to surprise Latin American experts, but any such prospects remain precarious.

   Meanwhile, Venezuelan opposition chief Juan Guaido admits he would welcome U. S. military action on his behalf, which has prompted President Nicolas Maduro to deepen his dependence on the Russia military to keep him in power.

    Meanwhile, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel fully realizes that his island is caught in the middle as the Venezuelan standoff features the world's two prime nuclear powers -- the United States and Russia. The Trump-led USA has assured Counter Revolutionary Cubans that the Venezuelan situation is the excuse they have needed to finally execute the regime-change in Cuba. Already, in fact, the activation of Title 3 of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act has severely exacerbated the U. S. embargo that has stifled Cuba's economy since 1962. President Diaz-Canel's Tweet shown above addressed the harm the extremely cruel Title 3 guidelines are causing as Cuba struggles to take care of its people. This Tweet says, "I want to go ahead today and congratulate you Cuban women, grandmothers, mothers, daughters, sisters, friends, companions, Cuban heroines of resistance, creators and illuminators of life. Congratulations and thanks. Together we are Cuba and FMC Congress."

   In Cuba this week new billboards like this are reminding the people that the latest sanctions by the USA are reducing the government's ability to provide free educations through college for students like these, along with additional Cuban reductions in free universal health care, electrical power, and food supplies. This billboard says, "Against my school, we do not understand." Of course, decent democracy-loving Americans also don't understand how the Trump administration gets away with such genocidal actions in Cuba, but it is obvious it can, much to the delight of a handful of Counter Revolutionary zealots and profiteers in Miami, Newark, and Washington.

      Is this one of the phone calls Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido made to Miami or Washington requesting U. S. military help to oust Maduro? Some observers believe it was, but some don't.

     Meanwhile, many Cubans on the island are wondering if the Revolution can survive the Trump administration without its "Eternal Commander" who died at age 90 on Nov. 25-2016. Other Cubans are wondering what Fidel Castro would be thinking now if he were still alive. But one thing is for sure: Most Cubans on the island believe it is still Fidel's Revolution and still Fidel's Cuba. All the while...most Americans are told and convinced...that most Cubans on the island...prefer a return of the U.S.-backed Batista-Lucky Luciano regime that the Eternal Commander booted off the island way back on January 1, 1959.

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Trump's NEW Cuban Plan

But Still Predicated On Venezuela!!

Photo credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images.

    The photo above was used to illustrate a new and interesting NBC News article written by Carmen Sesin. It is entitled: "Are U.S., Russia, and Cuba Going to Work to Break the Impasse in Venezuela." The key sentence said that the U. S. was "not adverse to opening conversations with countries that are allied with Maduro." Since January the U.S.'s plan to finally effectuate a regime-change in Cuba has used the critical situation in Venezuela as the pretext for gifting Senator Marco Rubio and a handful of other Little Havana zealots in Miami with the recapture of Cuba. The NBC News update above, which you can readily dial up online, touches on that basic fact by quoting two pertinent Tweets from President Trump after the anticipated regime-change in Venezuela failed to materialize last week. Those two Trump Tweets were directed at Cuba although Russia and China, the BIG BOYS, have far more military and thus much more Venezuelan influence than Cuba has. Trump said about Cuba: "The U. S. will impose the highest level sanctions if they {Cuba} do no immediately cease military and other operations in Venezuela.  With the right moves, Cuba could do very well. We could open it up but we're going to end up closing it up if they don't get out of Venezuela." Trump has already allowed Rubio to activate Title 3 of Helms-Burton, a starvation tactic that even the George W. Bush presidency refused to enforce. The rest of Trump's Tweet above surprised NBC News because it seemed to offer the first and only carrot to Cuba since the Republicans took over the White House from the decent Democratic president Barack Obama. But it wasn't a carrot; it was a pragmatic hint.

   The image above of President Trump using his tie to surround Cuba is both wicked and cruel, but it is nothing new. Since the Spanish-American War in Cuba in 1898...since the imperialist USA stole Guantanamo Bay from Cuba in 1903...since the U. S. sicced the Mafia on Cuba in 1952...and since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 chased the Batista-Mafia leaders to their safe and even more lucrative havens in Miami {Little Havana} and Newark, the USA's Cuban policies have insulted both America and Democracy. In 2016, the last year of the decent {and brave} Democratic Obama administration, the UN, with President Obama's concurrence, voted 191-to-0 to condemn the USA's Batistiano/Mafiosi-directed Cuban policies, namely the economic embargo that since 1962 has been designed to starve Cubans on the island into submission or to induce them to overthrow their government in favor of Little Havana. Unfortunately, the flagrant unanimity of that USA condemnation didn't embarrass enough democracy-lovers in this generation of Americans...and, of course, as the world's economic and military Superpower, the U. S. government simply doesn't have to worry about how the rest of the world feels about its shameful Cuban policies. The controversial Trump is fully aware of those facts and realities. Thus, a handful of the most extremist Little Havana zealots, including the few remaining losers from the 1961 Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba, remain convinced that Trump, after all these decades, is about to recapture Cuba for them.

