Eerily Similar Nations!!
Coming out of World War II in 1945 the United States was the strongest nation in the world and the most respected nation in the world. By 1952 thugs in the Eisenhower administration had teamed with the Mafia to support the two-bit army sergeant Fulgencio Batista as the brutal and thieving dictator of Cuba...so rich Americans could also partake in the plundering of the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island. Instead of protecting their precious Democracy, the American people looked the other way. In 1959 when the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship, again the U. S. citizens looked the other way when the Batistianos fled to nearby Miami and quickly established their new capital of Little Havana. In fact, in May of 2020 Little Havana still hasn't been able to recapture Cuba but, incredibly, Little Havana may be closer to totally capturing Washington than it is to re-gaining control of Havana.
Little Havana's Marco Rubio appears to consider himself the USA's Cuban dictator, courtesy of President Trump, and his plans are obviously to have Havana totally in his hands between now and November, which is when Trump may-or-not be re-elected to another 4-year term as President.
Thus the war Little Havana USA is waging against Havana is unchecked and in its last stages the Rubio-led forces believe. Rubio's rich-and-powerful mentors in Little Havana believe that the window to re-capture Cuba, and taking charge of Washington in the process, rests during the Presidency of Donald Trump...and probably in the final five months of his first term. Of course, Rubio believes that if Trump is re-elected in November then Little Havana USA would have a few more years to put both Havana and Washington fully in Little Havana USA's orbit.
As Little Havana USA wages its war against Havana, the American people are told that, HEY!!, pre-Revolutionary Cuba led by the Havana Mob was the nicest government in history and REVOLUTIONARY CUBA has been the most brutal and the worst government in history. That, of course, is a lie that Americans have been forced to swallow since 1959, and to not swallow it is not healthy. And, of course, that was the way it was in Mob-run Cuba when the very top echelon of the Mafia -- Santo Trafficante, Meyer Lansky, and all-time kingpin Lucky Luciano -- were the ultra-powerful teammates with Batista and the USA back when all of them were along for the ride as prime additional benefactors of Mafia-dictated Cuba...at least till the Cash Cow was ended by the Cuban Revolution on Jan. 1, 1959. In the first week of May-2020, the headlines and the photos around the world reflect the effects and remnants of America's dalliances with a new handful of omnipotent individuals leading the ongoing effort to recapture Cuba. Take, for example, the two photos depicted right below this paragraph.
As one of the captured U. S. Green Brevet heroes involved this week on the attack on Venezuela, Luke Denman is shown on Venezuelan TV after the failure of the farce.
On live TV in Caracas, Luke Denman said the purpose of the invasion was to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and then "bring in planes, one of which includes one plane to put Maduro on and take him to the United States." The U. S. has a $15 million bounty on Maduro's head.
In the above news conference U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said things such as...if the U. S. had been involved, the outcome would have "turned out" differently; the U. S. will use every "tool" it has to get the captured Americans back; etc., etc. It is no secret that all of Pompeo's comments and decisions regarding the Caribbean and Latin America appear dictated precisely by anti-Cuban zealots Marco Rubio and Mauricio Claver-Carone, and almost all politicians and journalists in Washington know that to be true...but are too AFRAID to admit it.
For about three years Pompeo has been forced to say that the cause of the injuries at the U. S. embassy in Havana are of unknown origin but, of course, for about three years it has been used as a colossal excuse to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government. Whoever was responsible, of course, the victim from Day One has been Cuba while the benefactors have been the anti-Cuban zealots that Pompeo answers to. But the fact that neither the U. S. nor anyone else can supposedly figure out who is to blame, doesn't lessen the excuse to blame Cuba.
So the captured Americans in Venezuela this week, when/if they return, will be likely treated as major heroes in Miami, like the 1,000+ Bay of Pigs attackers who were captured in 1961 when they attacked Cuba. They were then sold back to the U. S. for $53 million, mostly comprised of cans or bottles of Gerber Baby Food for Cuban babies.
Bay of Pigs captives in Cuba in April-1961.
Highly decorated Green Beret soldier Jordan Goucreau has lavishly bragged about being the leader of the attack on the Venezuelan coast twenty miles from Caracas. He owns a firm in Florida that apparently does such things and he says he signed a $213 million contract with Juan Guaido, the U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition leader that the U. S. considers the President of Venezuela. Goucreau told the world media that Guaido welched on most of the payment and Guaido says he had no agreement with Goucreau.
Worldwide photos of the American captives this week in Venezuela is merely the latest example of America's right-wing imperialist reputation in Latin America. Obviously, it seems there will be many more.
Except for having Counter Revolutionary Cubans and extremely despised and famed Latin American exploiters like Elliott Abrams involved with ousting Nicolas Maduro, the regime-change would have taken place many months ago...because many unbiased nations that have never supported or installed brutal dictators such as...Batista, Trujillo, Videla, Somoso, Pinochet, etc., also believe that Maduro SHOULD GO.
