USA's Cuban Dictators

Unchecked, Unconscionable!!
{Wednesday, June 12th, 2019}

     Norwegian Cruise Lines, headquartered in Miami, controls 8.7% of the worldwide cruise market. The Norwegian Sky and the Norwegian Sun were its two ships thriving on cruises to Cuba from Miami. But last week the Trump administration, which allows Cuba-exile extremists in Miami to dictate its Cuban policies, stopped all such cruises to Cuba in an urgent USA effort to strangle the Cuban economy and starve Cubans on the island to please well-heeled Cuban-exiles in Miami and in the U. S. Congress. Thus Norwegian this week -- June 10, 2019 -- announced that its two Cuban cruise ships -- the Sky and the Sun -- will now be diverted to the Bahamas with new introductory prices of $169 for 3-to-5-day cruises.

       Carnival Cruise Line had a very popular Miami-to-Cuba sailing but it is being sued by Miami-exiles who claim their ancestors in Cuba owned Cuban ports prior to 1959 when the Cuban Revolution chased the leaders of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to Miami. The Trump administration, totally controlled by extremists Miami-exiles, has opened up such lawsuits in U. S. courtrooms to highlight the two prime goals of Counter Revolutionary Miami-exiles -- which is FIRST to get rich and SECOND to starve the Cubans on the island.

    This week -- July 10th, 2019 -- The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia, used the above photo to explain how its huge world-renowned port is being harmed by the Miami extremists wiping out its popular cruises to Cuba. The article, written by Gordon Rago, said the Norfolk-to-Cuba sailings by the Carnival Sunrise had been extremely popular and that, of course, was why the Miami exiles stopped them. Gordon Rago wrote: "257,500 Americans, not counting those of Cuban origin, had visited Cuba from January through March. Over half -- 55% -- arrived by cruise ships." That article in Virginia's largest newspaper merely confirmed what already was evident -- the handful of Cuban extremists in the U. S. are totally willing to punish EVERYONE ELSE in order to dictate their self-serving starvation tactics against Cubans on the island.

     Just as The Virginian-Pilot pointed out on June 10-2019, starving Cubans on the island and enriching a handful of extremist Cubans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress is par-for-the-course whenever a Republican is in the White House, but never prior to Trump have the Counter Revolutionary extremists had 100% dictatorial control of America's Cuban policies. That abominable anti-Democracy situation not only punishes the vast majority of Americans and Cuban-Americans, but that majority also seems helpless in its efforts to correct the attempted genocide...and this past weekend a decent long-time U. S. Senator expressed the shame that a mere handful of Cuban-exiles can exert within the bowels of what once was the world's strongest and most respected Democracy. Such honors are now reserved for the Baltic and European democracies.

     At age 79 Vermont's Patrick Leahy fervently continues his decades-old fight in the United States Senate to bring sanity and decency to America's Cuban policies. This past weekend, on June 8-2019, Senator Leahy penned a scathing Op-Ed in the Miami Herald. The article is entitled: "AMERICANS AND CUBANS DESERVE BETTER." He called the Little Havana section of Miami dictating genocidal Cuban policies within the Trump administration both "dumb" and "embarrassing" for both the United States and Democracy. Senator Leahy said, "I would urge all Senators to not let the same old, worn out, Cold War, isolationist, fear mongering, failed arguments about Cuba stand in the way of common sense." Senator Leahy's top aide and longtime Foreign Policy adviser, Tim Rieser, not only backed up Mr. Leahy's words but confirmed that his "dumb" and "embarrassment" diatribes were aimed directly at Little Havana's embarrassing contribution to the U. S. Senate -- Marco Rubio. Tim Rieser said on behalf of Senator Leahy, "Trying to have an intelligent conversation about Cuba with the likes of Rubio is fruitless -- a complete waste of time."

       Every decent politician and journalist in Washington is well aware that President Trump's unholy anointment of "Little Marco" Rubio as America's Cuban dictator is, as Senator Leahy said, "dumb" and an "embarrassment." It is also known that Rubio is anxious to commit starvation-type genocide on totally innocent Cubans on the island while Trump is willing to condone it because he believes, in exchange for the genocide, that Rubio and Little Havana will deliver Florida's huge bundle of 29 electoral votes for Trump's 2020 RE-election.

