Trump's Venezuelan Quagmire

Another Unwinnable War??

  This photo shows President Nicolas Maduro Monday night, May 4th, 2020, on TV telling the Venezuelan people about the military attack "from the United States and Colombia that invaded our homeland on a beach 32km, 20 miles, from Caracas we repelled. The intent was to kill me. Our coastal forces killed 8 invaders, and we have captured 13. I show here two U. S. passports, birth dates and all, of two American soldiers named Airan Berry and Luke Denman. They worked for a paramilitary group from Florida named Silvercorp. Its leader, a Green Beret American named Jordan Goudreau, is on video stating he has been training his men in Colombia to overthrow the Venezuelan government and Goudreau says he signed a contract with Juan Guaido to complete the job. Guaido has plenty of money from Miami and Washington to buy armies. International media, like ours, has Goudreau's video and he says his operations are ongoing across our homeland. He is funded by Miami and Washington, and supported by Colombia and maybe Brazil, two main countries that Miami and Washington have enlisted against us."

    This photo  shows some of the prisoners captured by Venezuelan soldiers during this week's invasion that Venezuela says was launched by the United States and Colombia from Colombia, but both the U. S. and Colombia deny being involved.

     This Reuters photo shows Venezuelan soldiers with a captured American after the military invasion that took place before dawn Monday. Both Maduro and Goudreau identified two captured American soldiers as Airan Berry and Luke Denman.

    U. S. President Donald Trump's attempts to unseat Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro were expected to end way back in January of 2019 when Trump annointed opposition leader Juan Guaido as the President of Venezuela. It hasn't happened and in the first few days of May-2020 the U. S. efforts to hasten the coup have greatly expanded.

    In addition to labeling Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro "A Drug-Trafficker," President Trump has put a $15 million dollar bounty on Maduro's head. Additionally, the U. S. Commander-in-Chief has sent a massive navy force to help Colombia and Brazil, two strong US-friendly nations bordering Venezuela, to help surround Venezuela to supposedly assure Maduro's demise.

     Incredibly, at dawn a group of mercenaries trained in Colombia by U. S. Green Beret hero Jordan Goudreau invaded a beach on Venezuela's northern coast 20 miles from the capital city of Caracas with the avowed goal of capturing President Maduro. News organizations including the USA's AP quotes Goudreau as saying that "Operation Gideon" was indeed a coup attempt. And Goudreau openly said he had "signed a contract with {opposition leader} Juan Guaido to overthrow Maduro." Venezuelan coastal forces botched the invasion, quickly killing 8 invaders and capturing two Americans. Now Venezuela has mobilized 25,000 soldiers to try to locate any mercenaries that might have escaped to safe houses. In a weird video Goudreau, while sitting by military defector Javier Nieto, said he had "fighters in other operations across the country." And Goudreau identified the two Americans captured as Airan Berry and Luke Denman. Goureau said, "They work for me. They are my guys."

    The second most powerful person in the Venezuelan government, Diosdado Cabello, said, "The U. S. imperialists, prodded by the Miami Cuban criminals, led the attack on our homeland from Colombia." 

         The USA's pick as Venezuela's President, Juan Guaido, now calls Jordan Goudreau a liar regarding his alleged "contract" with Goudreau. In a quick and weird but official announcement, Guaido said, "I did not hire Silvercorp from Florida to kill Maduro or remove him by force."

     U. S. President Donald Trump hosts his pick as Venezuela's President, Juan Guaido, as well as members of Guaido's family and close associates, at the White House. It is assumed that Trump supports Guaido at the suggestion of Cubans like Marco Rubio, Mauricio Claver-Carone, and Mario Diaz-Balart ...the trio believed to be most eagerly dictating Trump's Caribbean and Latin American adventures. Supposedly the Rubio/Claver-Carone/Diaz-Balart group still believes that regime changes in Venezuela and Nicaragua are the path to clearing the way for their prime regime-change, the one in Cuba.

