Little Havana Scares Biden Administration

Little Havana Wants Havana & WASHINGTON!!!

     Back in the 1950s Rafael Diaz-Balart was a key Minister in the brutal and thieving U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in Cuba. In January of 1959 the Cuban Revolution defeated the Batista regime, chasing many of its prime leaders to a new haven in nearby Miami. Quickly on U. S. soil Diaz-Balart began creating Little Havana in the heart of Miami, and he built the very first anti-Castro paramilitary group in South Florida, which he called The White Rose. Backed by huge funds from the ousted Batista dictatorship and by even larger funds and resources from the U. S. government, Diaz-Balart and his cohorts believed they could recapture Cuba within a few weeks, or a few months at the most. It, of course, hasn't happened...making Revolutionary Cuba's longevity, 6+ decades and counting, even more incredible than the Revolution!!! Rafael Diaz-Balart was born in Banes, Cuba, in 1926 the year Fidel Castro was born in nearby Biran, Cuba. They were classmates in the University of Havana Law School, and Fidel's first wife was Mirta Diaz-Balart, Rafael's sister. For sure, Rafael Diaz-Balart died in Key Biscayne, Florida in 2005 as a very rich and powerful man, but his obsession of recapturing Cuba had eluded him. Yet, he left his four sons to continue his mammoth goal.

     This photo shows Rafael Diaz-Balart, in the center, flanked by his four sons. The son on the left is a powerful banker named Rafael and the son on the right is a powerful television news anchor in Miami and at NBC News in New York named Jose. The son second from the left is Lincoln Diaz-Balart and the son second from the right is Mario Diaz-Balart. Since 1993, either at the same time or together, Lincoln & Mario, have represented Little Havana/Miami in the United States Congress as fanatically powerful Counter Revolutionary fanatics just like their father Rafael.

      This photo shows Rafael Diaz-Balart in the center after he fled the Cuban Revolution and became a very rich and powerful man in both Florida and Spain. Also, that is his father who also was named Rafael and was once the mayor of Bane, Cuba. On the top-right is  Lincoln Diaz-Balart who was born 66-years-ago in Havana in 1954 when his dad was a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship. In Miami/Little Havana and then in the U. S. Congress and to this day in June-2021 Lincoln has been an unchecked and powerful force in enriching and empowering Miami/Little Havana while also trying to dethrone the Revolutionary Cubans on the island. On the lower-right is Mario Diaz-Balart, Lincoln's younger brother who also easily got to the U. S. Congress as an unchecked and powerful Counter Revolutionary. HOW POWERFUL? Well, in the U. S. Congress today -- June 7-2021 -- Mario scared Antony Blinken, the top official in President Biden's government. Permit me to explain:

     The photo, headline and date shown above says: "State Department Will Continue To Pressure Cuba...Tracey Eaton...June 7, 2021." It was written by Tracey Eaton, the brilliant journalist who is now a beloved Journalism Professor at Flagler College in Florida...and Eaton remains a renowned journalist and a rare one who has both the expertise and courage to write honestly about Cuba. In his last few articles Tracey Eaton has documented how the new Biden administration has used his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, the same way as the Trump administration used Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, which is to powerfully continue to enrich & empower selected Cuban-Americans while also still continuing to commit genocide against masses of families on the island. The grilling and intimidation by Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart of Antony Blinken today shamed the U. S. and Democracy but pointed out the grip that Little Havana has on the Biden presidency, just as it has dictated America's genocidal policies against innocent Cubans, especially during the three Bush administrations and the one Trump administration.

       If you love democracy enough to read Tracey Eaton's words depicted below on June 7, 2021, you will see how Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken today assured Counter Revolutionary zealot Mario Diaz-Balart that the Biden presidency will, like the previous Trump presidency, continue to do Little Havana's biding in enriching and empowering Counter Revolutionary Cubans while continuing Trump's genocide against Cuban families on the island.

