Cuba Offers Florida Help

Of course, It's Refused!!

        Cuba has received regional and international plaudits for its tireless efforts to keep its coastal waters as pristine as possible. Now it has drastically reformed fishing laws to further protect coral reef, sharks and rays. Cuba wants to help Florida do the same.

      For bathers, swimmers, snorkelers, natives, and tourists, Cuban waters such as the Garden of the Queens, as shown above, are considered among the world's clearest, cleanest, and safest.

      In sharp contrast, the coastal waters of nearby Florida have been plagued with with the Red Tide -- a smelly, dangerous, and untidy toxic algae.

     Microbiologist in Florida would love to accept Cuba's offer to help keep Florida's coastal waters as clean and as safe as Cuba's, but Florida's Counter Revolutionary zealots, of course, won't allow anything that might shine a positive light on Cuba.

     While the mainstream media in the United States is also, generally speaking, not allowed to say anything nice about Cuba, the London-based The Guardian today {August 26th} did sharply contrast Cuba's pristine waters with Florida's nasty waters. That powerful British newspaper said Cuba was anxious for "collaboration with the United States on protecting their shared ocean, despite President Donald Trump's policy of reversing a thaw in relations." Among those dismayed with not accepting Cuba's help is Jorge Angulo Valdes, A Cuban marine biologist, shown above in the upper-right, at the University of Florida. The Guardian quoted Jorge as saying: "If we don't look for collaboration with Cuba we can't have the full picture. Trump is doing everything he can to close the doors on collaboration. Cuba is doing everything to make it easier for us to keep those doors open." In case you want to read that entire August 26-2019 article in The Guardian, it is entitled: "Cuba Drastically Reforms Fishing Laws To Protect Coral Reefs, Sharks and Rays."

     As The Guardian article this week pointed out, U. S. President Donald Trump -- who has turned the destruction of Cuba over to Miami's most ferocious Counter Revolutionaries and extreme anti-Cuban war-mongers like John Bolton -- could care less about what's best for most Floridians and Cuban-Americans. Trump is only concerned with Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami's Little Havana section delivering unto him Florida's 29 electoral votes to enhance his 2020 re-election. And in America's two-party political system, Little Havana's iron grip around the neck of every Republican president remains a cancer that the American democracy is unable to heal. Into a 7th decade now, 325 million Americans lose out to a few anti-Cuban zealots.

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Cuba's Uniqueness Revealed Anew

G-7 In France IGNORES Cuban Genocide!!

      The lavish 2019 G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, from August 24-26 is wrapping up today with most of the attention as usual on the USA leader, which now happens to be President Donald Trump. Of course, no one ever mentioned Cuba, the little island nation in the Caribbean that happens to be the only nation in the world that Trump, and thus the USA, has targeted for evisceration, genocide, and a fate worse than...well, you get the idea. The G-7 consists of the seven richest nation in the Democratic World -- the US, the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada. Actually, it was weirdly a G-8 that included Russia till Russia in March of 2014 annexed Crimea. Trump, of course, still makes it plain he wants Russia back in the G-7...not because of Russia's wealth but because of Russia's omnipotent military arsenal. Trump, you see, admires powerful men...Putin, Kim, Zi, Al-Sisi, Bin Salman, etc., etc.

      These are the flags of the G-7 nations meeting in France. Only the U. S. wants to eviscerate, annihilate, and commit genocide against Cuba, which Trump confirmed back in June when he activated Title 3 of the already genocidal Helms-Burton Act, Little Havana's legal document designed to enrich Cubans in Miami while they await the recapture of Cuba, a process that has been ongoing since January 1, 1959.

