CUBA -- America's Greatest Shame

From 1492 Till Today!!

     The best update this week -- the last full week of 2019 -- regarding the Trump administration's ongoing genocide against everyday Cubans on the island is chronicled magnificently in a gripping article in London's influential The Guardian. It is written by Carrie Gibson, who is easily the world's greatest expert on both Caribbean history and Caribbean topicality. The article is entitled: "QUIET DOCKS, EMPTY STREETS...CUBANS COUNT THE COST AS TOURISTS STAY AWAY." Ms. Gibson began her latest masterpiece on the Caribbean in The Guardian with these words: "After Donald Trump reversed Obama's warming of relations, curtailing flights and cruise-ship visits, the island is braced for a return to economic limbo. Now the docks in Havana are empty, the streets are quiet. While thousands of people once disembarked from cruise ships on a daily basis, the port now lies empty." Ms. Gibson's insight today is why Americans especially need to go Online to read this update that described Trump's and the USA's current genocide against innocent and vulnerable everyday Cubans. And that is important because the U. S. media, including the powerful mainstream left-wing propaganda specialists that primarily hate Trump and spend most of their time trying to evict him, is too afraid to inform Americans the truth about America's greatest historic and ongoing shame -- its history and topicality regarding the nearby island of Cuba.

     Of all the journalists and authors in the world, Carrie Gibson has the best bonafides to tell the world about today's U. S. genocide against everyday Cubans on the island currently being dictated by a handful of vicious Cuban-Americans empowered by President Trump who believes he needs their help to win Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes necessary for his re-election in 2020. Ms. Gibson's book "EMPIRE'S CROSSROADS: A New History of the Caribbean" is by far the greatest explanation of America's pernicious relations with Cuba from 1492, when Columbus discovered Cuba, till the eve of 2020. That HISTORY includes the explosion of the U. S. warship Maine, killing 261 U. S. sailors, to create the excuse for the Spanish-Amerian War in 1898 whereby the U. S. wrested  its long-desired imperialist domination of Cuba -- the Caribbean's largest, most beautiful, and most luscious island. The U. S. then dominated Cuba from 1898 till 1959, only losing its ownership of Cuba when the Cuban Revolution incredibly defeated the brutal, thieving U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship, chasing the leaders out of Havana to their new capital of Little Havana in nearby Miami, Florida. Incredibly, from 1959 till the eve of 2020 remnants of the Batista-Mafia regime in Cuba have dictated America's efforts to recapture the island for the Batistianos. Those efforts have included stealing lush Guantanamo Bay from Cuba in 1903 and to this day its where the U. S. has a military base as well as an infamous prison on Cuban soil. Owning the island, however, was exacerbated in 1952 when the U. S. democracy formed a nexus with the leaders of the Mafia -- Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, etc. -- to support the Batista dictatorship JUST SO rich U. S. businessmen could, with the Mafia's help, increase their larceny on the island. But starting in 1952 the extreme brutality against everyday Cubans to protect the robbery spawned the Cuban Revolution, which shocked the world when it triumphed on January 1, 1959. Beginning in Jan.-1959 the Batistiano-Mafia exiles had more than enough money to take total control of Miami economically and politically. That power, with help from the Bush dynasty and other self-serving sycophants, soon resulted in the Batistiano Americans purchasing control of Washington's dictation of Cuban policies. This usurping of the U. S. democracy essentially created a Batistiano government that exists lucratively and powerfully within the U. S. government to this day. YET, incredibly, it has not recaptured Cuba. But since 1959 the reconstituted U. S. government and the sub-government have united to fund and create grossly documented extreme terrorism against innocent Cubans on the island as well as against Cubans in Miami who sympathized with innocent Cubans on the island; the April-1961 Bay of Pigs air-land-and-sea military attack on the island was another U.S.-Batistiano disaster; an extreme U. S. economic embargo/blockade against the island has existed since 1962 till today to shame democracy; and in 1996 vicious Havana-born Counter Revolutionary exiles in Miami -- billionaire Jorge Mas Canosa and Lincoln Diaz-Balart, son of a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship -- crafted the infamous Helms-Burton Act that, from 1996 till today, funnels tons of tax dollars from Washington to selected Cubans in Miami while also legalizing unconscionable punishment for Cubans on the island, punishments that turned GENOCIDAL in April-2019 when Trump activated Title 3 of Helms-Burton that not even the Batistiano-aligned George W. Bush presidency considered too GENOCIDAL to activate; etc., etc. The Carrie Gibson book depicted above chronicles such history and her article in the The Guardian this week updates the Trump-orchestrated genocide against Cubans on the island that is currently taking place. Both scenarios -- the U.S.-Cuban history and the current U. S. genocide against Cuba -- say a helluva lot more about the United States than they say about Cuba, an island nation forced to cope with a lustful nearby Superpower.

