A Post-Castro Cuba Begins

  Post-Revolutionary Leader Is Now Official!!

    If you study the history of the Cuban Revolution as depicted by the two dates above -- 1952 and 1959 --Americans have been told that {#1} in 1952 the U. S. democracy did a wonderful thing when it teamed with the top echelon of the Mafia to support the brutal/thieving Batista dictatorship in nearby Cuba; and {#2} that in 1959 the extremely wicked Fidel Castro somehow led the extremely wicked Cuban Revolution that somehow overthrew a powerful dictator who was supported by the world's most powerful nation and by the world's most powerful criminal organization. Of course, for 6+ decades Americans have been forced to swallow that narrative -- including the hook, the lie & the sinker!!!

     Today -- April 18, 2021 -- Cubans on the island are celebrating the two photos above that were taken on April 18, 1961. That was the day the Cuban Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro led the victory at Playa Giron, which Americans know as the Bay of Pigs. Of course, since April 18 of 1961 Americans have been told lies about the two photos shown above.

     Of course, the U. S. media during this anniversary weekend still remembers the anniversary of the Bay of Pigs attack on April 16-17-18 of 1961 only from the perspectives of Little Havana stalwarts such as Johnny Lopez de la Cruz. He was one of the U.S.-trained soldiers with the Brigade 2506 that attacked Revolutionary Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. Of course, in the U. S. since 1959 no one is permitted to dispute anything the former Brigade 2506 members say.

      In real-life Cuba today on April 18, 2021, the photo above reflects what is happening on the Caribbean's largest island, which somehow AFTER all these decades, is still ruled by Fidel Castro's Revolution. The photo above was taken by Yamil Lage, the great photo-journalist for the Paris-based AFP NEWS AGENCY. Here is how Yamil Lage himself described this photo, which was distributed around the world this weekend:

     This weekend of April 17-18, 2021, the island of Cuba is celebrating two monumental events -- the Bay of Pigs victory on April 18-1961 and the first weekend since 1959 that Revolutionary Cuba has NOT had a Castro in a official leadership role!!

     Since January 1st of 1959, the day the Cuban Revolution overthrew the U.S.-backed/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship, the Castro brothers Fidel and Raul had ruled Cuba...at least till this weekend!! But Fidel died at age 90 in Havana on 2016. And the still healthy Raul, who turns 90 in June, heading into this weekend has officially retired from his last leadership position in Revolutionary Cuba.

     On Friday -- April 16-2021 -- the 89-year-old Raul Castro turned full leadership of Cuba over to 60-year-old Miguel Diaz-Canel. Since April of 2018 Diaz-Canel, Cuba's former Education Minister who was born after the triumph of the Revolution, had been the President of Cuba.

     For sure, President Miguel Diaz-Canel had been the day-to-day leader of Cuba since April of 2018 but, as of this weekend, he now has total control of the reins of the revolutionary government.

     And for sure, President Miguel Diaz-Canel is a fervent defender of the Cuban Revolution.

     But as Raul Castro, just a few weeks from his 90th birthday, waves good-bye to his leadership role in Cuba, the island faces two of its all-time harshest perils -- the COVID-19 pandemic and the Trump/Biden-edition of the genocidal U.S. Blockade, which is more-than-ever totally dictated only by extremely vicious, unchecked, and massively determined Counter Revolutionaries -- Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez, Mauricio Claver-Carone, the Diaz-Balart brothers, etc.

     As of today -- April 18, 2021 -- Cubans are in the throes of their worst day so far as they try to cope with the COVID-19 crisis. Since the pandemic began in March-2020, the past 24 hours in Cuba have resulted in 13 COVID deaths on the island, the largest one-day total ever.

  Cuba currently has five COVID vaccines producing some efficacious results in trials, but so far the burgeoning statistics, especially the record of 13 deaths in the past 24 hours, are alarming to Cubans on the island. 

     More and more, it appears that little Cuba's fight against the U. S. embargo, which began in 1962, may finally succumb to the twin perils of COVID-19 and the increased Trump/Biden-imposed genocide against Cubans on the island...all to appease the ever-increasing power of the most vicious and self-serving Cuban-Americans, namely Rubio/Menendez/Claver-Carone/Diaz-Balart, etc.