      The lightweight Marco Rubio is lavishly supported by tons of right-wing dollars as well as a lavish publicity organization, and for the most part he gets a free ride even from the powerful left-wing media that is obsessed with impeaching Rubio's prime Cuban benefactor, President Trump. But, I believe, any "CLOSER LOOK" at Rubio's rise in Little Havana's Cuba-obsessed political swamp will reveal that Little Marco is "Head and shoulders above everyone else in Washington when it comes to corruption and chicanery." And, yes, America...this is the same Senator Rubio currently directing the USA's all-time most flagrant genocidal schemes against innocent Cuban women and children.

       Arguably the most respected investigative journalist in Washington, Ken Silverstein, began his long and minutely detailed bio of Little Marco Rubio with that definitive sentence: "Rubio is head and shoulders above everyone else in Washington when it comes to corruption and chicanery."

     Although the mainstream U. S. media is too afraid of Little Havana to inform Americans, there is a plethora of decent, democracy-loving Americans who are devoting their lives to bringing sanity and decency to America's Cuban policies. One of them is James Williams and his Engage Cuba Coalition. Mr. Williams, of course, is outraged over a lightweight like Rubio being allowed to dictate genocidal USA-backed tactics against innocent Cubans "to the undeniable detriment of most Americans and most Cuban-Americans." On his Twitter page, Mr. Williams wrote: "The Cuban people want better lives, and they don't need us to make their lives more difficult any more than the American people need to be told where they can and can't travel." A frequent visitor to Cuba, James Williams on Engage Cuba and YouTube posted the video below showing young Cuban entrepreneurs who flourished under the decent U. S. President Obama's policies, expressing in their own words how they are suffering under the Trump-Rubio genocidal policies"

 

Tap the video above to hear from young Rubio-targeted Cubans.

     On the pages of Rubio's hometown newspaper, the Miami Herald, four young Cuban female entrepreneurs penned a scathing article in which they made it plain that the lightweight Rubio is responsible for trying to starve their children. As you can see above, Niuris Higueras and Yamina Vicenta as well as Julia de la Rosa and Marla Recio BEGGED RUBIO TO MEET WITH THEM and at least hear their side of the equation. Of course, although they took their pleas to Washington, Rubio didn't have the decency to meet with them. And, yes, America...this is the Rubio currently being allowed to use the might of the U. S. government to try to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of Cuban mothers on their own island.

       This photo was taken in Havana yesterday -- June 9th, 2019. It shows Cuban children gathered together for a closely supervised fun occasion. In addition to the starvation-like tactics being engineered by Rubio, the mothers of these children are beside themselves about Rubio's claims that he is more concerned about these Cuban children than these Cuban mothers are. I happen to know the mother and the maternal grandparents of the 5-year-old girl in the pink dress in this photo. They are decent, wonderful people. As a democracy-loving American, I regret that I can't say the same about Rubio or anyone who supports his Cuban schemes.

     For the first time since 1962 the decent President Obama bravely arranged for such things as allowing cruise ships to dock in Cuba to benefit Cubans, Americans, and Cuban-Americans. Cubans like the driver-owner of this vintage 1950's American convertible began to make good incomes driving tourists around the island...and paladars {home restaurants} thrived as did home Bed & Breakfast operations. But greedy and revengeful miscreats, hiding behind the skirts of the U. S. government, now dictate that this decent, hard-working Cuban man can't make a living to support his family.

      Cubans on the island are considered the friendliest people in the world to American tourists. This year of 2019 the Madrid Tourism Board designated Cuba "THE SAFEST PLACE IN THE WORLD FOR TOURISTS," which is interesting considering how unsafe it appears for tourists these days in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, etc. Yet, the one nation the USA's lightweight Cuban dictator Rubio restricts Americans from visiting is a nation he himself has never visited but it is also a nation that Rubio feasts on to enhance his economic and political nests.

     Every U.S.-related cruise line, including the two that use Miami as their home port, want to be free to sail to Cuba. Every port from New Orleans to Florida and on up the east coast wants the freedom to sail to Cuba. Every Farm Bureau in the United States wants the freedom to sell food and other supplies to Cuba,  as opposed to participating in trying to starve totally innocent Cubans like the young girl above wrapped in an American flag as she welcomed an American cruise ship. Of course, in addition to starving innocent Cubans, Rubio doesn't want Americans to visit the island because if they were allowed to do so freely then people like Rubio wouldn't be so able to lie about Cubans on the island or about U.S.-Cuban relations. In other words, dictating Cuban laws and the Cuban narrative in the United States should be left up to decent people like the aforementioned Senator Leahy and James Williams, not the likes of Marco Rubio. The United States Democracy deserves that, and so does the Cuban girl standing on the famed Malecon seawall wrapped in the U. S. flag as she welcomed the U. S. ship into Havana Harbor.