     It is also assumed that Claver-Carone, Rubio, and Diaz-Balart have more than enough influence over the Trump White House to persuade Trump to do what ever it takes economically and militarily to take care of Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba between now and November. Then, of course, would come the stickier part, which is outlasting however many revolutions that  will follow in its wake.

     Most of the experts believe that the harassed Nicolas Maduro saw the handwriting on his wall as far back as January of 2019, and supposedly told a Scandinavian negotiator that TRUMP agreed to his terms but that the Miami Cubans did not. Ironically, Maduro reportedly told the perplexed negotiator that he {Maduro} and Trump agreed that Maduro would leave office and go into exile as long as the U. S. agreed to have his successor chosen in an honest election. But after Maduro and Trump agreed to those "basic conditions," Maduro told the negotiator, "Trump was vetoed by the Miami Cubans." Maduro and #2 leader Diosdado Cabello have both said in eerily similar sentences that they have anticipated a full-blown war ever since "Rubio and Diaz-Balart persuaded Trump to put Claver-Carone in full charge of the State Department's Western Hemisphere affairs." Maduro also has said, "Claver-Carone is even more warlike than Rubio and Diaz-Balart, but Trump is not in a position to question any of them when it comes to targeting, first, Bolivia and after that Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. As long as Trump or any Republican is President...Rubio, Claver-Carone and Diaz-Balart are Kings as far as the Caribbean and Latin America are concerned."

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cubaninsider: Cuba Blames Terrorism on Trump

cubaninsider: Cuba Blames Terrorism on Trump: Genocide &   Terrorism  Against  Cuba  Allowed !!      Today -- May 4th, 2020 --  Sarah Marsh , the excellent journalist in Cuba ...

Cuba Blames Terrorism on Trump

Genocide & Terrorism Against Cuba Allowed!!

     Today -- May 4th, 2020 -- Sarah Marsh, the excellent journalist in Cuba for the London-based Reuters News Agency, strongly implied that both the mainstream U. S. media and the American people are allowing President Trump to get away with both terrorism and genocide against non-Miami/Little Havana Cubans. In her article today Sarah Marsh told the world: "Trump has unraveled a US-Cuba detente carried out by his predecessor Barack Obama." Sarah Marsh believes that Trump can get away with genocide against Cubans on the island and with terrorism against Cubans anywhere because both the U. S. media and the American citizens are afraid of powerful Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami, Newark, and in the U. S. Congress. Sarah Marsh's article for Reuters today is, indeed, the type update regarding US-Cuban relations that journalists in the U. S. are not allowed to report nor are U. S. citizens even permitted to discuss. Yet, the latest terrorist attack on non-Little Havana Cubans in the U. S. is a news items that journalists and citizens in the U. S. should be concerned about...NOT JUST FOR CUBA but for the United States too.

     A 42-year-old Cuban emigre named Alexander Alazo fired 32 AK-47 rifle bullets at the Cuban embassy in Washington. Some of the bullets penetrated the building while a dozen people were inside.

    As reported by Sarah Marsh/Reuters today, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said, "I denounce the terrorist attack against our building in Washington. I demand from the United States a thorough and swift investigation."

     Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said: "When the prime U. S. media and the intimidated American people appear to condone President Trump and Miami's genocidal Blockade against the masses of Cuban people, such an administration in Washington is allowed to get away with genocide and terrorism against Cubans who happen to be innocent but standing in the way of the economic and political goals of a minority of extremist Cubans in the United States. This environment, of course, breeds terrorism such as the shooting up of the Cuban embassy in Washington. The world expects such terrorism from violent Third World nations, perhaps, but not from Superpowers like...China, Russia, and the United States. To condone genocide or terrorism in a Superpower is a problem not just for the victims but it should also be a problem for the perpetrators."

    Because she works for the powerful Reuters News Agency that is based in London, Sarah Marsh can write honestly about the terrorist attack on the Cuban embassy in Washington. There was, of course, a time in the United States when U. S. journalists could have done the same thing.