      Above, the June 7-2021 introduction by great journalist Tracey Eaton and the Q & A in which Little Havana's Mario Diaz-Balart intimidated and scared President Biden's top foreign-affairs official, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, should serve as a reminder, I believe, that Little Havana's control of the USA's Cuban policies, even after a Democratic administration has replaced a Republican administration in Washington, is becoming tantamount to the power that Mario Diaz-Balart's dad Rafael had in the 1950's in the Batista dictatorship. Since this has happened since Biden replaced Trump as President, there have been whispers in Miami/Little Havana about not only recapturing Havana but also taking control of Washington, first just regarding Cuban policy, which is now apparent, But SECONDLY regarding everything else, which seems more-and-more feasible as the Biden presidency moves ahead.

      During the Trump presidency that ended on Jan. 20-2021, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dutifully kept announcing increasing the genocide against Cubans on the island while also greatly enriching and empowering Little Havana Cubans. The Trump administration carried out 243 sanctions against Cubans in Cuba or for Cubans in Little Havana. For example, the cruel U. S. Embargo began in 1962 for purpose of starving, depriving, and making miserable the Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. The original purpose of the Embargo, as proved by de-classified U. S. documents, continues to this day except for the fact that the Cubans have not risen up to overthrow their government. But the infamous Helms-Burton Act, written by lawyers acting at the behest of Little Havana's billionaire Jorge Mas Canosa and Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, was passed in 1996 and since then has severely enriched and empowered Little Havana Cubans and severely harmed masses of Cubans in Cuba. BUT GUESS WHAT? The Helms-Burton Act has a clause called Title 3 that even the two-term Little Havana-aligned George W. Bush administration refused to activate because even Bush considered it too genocidal to inflict on masses of Cubans on the island although Bush, of course, approved the added means that Title 3 provided for Little Havana Cubans to sue U. S. or FOREIGN companies. But while even the Bush presidency refused to activate Title 3, Trump & Pompeo activated Title 3, which has officially imposed genocide on masses of people on the island and, indeed, has also made is easier for Little Havana Cubans to sue even foreign companies. For example, already in June of 2021 a Swiss company, without even going to a court in Miami to adjudicate it, has agreed to a cash settlement on a case by a Cuban family in Florida. And also, to make it easier for Little Havana Cubans to almost sue anyone they want to sue, in the closing days of the Trump presidency Pompeo announced that Cuba was put on the U. S. List of Terrorist Nations, which remains a joke beneficial to only Little Havana-aligned Cubans and putting Cuba on the Terror List makes it easier for Cubans in the U. S. to sue companies, including foreign companies. Many pay up and settle cases because of the U. S. influence around the world economically.

  As of January 20-2021, Antony Blinken has been President Joe Biden's Secretary of State. Many...yes, billions of decent people in the world...hoped that the Democrats that replaced the Republican leaders in Washington would roll back the genocide imposed by the Trump-Pompeo administration on Cuban families. But it hasn't and WON'T HAPPEN!! You see, the Little Havana Cubans who have had the money and power to dictate Cuban policy to the Republicans since 1959 now have the money and power to also dictate Cuban policy to the Democrats. And, unfortunately, the money-crazed U. S. government is ONLY a TWO-PARTY POLITICAL SYSTEM. In other words, in June of 2021 Cuban families on the island are screwed while Cubans in Little Havana Rule the Roost!!

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Biden Replicates Trump's Cuban Genocide

Menendez Replaces Rubio As U.S. Cuban Dictator!!!

As Democrats Replace Republicans in the White House!!

    From January of 2017 till January of 2021 Republican President Donald Trump anointed Republican Senator Marco Rubio from Little Havana/Miami as the Cuban dictator on U. S. soil. During all those four years Rubio, facing no checks-and-balances from the rest of the U. S. government, was totally permitted to elevate the cruel 6-decade-old U. S. Embargo against Cuba into a genocidal Blockade of Cuba, which he did!!! During those four years, of course, Rubio's hometown immeasurably increased its already very powerful economic and political base.