       The fine-tuned, vintage 1950's American convertibles shown above were waiting as privately owned taxis for a U. S. cruise ship to dock. The tourists could have taken a scenic and educational ride or have been driven to one of the paladar-restaurants or Bed & Breakfast operations that flourished in private homes thanks to Obama. But now such livelihoods are  suffering because of the starvation tactics the Trump administration is allowing Little Marco to orchestrate. And even prior to Trump & Rubio, the USA's Cuban policies had shamed both America and Democracy.

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Afraid of Cuban Truth?

Most U. S. Journalists Are!!
{Updated: Sunday, June 9th, 2019}

    You may have to go all the way out into the heartland of America, such as Pocatello, to find them, but there are still in the United States some journalists who are not afraid to tell the truth about U.S.-Cuban relations. For example, in the Idaho State Journal a true journalist named Jesse Robison is actually brave enough to confront Little Havana in Miami with some basic and badly needed truths. Reacting to the latest Trump-approved Little Havana starvation dictates aimed at totally innocent Cubans on the island, Jesse Robison was brave enough to write these words, which explain the age-old USA desires for Cuba from 1898 till 2019's Trump-era: "The United States formal relationship with Cuba began at the end of the Spanish-American War in 1898. We entered into that war with Spain after an explosion from a unknown cause sunk the USS Maine warship in Havana Harbor. At the time Cuba was fighting its third war in an attempt to gain independence as the U. S. had tried repeatedly to buy the island from Spain without success."

       The paragraph above written by Jesse Robison in the Idaho State Journal is, of course, 100% correct about the PRETEXT-EXCUSE for the United States to declare war on Spain for the purpose of capturing Cuba, and Americans still today are not supposed to Goggle how many young U. S. sailors died in that "unknown" explosion. But the sheer fact that in June of 2019 it takes a brave American journalist to write that paragraph spotlights the severe hit that Democracy in the United States of America has taken since 1898 because, for the most part, right-wing thugs from 1898 till today have dictated America's Cuban policies. For the record, if you care enough about America and Democracy to Google it, Jesse Robison's article is entitled: "AMERICA'S FAILED POLICY IN CUBA." I hope you read that entire article, because indeed there are still some brave and honest journalists in the USA who will honestly report on Cuba issues, although they are certainly in the minority. The majority of U. S. journalists, including powerful left-wingers trying so hard to impeach Trump, are simply too afraid to challenge the Cuban narrative from Little Havana in Miami that has saturated the U. S. media since January of 1959 when the Batista-Mafia dictatorship, fleeing Cuban Rebels, relocated on U. S. soil.

    From 1959 till deep into the 1970s, the Batista-Mafia exiles...still supported by the U. S. government...simply didn't tolerate any criticism in the U. S. media just as, from 1952 till 1959 in Cuba, the same people didn't allow it on the island. In Miami by the 1970s Emilio Milian had emerged as the best and bravest Cuban-American journalist. Emilio criticized such unchecked Cuban-exile terrorism as the bombing of the civilian, child-laden Cubana Flight 455 that killed all 73 on board. In Miami car-bombings were a favorite tactic against critics because they sent definitive messages. Emilio Milian thus was such a victim and, yes, such messages have resonated in the United States of America ever since.

          On the other hand, since 1959 Cuban-exile Counter Revolutionary extremists have easily dominated both the right-wing and the mainstream U. S. media with constant print, verbal, and electronic propaganda. Humberto Fontova was born in Havana 65 years ago and he is typical of the plethora of Counter Revolutionaries who have thrived in their endless but so far unsuccessful quest to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. For example, in a mammoth article today -- June 8th, 2019 -- that originated in the right-wing and highly financed Townhall propaganda forum, Humberto Fontova wildly celebrated the latest effort of the current Batistiano-directed Republican administration, TRUMP'S, to starve Cubans on the island to appease the Counter Revolutionary extremists in Miami and in the U. S. Congress. The Townhall article by Humberto Fontova today is entitled: "TRUMP TIGHTENS STRANGLEHOLD ON CASTRO'S FINANCIAL THROAT -- SCRAPS OBAMA'S FAILED CUBA POLICY." So there...I've given you the title and the source and if you think the United States of America should be supporting the starvation of totally innocent children, women, and men on a nearby vulnerable island...then BY ALL MEANS you will want to relish the latest propaganda from the likes of Humberto Fontova.