When Trump, Pompeo, Rubio, Claver-Carone, etc., got away with naming Elliott Abrams, of all people, to be the Trump administration's "Envoy" to help orchestrate the regime-change in Venezuela, democracy-lovers across Latin America cringed and expected a bloody denouement.
President George H. W. Bush long ago pardoned Elliott Abrams for the Iran-Contra/Nicaragua mess but Latin Americans mostly will never forgive him for the Mozote Massacre, which resonates today through all of Latin America but Americans barely know about it.
When anti-Cuban zealots like Rubio and Claver-Carone can dust off Bush-era extremists such as Elliott Abrams, Otto Reich, Roger Noriega, etc., to help mastermind regime-changes in 2020 in Cuba and in Cuba-friendly nations like Venezuela and Nicaragua, American citizens who allow it to happen without a whimper are forced to support it with their silence and their tax dollars.
Americans who are not ashamed by the USA's reputation for imperialistic designs on Caribbean and Latin American countries are either cowards or idiots.
And the same Americans apparently are not ashamed about images like this from Caracas this week. Somewhere and sometime the U. S. democracy, even when a Republican runs the White House, has to be strong enough to hold accountable those who bludgeon America's democratic reputation.
This week as the photos from Venezuela are shifting around the world, so is this one. The Cuban embassy building in Washington was shot-up by a 42-year-old Cuban exile with ties to Miami. He fired 32 AK-47 shots at the building and some of them penetrated inside where 12 Cubans were working.
Washington police investigated.
In this photo the Cuban woman at the top is pointing to where some of the shots hit inside the Cuban embassy in Washington. In the lower-right that is Jose Cabanas, Cuba's Ambassador to the United States, fingering one of the holes made by one of the shots inside the building.
Even on U. S. soil, Cuban diplomat Jose Cabanas has a well-earned reputation as a good person and a highly intelligent individual. While he is restricted greatly when he steps out of the Cuban embassy in Washington, many business groups in Florida, especially Tampa, frequently try to get him to speak at their gatherings. But with the Cuban narratives and policies dictated by Counter Revolutionary extremists, even saintly Cubans like Jose Cabanas are propagandized as BAD GUYS in the United States.
The Cuban Embassy shooter.
The Embassy shooter was a Cuban-exile and a well-known zealous supporter of President Trump. Journalist Tracey Eaton posted this photo of the Cuban flag that the shooter had marked with words such as, "Trump USA Land And 2020."
In fact, Marco Rubio labels saintly Cuban mothers on the island, like the ones shown above, as BAD GUYS. Many Cuban mothers took advantage of the decency extended to them by President Obama to open successful private businesses on the island. Then the unsaintly Rubio, once he was anointed as the USA's Cuban dictator by President Trump, used the awesome power of the USA to stop thousands of female entrepreneurs from making good livings for their families in Cuba. In a letter penned by the Cuban women in Rubio's hometown Miami Herald {see above} they begged Rubio to at least meet with them to let them explain how much their children need their mothers to provide for them. Of course, Rubio didn't have the guts or the decency to even respond to their plea.
Cuban mothers on the island today are forced to protect their little girls, like these three, from two pandemics: {1} The Rubio-enhanced economic Blockade; and {2} the Coronavirus. Cubans on the island now are extremely active on internet Social Media outlets and it is amazing {to me} how often Rubio's name is mentioned as their biggest enemy.
When President Trump can anoint a greedy, self-serving, and flyweight Little Havana politician like Marco Rubio as America's genocidal Cuban Dictator, it is reminiscent of the 1950's when the United States supported Fulgencio Batista and Lucky Luciano as dictators in Cuba. When the intimidated mainstream U. S. media projects Rubio as a choirboy from Miami it means that the mainstream media is a conspirator in the violent genocide emanating FROM and inside the United States of America against totally innocent Cubans on the island.
Of course, Rubio is the Little Havana flyweight that Trump famously dismissed as "Little Marco" during the 2016 presidential election that ended up making Trump President of the United States and Rubio as the Cuban Dictator in the United States. A Democracy that allows that to happen deserves a Marco Rubio as its dictator. But as the Cuban female entrepreneurs who wrote that letter to the Miami Herald pointedly said, Cuba doesn't want to be dictated to by Little Havana's Marco Rubio anymore than Cuban mothers in the 1950's wanted to be dictated to by Batista and Luciano. But for America, Little Havana as its capital and someone like Rubio as its dictator looms ominously on the horizon. And if/when that happens, Rubio again will be calling Trump vile names like he did back in 2016...or worse than vile names, maybe, if its a COUP that predicates a Little Havana regime-change in the United States.