     The aforementioned article in The Guardian this week by Carrie Gibson features the above photo, which is courtesy of Adalberto Roque/AFP//Getty Images. It showed, thanks to President Obama's concluding his normalization of relations with Cuba in 2016, Havana Harbor alive with Cubans watching another cruise ship visiting the island. Such tourism thanks to Obama fueled a thriving entrepreneur class in Cuba and the commerce also greatly aided Americans, including all those involved with the ports and other businesses in nearby Florida. But in January-2017 Trump replaced Obama as President and once again, as with all Republican administrations since the 1950s, the Batistiano leaders in Miami and in Congress gained total control of America's Cuban relations. Thus, with the Batistiano grip around Trump's neck, America's shame pertaining to Cuba has involved into genocide against totally innocent Cubans on the island while also, of course, further enriching already rich Cubans in Florida by Trump's activation of Title 3/Helms-Burton that, while legalizing genocide against the island, allows lucrative lawsuits in Florida courtrooms against individuals and companies considered remotely friendly to Revolutionary Cuba.

     The article in The Guardian this week by Carrie Gibson includes the above photo of Cuba reeling under the post-Obama genocide imposed by the grip Batistianos in Miami and in Congress have on President Trump. The fact that a great  foreign journalist-author like Carrie Gibson can write about this American shame while American journalists-authors don't have either the guts or the integrity to do so explains the acute insult to America and Democracy that has been perpetrated by the U.S.-backed Batista rule in Cuba in the 1950s and the Batistiano rule in the United States today. It reconfigured the famed democracy that the United States once so honorably enjoyed.

     So, Americans who are bombarded by the U. S. Media about America's shame about Trump's nebulous and amorphous phone call to Ukraine's new President are not being told about Trump's greatest shame, which involves the Title 3/Helms-Burton genocide being unleashed against innocent Cubans on their vulnerable island. Meanwhile, from London Carrie Gibson this week in The Guardian tells the world about America's greatest shame, which involves ongoing genocide against Cuba perpetrated by the Batistiano government headquartered in Miami with the help of the United States government headquartered in Washington.

    Democracy-loving Americans, after going Online to read Carrie Gibson's must-read article today in The Guardian, should care ENOUGH about their democracy to read Carrie Gibson's seminal book "EMPIRE'S CROSSROADS" that tells Cuba's Spanish and American ownership in the four+ centuries that preceded the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959. In 2019 the King of Spain made a friendly four-day visit to Cuba to apologize for Spain's brutal imperialist domination of the island but the United States of America would need permission from its Batistiano government to either apologize to Cuba or to cease the ongoing TRUMP ERA GENOCIDE that the world knows all about but Americans are not supposed to know about.

   For Americans not to be truthfully told about the difference between Trump's genocide AGAINST Cuba and Obama's decency TO Cuba bespeaks monumentally of America's GREATEST SHAME. A democracy that distorts such a monumental fact is not the great nation that America's Founding Fathers envisioned in 1776.

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Cuba Has New Prime Minister

Prime Minister Manuel Marrero of Cuba!!

     Cuba today -- Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019 -- got it's first Prime Minister in 40 years, or since Fidel Castro transitioned from Prime Minister to President four decades ago. Manuel Marrero is the island's new Prime Minister, being promoted from his job as Tourism Minister.

     At 11:37 A. M. today President Miguel Diaz-Canel announced that Manuel Marrero was named Cuba's Prime Minister.

     Since April 19, 2018, 59-year-old former Education Minister Miguel Diaz-Canel has been President of Cuba. He suggested the position of Prime Minister, which will largely be in charge of Cuba's economy "particularly in the areas of food and energy security." That makes the Prime Minister Manuel Marrero almost as important as Diaz-Canel.