      Of course, the G-7 summit in France that wraps up today is all about the richest nations getting richer, with calculations like trade balances with each other ruling the day as they tabulate their business with history's all-time richest nation, the USA. Neither the mainstream U. S. media, including the left-wing powerhouses that are more concerned with eliminating Trump than dispensing news, or the other 6 G-7 nations are bold enough to mention the U. S. embargo/blockade against Cuba. That is so even though, from 1962 till today, the U. S. economic embargo against Cuba has easily been the longest and cruelest ever imposed by a powerful nation against a much smaller nation. Therefore, the one item of worldwide-worthy news that will never be mentioned in relation to the G-7 or any other international gathering of rich nations is history's longest, cruelest, and ongoing economic embargo by a powerful nation, the USA, against a much weaker nation, Cuba.

       No, it is not incorrect to call the 6-decades-old U. S. economic embargo against Cuba a "a genocidal blockade."

       And no, it is not incorrect to say that -- since January of 1959 -- Little Havana in Miami has evolved into a rich and powerful government-in-exile deeply ingrained into the bowels of the sacrosanct United States government. It is interesting, I think, that neither the viciously anti-Trump left-wing U. S. media nor the G-7 nations in France are bold enough to even mention that...uh...rather glaring anomaly.

     This brave, and accurate, graphic mocks the Pinocchio-nosed United States lying about the Trump administration's activation of the genocidal Helms-Burton Title 3 back in June, 2019. It also shows the feisty Cubans on the vulnerable but pugnacious island showing their resentment of Title 3. The unending Trump-Little Havana Pinocchio-nosed propaganda is one thing; the fact that the mainstream U. S. media and the rest of the world must accept it during the Trump era is something else altogether.

      Thus, as President Trump, representing the United States, stirs his Little Havana-dictated and brick-filled pot, Cuba is basically all alone in an otherwise pusillanimous world. Therefore, Americans are not supposed to take note that the Trump-image above is stirring the genocidal Cuban pot as he gets his instruction from the Little Havana bible, the extremely legal Helms-Burton Act.

      And so, in this last week of August in the year 2019, a key international question is this: Will Little Cuba, as personified by the White Dove above, once again shock the entire world by escaping the grasp of the Superpower United States and remain a sovereign, revolutionary island nation? The answer to that question, of course, is still blowing in the Caribbean wind, so we'll have to wait and see if Trump's Helms-Burton Title 3 will finally re-establish United States dominance of Cuba, which existed from 1898 {after the Spanish-American War} until 1959 {when the Cuban Revolution defeated the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship}. At any time between 1898 and 1959 the U. S. could have established a world-class democracy on the Caribbean's largest and arguably its most beautiful island, but the U. S. chose not to do so. During that extended period of time, perhaps the most egregious U. S. act came in 1952 when the highest echelon of the Mafia was sicced on the Cuban people.

      If the U. S. government, the U. S. media, and United States history tells you that black-and-white photos like this had nothing to do with spawning the Cuban Revolution, then you are being lied to. It was brave female marches like this in 1950's Cuba that fueled the only revolution that ever defeated a U.S.-backed dictator. The poster above is self-explanatory. These brave Cuban mothers...madres...were protesting the murders...asesinatos...of their children...HIJOS...by Batista's dictatorship, a routine occurrence apparently intended to quell resistance. Instead, it started a revolution. The Cuban lady in the middle above, in the little-colored jacket, was the mother of Little Willie Soler. Today in Cuba a prime children's hospital is named for...Little Willie Soler. {I make these points as a fierce democracy-loving American who happens to think that Americans who do vile things to supposedly helpless people in a much smaller nation should be held accountable for doing those things in the name of the United States, and I'm speaking of such things that caused Cuban women like the ones above to bravely take to the streets to oppose the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship}.

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cubaninsider: Cuba Welcomes A Friend

cubaninsider: Cuba Welcomes A Friend: Canada   Visits  Again !!      Canada's Foreign Minister  Chrystia Freeland  will be back in Havana next week to meet with her cou...

Cuba Welcomes A Friend

Canada Visits Again!!

     Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland will be back in Havana next week to meet with her counterpart, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. Her aim is to get concessions from Cuba that will help calm the grave Venezuelan crisis, which Ms. Freeland acknowledges is being unfairly used by the United States to exact harsh new sanctions on the everyday Cuban people. Canada has a history of almost always treating Revolutionary Cuba fairly, and Cuba responds accordingly as a friend.

     Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez are friends and trust each other. In their next meeting next week in Havana, they will have disagreements regarding Venezuela but at least they will talk about them and mutually agree to make concessions. Since 1959 all six Republican administrations -- from Eisenhower to Trump -- have refused to talk with Cuba, believing that ANY DAY NOW the United States will regain the dominance of Cuba that it held from 1898 {after the Spanish-American War} till 1959 {when the Cuban Revolution chased the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship to its new headquarters, Little Havana in nearby Miami}.

     This photo reflects a high-ranking Cuban, Bruno Rodriguez, having a recent and official public meeting with a high-ranking Canadian, Chrystia Freeland. Since 1959, except for the brave and decent two-term Democratic Obama presidency, the U. S. democracy has simply not been strong enough to engage in discussions with Cuba. In 2019 the Republican Trump administration is currently engaged in multiple highest-level talks with the North Korean dictator Kim, with the Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, etc., etc., but the one little harmless nation the United States is not allowed to talk to is Cuba. That is so because since 1959 the U. S. democracy has been severely altered by remnants of Cuba's ousted Batista-Mafia dictatorship.

   Next week, when Bruno Rodriguez and Chrystia Freeland meet once again in Havana, they will be able to speak frankly and importantly for their two countries, Cuba and Canada. A U. S. democracy that is not permitted to do the same is a U. S. democracy that is not as strong or as respected as it was prior to the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

     Instead of having a fair-minded, smart diplomat that could engage with Cuba, the current Trump administration has three anti-Cuban imperialist war-mongering zealots -- Elliott Abrams, Mike Pompeo, and John Bolton -- in ultra-powerful positions seemingly capable of eviscerating even everyday Cubans on the island. If that sounds like an exaggeration, it is not!! For decades the Bush dynasty was totally aligned economically and politically with the Cuban-American extremists in Miami...but even the George W. Bush administration refused to activate Title 3 of the cruel Helms-Burton Act because even Bush considered it to be too cruel and genocidal against totally innocent Cubans on the island. Yet, in June-2019 the Trump administration -- goaded by the likes of Abrams, Pompeo, and Bolton -- ACTIVATED TITLE 3 OF HELMS-BURTON, which attempts to literally starve Cubans by eliminating its export-import trade.

      From 1962 until today -- in late August of 2019 -- Cuba has called the U. S. embargo "HISTORY'S ALL-TIME GREATEST GENOCIDAL BLOCKADE."

    Since Little Havana in Miami back in June-2019 persuaded its puppet, President Trump, to activate Title 3 of Helms-Burton, it is hard to dispute Cuba's "genocidal" claims against the United States of America.

     Even the left-wing mainstream U. S. media trying so hard to impeach Trump is too afraid to mention Trump's most egregious act, which was to anoint Miami's and Little Havana's "Little Marco" as the Cuban dictator on U. S. soil.

     As a U. S. Senator from Little Havana/Miami, Marco Rubio's dictation of America's Cuban policies while Trump is President is totally unchecked because the 535-member U. S. Congress is simply too afraid to oppose him. In the photo above via live C-SPAN coverage, Rubio is shown approving the Senate confirmation of Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State. Every journalist and politician in Washington knows that Rubio has amassed a WHO'S WHO of extreme anti-Cuban Counter Revolutionary zealots as top Cuban and foreign policy advisers to President Trump -- including Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, Elliott Abrams, Mauricio Claver-Carone, etc., ete., etc. The self-serving "Little Marco" is probably the last person in America who should be dictating any U. S. President's foreign policy applied to Cuba or ANY OTHER country.

You should remember..........

                     .................and take time to read or re-read what Washington's best investigative journalist, Ken Silverstein, wrote in his unchallenged and lengthy essay minutely defining Marco Rubio. It concluded that Rubio was "head and shoulders above everyone else in Washington when it came to dishonesty, corruption, and chicanery." That is in the first paragraph, after which the respected Ken Silverstein revealed a plethora of names, dates, and events to eerily substantiate his opening salvo.

