cubaninsider: CUBA: In the Age of COVID-19

cubaninsider: CUBA: In the Age of COVID-19: And in   The Age  of Trump !!      As of today --  April 28th, 2020  -- Cuban statistics reveal   58  deaths related to the island&#39...

CUBA: In the Age of COVID-19

And in The Age of Trump!!

     As of today -- April 28th, 2020 -- Cuban statistics reveal 58 deaths {"Fallecidos"} related to the island's ongoing battle against the Coronavirus. Although the mainstream media in the U. S. is too incompetent and too afraid to admit it, Cuba is the ONLY NATION IN THE WORLD forced to struggle against the COVID-19 crisis while also being forced to also battle against a genocidal Blockade being imposed by a world Superpower, and in this case the Superpower is the nearby United States of America.

     Since the 1950's Cubans on the island, incredibly, have survived seven different Republican administrations in Washington, including now the Trump regime. Incredibly, even today there are about 11 million Cubans on the island who intend to survive Trump, the latest Republican Commander-in-CHIEF to promise a handful of the most powerful and vicious Cuban-Americans that the incomparable USA treasury and  the omnipotent USA military will recapture Cuba for them, the same thing the previous six Republican administrations in the past six decades have promised and tried to deliver. The photo above was taken this afternoon -- April 28th, 2020 -- in Havana and, if you take a moment to study it, you might get a hint as to why Cuba just might even survive Donald Trump. The Guerrilla Fighter above is Rosy Amaro. She is an important and influential television News Anchor on the island. Among her many promotions during the pandemic, Rosy has stressed that Cubans should "STAY HOME" as much as possible to prevent spreading the deadly virus. Recently she has suggested that Cubans use the Internet to order some of the things they need and, in that manner, the purchases will be home-delivered. Several days ago Rosy said she had purchased some items Online and this afternoon they arrived at her home. So, she used this photo to prove that Online deliveries work.

     On the same hour in Havana that Rosy Amaro was promoting her anti-COVID-19 home delivery, President Donald Trump was holding his April 28th Coronavirus News Conference in Washington. Again Trump invoked the USA's benevolence in helping other nations and "not just allies" but also enemies such as North Korea, Iran, etc. Of course, Trump has neither the guts nor the decency to include the name "Cuba" when he discusses America's benevolence. In order to include "Cuba" in regards to benevolence, Trump would need the permission of Little Havana Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami, in the White House, and in the U. S. Congress such as Marco Rubio, the Diaz-Balart brothers,  Bob Menendez, and Mauricio Claver-Carone. And NO REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT IN THE UNITED STATES will EVER GET THAT PERMISSION. In other words, the Little Havana grip on the USA in the Age of Trump is every bit as harmful to the United States as it is to the 11 million Cubans on the island who are battling COVID-19 while also battling the genocidal Blockade from the "benovolent" United States of America.

It is interesting,
I think,
that Little Havana
has captured Washington
before
it has recaptured Havana.

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cubaninsider: Rubio + COVID-19 + Cuba

cubaninsider: Rubio + COVID-19 + Cuba: Cubans   Hate Both  Equally !!     As of this last weekend of April, 2020, Cuba's updated   Coronavirus  statistics show, on the r...

Rubio + COVID-19 + Cuba

Cubans Hate Both Equally!!

    As of Monday, April 27-2020, two more deaths in the past 24 hours has pushed Cuba's death total to 56 because of the Coronavirus. The statistics above indicate that the island may be reaching a decline in confirmed cases.

     Cuba is, of course, the only nation in the world battling the COVID-19 pandemic while also battling a total economic Blockade imposed by the world's Superpower, the nearby United States. That situation prompted the notice posted above about Cuba's belief that the island's 11.5 million people need cooperation from the United States, not genocide...especially while both nations struggle with the Coronavirus crisis.

       Many Cubans on the island this weekend, especially via Social Media outlets on the Internet, are revealing that they worry as much about a Little Havana/Miami Cuban named Marco Rubio as much as they worry about COVID-19. That includes a Havana Cuban named LEIRE FERNANDEZ. Today Cubans like Leire blame Rubio for leading the USA's attempt to starve them and their families by using America's awesome worldwide economic and military power to block their lives and livelihoods. Rubio believes that will induce the Cubans on the island to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government, giving the island back to the overthrown Batistianos who have not been satisfied with just getting richer and richer in Miami for the past six+ decades, or since they fled Havana in getaway planes, boats, and ships in January, 1959. This weekend "Rubio's" name has been bandied about as often, and as villainously,  as the Coronavirus itself...by Leire Fernandez and many others.

  Leire Fernandez is the co-founder of Clandestina while Idania del Rio is the founder, and together they created their flourishing company from scratch in Cuba.

     As the owner of Clandestina the enterprising Idania del Rio watched it blossom successfully on the island and, via the Internet, into a giant business.