    In the U. S., of course, it is not permissible to include the opinions of the majority everyday Cubans on the island, although their opinions for the past seven decades have defeated the Cuban goals of Batista, the Mafia, the U. S. government, and...for over six decades...the designs of the Batistianos living high-on-the-hog on U. S. soil. But Cubans on the island like Maria Carla O'Connor do, in fact, have opinions that Rubio, Menendez, etc., won't permit Americans to hear. Maria is a Professor at the University of Havana. Today she posted the photo above on Facebook, along with this exact opinion: "My breeze that I foresee today is inexhaustible, and infinitely blue." Today Maria had just heard that a record number of Cubans, 13, had died in the past 24 hours from COVID-19. And Maria is well aware that the Trump-Biden tightening of the Embargo-imposed genocide against her people has been expanded to take advantage of the pandemic inflicting her island. And yet, Maria Carla O'Connor on Facebook today reminded everyone of the unique resilience of Cubans on the island. And Maria reminded me that she, and other Cubans on the island, are more decent humans than the handful of Cubans in the U. S. who have fueled history's all-time cruelest and history's all-time longest genocidal embargo/blockade ever imposed by a powerful nation on masses of innocent people in a much smaller nation. Maria is aware that Rubio, Menendez, and their ilk are loving the fact that Biden is continuing Trump's genocide against Cubans on the island. Yet, Maria today reminded everyone: "My breeze that I foresee is inexhaustible, and infinitely blue." In other words, Maria is not likely to surrender to Rubio,  Trump's Cuban dictator, or Menendez, Biden's Cuban dictator.

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Extremists Dictate U. S. Cuba Policies

 It's Been A Piggybank Since 1950s!!

     As a democracy-loving American, it is my opinion that any democracy-loving American who does not know and study the journalism of Tracey Eaton simply does not know the extreme extent to which controversial, but unchecked, Cuban-Americans since 1959 have been able to legally use Cuba as a vast Piggybank, creating mammoth wealth as well as extraordinary political power within the bowels of the U. S. democracy. Famed as a journalist who has led bureaus in Mexico City and Havana, Tracey Eaton's reputation as a honest, fair, unbiased, and brilliant journalist is beyond reproach. Now a beloved journalism Professor in Florida, his blog "CUBA MONEY PROJECT" is still the only place Americans can study in minute detail the precise amount of the extreme amounts of tax dollars routinely doled out to Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans...and to seemingly anyone who raises their hands and professes support. The first priority seems just to make certain Cuban-Americans get rich and powerful while the second priority appears to not be the recapture of Cuba but simply to starve, deprive, and make miserable the masses of Cubans on the island. This, in the name of the United States of America, is a genocidal monstrosity that has long ago made history as the cruelest and longest Blockade ever imposed by a powerful nation against the people in a much weaker nation. For this to have endured so long, it takes endless cowardice and ignorance from generations of everyday propagandized U. S. citizens...while an unchecked few miscreants laugh all the way to their banks and, of course, to the United States Congress in Washington. For example, this week in mid-April of 2021 the great Tracey Eaton has posted two articles on "CUBA MONEY PROJECT" explaining in exhaustive detail the vast continuing and expanding Piggybank that Cuba remains for unchecked and anointed Cuban-Americans. One of those headlines is the one depicted below:

        This new headline from Tracey Eaton's CUBA MONEY PROJECT blog -- "Senator rejects loosening sanctions against Cuba" -- is important because only a great journalist like Tracey Eaton had the courage to write it on April 13, 2021. In all his unique revelations about how a handful of rich and powerful Cuban-Americans keep getting richer and more powerful by dictating new Cuban laws in Congress and also by routinely opposing other sane Cuban proposals. Tracey Eaton's every sentence is buttressed by his use of Freedom of Information data that includes exact names, dollar amounts, etc., but he also explains why interesting data is omitted...to, of course, uh, protect the innocent. So, uh, who is the Senator making sure that the new BIDEN administration doesn't ease the genocidal sanctions against Cubans on the island that was left behind by the TRUMP administration!!!

   Of course, it is the rich, powerful, and unchecked U. S. Senator Bob Menendez from the Cuban Counter Revolutionary haven of Union City/Newark, NJ. Menendez has been in the U. S. Senate since 2006 and he can remain there as long as he lives if he so chooses. In 2018, when the photo above was taken, Menendez didn't even have to be too concerned that the U. S. government had spent a fortune and expensive years trying to convict Menendez of many felonies, the most serious involving controversial figures in Miami and rich spots in the Dominican Republic.