    With tourism so vital to Revolutionary Cuba's economic survival, the island's new Prime Minister Manuel Marrero earned the promotion because of his stellar reputation as Minister of Tourism. In 2018 Cuba set records for tourism on the heels of U. S. President Barack Obama's historic normalization of relations with Cuba but the transition to President Donald Trump in January of 2017 began to erase all of Obama's detente and has replaced it with stifling and even genocidal economic restrictions on Cuba's economic existence, including U. S. efforts to block tourism and all other efforts to harm the island's ability to make money. So 2019 has shown a drastic dip in tourism for Cuba, drastically hurting the private entrepreneurial class that had thrived briefly because of Obama. Now as Prime Minister Manuel Marrero's expertise in the area of promoting tourism in the Age of Trump is perhaps more needed now than it has ever been during the six decades that the U. S. embargo against Cuba has existed.

      As Cuba's Minister of Tourism, new Prime Minister Manuel Marrero has expertly championed the Caribbean's largest and arguably its most beautiful island as the best choice and bargain for tourists. It is likely that Cuba would be dominating tourism in the Caribbean except for the fact that Cuba remains, decade after decade, the nation that faced history's cruelest and longest economic blockade/embargo ever imposed by a powerful nation against a much weaker nation. For over six decades, or since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 overthrew the brutal U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship, sovereign Cuba has somehow held off the drastic efforts of the United States, the Batistianos, and the Mafiosi to regain control of the island. All the while Cuba's pugnacity and mystique, instead of thriving as a prosperous jewel as a tourism magnet coupled with its other assets, since 1959 has been forced to defend itself against the U.S.-backed Batistiano-Mafia exiles who once dictated Cuba but now dictate the nefarious U. S. policies against Cuba.

      In the last six decades, only President Barack Obama has had the guts, decency, and intelligence to strike back at the above definitive worldwide image of the United States regarding its unconscious red-eyed greed and black-clawed avarice against the nearby island that, since evicting the U. S. and the Batistianos in 1959, has been an independent country. As the post-Obama presidency of Donald Trump proves, the USA's relations with Cuba, dating back to the Spanish-American War fought on Cuban soil in 1898, have done more to tarnish the United States democracy than anything else in America's history. And during Trump's three years as President, Cuba has proven more than ever that the renowned United States democracy is simply not strong enough to deal with the image evoked above.

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Cuba Has Opinions Too

And Not Just Miami Cubans!!

     Today and tomorrow -- December 20th and 21st, 2019 -- the 605-member Cuban National Assembly is holding sessions to discuss issues relating to what most members believe is the USA's Trump regime conducting genocide on everyday Cubans. Another item that will be decided is the naming of a Prime Minister to assist President Miguel Diaz-Canel's governing of the island. The last time Cuba had a Prime Minister was forty years ago when overall leader Fidel Castro was transitioned, among other things, to President to replace Osvaldo Dorticos. The new Prime Minister will serve for five years and must come from the full National Assembly, be at least 35 and be a citizen of Cuba by birth.

        Powerful Cubans such the three above are among the major candidates to be the island's new Prime Minister by tomorrow, Dec. 21-2019.

       Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel not only approves the position of Prime Minister but he suggested it.

      If he wants the job as Cuba's new Prime Minister, Alejandro Castro Espin will likely be named to the position tomorrow. He is the son of two revolutionary icons, his still-living dad Raul Castro and his late mother Vilma Espin.

 Raul and Alejandro.

     Of all {13} of the children of Raul and Fidel, Alejandro Castro Espin is easily the most powerful. It is now known that Alejandro represented Cuba in all the major decisions that finalized the historic normalization of U.S.-Cuban relations during the administration of President Barack Obama.