    The company Clandestina designs, creates, and markets fashionable clothes and accessories.

    Cubans and tourists flocked to Clandestina's stores and workshops in Havana.

         Starting with engraved T-shirts, Clandestina soon had the wherewithal to hire young models, both females and males, to promote its various attire, especially on the Internet where it still has a a sophisticated website.

 With a diverse but mostly young-adult clientele, Clandestina stayed stylish because it knows its audience very well.

     This handbag is among the many Clandestina items promoted for sale on the Internet. The company has a banner that reads: "Free Shipping Anywhere In The U. S. For Orders Over $50."

     As owner Idalia del Rio has learned, Clandestina's success came to the attention of the handful of self-serving and zealous Counter Revolutionary Cubans who dictate America's Cuban affairs -- Rubio, the Diaz-Balart brothers Lincoln and Mario, Mauricio Claver-Carone, etc. The object of Miami, Newark, and Congressional Cubans during all Republican administrations is to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. And, of course, the U. S. can't totally starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cubans on the island IF Cubans like Idalia del Rio are permitted to create their companies and make some money to help their families and the Cubans who work for them.

    So, the gutless and heartless Marco Rubio this week, as America's Trump-anointed Cuban dictator, pointed America's awesome power at Clandestina. That power includes influencing not only national companies but also international companies and countries, including Internet providers, to support its genocide against Cuba. Thus, Clandestina needs RUBIO'S permission to exist and that won't happen. Presented and promoted by the scared and intimidated television networks and the rest of the mainstream media as a choirboy, and tolerated by the afraid and intimidated American people even if he nuked all the Cubans on the island, Rubio is no more of a choirboy than Batista, Luciano and Lansky were choirboys when they were previous U.S.-backed Cuban dictators in Cuba the last time the U. S. dominated the island back in the 1950's.

    In his role as America's dictator related to CUBA POLICY, Rubio sent a gutless and heartless Tweet to two of his hometown promoters -- the Miami Herald/El Nuevo Herald explaining to his Miami choir why he is adding Clantestina to his total Blockade of the island. You are encouraged to check those two sources to read Rubio's whole Tweet but it starts with these exact words: "I want to send a message to young entrepreneurs in Cuba..." He was bragging about the fact that Little Havana Cubans who wrote the Batistiano-loving Helms-Burton Act in 1996 made it a PERMANENT law in the United States as passed in Congress that not even President Obama could change. Then Rubio bragged, "By law, the embargo cannot change..." If you take time to read that Rubio Tweet, I believe you will cringe if you are a Democracy-loving American.

     The prime architects of Helms-Burton in 1996 were the two most vicious anti-zealots in Little Havana at the time -- Jorge Mas Canosa and Lincoln Diaz-Balart. From 1996 till these last few days of April-2020, it has legalized tons of tax dollars going to Miami as well as legalizing vicious tenets of the Embargo designed to starve, deprive, and make miserable the everyday Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. The "Skull & X" attached to Helms-Burton was added only in 2019 when Trump-Rubio activated a provision known as Title 3 that had never been activated before, not even by President George W. Bush because even Bush considered it too genocidal to inflict on masses of everyday Cubans on the island.

     Since the activation of Title III of Helms-Burton by Trump and his Cuban dictator Rubio in 2019, decent and courageous experts around the world who are up to date on U.S.-Cuban relations consider it genocidal. And, as indicated by the graphic above, even Americans who are too afraid to say anything against it or to condemn it are aware of the Pinocchio-lies the U. S. has to say to justify it being inflicted on innocent children, women, and men on the island of Cuba. But, of course, the only real way Trump-Rubio can justify inflicting Title III/Helms-Burton genocide on Cuba is this simply fact: The U. S. is the world's economic and military Superpower. Yet, Americans are supposed not to be ASHAMED about these images.

     In other words, only the USA's status as the world's nuclear and economic Superpower allows Trump-Rubio to commit Helms-Burton/Title III on Cuba. As the graphic above illustrates, the United States itself is encircled with the Helms-Burton/Title III insanity as much as Cuba is...while only the USA's Superpower status permits the frowning U. S. to get away with it.

     In 2019 when President Trump activated Title III/Helms-Burton, it was legalizing U. S. genocide against Cuba. It is ashamed that neither the mainstream media nor the majority of Americans have the courage to admit it. Such cowardice shames America and Democracy.

     In 2017 when Trump made Rubio the USA's Cuban dictator, Trump was apparently aware he was willing to commit genocide on masses of Cubans on the island. But Trump appears to be willing to do it in order to have the support of Little Havana Cubans like Rubio who Trump believes he needs to win Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes in the November-2020 presidential election.

      But Trump is still President of the United States and that means that Rubio, as the USA's Cuban dictator, can legally assault a young Cuban entrepreneur who co-founded and energized a company, Clandestina, that was providing some Cuban families on the island with honest and decent livelihoods.