     Of course, in a federal courtroom Senator Bob Menendez was not convicted of those serious charges but his expensive trial ended in a hung jury. The U. S. government first said the charges were so serious that it was going to retry Senator Bob Menendez, but then the Justice Department held a news conference to announce that there would not be another trial, apparently because of the added cost and the probability another hung jury would result. Shortly after the trial, Senator Bob Menendez was, of course, reelected yet again to another 6-year-old term in the United States Senate.

     A Democrat, Senator Bob Menendez always seems to seek the Chairmanship of the Committees that most relate to Cuba, such as the Chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee, for example. So does the Republican U. S. Senator Marco Rubio, the Counter Revolutionary zealot from Little Havana in Miami. In other words, in the USA's two-party political system, the Democrat Menendez from Union City/Newark and the Republican Mario Rubio are allowed to dictate Cuban polices in the powerful 100-member U. S. Senate; also, it is no coincidence that Union City/Newark is second only to Miami when it comes to being the home of the most fanatic remnants from the long-ago U.S.-backed, Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship that fled the victorious Cuban Revolution on January 1-1959 for the safe and, as it turned out, even more lucrative sanctuaries on U. S. soil. So, a hung-jury verdict is no problem for Senator Bob Menendez, the powerful Democratic Party Cuban leader in the Senate. And, for that matter, the powerful Republican Cuban leader in the Senate Marco Rubio, of course, has no problem with the fact that Ken Silverstein, perhaps the best journalist in Washington, wrote a scathing, very long, and important article in which Rubio was minutely depicted as being..."...head and shoulders above everyone else in Washington when it comes to corruption and chicanery." Of course, Americans are not supposed to be concerned that Menendez and Rubio -- one a Democrat and the other a Republican -- dictate Cuban policies that are genocidal for Cubans on the island but have routinely enriched and empowered generations of Counter Revolutionary Cubans in the United States of America...from the 1950s until April, 2021!!!!!

     In the USA's two-party political system, the Democrat Senator Bob Menendez and the Republican Senator Marco Rubio have the U. S government covered when it comes to dictating Cuban polices. Those policies, since the 1950s, have been predicated on vilifying and assaulting masses of Cubans on the island while glorifying, enriching, and empowering Counter Revolutionary U. S. Cubans. For many decades Republicans, beginning in 1952 in Cuba and in 1959 in the U. S., have been indelibly aligned financially and politically with the Batistiano-type Cubans. But, as Menendez and Rubio seem to immutably know, now both Democrats and Republicans readily cave in to the financial and political power of the Counter Revolutionary U. S. Cubans.

       The new Democratic Joe Biden administration in Washington was hoped to be decent enough and courageous enough to ease the U. S. genocide against Cuban families that Biden inherited from the Republican Donald Trump administration. But it won't happen. And that is a shame, for both innocent Cuban families on the island and for the money-crazed/lobby-inspired/two-party U. S. democracy.

   The incomparable Brazilian editorial cartoonist Carlos LaTuff speaks for a billion or so people worldwide about what the U. S. Embargo of Cuba, which has existed since 1962, means. And Carlos LaTuff, when he has a microphone in his hand, said..."It is cruel for a powerful nation to allow a few criminals to do such things to vulnerable people in a much smaller nation. It is also stupid to allow it to go on decade-after-decade, especially when the powerful nation is too powerful and too stupid not to even be ashamed about what it is doing." Of course, Carlos LaTuff has also used his unique talent to show the whole world what he means.

".....especially when the powerful nation is too powerful and too stupid to not even be ashamed about what it is doing!!"

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Only Anti-Cuba U.S. "News" Is Allowed

 Anything Else Doesn't Fit The Narrative!!

      From the Miami Herald, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, etc., there are prime "journalists" assigned to write Cuba articles designed to make sure the USA maintains it draconian, genocidal, and lucrative policies against Cubans on the island. I assume the huge financial and political rewards have predicated this situation since 1959, the year the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the brutal and thieving U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship. One such journalist, in my opinion, is Mary O'Grady. She is a powerful member of the Editorial Board at the Wall Street Journal and writes its The Americas columns. She seems to believe that the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba in the 1950s was the greatest government the Western Hemisphere has ever seen. And, conversely, she seems to believe that Revolutionary Cuba since 1959 has been and continues to be the worst nation the world has ever seen!! Thus Mary O'Grady's latest column is entitled:

"BASEBALL SAYS CUBA 'SI,'

GEORGIA 'NO.'"

