cubaninsider: What John Bolton Really Says

cubaninsider: What John Bolton Really Says: About the   US ,   Cuba , etc. !!      Surely, probably the stupidest hairbrain scheme that   Donald Trump  has made as President of t...

What John Bolton Really Says

About the US, Cuba, etc.!!

     Surely, probably the stupidest hairbrain scheme that Donald Trump has made as President of the United States was appointing John Bolton to the powerful position as National Security Advisor.

     Now 71-years-old, John Bolton long ago earned a reputation as America's most war-mongering right-winger.

      But a Republican stalwart because of his ability to energize and raise buckets of money to support the extreme right-wing of the Republican Party, John Bolton, in the USA's Two party political system, has hung around for decades as a popular war-mongering neocon whether either the Republican or Democratic Party was in power in Washington.

     The Bush dynasty, starting in the 1950's soon after George H. W. Bush emerged from World War II as a hero, has never been held accountable for creating powerful right-wing economic and military war-mongers. An example is this handshake between President George W. Bush and John Bolton. Dating back to George H. W. Bush's stints as Vice President for 8 years, one year as CIA Director {1976}, and 4 years as President, all that spawned the 8 years of the George W. Bush presidency that resuscitated a massive array of right-wing Bush dynasty war-mongers such as...John Bolton, Elliott Abrams, Roger Noriega, Otto Reich, etc., etc. And, unfortunately, every Republican administration, including TRUMP'S, has also been obliged to continue the resuscitations of the likes of Bolton into powerful political positions. Otherwise, during Democratic administrations, the likes of Bolton would be working in the "private sector" for rich right-wing Think Tanks and making additional money making speeches, writing books, and funding right-wing causes. Trump's administration, of course, reached back into the Bush dynasty to resurrect the likes of Bolton, Abrams, Noriega, Reich, Claver-Carone, etc., etc.

           Today -- Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020 -- John Bolton's much-touted book -- "THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED" -- goes on sale. It is Bolton's "tell-all" account of his war-monging days as Trump's National Security Advisor before Bolton was fired by Trump. What it says is a one-sided telling to suit Bolton but it, indeed, says a lot about Trump, the USA, the media, and...especially...capitalism. A powerful publisher, Simon & Schuster, paid $5 million or so upfront to Bolton for the rights to the book...and the publisher's high-profile publicity regarding the book, in pre-sales and starting today when it comes out, will generate more money for itself and for Bolton. But even more importantly is what the book says about the state of politics, the media, and money-crazed capitalism in the USA, such as:

            No longer do Americans enter politics as a "public service" via elective or appointive positions. Now...in local, state, and national elections...extreme amounts of money are used to get politicians elected because once in office it is a gold mine via salaries, benefits, pensions, donations, etc. Thus even in little city elections candidates have the money to prepare slick ads and then saturate even their small television stations with high-priced promotional ads. Then in congressional and presidential elections, the money-crazed system, of course, makes untold numbers of millionaires at ad agencies, television stations, promoters, and countless other venues while obscenely enriched the politicians. In that milieu, politicians and others crave to promote their books, etc., on television. The ultra-powerful left-wing media that hates everything Trump & Bolton stand for includes NBC, MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Post, and the NY Times that have spent almost four years trying mightily to reverse the 2016 election that put Trump in the White House...with the above named sources spending 24-hour days as anti-Trump sources as opposed to covering and reporting the news. Those left-wingers hated Bolton every bit as they hate Trump...until Bolton wrote his ANTI-Trump book. Bolton, of course, is a typical money-crazed politician who knows all that. Thus, the most powerful media sources in the U. S. were willing to ubiquitously promote Bolton's book only because of its anti-Trump slants, and that says more about the state of the mainstream media in the U. S. today than it says about either Trump or Bolton.