     And now we know that Ben Rhodes represented Obama and the United States during the massive discussions that brought detente that drastically normalized six decades of fierce animosity between the two neighboring nations that followed the Jan. 1-1959 overthrow of the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship that robbed and brutalized Cuba throughout most of the 1950s. In his insightful book "THE WORLD AS IT IS," Ben Rhodes revealed his exhaustive and delicate discussions with Alejandro Castro Espin during secretive meetings the two men had first in Canada and then later in a neutral Caribbean country. In his book, Rhodes detailed that Alejandro powerfully and expertly laid out what Cuba wanted and didn't want from Obama and the USA. For example, Alejandro adamantly wanted the Cuban 5 -- the Cubans who had been sent up-to-lifetime jail terms in the U. S. to please vicious Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami. Amazingly, Alejandro insisted that the imprisoned Cubans were returned to Cuba as national heroes for their work trying to prevent terrorism against innocent Cubans by Cuban exiles in Miami. Amazingly, Rhodes on behalf of Obama agreed to freeing the Cuban 5 who remain superb national heroes on the island today. Also in his book, Rhodes said that Alejandro insisted that the U. S. return Guantanamo Bay to Cuba because Alejandro maintained that the U. S. had stole the plush land and port in 1903 when occupied Cuba was dominated by the U. S. after the 1898 Spanish-American War. Rhodes was sympathetic to Alejandro's plea about Guantanamo Bay but the persistent Cuban negotiator finally understood that Obama could not deliver that jewel back to Cuba because the U. S. Congress, which abides with Miami extremists on Cuban issues, dictates that the congressional Helms-Burton Law, a Batistiano goldmine, controls things such as the infamous but "legal" theft of Guantanamo Bay. After reluctantly accepting the situation that governs Guantanamo Bay, Alejandro basically won all of his other demands, making the normalization of U.S.-Cuban relations an historic fact -- at least till the Republican Trump replaced the Democrat Obama as President of the United States in January of 2017.

    This photo shows President Obama and Ben Rhodes looking out the windows of Air Force One on its historic flight over Havana in March of 2016. Because of help from Rhodes, Obama became the first U. S. President with the guts and decency to visit Cuba since President Herbert Hoover visited the occupied island on a warship in 1928.

     Not only did Ben Rhodes represent President Obama in all the delicate negotiations with Alejandro Castro Aspin that normalized U.S.-Cuban relations, Ben Rhodes was the speech-writer who wrote all of Obama's speeches related to Cuba. That included the speech above in which, while in Cuba, Obama spoke on state-wide Cuban television and radio the above words: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." They were sincere words delivered by Obama and written by Ben Rhodes alhought that promise was later turned upside-down, unfortunately, by the less decent and less intelligent Trump administration that followed the Obama presidency.

     But the Ben Rhodes' book "THE WORLD AS IT IS" remains the best documentations about how Cuba and the United States finalized the historic detente during the Obama presidency. One fact that Rhodes documents in his book is the fact that Alejandro Castro Espin is one of the three most powerful people in Cuba today.

          And tomorrow -- Dec. 21st, 2019 -- Alejandro Castro Espin will be named Cuba's Prime Minister unless he has already decided that he doesn't want the position. Alejandro was born 54-years-ago in Havana.

      Earlier in Havana this week an amazing thing happened: A decent Cuban, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, and a decent American, Benjamin Chavis, held discussions about how the two neighboring countries can possibly have decent interactions even as another Republican administration, Trump's, is determined to finally recapture the island to appease a handful of Little Havana-headquartered Cubans in Miami and in the U. S. Congress. Carlos de Cossio is Cuba's top Minister related to U. S. relations and Ben Chavis is the President and Executive Director of the National Association of Newspaper Publishers. This session in the latter days of December-2019 is actually a part of Edition XVIII of the Series of Conversations About Cuba in the Foreign Policy of the United States. This session is ultra-important but mostly unreported because the Trump-authorized genocide of innocent Cubans on the island is being gruesomely carried out by a few unchecked Cuban Counter Revolutionaries even as Trump's impeachment is continuing to dominate both the mainstream U. S. media and the United States Congress.

     In the above news conference, Carlos Fernandez de Cossio summarized his discussions with Ben Chavis with these words: "Cuba negotiated with Obama's people and had great  results and benefits for Cubans and Americans. But Trump's people will not speak with us and all they do is impose more-and-more genocidal assaults on the Cuban people. And that's where we are now, as we stand ready to discuss with the United States relations to help both nations. We need to act like friends, not enemies, because we are neighbors."

       And then, as de Cossio listened, America's Ben Chavis said, "I represent Americans who are working with Cubans like Mr. de Cossio now because we are not waiting for November of 2020 till President Trump, who is surrounded with bad people, is voted out of office. The vast majority of Cubans as well as Americans and Cuban-Americans want us to succeed, and America is still a democracy. And our democracy must respond to the will of its people, EVEN concerning CUBA."

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Cuba vs. 'impeached" Trump

But Genocide Against Cuba Still Endues!!