     The photo above dates back to 1976. It's important. It shows Cubans absorbed with grief at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana. They had been waiting for the arrival of a Cuban airplane, Flight 455, that was carrying 73 people, including two dozen teenage athletes that had just won gold medals in an important Latin American tournament. In the left of this photo, that is a sister and the mother of one of those teenagers in the moments after they had been told that the plane had crashed into the ocean and...there were no survivors. Within hours, according to de-classified U. S. documents, the U. S. government not only knew that the plane had been bombed but the U. S. government documents quickly named the well-known suspects -- including avowed Cuban terrorists already famed for decades of terrorism against everyday Cubans.

     In 1976 there was a great Cuban-American journalist-newsman in Miami named Emilio Milian. With quintessential bravery, Emilio Milian denounced such terrorism against totally innocent Cubans. For that bravery and for being a great journalist, Emilio Milian himself was car-bombed.

      From 1959 till 1976 till 2020 and far into the future, it is apparent that Americans are supposed to be the only Democracy-loving people in the whole world who are not ashamed of the Carlos LaTuff image depicted above. To tolerate a genocidal Blockade/Embargo from 1962 until today -- May 4th, 2020 -- and have it embellished by terrorism and other unchecked hubris from the United States of America, is not what America WAS before Little Havana evolved in Miami after the Cuban Revolution overthrew the brutal US-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in January, 1959.

     Since the 1950s only one U. S. President, Barack Obama, has had both the guts and intelligence to even TRY to remove the stigma of the EMBARGO from the bowels of the U. S. Democracy. In 2016, in his last year of 8 years as President, Obama was so ashamed of the above image that he would not allow the United States the sham of voting to support it in the United Nations. Thus, the worldwide vote in 2016 at the UN was 191-to-0 to end the EMBARGO. BUT, even with the brave Obama supported by the entire world, the U. S. Democracy was not strong enough to end the shameful EMBARGO, which remains a fierce testament to the grip that LITTLE HAVANA IN MIAMI has on the United States government.

     Because Sarah Marsh works for a great non-American news agency, London-based Reuters, she today had the freedom, while reporting on the latest act of U. S. terrorism against Cuba, to publish this simple, factual sentence: "Trump has unraveled a US-Cuban detente carried out by his predecessor Barack Obama." It is a shame that in the post-Emilio Milian era in Miami and in the United States that mainstream journalists in the United States are too afraid to publish such a simple and honest sentence. "Trump has unraveled a US-Cuban detente carried out by his predecessor Barack Obama."

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cubaninsider: US-Venezuelan War Looms

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cubaninsider: Earthquake, COVID-19, and Blockade

cubaninsider: Earthquake, COVID-19, and Blockade: Cuba   Under  Siege !!      This afternoon -- April 29th -- a 4.5 magnitude earthquake rattled Cuba near the southeastern city of Bara...

Earthquake, COVID-19, and Blockade

Cuba Under Siege!!

     This afternoon -- April 29th -- a 4.5 magnitude earthquake rattled Cuba near the southeastern city of Baracoa. It was first reported at 6.6 magnitude but later downgraded to 4.5. Back in January the same area experienced a 7.7 magnitude earthquake.

     Cuba continues to battle against the Coronavirus that has taken 58 deaths on the island as of today...with no new deaths reported in the past 24 hours.

      The excellent Associated Press journalist based in Havana, Andrea Rodriguez, today has an important article entitled: "Pandemic Crisis Squeezes Cuba's Fragile Private Businesses."

    Andrea Rodriguez's report from Havana used this AP/Ismael Francisco photo to illustrate that almost all private businesses in Cuba have "Closed Because Of Coronavirus COVID-19." Prior to the Trump administration's tightening of the U. S. Blockade against the island starting in 2017, and then the Coronavirus pandemic this year, hundred of thousands of private businesses on the island had begun to take full advantage of President Obama's herculean efforts to normalize relations with Cuba. Now the tight Little-Havana/Trump blockade of the island, and with tourism now shut-down because of the pandemic, private businesses like the one above are totally blocked by both Trump's USA and the Coronavirus.