       But to the surprise of some, since January 20th of 2021 new Democratic President Joe Biden has anointed Democratic Senator Bob Menendez from Union City/Newark as the new Cuban dictator on U. S. soil. Without a whimper from the propaganda-obsessed mainstream U. S. media nor from the thoroughly propagandized U. S. citizens, the nexus of Little Havana/Miami with Union City/Newark -- the two U. S. Counter Revolutionary Cuban enclaves that have profited the most economically and politically in the U. S. since 1959's victorious Cuban Revolution -- now seem poised to be able to capture Washington even though recapturing Havana has incredibly somehow escaped their grasp!!!

       Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dutifully carried out President Donald Trump's unending and genocidal policies against Cuban families. And as Secretary of State and as Trump's top official on foreign affairs, Pompeo controlled vast tax dollars as well as asinine new U. S. policies designed to vastly help friendly Cuban-Americans and designed to vastly hurt Cubans on the island, all to appease and benefit the rich and powerful Counter Revolutionary zealots.

       But, incredibly, since January 20-2021 Antony Blinken, the new Secretary of State under President Joe Biden, has been just as vicious as his predecessor Pompeo when it comes to hurting Cubans on the island while, at every junction, appeasing the most vicious Counter Revolutionary Cubans, especially the Democrat Menendez but also the Republican Rubio!!! With no mainstream media in the U. S. having the guts or integrity to report accurately on U.S.-Cuban relations, headlines in the past week from Tracey Eaton, the great journalist and professor in Florida, continue to be rare insights into the lucrative but genocidal U. S. assault's on the Cuban people.

      If you happen to be a dissident in Cuba or a Counter Revolutionary zealot in the U. S., you have massive forums, including most of the mainstream media, to tell the world: {1} How the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in Cuba in the 1950's was the greatest government in the history of the world; and {2} that the Cuban revolutionary government since 1959 is the worst government in the history of the world. {Those remain the prime propaganda tools that have been so effective in the U. S. since 1959}. But, of course, if you happen be Manuel Tejeda who happens believe that a handful of rich benefactors in a powerful nation should not be permitted to commit genocide on masses of innocent people in a much-smaller nation...well, in the United States you simple don't have a voice, except when you write a sign or take to Social Media to make your opinions known. Also, Manuel Tejeda runs an organization, NEMO, that continues to gain powerful support in his herculean efforts to END THE EMBARGO ON CUBA.

      If you visit them on their Social Media pages or follow their street protests against the genocide 'LEGALLY' aimed at innocent Cuban families on the island, you might get to know Manuel Tejeda and Carlos Lazo. The mainstream U. S. media essentially is unable or unwilling to let you know that great Americans like these two men exist. Manuel Tejeda and Carlos Lazo passionately oppose profitable genocide against Cuban families...but, of course, in the United States their opinions are not supposed to exist.

     A Cuban-American professor in Seattle, Carlos Lazo has ridden his bicycle 3,000 miles to Washington, along with some of his students, to beg the White House and members of Congress to end the genocidal Embargo against the island of Cuba. Of course, among those who won't listen to Carlos Lazo have been first President Trump and now President Biden.

      This past Sunday -- May 31st, 2021 -- bicyclists in Havana, inspired by America's Carlos Lazo, are shown above protesting the U. S. Embargo, which Cubans call a Blockade. As you can see above, everyday Cubans watched from the balconies of their homes as the bicyclists passed by. That same day, in addition to Havana, major cities such as London, Toronto, Los Angeles, Madrid, etc., etc., had similar protests.

     Meanwhile, everyday farmers and other Cubans on the island are the prime targets of the USA's Cuban policies designed to enrich and empower certain people at the expense of more decent, but also more vulnerable, people. During both the Trump & Biden presidencies the U. S. has taken advantage of the COVID Pandemic to tighten the genocide against Cuban families on the island.

    In America's money-crazed Two-Party Political System, the Republican Marco Rubio has now been replaced by the Democrat Bob Menendez as the Cuban dictator in the United States. Americans who are either too afraid or too stupid to admit that basic fact in June of 2021 are actually harming the United States democracy just as much as they are harming Cubans on the island. But...who gives a damn? As this new "news" headline below indicates, Rubio and Menendez can routinely ram whatever pro-Little Havana/anti-Havana bill in the Senate they choose...and, of course, the White House will quickly second the motion!!!!