       History will always register today -- December 18, 2019 -- as the day the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the U. S. Congress, "Impeached" President Donald Trump. The House is dominated by Democrats.  In America's two-party system, Trump is a Republican. The "Impeachment" completes a paranoid 3-year-old effort by the left-wing Democratic Party extremists and the left-wing extremists in the mainstream U. S. media to overturn not just Trump but also to nullify the 2016 presidential election, establishing a precedent that might scar democracy forever. But, of course, the "IMPEACHMENT" will now be massively overturned by the Senate, the upper chamber of Congress, that is dominated by Republicans. In fact, the left-wing extremists in the Democratic Party and the mainstream U. S. media put the unqualified Trump in the White House in November-2016 and they will likely make sure Trump is re-elected as President in November-2020. The wild-eyed "impeachment" extremists today in the House, in fact, have been so ignorant and so biased that it will aid Trump's re-election. Thus, in the final 11 months of Trump's first term as President and in the probable following four years of his second term will continue to be devastating for 11.4 totally innocent Cubans on the Caribbean's largest island. All Republican Presidents since 1952 have been tightly aligned with the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba or, since 1959, with the Batistiano-Mafiosi remnants who created their capital of Little Havana in the heart of Miami. But Trump's Republican administration is the most genocidal in U. S. history, as I will explain, against innocent Cubans on the island to appease a few vicious but powerful Cubans in the United States.

     The 3-year effort to impeach Trump has been led by extreme left-wing Democrats like Adam Schiff, the obsessed Congressman from California. The scam has created a divided America that well might erupt into evolutionary chaos...and even revolutionary or Civil War-like bloodshed...depending on the results of the 2020 presidential election. The left-wing Democrats along with the left-wing media pits black and brown Americans against white Americans; moreover the Dems 3-year effort has convinced the vast majority of all Americans that the U. S. Congress for three years has done nothing but try to impeach Trump. Everyone who knows me personally or via this blog should be aware that I am vehemently against Trump's presidency. Yet, if I had to choose between Trump and the likes of Adam Schiff, I would have to choose Trump. That rationale, which I think is shared by many everyday Americans, is this: Trump in due time will pass from the political landscape but, in a vastly polarized nation, the ultra-rich and ultra-extremist left-wingers like Schiff that now dominate the Democratic Party and the mainstream media appear to have the wherewithal to make their extremism a permanent scar on America and its Democracy. In other words, I think Schiff and his ilk are more dangerous to America and Democracy than is Trump.

     These Democrats obsessed with eliminating Trump also display no respect for the Office of President nor for the democratic electoral process. Their coup d'etat to get rid of Trump is simply more dangerous than Trump.

     The attempt by the Democrats and the left-wing Media to destroy Trump began in earnest even before Trump took the oath to be America's President on January 20th, 2017. After two years of unearthing one supposed pretext or another, the Dems and the Media zeroed in on a nebulous, amorphous telephone call Trump made to the new President of Ukraine. With unrelenting 24-hour-a-day propaganda spewed forth by CNN and NBC-MSNBC as well as other left-wing non-journalistic outlets such as the Washington Post and the New York Times, Ukraine became the "scandal" that the Democratic Party finally settled on to eliminate Trump. Meanwhile, the conservative media, especially Trump's formidable ally Sean Hannity on Fox News and Hannity's 625 radio stations that air his talk show, easily pointed out with videos and other documentations that the Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden and his collaborator son Hunter Biden were far more culprits than Trump when it came to Ukraine, yet both Speaker of the House Pelosi and the media left-wingers pretend the Bidens were totally innocent while they were saturating the world with any-and-all propaganda that supposedly proved Trump was/is the worst human in history and if he is not stopped the USA will cease to exist and be replaced by "terrible" Russian-speaking people.

      In other words, Impeaching Trump is not about Ukraine. It is about the fact that the anti-Trump crowd is worse than Trump. {Please understand that I say that even though I believe Obama was America's best President and that Trump is the worst of America's 45 Presidents}.

     I have spent a long life as a strong liberal proponent for Civil Rights, especially for black Americans and brown Americans. But the extreme left-wing denizens that now dominate the Democratic Party and the mainstream Media in the United States promote an anti-white bias that, in the end, profits token brown and black Americans but boomerangs cruelly to the detriment of most brown and black Americans. So, extreme left-wingers who use decades...centuries...of discrimination against people of color now believe that gross discrimination of whites will now benefit them politically and otherwise.