     And OH, YES!!! If you loved reading the aforementioned article in which Humberto Fontova hailed President Trump for the current USA attempt to starve Cubans on the island, YOU ALSO MIGHT LOVE to attend Humberto Fontova's ubiquitous speaking engagements, as shown above, or you surely will want to buy Humberto Fontova's passel of Counter Revolutionary propaganda books!!!!!!!

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Rubio Expands His Cuban War

His Weapon of Choice: Starvation!!

       In 2016 when President Obama was trying desperately to normalize relations with Cuba, the Carnival Adonia {above} docked in Havana. It marked the first U.S.-allowed cruise ship to enter Cuba since 1962, the first year the U. S. imposed the Economic Embargo against Cuba that, according to declassified U. S. documents, was meant to...starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow the Cuban Revolution, which in 1959 had chased the leaders of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to their new sanctuary of Miami, which evolved into the new Batistiano capital of Little Havana. Since 1962 each Republican administration in Washington, all of which are Batistiano-dominated, have strengthened the original 1962 Embargo -- such as with the starvation-minded Helms-Burton Act in 1996 and the activation of Helms-Burton's Title 3 in April of 2019. And now today -- June 4th, 2019 -- the Batistiano-controlled Trump administration has banned all cruise ship travel to Cuba and banned even educational visits by Americans. After the 1962 Embargo, which remains in place, did not starve the Cuban people enough to induce them to capitulate to the Batistianos in Miami and Washington, the Trump presidency is viewed by the Batistiano extremists as their ticket to regain total control of Cuba.

     The latest starvation-genocidal war on Cuba had its origin when President Trump, to appease Little Havana in Miami and to hopefully get Florida's 29 electoral votes for his 2020 re-election, anointed Little Havana's lightweight U. S. Senator Marco Rubio as America's new Cuban dictator. Yes, this is the same Rubio that Trump, back during the 2016 Republican primary, shamed with the label "Little Marco." And, yes, this is the same Rubio that the best investigative reporter in Washington, Ken Silverstein, calls, "Head and shoulders above everyone else in Washington when it comes to corruption and chicanery." So, yes, indeed...Little Marco is America's new Cuban dictator and, if the American people put up with it, I believe they deserve to have Little Marco as America's dictator too.

      Wallowing in corruption and chicanery, Rubio today celebrated his latest starvation-genocidal dictates against the Cuban people by heralding his new Cruise Line and Educational Tour restrictions. Rubio's gutless comment today was, "These moves are fulfillments of Bolton's promise."

     Once Rubio was anointed America's new Cuban dictator by Trump, Rubio immediately was allowed to appoint extreme anti-Cuban war-mongers such as John Bolton to powerful war-mongering positions in the Trump administration. Bolton is Rubio's and thus America's National Security Adviser.

     Of course, once the famed war-monger John Bolton became Rubio's National Security Adviser, he raced down to Rubio's hometown of Little Havana in Miami to declare war on Cuba. If this photo doesn't shame democracy-loving Americans, nothing will. Bolton's declaration of war against Cuba was made as he stood before a huge Brigada Asalto 2506 banner, which was the Battle Flag when the U.S.-backed Little Havana Batistianos attacked Cuba in the historic Bay of Pigs humiliation {for the Batistianos and for America} WAY BACK in April of 1961.

     The Batistiano U. S. Congressman from Little Havana in South Florida, Mario Diaz-Balart, fancies himself as Rubio's co-Cuban dictator. Mario celebrated today's latest starvation-genocidal dictates against Cubans on the island by Tweeting that Cubans in Cuba deserve it because Cuba is "OPPOSING U. S. INTERESTS IN OUR HEMISPHERE AND OPPRESSING THE CUBAN PEOPLE." For sure, Mario Diaz-Balart knows all about "oppressing the Cuban people." After all, Mario's father Rafael Diaz-Balart was one of the key Ministers in the BATISTA dictatorship before fleeing to Little Havana in 1959 and creating the White Rose, the very first paramilitary unit in South Florida that was designed to QUICKLY recapture Cuba.