     The poor, plush, vulnerable island of Cuba...actually...says more about Bolton, Trump, the extreme Republican right-wingers, the extreme Democratic left-wingers, the extreme left-wing media, and the extremes of capitalism than, perhaps, anything else that impacts America. Of course, since the overthrown Batista-Mafia dictatorship in 1959 reconstituted its headquarters in Miami with Little Havana as its new capital, most U. S. politicians and most of the U. S. media remain too afraid to subscribe to that fact. Thus, the photo above reveals such true facts about Bolton, Trump, etc. that Americans are not supposed to understand. Once anointed by Trump as the USA's National Security Advisor, Bolton immediately went to Little Havana to tell vicious Cubans he would recapture Havana for them...and further that he would also overthrow the Cuba-allied nations of Venezuela and Nicaragua. To make that war-mongering statement, of course, Bolton stood in front of a huge Brigade 2506 Attack banner, the battle flag for the Bay of Pigs military attack against Cuba in April of 1961. Revolutionary Cuba, of course, humiliated Little Havana and the United States at the Bay of Pigs but the distorted Cuban narrative in the reconstituted U. S. since 1959 allows for such distortions, which in turn allow for war-mongers like Bolton to wage war and genocide against Cubans on the island on behalf of a few Cuban extremists in Little Havana...where the Bay of Pigs Brigade 2506 attack banner has an exalted place in the annals of U. S. history that all Republicans are obliged to bow to and the rest of America is obliged TO ACCEPT.

    This policy, I believe, chronicles how deeply Little Havana has ingrained itself into the fabric of the U. S. democracy since the Cuba Revolution defeated the Batista dictatorship in Cuba, essentially chasing it to nearby Miami. As soon as he was named Trump's {and the USA's} National Security Advisor, John Bolton...forever known as a rabid anti-Cuban war-monger...raced to Little Havana to inform Counter Revolutionary Cubans that he...Bolton...would recapture Havana for them, as soon as he captured Cuban allies Venezuela and Nicaragua. In that photo above with the jovial John Bolton is the even more jovial Johnny Lopez de la Cruz. Johnny Lopez is the President of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association Brigade 2506. Johnny Lopez is shown reacting to what the grinning John Bolton had just said about recapturing Cuba. The Republican Party, which is indelibly tied to Little Havana extremists and the legacy of Brigade 2506, which is famed for LOSING a U.S./Little Havana military attack on Cuba in April of 1961. The fact that the Republican Party was pleased that this photo was shown nationally, not just in Miami, proves that one of America's two political parties is not ashamed of its indelible nexus with Little Havana extremists, which does not align with the majority of Cuban-Americans even in Miami.

     While Little Havana controls the journalists at the Miami Herald and other sycophantic media, the image of John Bolton and Marco Rubio shown above is from the Miami-based PROGRESO WEEKLY that features non-Little Havana Cubans.

     At the behest of Little Havana, President Trump turned his entire Cuban policy over to these anti-Cuban zealots -- Elliott Abrams, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, Marco Rubio, and Mauricio Claver-Carone. Not a single person with even moderately sane views on U.S.-Cuban relations is allowed any input regarding Cuba in the Trump administration. And that is a Little Havana insult to Democracy as well as to all Americans and all Cuban-Americans.

     And once Little Havana knew that they had a total grip on the Trump administration, Little Havana anointed Marco Rubio as America's Cuban dictator and Rubio, in turn, has been able to anoint only war-minded anti-Cuban zealots like John Bolton in positions of power to finish annihilating Revolutionary Cuba to appease Rubio's mentors in Little Havana.

            And make no mistake about it, the reason Rubio and Little Havana wanted John Bolton as Trump's National Security Advisor was because they knew John Bolton was America's quintessential WAR-MONGER who all his adult life had wanted to make war on Cuba. The fact that the American media and the American people were too intimidated to object to John Bolton being placed in that position is testimony to the fact that both the American media and the American people are afraid of Little Havana. Those facts factored into Bolton being named National Security Advisor...and to his firing as National Security Advisor. And, of course, his FIRING spawned his heralded and obscenely lucrative book deal...and, of course, the book thrashed his old boss Trump and therefore the extreme left-wing media that viciously hates both Bolton and Trump now has a new hero -- Bolton!!