    This past Sunday on Face the Nation Secretary of State Mike Pompeo surprised Cuban watchers when he said: "We're working with with the Cubans to try to get an outcome that will let the Venezuelans have this opportunity," meaning for a better life. An amazing sentence. Whether it's North Korea, Saudi Arabia or any other questionable nation, Republicans are not just willing but anxious to talk but only a Democrat like Obama had the decency and guts to talk to key Cubans such as Josefina Vidal, who is now the outspoken Cuban Ambassador to Canada. In Congress, atop the CIA, and now as Secretary of State...all his adult life Pompeo has wanted a regime-change in Cuba, meaning U.S.-friendly or U.S. domination again. That apparently is why Little Havana U. S. Senator Marco Rubio, who is Trump's Cuban dictator, got Pompeo his powerful job as Secretary of State. Pompeo, however, is not as extreme in his hatred of Revolutionary Cuba as three other ultra-powerful positions Rubio has secured for John Bolton, National Security Adviser; Elliott Abrams, Special Envoy to Venezuela; and Mauricio Claver-Carone, the State Department's Western Hemisphere chief. But that doesn't mean Pompeo is not an extremist in advocating for a U. S. takeover of Cuba.

        So, I believe that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was just blowing smoke...obfuscating? lying? stalling for time?...when he flatly stated on Face the Nation Sunday that he or at least some key person in his department is "talking with the Cubans." No one in the Trump administration has talked with Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel, nor have they talked with Cuba's two Ministers in charge of all U. S. Affairs -- Carlos De Cossio and Johana Tablada. Rubio has made sure that key Trump people talk ONLY to Cuban dissidents while the Trump minions direct money to dissidents but try to cut off every other dime or peso to a Cuban government that guarantees food, shelter, free health care for life, and free education through the university level for all Cubans. Regardless of what propaganda Rubio mouthpieces such as Pompeo spout off about Cuba, Pompeo's State Department should be considered cruel and gutless by activating Title 3 of Helms-Burton, something that even the Batistiano-Aligned George W. Bush presidency refused to do. If the Face the Nation moderators and all the other network "news" programs in America don't have the guts or decency to quiz Pompeo and the other Rubio mouthpieces about such things as Title 3, whatever else Pompeo and his ilk say about Cuba can rightfully be trashed as self-serving lies, or maybe this past Sunday...just stalling for time while the Venezuelan diaspora plays out.  At the moment, Pompeo's State Department seems mainly concerned with trying to get Russia's and China's approval for the regime-change in Venezuela that will set the stages for the prime regime-change in Cuba as well as a third one in Nicaragua. To get Russia and China to ease off in Venezuela, it appears to be Pompeo's new strategy of promising Russia and China that once Maduro is gone all three world powers can share Venezuela's oil reserves, which are the most in the world. At the moment, both Russia and China are concerned with the billions of dollars they have lent or invested in Venezuela, and Pompeo is trying to address that. But has Pompeo or his people talked to Cuba as he indicated on Face the Nation Sunday?? HELL NO, because Little Havana will only let Republicans talk to Cuban dissidents.

     Of course, JOHN BOLTON as Trump's National Security Adviser, is clearly the biggest threat to Cuba and regional stability among the mouthpieces that Rubio has positioned atop the current administration to recapture Cuba. A key Washington media source -- The Hill -- got that right with the war-mongering-monsters illustration shown above. It reads: "Monsters eating Monsters. I ate John Bolton. I NOW ITCHING FOR A FIGHT." All his adult life John Bolton has been itching to recapture Cuba. In 2002 he began pestering President George W. Bush about make-believe chemical warfare in Cuba being a dire threat to the USA, believing it would induce Bush to wipe out Cuba. But now...as Trump's and Rubio's National Security Adviser...it appears that whatever John Bolton cooks up will suffice as the pretext...the excuse...for  military-induced regime-change in Cuba.

     And, of course, John Bolton's pretext for recapturing Cuba is VENEZUELA!! All of Rubio's mouthpieces, including Bolton, preach that little Cuba has 20,000 soldiers in Venezuela supporting President Nicolas Maduro and keeping the U.S. choice as Venezuela's President, Juan Guaido, from taking over. Of course, Bolton really means the Russian and Chinese presence has kept Maduro in office since January when it appeared Guaido was surely about to take over. Meanwhile, Bolton's well-earned reputation as a war-monger relates to small, supposedly helpless nations -- like Cuba and certainly not like Big Boys such as Russia and China. As indicated by the photo above, John Bolton has insulted America and America's best friends -- including Canada and the EU nations -- by displaying and bragging about the Trump's administration's eagerness to represent BRIGADA ASALTO 2506 in recapturing Cuba. BRIGADA ASALTO 2506 was the attack force that unceremoniously and emphatically lost in the long-ago Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba in April of 1961. Yet, to this day 2506 in the heart of Miami's Little Havana maintains an iron-grip on every Republican administration in Washington.