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Punishing Cubans Is A U.S. Obsession

 Rubio Loves Making Cuban Baseball Fans Cry!!!

     This photo shows the Cuban National Team arriving in West Palm Beach, Florida this last week May-2021 to participate in the 8-team pre-Olympic Qualifying Tournament that will be played May 1st till June 5th in West Palm and St. Lucie in Florida. The other 7 teams in the event are the U. S., Canada, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Cuba's first game will be on Monday, May 1st, against Venezuela. The winner of this overall event in Florida will then be awarded one of the six spots in the Summer Olympics to be played in Japan starting in July. Please note: U. S. soil, especially in Florida, is very hostile for Cuba as well as two nations -- Venezuela and Nicaragua -- that the U. S. government severely punishes because of their friendship to Cuba. And as soon as the Cuban baseball team arrived in West Palm Beach, the insatiable U. S. antagonism against the Cuban players came into fruition, which was not at all unanticipated!!!

      Twenty-two-year-old Cesar Prieto was the star infielder for the Cuban team that arrived in Florida for the pre-Olympic Qualifying Baseball Tournament late Wednesday. The photo above was used as the BBC's renowned journalist Will Grant said Prieto was setting batting records in Cuba while playing for Cienguegos. As Prieto arrived at the team's hotel, the Hilton in Palm Beach, Will Grant reported that he got into a waiting car and was quickly whisked away. He, of course, surely knew the car would be waiting for him. Obviously, Prieto is considered a Major League prospect and, of course, unsavory human traffickers and baseball agents plan to cash in on his eventual U. S. contract. Regarding the "legality" of that aspect of U.S.-Cuban relations, politicians in Florida and in the U. S. Congress have made sure that it is totally legal from the standpoint of two things: {1} Money; and {2} merely hurting the baseball-loving Cuban people on the island. Anyone who denies that fact it telling you a lie.

     To understand the gutless and cowardice U. S. contempt for decency and for its democratic principles, please note the article depicted above from USA Today written by Cesar Brioso and published on April 9, 2019. The title of the article told Americans: "OPINION: TRUMP'S SCUTTLING OF MLB-CUBA DEAL MEANS DEFECTIONS, HUMAN TRAFFICKING WILL CONTINUE." In other words, the sheer indecency of the U. S. dealings with Cuba scuttled an agreement that Major League Baseball had signed with Cuban Baseball so that Cuban players would be treated almost the same as other foreign players as far as the U. S. Major League teams were concerned. MLB wanted to keep unsavory agents and human traffickers from profiting so mightily by persuading and helping Cuban players to defect and then sign lucrative Major League contracts that the agents and human traffickers would share in. Of course, all decent people agreed with the deal...except, of course, the people dictating President Trump's genocidal four-year cruelty against Cuba that was designed to severely punish Cubans on the island, enrich Cubans in Miami/Little Havana, and also enrich certain people involved in the genocide and ransacking of Cuba. In that milieu, President Trump's prime Cuban dictator in the U. S., Senator Marco Rubio from Miami/Little Havana, quickly vetoed that decent and sane agreement between Major League Baseball and Cuba's Baseball Federation...and OF COURSE, every unsavory baseball agent and human trafficker in the Caribbean and Florida rejoiced!!

       In the two graphics depicted above, the USA Today clearly chronicled the sheer indecency of how the Trump administration vetoed the decent and sane agreement signed by Major League Baseball and Cuba in 2019. Moreover, what happened this week -- in this last week of May of 2021 -- shows that the new Biden administration in Washington also doesn't have either the guts or the integrity to correct any of the Trump administration's indecency and insanity against Cubans on the island.

      In other words, in America's money-crazed two-Party political system, Democratic President Joe Biden has his own vicious Cuban dictator, the controversial Senator Bob Menendez from Union City/Newark.

      And in other words, Trump's Cuban dictator Rubio and Biden's Cuban dictator Menendez merely continue the shame to the U. S. democracy that began in earnest back in 1952 when the U. S. teamed with the top echelon of the Mafia to support the brutal, thieving Batista dictatorship in Cuba.