      As President of the United States for two terms, 2008-2016, President Barack Obama could not end the embargo against Cuba because, as Rubio bragged in that aforementioned Tweet again this week, it can't be "changed" because Little Havana Cubans in the U. S. Congress won't allow Congress to change it even IF presidents as brave and decent as Obama gets elected. But other than having to march to the genocidal dictates of the Embargo, Obama did everything he could do as President to normalize relations with Cuba.

      In 2016 when President Obama was too decent and too brave to support the USA's EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA, the worldwide vote against it was a resounding 191-to-0 against it at the United Nations. Probably no other topic in the world could get total unanimity at the UN but the U. S. Embargo did!! Yet, the U. S. democracy was simply not strong enough to end it even while the decent and brave Obama was President.

     The decent and brave President Obama went to Cuba and sincerely told the Cuban people on statewide radio and television: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." Again, I repeat...it took a decent and brave President to speak those words.

     Study the two other quotes depicted above by the decent and brave President Obama. He gave the well-educated but long-embargoed people of Cuba the chance to start their own companies and provide better homes for their families. And many Cubans quickly took full advantage of the opportunities as tourism was allowed to soar to record levels before Obama left office in January of 2017.

    But the Democrat Obama was replaced by the Republican Donald Trump and then Trump quickly reversed every positive thing Obama had done towards Cuba. Since Trump turned America's Cuban policy to Marco Rubio, ONLY the most vicious Cuban-Americans in Little Havana/Miami have dictated America's Cuban policies. Therefore, a lot of Cubans in Little Havana have gotten a lot richer while a lot of Cubans in Havana have been subjected to genocide.

     In Addition to Idalia and Leire who made Clandestina such a thriving success before Rubio attacked them, many other young Cuban women and mothers became thriving entrepreneurs in Cuba thanks to the bravery and decency of President Obama. But then they too were blocked by Rubio. Four such Cuban women and mothers wrote a heart-wrenching article in Rubio's hometown Miami Herald and they begged for the genocidal Rubio to meet them when they came to Washington so he could at least hear how much he is hurting their families. That plea is shown above as it appeared in the Miami Herald along with the entire article, which was signed by Nuris Higueras and Yamina Vicenta, both pictured above, along with entrepreneurs Julia de la Rosa and Maria Recio. Of course, Rubio didn't have the decency or the courage to meet with them.

     Back in the 1950's, prior to the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, the U. S. supported Fulgencio Batista and Meyer Lansky in the brutal and thieving Batista-Mafia dictatorship.

     In 2020 during the Trump administration, the full weight of the U. S. is supporting Miami's Marco Rubio as America's and Miami's Cuban dictator on U. S. soil. The Cubans on the island didn't deserve the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in the 1950's and the Cubans on the island don't deserve a U.S.-backed Marco Rubio dictatorship in 2020. Those are historic and topical facts. But moreover, the U. S. democracy also didn't deserve Batista and the Mafia in the 1950's and doesn't deserve Marco Rubio in 2020.

Graphic above by Progreso Weekly in Miami.

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Anti-Cuba Propagandists Proliferate

Taking Advantage of A Pandemic!!

     As of April 23rd, 2020, the island of Cuba has reported 3 more COVID-19 deaths, making a total of 43. With a population of 11.5 million, Cuba is battling the pandemic while also being forced to struggle against history's all-time cruelest and longest {since 1962} Embargo/Blockade ever imposed by a powerful nation against a much-weaker nation. After 6+ decades of trying mightily to overthrow the Cuban Revolution, the extremist anti-Cuba propagandists who have thrived and proliferated in the United States since January of 1959 have risen from under their rocks to take full advantage of the Coronavirus crisis to accomplish what decades of lies, assassinations, military excursions, terrorism, sanctions, embargoes, blockades, etc., have FAILED to accomplish. But for sure, since 1959 right-wing exiles from Cuba and other former U.S.-backed dictatorships have flocked to the U. S., especially Miami, to #1 -- Get rich; and #2 to RE-CAPTURE Cuba, the island in the Caribbean that had the AUDACITY to overthrow the brutal and thieving U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship way back in 1959.

     These are some of the Cuban doctors that arrived today -- April 23rd, 2020 -- at Nelson Mandela Airport in Praia, the capital of the African nation of Cape Verde. The Health Minister of Cape Verde, Dr. Serafina Alves, had begged for Cuba's help to fight the Coronavirus pandemic. Dozens of nations, small and poor countries to rich and large ones -- from Jamaica to Italy -- have done the same thing. Of course, any positive thing regarding Cuba brings out the fierce anti-Cuban propagandists that have abounded in the United States since 1959...defaming innocent Cubans like the doctors shown above and democracy-loving Americans like me...while, of course, always sanitizing and justifying the overthrown Batista-Mafia dictatorship that brutalized Cuba and spawned the Cuban Revolution, which quickly spawned a new capital named Little Havana on nearby U. S. soil.