     The media and Democratic Party left-wing extremists are insulting the intelligence of intelligent Americans by distorting the "Ukraine scandal" as the reason to impeach Trump. But Trump should be impeached for activating Title 3 of the Helms-Burton Act to appease a few Counter Revolutionary Cubans that Trump believes will make sure he wins Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes needed for his re-election in 2020. In other words, by activating Title 3 Trump was willing to commit genocide against innocent Cubans on the island in order to appease extreme anti-Cuba Cubans in Miami. Even Batistiano-aligned President George W. Bush refused to activate Title 3 because he realized it would create havoc and even genocide among Cubans on the island.

UKRAINE? It's a damn lie.

 Title 3? It's the damn truth.

       So, the extreme left-wing Democratic Party and the extreme left-wing U. S. media are grossly lying when they say Ukraine is why Trump should be impeached. And the same Democratic Party and the media are also grossly lying to the American people when they DON'T have the guts to say that Title 3 of Helms-Burton IS the real reason Trump should be impeached.

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Fidel STILL Rules Cuba

A U. S. Denied Fact!!

       Just about the only basic fact that Americans have been exposed to regarding the life of Fidel Castro is the fact he died of old age at 90 on November 25th, 2016. Just days prior to the New Year of 2020, another basic fact that Americans are not supposed to know is this: Fidel Castro still rules Cuba and, moreover, that will be so until or IF the Little Havana-portion of the United States government recaptures Cuba.

     Since Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution on Jan. 1-1959 chased the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictators from Havana to their new headquarters of Little Havana in nearby Miami, the Cuban narrative in the U. S. has been dictated by anti-Castro Cubans. Starting in January of 1959, extreme Mafia money accrued in Cuba {gambling, prostitution, drugs, etc.} from 1952 till 1959, buffered by historic Batista/Mafia brutality, easily overwhelmed the economy and the politics of Miami. Soon, still supported by U. S. businessmen and other sycophants who had profited from Batista's Cuba, Little Havana's Cubans eventually used the support of the extremely sycophantic Bush dynasty to extend their power from Miami to Washington, carving out niches in the U. S. Congress and, of course, in all Republican White Houses. Beginning in 1959, but especially since 1989 when the Bush machine first put Havana-born Castro haters like Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in the U. S. Congress, America's two-party political system -- Republican and Democratic -- has been a two-party system that includes a sub-Little Havana government.

       And Thus, a fact of American life is the undeniable, but ruthlessly denied, truth that Calle 8 {8th Street} in Miami has a ruthless and lucrative grip on the overall United States government, including the U. S. Treasury especially but, when it comes to Cuba and Cuban allies, also the awesome threat of the U. S. military might.

      For example, another staunch Cuban ally in Latin America -- Evo Morales, the President of Bolivia for 13 years -- has recently been overthrown by a coup that he blames on "anti-Cuban forces in Calle 8 controlling Trump." Many respected Latin American experts agree with him about the coup and about "8th Street" in Miami. Also, Evo Morales is able to resonate in many international circles with the quotation above. That's because the history of Latin America is replete with the USA's penchant for supporting brutal right-wing dictatorships such as...Batista in Cuba, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Somoso in Nicaragua, Pinochet in Chile, etc., etc. And now that another Republican administration -- Trump's -- rules the White House, Latin American governments are aware that the USA is currently gloating about right-wing anti-Cuban governments now in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Colombia, etc., while at the same time the USA is obviously engaged in funding and promoting ongoing coups/regime changes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and elsewhere. Evo Morales and other players in Latin America who are both anti-U. S. and pro-U.S. believe that "Calle 8", in its fervent attempt to finally recapture Cuba while Trump is still President, is orchestrating the coups/regime changes in Latin America in nations -- such as Bolivia -- that recently have had governments that were staunch allies of Cuba.

         Although few will admit it, every journalist and politician in Miami and Washington believes that Trump's anointment of Calle 8's Rubio relates to Trump's belief that Calle 8 Cubans will deliver to Trump Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes in his 2020 re-election bid. Meanwhile, Rubio and a vicious array of well-known anti-Cuba Cubans he has been able to appoint to important very sensitive anti-Cuban positions {such as Mauricio Claver-Carone}, and they are responsible for using the U. S. government to unleash starvation-genocidal legalities against everyday Cubans on the island...along being expected  to be responsible with the aforementioned coups and regime changes now rampant among Cuban allies in Latin America. The reason a Calle 8 lightweight like Rubio is able to dictate such atrocities is because of Trump, for sure, but also BECAUSE both American citizens and the mainstream U. S. media are afraid of the rich and powerful Calle 8 denizens that have ruled Miami since 1959 while also being able to dictate Cuban policies to Washington since the 1980s. {In the 1980s Bush dynasty-aligned Counter Revolutionary Cubans like Jorge Mas Canosa started becoming Billionaires in Miami and Bush dynasty-aligned Havana-born Counter Revolutionary Cubans such as Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, followed shortly by the Diaz-Balart brothers, started being elected from Calle 8 to the U. S. Congress}.