      In other words, beginning in Cuba in 1952 and in Miami in 1959 {after the Cuban Revolution} cowardly generations of U. S. citizens have been the most to blame for allowing this to happen. So 1952 and 1959 remain watershed years...for both Cuba and for the USA.

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cubaninsider: The Celia Sanchez Revolution

cubaninsider: The Celia Sanchez Revolution: Also Known As The Cuban Revolution { Updated:   Saturday, July 26th, 2014 }         Americans in 2014 are not supposed to comprehend ...

U.S. Media Propaganda Harms Democracy

And Harms Masses  of Cubans!!

    As a rare jewel in journalism for the past three decades, Ginger Thompson today remains one of the final vestiges of America's once renowned and respected journalistic endeavors. Including fifteen years as a truly great New York Times investigative reporter, Ms. Thompson won Pulitzers and other major honors for her uniquely informative and acutely  accurate reporting on Latin America and Caribbean developments, even including Cuba!! Even today, while also teaching journalism at Colombia University, Ms. Thompson is the Chief Correspondent for ProPublica, which particularly treasures important investigative reporting. Founding Father Thomas Jefferson would have loved Ginger Thompson because the writer of the USA's Declaration also once wrote that journalism was more important than anything else in a Democracy, including the government itself. For almost 240 years, the U. S. media was a hallmark of the world's best and most admired journalism. But no more. Now polls reveal that most Americans don't trust their mainstream media...believing that...the NY Times, the Washington Post, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, and CBS have become dispensers of extreme left-wing propaganda while Fox News, the NY Post, etc., are dispensers of extreme right-wing propaganda. But THANKFULLY, there is some light left in the increasingly dark tilt of the money-crazed and propaganda-obsessed U. S. media. Almost alone among the journalists now trying to keep some of the tunnel lights on, Ginger Thompson is more important now than she was in the recent past. Below is a post that Ms. Thompson published on Social Media today -- May 25, 2021 -- about the revival of one of her classic reports from 2011.

      As mentioned by ProPublica above, Ginger Thompson has long been renowned for producing and writing vitally important "breaking news events across the region, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela" And, yes, the inference is correct because Ginger Thompson for many years has stood  almost alone for having the courage and integrity to report intelligently and accurately about Cuba; Haiti; and Venezuela. In other words, Ginger Thompson remains a thorn in the butts of otherwise mostly unchecked miscreants in the ultra-powerful U. S. who for decades have had lucrative pathways to exploiting targeted nations deemed vulnerable and exploitable. Regarding Revolutionary Cuba, the little revolution that defeated a brutal & thieving U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed dictatorship, any journalist in the U. S. who reports the unbiased truth tends to get car-bombed like Emilio Milian in Miami or summarily gets fired or bludgeoned. From the Miami Herald to the Washington Post to the New York Times -- and to NBC, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News, Newsmax, etc. -- the anti-Cuban propagandists masquerading as "journalists" out-number mosquitoes in a tropical swamp...such as, for example, NBC's Miami-based Carmen Sesin!!!

       Based in Miami, Carmen Sesin is the Counter Revolutionary anti-Cuba expert for NBC News. Meanwhile, NBC News along with its extreme left-wing sister MSNBC network lobbies strongly for Little Havana's take over of Havana, using Carmen Sesin's prime pro-Little Havana and anti-Havana propaganda that poses as journalism.

     The above words from Carmen Sesin distributed by NBC News is, unfortunately, typical of today's propaganda-obsessed mainstream media in the United States. Note that Sesin above is mocking Cuban families on the island who are praying that one of the five vaccines that Cuba is developing will be efficacious enough to curb the surge of the COVID-19 pandemic on the island. Sesin, instead of spewing anti-Cuban propaganda, could have explained that...or explain that the well-educated, well informed, and Internet/Social Media-savvy Cubans in Cuba believe that the Trump-Biden tightening of the Embargo/Blockade is, along with trying to starve Cuban families on the island, currently taking advantage of COVID-19 to further to eviscerate Cubans on the island to appease a few "nice" Cubans such as Rubio & Menendez...and apparently to appease the bank accounts of rich corporations than now own major news operations such as NBC News.