     The huge headline above references the fact that Major League Baseball in the U. S. moved its All Star Game this year out of Atlanta to Denver because of alleged voting restrictions in Georgia. So, the anti-Cuban zealot at the Wall Street Journal seized on that situation to vilify Cubans on the island. Of Course, the problem I have with that is the fact that never to anti-Cuban propagandists such as Mary O'Grady care about the opinions of everyday Cubans on the island, only about the extreme opinions of anti-Cuban dissidents. So, here is how Mary O'Grady concocted and constructed her first two paragraphs in her latest WSJ propaganda assault on Cubans on the island:

       The Mary O'Grady words above are wonderfully & beautifully composed to begin her latest vilification of Cubans on the island. As always, she stresses only the opinions of extreme anti-Cuban zealots -- never the opinions of everyday Cubans on the island. For example, Mary O'Grady seizes on dissident movements such as "the humble San Isidro" without ever considering what the majority of everyday Cubans think about it. For example, do most everyday Cubans believe such anti-Cuban movements are financed by huge amounts of U. S. dollars? Cubans on the island now are ubiquitously expressing themselves on top Social Media internet forums, and it appears that in near unanimity they believe that self-serving foreign elements spawn and finance such dissonance and disorder on the island. And if that is not so, the omnipotent and rich forces in Miami, Newark, and Washington would have recaptured the island many, many decades ago.

     So, if I may, all I ask of Mary Anastasia O'Grady, and other "journalists" who are obsessed with continually assaulting the masses of innocent Cubans on the island, is that they at least consider the opinions of Cubans on the island...not just the opinions of those who benefit so massively from assaulting innocent Cubans on the island.

    Buttressing the Wall Street Journal/Mary O'Grady assault on Cubans on the island this week is a Yahoo News anti-Cuba propaganda piece today -- April 12th, 2021 -- written by Nestor Carbonell entitled: "CUBA REMAINS A THREAT"!!! Assuming Americans are stupid and thus vulnerable to propaganda, Nestor Carbonell seems to suggest that poor little EMBARGOED & BLOCKADED Cuba is a "threat" to attack and destroy the United States of America ANY MOMENT NOW!!

   Of course, journalists such as Nestor Carbonell can use the pages of high-profile outlets such as the WSJ, Yahoo News, etc., to spew whatever anti-Cuban propaganda they want to inflict on their readers. Or Nestor Carbonell can go on programs such as Karen Pittman's Program to promote whatever anti-Cuban propaganda they choose. This lucrative wart has sullied Democracy without proper checks-&-balances for decades and apparently is too juicy to end.

    But of course, if you happen to be a Cuban-American like Carlos Lazo your opinion about Cuba is almost never allowed in the world's richest and most powerful Democracy. Carlos Lazo is a professor in Seattle and he is so passionate about ending the U. S. genocide against totally innocent Cubans on the island that, accompanied by some of his students, he rides his bicycle the 3,000 miles from Seattle to Washington to beg the politicians "to end the Embargo on Cuba." Of course, Carlos Lazo's opinion doesn't count, even if the majority of Cuban-Americans agree with him, because a few Cuban-Americans and their sycophants apparently have made and are still making too much money off the Embargo that was first imposed in 1962.

     Yes, Cuban-American professor Carlos Lazo and his students ride their bikes 3,000 miles from Seattle to Washington to beg politicians to end the genocidal Blockade against Cubans on the island that has existed for 6+ decades to appease and enrich a few benefactors. Somewhere along the way during the last 6+ decades, the question arises..."why hasn't the United States had a generation of Americans with the guts and decency to agree with CARLOS LAZO???"

     As a decent Cuban-American, Carlos Lazo is embarrassed by the international Carlos LaTuff images depicted above. So am I. And so are others worldwide. It is astonishing there are some Americans and Cuban-Americans who are not!!

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The USA's Batistiano Dictators

After All These Decades Since The Revolution!!