     Of course, rising to the forefront to take advantage of Cuba's COVID-19 struggles is Andres Oppenheimer, one of the  many anti-Cuban propagandists who have gotten obscenely rich in the United States. Oppenheimer was born 68 years ago in Argentina, so he knows about revolutionaries like Che Guevara and, next to #1-$...#One making money...it seems that Oppenheimer's secondary goal in life is to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. With the Trump administration having elevated the Cuban embargo into a full-scale blockade, and taking advantage of Cuba's tough battle against COVID-19, the heartless Oppenheimer knows this is the time to pounce. As an unchecked Editorialist for the Miami Herald, he has penned a cruel propaganda-spewed article entitled: "ARGENTINA WILLING TO SUPPORT MODERN-DAY SLAVERY BY INVITING 500 CUBAN DOCTORS." A blatant liar, Oppenheimer doesn't discuss that, as usual, Argentina is one of dozens of nations who have successfully BEGGED Cuba for help during this latest medical catastrophe -- from Caribbean neighbors such as Jamaica, Bahamas, St. Lucia, etc., to rich nations such as Italy, Spain, etc., and to small Latin American nations like Honduras that the U. S. has tried to turn anti-Cuban with extra-special aid via stashes of tax dollars. Oppenheimer and the plethora of rich anti-Cuban propagandists in the U. S. have gotten wealthy implying that the Batista-Mafia dictatorship was a world-class government while Revolutionary Cuba has exceeded Nazi Germany as history's all-time worst government.

      In the pages of the Miami Herald and other anti-Cuban propaganda outlets, Andres Oppenheimer has gained most of his wealth and fame. But he also has authored seven highly-financed/highly publicized books that have built his bank accounts on the backs of the masses of innocent Cubans on the island that are surely his prime victims, but the U. S. democracy, of course, also is a victim.

     Of course, the likes of Andres Oppenheimer have had the glorious help from right-wing media outlets, universities, and the ever-burgeoning Think Tanks to spew their anti-Cuban propaganda into a vast collage of Cottage Industries and bulging bank accounts. Once they landed on U. S. soil, anti-Cuban propagandists such as Andres Oppenheimer quickly amassed huge financial and political support from Batistiano exiles, the Catholic Church, the Bush dynasty and other self-serving politicians, etc., etc. With such money and political backing, Andres Oppenheimer and his ilk easily overwhelmed ordinary exiles and everyday Americans. Among their perks, of course, were their choices of America's most expensive Universities -- Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc. Andres Oppenheimer has taken advantage of all of his perks -- Miami,  Little Havana, Colombia University, Miami Herald, moneyed-spewed right-wing outlets, powerful political sycophants, etc., etc.

Along the way, Andres Oppenheimer and his kind have made the U. S. democracy more resemble Batista's and Luciano's Cuba than the America that emerged out of World War II in 1945 as the strongest and most admired nation in the Whole Wide World.

     Extreme anti-Cuban propagandists such as Andres Oppenheimer...or such as Humberto Fontana...have free and unchecked media and political wherewithal to spew anti-Cuban propaganda at will across the length and breadth of America.

     What does it say about America and Democracy when it's neither healthy nor unwise to challenge Counter Revolutionary anti-Cuban propagandists???

      In 1962 a wave of thousands of Cuban children...14,000 at one time...were flown off the island to Miami. Fine!! But after being coddled far more with opportunities than everyday American children had, they were programmed to be extremely educated Counter Revolutionaries. Take for example...Carlos Eire, a 1962 alumni and benefactor. He got, among other Cuban amenities, a truly wonderful education at Yale University. For decades now he has been unchallenged as a History Professor at Yale University and as an unchallenged Counter Revolutionary author and lecturer.

      No matter what he says in his highly financed and highly publicized books about Cuba, Carlos Eire is absolutely unchallenged. And that is so regardless of how much of what he says hurts totally innocent Cubans on the island who, for over six decades, have been severely punished by Miami...and have not been afforded the lush amenities Cubans get in Miami.

      In the United States of America since 1959 Americans have been saturated with and spoon-fed propaganda about CONFESSIONS of a REFUGEE BOY LEARNING to DIE in MIAMI. But what about less-privileged and less-coddled Cuban boys {and girls} on the island since 1959? When privileged and coddled Boys & Girls grow up rich in Miami and then promote genocide against poor Boys & Girls on the island, then I think that is wrong. I am sorry for America and DEMOCRACY that Yale University's most celebrated Havana-born Cuban, Carlos Eire, so profoundly disagrees with me on that score.

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cubaninsider: The Morally Bankrupt Marco Rubio

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