     In fact, SINCE 1993 either Havana-born Lincoln Diaz-Balart or his little brother Mario have represented LITTLE HAVANA in the United States Congress, which to a large extent is now a Batistiano Congress in Washington. In the above photo the Diaz-Balart brothers flank Havana-born Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Little Havana's all-time most zealous female Counter Revolutionary. She entered the U. S. Congress in 1989 when the self-serving Jeb Bush was her Campaign Manager and she was in Congress as a fierce anti-Castro zealot from 1989 till 2019 when, after three decades, she gave up her seat in Congress to sign a lucrative deal with a Cuba-related organization. Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Balart family will not deny that they have spent all their days on U. S. soil trying to overthrow the Cuban Revolution...come Hell or High Water!!

       Therefore since January of 1959 in Little Havana and in Washington, the extension of the Diaz-Balart family from Batista's Cuba to Batistiano's America has been allowed to dictate much of America's genocidal-starvation policies directed at three generations of Cubans on the island. If that is not so, explain how and WHY the image depicted below has been allowed to shame America and Democracy from January of 1959 till June of 2019.

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June-2019: It's STILL Fidel's Cuba

Visitors To Cuba Agree!!

    History will always register the fact that Cuba's revolutionary icon Fidel Castro died at age 90 on the evening of November 25th, 2016. His ashes are entombed in a huge rock mausoleum on the far eastern end of the island...his resting place that is near his birthplace. As a high school senior he was voted Cuba's Athlete of the Year. Later...he became a feisty lawyer and then a revolutionary of  historic note and notoriety because his two most notable foes were the MAFIA, the strongest and richest criminal organization in the world, and the UNITED STATES, the strongest and richest nation in the world.

      Cuba's current President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, was born soon after the triumph of Fidel's Cuban Revolution overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship on Janaury 1, 1959 -- an event that refigured both Cuba and the United States forever. Diaz-Canel, the island's former Education Minister, worships Fidel and the Revolution. In his quote above he says: "Nobody will achieve the purpose of weakening the revolution or bending the Cuban people."

    Anti-Fidel dissidents on the island, many supposedly funded by USA Counter Revolutionaries and by U. S. tax-dollars, for years had control of Cuba's digital Social Media actions. But that has changed now because most Cubans today have access to the Internet and most own or have access to Smart Phones. The above posting in June-2019 is typical of Social media-enhanced pro-Fidel fervor on the island. The image above states:

            "Thank you for being true, thank you for making us men, thank you for taking care of the names that freedom has...Thank you for your dignity, thank you for your faithful rifle, for your pen and paper, for you being a man. THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, FIDEL!"

     In recent years fierce pro-USA/anti-Castro dissidents like Yoani Sanchez dominated the digital universe from inside Cuba, and that included Yoani's lushly funded digital newspaper as well as her multifaceted anti-Fidel Social Media pages. Yoani writes from Cuba but she has been allowed to fly around the world to seek funding and, of course, her pivotal destinations have been Miami and the U. S. Congress.

    Any anti-Castro zealot who makes it to Miami, as Yoani Sanchez demonstrated in this photo, flocks to the lavish studios of Radio-TV Marti -- which, since the 1980's has absorbed massive and daily pipelines of Washington-to-Miami tax dollars even though everyone in Washington and Miami knows Radio-TV Marti is nothing more and nothing less than a laughable anti-Castro propaganda machine.

    And, of course, fierce anti-Fidel dissidents in Cuba, such as Yoani Sanchez, make hasty bee-lines to the U. S. Congress to meet with fierce anti-Fidel U. S. Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez. When it comes to anti-Fidel tax dollars and programs, these two Cuban-Americans are unchecked High Order Kingpins...and out of 535 members of the U. S. Congress, since 1959 there HAVE EVER been enough brave members to challenge the likes of Rubio & Menendez.

     But FAR BE IT FROM ME to suggest that Yoani Sanchez left the hallowed corridors of the U. S. Congress literally draped in sticky tax-dollars. But...uh, she did announce when she got back to Havana that she, uh...had the resources to...uh...lavishly fund her digital anti-Fidel newspapers and staff it with, uh...new hires.

      And supposedly, if Yoani Sanchez needed more dollars she knew how to phone her benefactors in the U. S. Congress.