And be sure to remember............

   ..................that the Progreso Weekly is published in Rubio's hometown of Miami and its editor is respected journalist Alfaro Hernandez. In the graphic above, the Progreso Weekly depicted Rubio as "Trumpified" with a Pinocchio nose. But more to the point, the Progreso Weekly said Rubio is "USING LANGUAGE OF DEMOCRACY TO SUBVERT DEMOCRACY." And, yes, this is the TRUMPIFIED Marco Rubio who is now in charge of what many consider to be the HELMS-BURTON TITLE 3 GENOCIDE AGAINST INNOCENT CUBANS ON THE ISLAND TO APPEASE RUBIO'S MENTORS IN LITTLE HAVANA. And, yes, as a Democracy-loving American, I agree with the Progreso Weekly that Rubio "is using the language of Democracy to subvert Democracy."

       THEREFORE, the Canadian Democracy next week has the freedom to send a top diplomat, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, back to Havana to have a sane and frank diplomatic discussion with Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez. In contrast, the American Democracy during a Republican administration such as Trump's does not have such freedom. And that sad insult to DEMOCRACY is meekly accepted by the mainstream U. S. media and by 325 million propagandized and intimidated U. S. citizens.

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US Offers Venezuela A Deal

 And Maduro Might Accept!!
{UPDATED: Thursday, August 22nd, 2019}

     Despite his public protestations to the contrary, there are indications that Venezuela's besieged President Nicolas Maduro may capitulate to devastating U. S. sanctions. This AP photo recorded Maduro's last defiant protestation over the weekend in Caracas. But it is known that his negotiators in Oslo, Norway, have told Trump officials he will permit monitored elections within 6 to 9 months. That promise was made back in May and when Trump negotiators wondered anew if it was a delaying tactic, Maduro loyalists then made the same promise this month of August, 2019. The U. S. negotiators, who assume Maduro would lose an honest election, also reportedly promised him a safe exile to another country...but not Cuba because presumably the U. S. also plans the long-awaited regime-change in Cuba.

    This updated AP photo shows a much-happier Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido rejoicing after he heard about the negotiations in Oslo. The United States and many of its allies have tried mightily since January to install Guaido as Venezuela's President. But support for President Maduro from Russia, China, and Cuba have stalled those plans. Guaido last weekend told the Washington Post about his new optimism with these exact words: "We are now negotiating, with Norway's mediation, guarantees -- internationally backed guarantees. That would be inside any accord."

    At the moment President Maduro still has strong support from millions of Venezuela's poorest people despite the oil-rich nation being mired down with food & medicine shortages, blackouts, and even water shortages. This AP photo shows pro-Maduro/pro-government supporters this past weekend. In addressing friendly crowds like this, Maduro has strongly blamed U. S. money that is backing Guaido because the U. S. wants to eliminate pro-Cuban Maduro and install anti-Cuban Guaido as Venezuela's President; and because the U. S. wants control of Venezuelan LARGEST IN THE WORLD OIL RESERVES.

     For decades Citgo gas stations have dotted the landscape in the United States. Citgo is headquartered in Houston, Texas, where it has an important refinery, and it is owned by the Venezuelan government. Citgo in the past year earned $34 billion in the U. S. but the Trump administration has frozen all Venezuelan assets in the U. S. and turned its money over to the U.S.-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido. Similarly, of course, the U. S. long-ago froze Cuban assets and made them readily available to lawsuits by revengeful Cuban-Americans in U. S. courts.

      Losing the profits from Citgo was one of the last lifelines for the Maduro government, insiders report.

     Assembly President Diosdado Cabello, shown above getting instructions from President Maduro, is right now the second most powerful person in Venezuela. Cabello sharply rebukes my interpretation of what is happening in Oslo concerning what clearly appears to be Maduro's capitulations to the stifling U. S. sanctions although, at the moment, Maduro still has the loyalist support of both Cabello and the Venezuelan military, which has been strengthened by both Russia and China who have both financial and regional interests in the beleaguered but oil-rich Latin American nation.