      Of course, when it comes to Cuba the propaganda media in the U. S. never cares about the plight of Cubans on the island nor about their opinions, only about the opinions of the unholy people in the U. S. -- especially in Miami and in Congress -- who benefit so massively, economically and politically, from their unchecked and unsavory control of the USA's Cuban policies, which means rich U. S. Cubans get richer and richer while Cubans in Cuba get POORER and POORER!! Rosy Amaro, the young journalist and young mother shown above, has twice received lucrative, guaranteed offers from a well-known Cuban-American communications executive in Miami. And twice she has refused it. While there are millions of Cubans, and others, yearning to get and make their fortunes in the U. S., Cuba is unique in having millions of Cubans on the island willing to still fight-to-the-death in support of their families, their sovereignty, and their Cuban Revolution. So, the Celia Sanchez-like Rosy Amaro is a typical Cuban on the island. Moreover, she is extremely smart, well-educated, and vastly more decent than the miscreants in the U. S. who benefit so much from tormenting generations of Cuban children that Rosy Amaro verily adores. Meanwhile, the propagandists in the U. S. media are obliged to salivate about the plight of Cuban families on the island to appease and benefit unsavory people in a foreign, nearby, and much-more powerful nation. 

       The U. S. democracy, I believe, took a drastic hit when the Supreme Court allowed individual and corporate multi-billionaires to pour virtually unlimited ,dollars into political campaigns. Now multi-billionaire individuals and corporations can buy main media outlets and turn them into vast propaganda dispensers. For sure, in classic capitalist form, it creates many other multi-millionaires who are involved in producing the unending stream of nauseous commercials that bombard Americans around-the-clock, but all other great nations would not allow their citizens to be bombarded so cruelly.  And when money can dictate the elections of people to high positions that otherwise would not have the decency, intelligence, or skills to be useful dog-catchers in a tiny town, then the U. S. democracy is in dire straits. I also believe that the biggest threat to the U. S. democracy involves what has happened to the institution of journalism in the United States of America. For example, when 330 million Americans are persuaded to not be ashamed of the image depicted below, the America that the Founding Fathers envisioned is now one that does not exist.

     In that milieu, since 1962 the U. S. Embargo against the island of Cuba has existed for all these decades for the same reason that the U. S. elections now exist to make millionaires and billionaires out of the cretins involved in saturating screens with all those nauseous political commercials. In other words, those political commercials will continue to proliferate just like the Embargo of Cuba has continued to proliferate since 1962: "HEY...DON'T MIND WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT THE U. S. DEMOCRACY OR WHAT INSANITY IS SHOVES DOWN THE THROATS OF DECENT AMERICANS!!! AFTER ALL...CAPITALISM RULES, RIGHT?"

     Now that May-2021 is almost over, the poor little Embargoed/Blockaded island nation of Cuba is trying desperately to develop five vaccines to curb the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, most of the island's 11.2 million people believe that a few Embargo/Blockade supporters in the U. S. who have benefited economically and politically from that strangulation of masses of innocent Cubans are now using the U. S. Democracy to try to keep Cubans on the island from benefiting from the COVID-19 vaccines that people on the island are praying will prove to be efficacious...as soon as possible. Of course, as shown at the top of this post, much of the mainstream media in the U. S. is busy mocking Cuba's efforts to produce its own effective pandemic-easing vaccines despite the ever-tightening U. S. EMBARGO-BLOCKADE!!

      In 1959 no island nation remotely close to Cuba's size was expected to defeat a brutal dictator supported by the strongest criminal organization in the world and by the strongest nation in the world. And now, midway through 2021, there are predictions that the addition of the COVID-19 pandemic will finally doom the island, despite the hopes that the great Editorial Cartoonist Carlos LaTuff seems to be expressing above.

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cubaninsider: Celia Sanchez's Saddest Days

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