    Every Rubio mouthpiece, especially Secretary of State Pompeo and National Security Adviser Bolton, preach that Cuba has 22,000 soldiers in Venezuela keeping Maduro in power. Cuba says it has no soldiers in Venezuela but it does have doctors, nurses, and teachers...such as the ones shown above...doing yeoman's work in the poorest areas of Venezuela. There are international news agencies in Venezuela that are well aware of those Cuban doctors, nurses, and teachers...but those journalists haven't confirmed Cuban soldiers but have confirmed some Russian and Chinese military operatives in Venezuela. Yet, Rubio's operatives believe Americans have been programmed to believe anything the USA says about Cuba and disbelieve anything Cuba says about Cuba. For example, while the Bay of Pigs attack was underway in April of 1961, Cuba said the island was being attacked by U. S. warplanes but the U. S. told the world at the UN that Cubans flying Cuban planes were attacking Cuba. It, of course, turned out shortly that the attacking U. S. planes were falsely disguised as Cuban planes.

     Since January of 1959 a mere handful of the most radical Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami and in Newark...and in the U. S. Congress as well as all Republican White Houses...have totally dictated America's Cuban policies, reshaping the U. S. democracy. For example, study the image above. Most Cuban-Americans favor decent and normal relations with Cuba...and express themselves in organizations such as Cuban Americans for Engagement. Yet, a mere handful of Cubans in Little Havana and in the other prime sanctuary of Newark have, since 1959, dictated the USA's Cuban policies of revenge as well as lush economic and political rewards for a select few. Another example with another Republican in the White House: Little Havana and the Trump White just restricted the amont of money or goods Cuban-Americans can send to relatives in Cuba, an extremely cruel and gutless act considering the other additional sanctions added by the Trump minions. Only in a badly frayed democracy could a handful of spiteful Cubans continue to do such things to the majority of decent Cuban-Americans...and that includes the good people involved with Cuban Americans for Engagement.

     From Little Havana in Miami, Marco Rubio, and from Newark, Bob Menendez, are not only Cuban-American extremists in the U. S. Senate but they can easily dictate the harshest treatment of Cubans on the island as well as lush financial or political rewards for their favorite supporters. For example, Rubio...as Trump's Cuban dictator...just rewarded his old Little Havana mentor, a former Counter Revolutionary Mayor of Miami, as the new head of the famed Cuban-American Gold Mine known since the 1980's as Radio-TV Marti, which is purely a lush anti-Cuban propaganda machine in Miami lavishly funded by tax dollars.

    When a mere handful of only the most extremists and most self-serving Cuban-Americans...such as Rubio and Menendez...can dictate America's Cuba's policies that the whole world {and the decent President Obama} condemned 191-to-0, then it it perhaps time for both the mainstream U. S. media and the American people to do their democratic jobs and tell the truth while also trying to REINVIGORATE what once was BY FAR the greatest government on the face of the earth.

      There are in the USA today a plethora of organizations such as Cuba/US: PEOPLE TO PEOPLE PARTNERSHIP peopled by decent Americans and decent Cuban-Americans. They fully understand and intently promote decent people-to-people relations between Americans and Cubans on the island. That, of course, would benefit both nations. But as things now stand, and have stood for six decades and counting, the USA's Cuban policy is meant to sate the revenge of a handful of Cubans in Little Havana and Newark while also, most importantly, drastically enriching and empowering a self-serving minority of Cuban-Americans such as Rubio and Menendez.

    These two little Cuban girls are not enemies of America. Their mothers on the island work tirelessly to take care of them, and those mothers, despite what Americans are told, are supported in that endeavor by the Cuban government that the USA has tried to strangle every day since January 1, 1959. Yet, the World Superpower, for some reason, hasn't been able to finish off the strangulation of the vulnerable island. Tomorrow in the next edition of Cubaninsider I'll explain why that is so.

AND BY THE WAY:

    The feisty Lisa Hanna, the former Miss Jamaica, is now a member of Parliament and the Jamaica Observer reports she just gave her fellow politicians a verbal scolding for "turning your backs on friends who supported us when we were in need." She was chastising Jamaica for running scared against U. S. financial pressure in refusing to support Venezuela and Cuba. She said, "At the UN we were MIA when needed for a principled vote."

    In the Jamaican Parliament, Lisa Hanna was criticized for wearing this nice dress. The criticism made a big headline in Jamaica but her feisty retort to the misogynists made much BIGGER headlines.

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