      The recent coup in Bolivia epitomizes how Calle 8's quest to recapture Cuba is helping to reshape the political alliances in Latin American nations such as Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, etc., although Argentina has just elected a strong pro-Cuban government to buck that trend.

    Meanwhile, as this photo shows, Cubans on the island are now wired to the Internet and they are abundantly aware of what is happening to their island in the Trump-Rubio Era in the United States, three brutal years after which the previous 8 years of the Obama presidency had treated them with respect and decency. Cubans on the island are now as obsessed with Social Media interactions as Americans are and they are aware of Calle 8's influence on Trump but they are also aware that most Cubans and Cuban-Americans in the Miami area support them and want normal Obama-like relations with them. But Calle 8 makes sure that Trump and Rubio ignore what most Cuban-Americans think about U.S.-Cuban relations.

     On Jan. 20-2017 when the Republican Trump replaced the Democrat Obama as President of the United States meant that relations with Cuba changed instantly from total decency to sheer genocide. And that says a helluva lot more about the two-party political system in the USA than it says about Cuba. It also should remind everyone that in the 1950s the Republican Party in the U. S. aligned America's democracy with top Mafia kingpins like Lucky Luciano to rape and rob Cuba at will, till the Cuban Revolution intervened in January of 1959. And since January of 1959, the Republican Party and the U. S. remnants of the Batista-Mafia dictators in Cuba have tried mightily to recapture Cuba -- now using blackouts, starvation, and other genocidal tactics against everyday Cubans on the island as well as Latin American coups and regime-changes in pro-Cuban nations that are designed to lead to the BIGGEST PRIZE OF ALL, the recapture of Cuba. So, the difference of Republican Trump replacing the Democrat Obama as President of the U. S. is the difference between genocide and decency to Cubans on the island.

          INCREDIBLY, since 1959 one street on U. S. soil -- Calle 8 in the Little Havana section of Miami -- has, during all Republican administrations, enabled Counter Revolutionary Cubans to use the treasury and the awesome might of the United States to enrich themselves while also attacking and punishing Cubans on the island while also crafting legal Helms-Burton-like laws. In many ways, many of those who fled the corrupt Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba in 1959 were startled to discover even more lucrative CORRUPTION on American soil.

      Although never remotely held accountable even by Democrats, one self-serving  Republican U. S. dynasty -- the Bush dynasty -- was all Cuba-born/anti Castro Calle 8 exiles needed to strike it ultra-rich and ultra-powerful in America.

      For example, the Fanjul brothers were from a rich family in Cuba but they never became multi-billionaires until after the Cuban Revolution made them unchecked giants in Miami. In America's two-party system, one Fanjul brother takes care of Democrats and the other one takes care of Republicans. The one in charge of Democrats famously placed a historic long phone call to President Clinton that was actually answered even though at the time Clinton was engaged in sex with an intern at the White House. You see, Cuban multi-billionaires like the Fanjul brothers seem to understand that the USA's two-party system is more corrupt and far-more lucrative than even the one-party system Batista and the Mafia had in Cuba, with U. S. support, from 1952 till 1959.

     Yes, Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution changed history in 1959 and it ended up changing the United States even more it changed Cuba itself. And, yes, somehow Fidel Castro managed to live 90 years before he died of old age in Havana.

      Of course, Fidel Castro holds many records, including surviving 638 {or so} "assassination attempts by the CIA" according to America's Guinness World Record tabulations.

      And today in the Age of Trump, most Cubans on the island "Love Fidel" and hate Trump and Rubio as they yearn for a decent U. S. president such as Obama who was not dictated to by Calle 8 in Miami. As visitors to Cuba who intermingle with everyday Cubans know, and as those who monitor what Cubans say on their now ubiquitous Social Media chats and posts, Fidel Castro still rules Cuba more than three years since his death, and that will remain so until or IF Calle 8 regains control of the pugnacious island.

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