         I repeat, one of Trump's stupidest decisions as president was when he named the famed war-mongering and back-stabbing John Bolton as National Security Advisor to appease the anti-Cuban zealots in Little Havana.

        From the day he was elected President in November-2016, the USA's iconic liberal mainstream media ceased to be news gatherers and became 24-hour anti-Trump propaganda dispensers. Unfortunately for America and Democracy, that includes ultra-rich and ultra-powerful sources such as...The Washington Post, New York Times, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, etc....that, at least prior to his anti-Trump book, hated John Bolton as much as they hated Trump. So, as illustrated by the photo and image above, The Washington Post and the hate-Trump media in the U. S. have saturated promotion of John Bolton's anti-Trump book.

      Actually, one of the best reviews of John Bolton's book was posted today -- June 23, 2020 -- in the official Cuban media. That is actually not surprising because a Republican U. S. president is as important to Cuba as it is to the USA. The official Cuban media review included these words: "In the book Bolton refers to 'Cuba' or 'Cubans' on 84 occasions, including the mentions that are reflected in the footnotes." Of course, the 84 times in his book that Bolton referred to Cuba or Cubans are unimportant and unsurprising except that they remind us that little Cuba, since overthrowing the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship way back in 1959, and quickly creating the Little Havana foothold on U. S. soil in Miami and in Congress, Cuba has punched far above its size and population on the international stage. That is because Little Havana and the United States have for more than six decades frantically been trying but SO FAR FAILED to first starve and then re-CAPTURE the pugnacious island nation. And John Bolton's book...84 times according to Cuba's review...emphasizes Cuba tenacity and Little Havana's greed.

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cubaninsider: Elian Gonzalez Makes Another Headline

cubaninsider: Elian Gonzalez Makes Another Headline: He Will BE  A  Father !!     Twenty years ago, in 2000, the 6-year-old  Elian Gonzalez  was the most famous child in the world as  Hav...

Elian Gonzalez Makes Another Headline

He Will BE A Father!!

    Twenty years ago, in 2000, the 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez was the most famous child in the world as Havana battled Little Havana in Miami for his custody. Elian is now 26-years-old and on Father's Day Sunday he announced on his Facebook page that he will become a father this summer for the first time. He wrote: "Soon I will begin to understand what it means to be a father. But what I know up until now is my own father, and I hope to do it as half as well as he did with me."

     The father that Elian spoke of is Juan Miguel Gonzalez. In 2000 the world watched Juan arrive in the U. S. to fight a tug-of-war with Little Havana for the custody of his son. While still five, Elian had washed up ashore in Florida on an innertube after his mother had died tried to reach the USA. It was a fight that Juan was not expected to win because Little Havana's Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami had dominated the USA's Cuban policies since they fled the Cuban Revolution's astounding victory over the U.S-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in January of 1959.

      In Little Havana Elian was in the custody of omnipotent Counter Revolutionaries such as Havana-born U. S. Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. But in 2000, just prior to the November-2000 election of Republican President George W. Bush, who was tightly aligned with Little Havana, the U. S. President was still a Democrat named Bill Clinton. Thus, the Clinton administration, not Ros-Lehtinen and her powerful supporters, made the final decision on Elian's custody battle.

      With the U. S. government in this rare instance standing up to Little Havana, the photo above evolved as one of the all-time most famous photos in the annals of U. S. and Cuban history. U. S. marshals were sent to Little Havana where they had to rescue the frightened and terrified Elian Gonzalez from a clothes-filled closet. Thus, Elian returned to Cuba with his father Juan and 20 years later they both still live in Cardenas, Cuba. This photo was taken by Alan Diaz for the Associated Press and, not surprisingly, it won the Pulitzer Prize.

This was Juan after regaining custody of Elian.

    On his Facebook page the now 26-year-old Elian Gonzalez posted the two photos above showing him and his fiancee Ilianet Escano Valdes when they met and the way they are today. Ilianet and Elian later this summer will have their first child. It will be a girl.