     In fact, with Cuban-American anti-Fidel zealots like Senators Rubio & Menendez essentially operating as an anti-Fidel government within the bowels of the U. S. government, there is absolutely no need for Yoani Sanchez, Bob Menendez, and Marco Rubio NOT TO LAUGH AND MAKE FUN OF THE U. S. DEMOCRACY as well as ITS COWARDLY CITIZENS, AND ITS PUSILLANIMOUS MAINSTREAM NEWS MEDIA. No aspect of the U. S. Democracy, it appears, has the courage or the integrity these days to check or criticize such shenanigans as apparently take place routinely in the U. S. Congress around such tables as the one you see above.

     On her worldwide anti-Fidel travels, Yoani Sanchez above is saying, "Something broke, when some people got out." I'll leave it up to you to decide what she meant.

     Anti-Fidel blogs and propaganda, as Yoani Sanchez can attest, are worth A LOT OF "MONEY."

        Just a few years ago Brazil, by far the biggest and richest Latin American nation, had 12 straight democratic years in which pro-Fidel extremists, Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, were Presidents. But in June of 2019 Lula da Silva is in a Brazilian prison and Dilma Rousseff was impeached as she tried to serve out her second term as Brazil's President. So today Brazil's new President is extreme right-winger Zair Bolsonaro who is extremely anti-Fidel and extremely pro-Trump. Even so, somebody {see above} appeared surprised that anti-Fidel Bolsonaro ended up standing behind anti-Fidel Yoani Sanchez at a ceremony in which she ended up with a bouquet of flowers and...whatever!!

     Like his presidential successor Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's two-term President Lula da Silva worshipped Fidel. Lula now says he was imprisoned to keep him from running for President again. He and Rousseff insist their "crimes" were trying to help the majority poor or middle-class Brazilians and they were ousted because they were spending much of Brazil's wealth to help the poorest Brazilians, which rich Brazilians didn't like.

      Recently, Brazil's former two-term President Lula da Silva was released from prison only so he could attend the funeral of his grandson. If you look closely at the photo above, you will note that Lula was escorted to and from that funeral by a heavily armed man wearing a vest emblazoned with the logo "MIAMI POLICE S. W. A. T." Interesting?

      One thing is evident: if you are a prime anti-Fidel dissident in Cuba like Yoani Sanchez, and you have a government-issued passport to fly around the world seeking U.S. dollars, you fly to Miami and to Washington. Since 1959 anti-Fidel mania in the USA/Little Havana has created a vast array of Cuban-American MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES. And even in Cuba if, like Yoani Sanchez, you promise to be fiercely anti-Fidel {even after he has died} you can rightfully expect to be FLYING HIGH on the backs of U. S. tax-dollars. And, yes...if you are a dissident in Cuba and you want Yankee dollars you first fly to Miami; if you are a dissident in Venezuela and you want a regime-change, you first fly to Miami. If this diverts U. S. tax-dollars from worthy U. S. causes and needs, so be it!! That's just the way it's been virtually since January 1, 1959. Just ask...Yoani Sanchez.

 BUT IT'S STILL Fidel's Cuba.

President Obama visited Fidel's Cuba.

    When President Obama became the first U. S. President since 1928 to visit Cuba, he also became the first U. S. President since the 1950s to have the guts and decency to make this assurance to the Cuban people: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States."

   But unfortunately, the democracy-loving Obama's presidency was sandwiched between two Republican presidents -- Bush and Trump -- and all Republican presidents are TOTALLY AND UNDENIABLEY CONTROLLED BY LITTLE HAVANA.

    And speaking of Little Havana, on June 3rd-2019 NBC News used the above photo to illustrate another luxurious bar-restaurant opening up in Miami's version of Havana. It features an Earnest Hemingway theme of the Cuban capital as it was in the 1940's.

    Miami's Little Havana...awash with old and new money, both controversial and non-controversial...welcomes tourist dollars but uses its over-sized financial and political clout atop Republican governments to try to block tourists from visiting Cuba and uses such things as Little Havana's bible, known as "Helm's Burton", to try to starve Cubans on the island.

     Since 1996, decent democracy-loving Americans and Cuban-Americans have had a lot to say about Helms-Burton and how it became an indelible but genocidal-type American law. But the best sentence ever written about Helms-Burton was in a famous and easily GOGGLED New York Times Editorial. It included this indelible sentence: "There is, frankly, something indecent about vociferous exiles living safely in Miami prescribing more pain for their poorer cousins."

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