       So, the Juan Guaido vs. President Nicolas Maduro tussle in Venezuela seems to have finally tilted strongly in favor of Guaido and the Trump administration.

     This montage, left to right, shows John Bolton, Juan Guaido, and Elliott Abrams. Like all opposition leaders in Latin American countries, Guaido knows the phone numbers of all the anti-Cuban zealots in Little Havana in Miami, especially U. S. Senator Marco Rubio who thought months ago that he would get Guaido in charge of Venezuela as the prelude to Rubio's most-desired regime-change, the one in Cuba. If the Trump administration had the foresight months ago to allow Norway, Canada, and the United Nations to handle the Venezuelan crisis, Maduro would be in exile now and Guaido, instead of a U.S.-backed coup, would be one of the candidates in a closely monitored upcoming election. But with extreme ignorance, Trump allowed Rubio to reportedly put Bolton and Abrams in charge of the Venezuelan transition. Every Latin American nation is well aware that Bolton and Abrams are America's two most feared war-mongers, marred by Latin American and Caribbean histories that include Latin America's most famed massacre of civilians, as well as coups and attempted coups. Siccing Bolton and Abrams on Venezuela in 2019 to many was reminiscent of siccing Lucky Luciano and Fulgencio Batista on Cuba in 1952...or the 1973 Nixon/Kissinger-backed coup in Chile that killed the popular Democratically elected President Salvador Allende to install for 17 extremely bloody years the murderous but U.S.-friendly Pinochet dictatorship. Right-wing Republican thugs and administrations in Washington have fearful reputations throughout Latin America to this day. Bolton, Abrams, Mike Pompeo, Mauricio Claver-Carone, and all of Trump's top foreign policy zealots are hellbent on regime-changes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and, primarily, Cuba. But even the  omnipotent influence of the richest and strongest nation in the history of the world can be stymied by its reputation for coups.

    Incredibly, supposedly prodded by Rubio, President Trump named Elliott Abrams as the USA's Special Envoy for Venezuela and Trump even wanted to name Elliott Abrams as the USA's Deputy Secretary of State, as you can see above. Any democracy-loving American who takes a few moments to GOOGLE "Elliott Abrams" will cringe that a plethora of  the most controversial zealots from the Bush dynasty were resurrected by Trump...and Abrams, of course, needed a famous/infamous presidential pardon long-ago from President George H. W. Bush. Few Americans ever heard about the Mozote Massacre and that's why...SO OFTEN...politically connected American extremists are not held accountable. But EVERY Latin American nation remembers such things as...the Mozote Massacre.

    Incredibly, Elliott Abrams is now the U. S. Envoy to Venezuela, Mike Pompeo is Secretary of State, and John Bolton is the USA's top National Security Adviser...the three men President Trump and Rubio would have wanted to name as ultra-powerful foreign policy advisers IF Trump and Rubio wanted to select America's three most anti-Cuban zealots.

     If the United States, with its dire reputation in Latin America, wanted to inject itself as the leading player in the Maduro vs. Guaido quagmire in Venezuela, decent and respected Americans should have been named as the negotiators. But that didn't happen.

     Yes, what was wrong with America's past in Latin America...its preference for Batista-like or Pinochet-like U.S-FRIENDLY DICTATORS and COUPS as opposed to Democracies...remains precisely what is wrong with Trump's current use of renowned right-wing greedy war-mongers to change the political dynamic in Venezuela. In other words, Uncle Sam, as shown above, should butt out of regime-changes until or IF the USA can be represented by decent and unbiased diplomats.

    Americans may have been programmed to accept this Pinochet-Kissinger handshake in 1973 as democratic but it still to this day makes democracy-lovers across Latin America shiver.