    The Wall Street Journal is emblematic of the drastic decline of the mainstream media in the United States. Important media sources in the U. S. were once vital gatherers and presenters of news and information that Americans and their democracy vitally needed. Now those prime media sources have evolved into vast propaganda dispersers, catering to the needs, whims, and opinions of only their propaganda-obsessed individual and corporate owners. On this Easter Weekend, the first weekend of April-2021, the The Wall Street Journal proved my point with yet another vast, anti-democratic, propaganda-fueled major Editorial...using this blazing headline:

    The huge Editorial this weekend in The Wall Street Journal typifies the depths to which the mainstream media in the United States now presents only self-serving propaganda, not news and information, to its readers and viewers. Under the above headline and sub-headline shown above, The Wall Street Journal's propaganda explained again this weekend that the Batistiano control of America's Cuban policy since 1959 has been the best thing that has ever happened to the U. S. democracy. It, of course, implies that the best thing the U. S. democracy ever did was in 1952 when it teamed with the top echelon of the Mafia to support the brutal-thieving Batista dictatorship in Cuba so rich Americans could partake in the wholesale robbery and brutality on the largest Caribbean island. Of course, the powerful WSJ no longer has either the guts or the integrity to tell its readers that the U.S.-backed Batistiano robbery and extreme brutality that protected Batista's Cuba spawned the Cuban Revolution that on January 1-1959 chased out the greedy U. S. businessmen but also chased the Batistianos-Mafiosi to their new haven and sanctuary on U. S. soil, quickly creating their new headquarters in Little Havana in the heart of Miami-USA. Although extremist methods for going on seven decades have failed to recapture Cuba, the Batistianos have actually used their grips on the U. S. democracy to create far more wealth and power in the U. S. than they had amassed on Cuban soil. Factors permitting that include the decline of the U. S. media into prime propaganda outlets as opposed to news outlets. The WSJ Editorial depicted above is a prime example this weekend. It was, uh, written by Mario Diaz-Balart. Of course, as a prime product of Little Havana, Mario Diaz-Balart has spent his entire adult life lucratively promoting the Batista dictatorship in Cuba as a fantastically great government and the Batistiano rule of America's Cuban policies since 1959 as the best thing that has happened to the U. S. Democracy.

     Perhaps it would be appropriate to mention that CONGRESSMAN Mario Diaz-Balart is the son of a former powerful Minister in the Batista dictatorship and then, starting in 1959, one of the prime and most richest creators of Little Havana in Miami. For three decades either Mario Diaz-Balart or his older brother Lincoln Diaz-Balart have represented Little Havana in the U. S. Congress. In 1996 Lincoln was a prime writer of the congressional Helms-Burton Act, which was and remains to this day a very legal method to vastly enrich Little Havana leaders while also vastly brutalizing masses of Cubans in Cuba. And on this Easter Weekend in 2021 a vast Editorial in the Wall Street Journal WRITTEN BY MARIO DIAZ-BALART again implies how great the Batista dictatorship in Cuba in the 1950s was and TELLS US AGAIN how great the Batistiano rule of the USA's Cuban policies since 1959 is. There was a time in the U. S. that the mainstream media would tell Americana the truth about such things. But that is no longer the case, with the WSJ now being a prime example of the U. S. media that has become a prime propaganda dispenser instead of being gatherer and provider of news and information that Americans really need.

      Most Cuban-Americans do not believe that the superpower U. S. government, decade after decade since 1959, should continue its Batistiano-inspired genocide against totally innocent Cuban families in Cuba decade-AFTER-decade. One such Cuban-American is Carlos Lazo, a professor in Seattle. Carlos is so ashamed of the Embargo-legalized genocide against Cubans in Cuba that he has ridden his bicycle, followed by some of his bike-riding students, the 3,000 miles from Seattle to Washington TO BEG CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE TO END ITS EMBARGO AND GENOCIDE AGAINST CUBAN FAMILES IN CUBA. Of course, the mainstream U. S. media, including the WSJ, doesn't have the courage or the integrity TO PUBLISH the passionate desires of great Cuban-Americans such as Carlos Lazo but vicious and self-serving Counter Revolutionary extremists such as CONGRESSMAN Mario Diaz-Balart from Little Havana can readily write Editorials in propaganda-riddled mainstream media outlets such as the WSJ.

     When the WSJ and most other mainstream U. S. media outlets routinely support Little Havana extremists with no concern about masses of innocent Cubans on the island, it continues to say more about the U. S. than it says about Cuba. For one thing, it says that the mainstream media in the U. S. has evolved into a vast and powerful promoter of propaganda in an era when Americans are in dire need of honest news and information.

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