     A great journalist for Newsweek, Tom O'Connor today has a superb and detailed update on the massive Caribbean military build-up by the Trump administration that not only threatens Venezuela and Cuba but also intends to facilitate the USA's and Little Havana's long-desired regime-changes in both countries.

     The must-read article provided by Tom O'Connor/Newsweek uses the graphic above to explain that the U. S. says that the reason for the military option against Cuba and Venezuela is needed because of "enhanced counternarcotics operations in the East Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea." The article points out that the USA's big ally against Venezuela and Cuba is Colombia, the nation responsible for "most" of the illegal drugs entering the U. S. while Cuba is notable for actually helping the U. S. fight the drug trade...and Venezuela told Newsweek that the U. S. military excursion is using the pretext of the narcotics accusation to expedite its war efforts. 

     Trump and Little Havana expected to orchestrate the regime-change in Venezuela way back in January of 2019 but blames little Cuba for propping up the Maduro government in Venezuela that the U. S. accuses of being aligned fully with the FARC rebels in Colombia to saturate the U. S. with illegal drugs. Of course, the U. S. doesn't credit the massive Colombian and Mexican drug cartels with their massive responsibilities, not if blaming Cuba and Venezuela will fulfill Little Havana's fervent desire to finish off the regime change in Venezuela before its prime regime change -- in Cuba -- occurs.

      While the mainstream U. S. media, including the left-wing extremists obsessed with destroying Trump, remains too afraid of Little Havana to discuss the dangers of regime-changes in Cuba and Venezuela, a brave and competent journalist, Tom O'Connor, fairly and importantly discusses the situation this week in Newsweek. Americans should study Tom O'Connor's article carefully...very carefully. 

     And, yes, America...the United States military regime-change in Venezuela is calculated as a preclude to Little Havana's regime-change in Cuba. And, yes, IT IS ACTUALLY A BIG DEAL that will likely have continually and bloody consequences for our children's and grandchildren's generations. The military operation detailed above by Newsweek was announced by the Trump administration this month -- on April 1, 2020 -- and now in this last full day of April-2020 a great journalist, Tom O'Connor, superbly updates the impending and ongoing  crisis developing on America's backdoor...in case Americans are interested or concerned.

     Venezuela's Vice Minister for North America, Carlos Ron, suggested to Newsweek this week that the USA's military threat to Venezuela is an "intimidation" that could flare into a dangerous conflagration provoked by Trump and Little Havana because Trump has only six months before his first 4-year term as President faces the voters for a possible re-election to a second term in November. And Carlos Ron, apparently speaking for Venezuela and perhaps for Cuba, suggests that Counter Revolutionaries in Miami believe they have a six-month window, while Trump is still certain to be President, to overthrow Havana after first taking care of prime Cuban allies in Managua and Caracas.

    For sure, the United States has the economic and military wherewithal to execute regime-changes in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua...especially if nuclear Superpowers Russia and China accept it and if the U. S. people will accept another long, bloody war that will spawn continuous wars and/or revolutions in its wake.

     The Democrat Joe Biden has, perhaps, a 50-50 chance to defeat the Republican Donald Trump in November's presidential election. Biden for 8 years was President Obama's Vice President while Obama was normalizing relations with Cuba and turning Cuba into an entrepreneurial and tourist mecca, both of which were ended by Trump's total allegiance to Little Havana extremists. This week Biden told CBS News that, if he wins in November, "In large part, I will go back" to Obama's normalization of relations with Cuba. In other words, Havana as well as Managua and Caracas have HUGE STAKES in the outcome of November's U. S. election. And, as always, so does Little Havana USA. Little Havana can totally dictate to the Republican Party but, at least for this moment in time, it is not in control of the Democratic Party...at least YET.

     After Obama bravely opened the U. S. Embassy in Havana, Trump has done Little Havana's bidding to close it, except for staffing it will people doing Little Havana's bidding.

     Briefly, while Obama was President, Cubans and Americans relished normal relations...till Trump's presidency turned the USA's Cuban policies solely back over to Little Havana extremists. A second four-year term as President for Trump might result in Little Havana taking over the USA, not just Cuba!!!

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