     In order to make General Pinochet the U.S.-FRIENDLY dictator of Chile for 17 blood-thirsty years, a U.S.-backed coup killed the Democratically elected President Salvador Allende. Typically, to this day the still-living and now 96-year-old Kissinger has never been held accountable for his role, and neither will his legacy. Americans have accepted such things and, with America the world's superpower, such acceptance has also either been purchased or simply shoved down the throats of nations that disapprove.

    This historic SBS photo shows some of the aftermath on September 11, 1973, when the U.S.-backed coup killed Democratically elected President Salvador Allende to make the murderous but U.S.-friendly Pinochet the ruthless Chilean dictator for 17 years. Foreign-backed coups are never pretty, and neither are so-called "bloodless" Superpower-orchestrated regime-changes in much smaller countries. Ignorance of or acceptance of such things by Superpower citizens simply fuels more of the same.

     Economic and military power China has thrust itself into the Venezuelan crisis but military SUPERPOWER Russia is more of a threat to the U. S. desire for regime-changes in both Cuba and Venezuela. Veteran Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks for President Putin when it comes to foreign affairs. And no one thinks Lavrov is kidding when he, as shown above, repeatedly states: "We will continue supporting the Cuban people." Putin and Lavrov reportedly are considering a military base in Cuba and, indeed, recently startled the U. S. when Russia's newest nuclear-armed ship steamed into Havana Harbor.

     In the heat of the Venezuela crisis, Russian President Putin sent his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Havana to assure Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel that Russia has the military wherewithal to keep "Miami and Washington from regaining control of Cuba." Cuba would prefer friendly relations, especially regarding trade, with the nearby United States but, while trying to wait-out the Trump administration, Cuba feels it has no choice but to rely on help, including commerce, from Russia, China, Vietnam, etc., and even Japan. Those four nations, as the Trump administration has strongly exacerbated the economic blockade of Cuba, have recently assisted the besieged island with a modern railroad that includes magnificent air-conditioned passenger cars; 100 huge and colorful garbage trucks; and some badly needed financial projects at Cuba's most important Economic Zone centered at the deep-water Mariel Port 30 miles southwest of Havana. On his Twitter page and also in this recorded discussion with Lavrov, the Cuban President Diaz-Canel said, "No matter what is planned for us in Miami and Washington, while some people can be bought off, there will always be enough Cubans that will fight to the death to defend the sovereignty that the Cuban Revolution gave us in 1959."

     Several months ago when he believed the regime-change in Venezuela was about to happen, Rubio brazenly sent a Three-Word Tweet to Diaz-Canel in Havana. The Tweet, translated from Spanish to English, said, "SEE YOU SOON." Apparently, Rubio meant that, as soon as he took care of Venezuela, he would lead the omnipotent U. S. military to Havana to replace Diaz-Canel. The Cuban leader was not amused, of course.

     At the Miami-based Progreso Weekly, Editor Alfonso Fernandez, who knows Rubio as well as he knows the back of his hand, seems to believe that "Little Marco," as Trump once called him, is the last person to direct regime-changes "ANYWHERE." That includes Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. The image of Rubio above is from Miami's Progreso Weekly and, as you can see, Rubio's hometown weekly believes the "TRUMPIFIED" and Pinocchio-nosed Rubio is "USING LANGUAGE OF DEMOCRACY TO SUBVERT DEMOCRACY." Perhaps it is time the mainstream U. S. media and propagandized U. S. citizens accept that depiction of Rubio. The U. S. may have the economic and military power to execute regime-changes in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua but would it be worth fighting endless revolutionary wars in the USA's backyard...or maybe even a nuclear war with Russia??? It is known that Sergey Lavrov himself has mentioned "The Cuban Missile Crisis way back in 1962 remains the closest the world has ever come to a nuclear holocaust..." Lavrov seemed to be hinting that Russia's nuclear missiles in 2019 are far more powerful and accurate than the Soviet Union's missiles were in 1962. Was he bluffing??? Maybe...maybe not. But, I guess...we'll see.

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