     This is Juan and Elian in their hometown of Cardenas, which is in Matanzas Province. Elian graduated from the University of Matanzas with an Engineering Degree and now works for a company that makes plastic water containers.

       Living modesty in Cuba, Elian and Ilianet both say they don't want to ever live anywhere else. Elian, in the interview above, said he doesn't regret not being "a very rich man in Miami." His exact quote: "I think I would have become the poster boy of that group of Cubans in Miami that tries to destroy the revolution, that try to make Cuba look bad. I would have been used in that way. Maybe I would have become an actor on TV or maybe I would have more money than I have here...with more comforts. But my feet, my body, and my mind are all in Cuba. But there are times when I think about the United States." At this point in his interview with ABC-News, Elian paused to acknowledge some tears. Then he said, "Yes, I would like to visit the United States some day to thank the people who helped my father in 2000. I only hope that relations can be cleared up. Everybody can have their different point of view, have their political differences. But I don't think the countries and families should continue to be separated."

      And now...Elian Gonzalez and Ilianet Escano will have their first child, a little girl, later this summer. And despite the Twin Perils of the COVID-19 pandemic and the even more dangerous U.S./Little Havana-imposed Blockade of  their island, Elian and Ilianet are happy with their lives, with their nation, and with the baby they will soon bring into the world.

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Cuba In a Post-COVID Mindset

Tourists Sites Reopening!!

    This week an 84-year-old resident of Havana died from the Coronavirus to push the overall total of fallecidos {deaths} in Cuba to 85 as of today, June 21st, 2020, as shown above. But since May weeks have gone by without new fatalities and the total of confirmed positive cases have noticeably declined too.

      This week Cuba has begun opening up tourism in areas such as the Jardines del Rey archipelago, shown above, in the central province of Ciego del Avila that also includes the popular Coco and Guillermo keys. Yet, the important closely monitored provinces of Havana and Matanzas are still not considered able to reach the sufficient criteria for fully joining the recovery process.

     While struggling against COVID-19 since March of 2020, Cuba has also been battling twin perils -- COVID-19 and the six-decade-old United States Embargo.

    But the Little Havana-aligned Trump administration in Washington has allowed extreme self-serving Counter Revolutionary zealots such as Mauricio Claver-Carone, Marco Rubio, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Bob Menendez to elevate the U. S. Embargo into precisely what the billboard above proclaims -- a genocidal, starvation-motivated Blockade. In fact...Claver-Carone, Rubio, Diaz-Balart, Menendez, and vicious sycophants such as Rick Scott have taken advantage of the Coronavirus pandemic to impose ever-expanding genocidal provisions and laws designed to starve and deprive masses of Cubans on the island to induce them to revolt against their Revolutionary government for the purpose of allowing the Little Havana rulers in Miami, Newark, and the Congress to regain control of the island, as in the Batista-Mafia days that ruled the island in the 1950's.

     In June of 2020 it does not matter if the rest of America and the rest of the whole world believes that the United States of America should not be involved in Genocide against masses of totally innocent Cubans on the island. Whenever a Republican president occupies the White House in Washington, a handful of Little Havana zealots can legally and majestically commit genocide against Cubans on the island...with no restraints from a Democracy that supposedly permits input from the majority of Americans and Cuban-Americans.

       Unfortunately, in June of 2020 with a Republican president in Washington, America's CUBA POLICY includes genocide...and, with THAT POLICY emanating from the world's economic and military Superpower, there appears that there is nothing the rest of America and the world {meaning the part that resides out of Little Havana} can do about it.

    In my opinion, when a Republican president can routinely turn over CUBA POLICY to a couple of Little Havana zealots, it insults America's democracy even more than it insults the totally innocent Cubans on the island, and that is because there appear to be enough tenacious everyday people on the island willing to resist it while America now appears to lack the courage to confront it. The photo above -- Diaz-Balart, Rubio, and Trump -- shows that diabolical agreement BEING SEALED, and no democracy should allow it to take hold. Therefore, I believe, this photo chronicles a Day of Infamy for both America and Democracy.

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