Best Answer is by William M. LeoGrande!!!
William M. LeoGrande
The sole publisher of Cubaninsider, Rich Haney, has passionately studied Cuba day and night since the 1980s and he has visited the island. He is a fiercely pro-democracy conservative Republican from Virginia and he believes the Cuban Revolution and Revolutionary Cuba say more about the United States than they say about Cuba.
Best Answer is by William M. LeoGrande!!!
William M. LeoGrande
But One Has the Guts to Report the Truth!!
A Comment:
In the United States of American in June of 2021 there remain a plethora of well-funded blogs and other propaganda-obsessed outlets who dominate Cuba-U.S. news, perpetrating the lucrative economic and political rewards for the USA's Cuban policies that have existed virtually unchecked for decades despite their draconian and genocidal traits!! Unfortunately for the U. S. democracy, the mainstream U. S. media -- both print & electronic outlets -- are among the purveyors of such lucrative anti-Cuban propaganda. There is, however, one notable journalist within the realms of the U. S. media -- Portia Siegelbaum of CBS News -- that has both the guts and the integrity to actually report the truth about U.S.-Cuba relations.
Portia Siegelbaum has worked for CBS News for decades, she was lovingly married to a well-known Cuban in Cuba for years till his death, she still lives in Havana, and she knows the trials & tribulations of everyday Cubans because she shares their daily lives, whether it entails Hurricane-force winds & rain or genocidal assaults from a nearby Superpower nation.
Shamefully for the U. S. democracy, Portia Siegelbaum is a rare bird among the mainstream media because she reports fairly about Cubans on the island, unafraid of the extremist Cuban-Americans who dictate the USA's Cuban policies to suit their whims, desires, and, mostly, their bulging bank accounts.
And for the record, here is how Portia Siegelbaum's honest reporting for CBS News honestly informed the American people about how Cubans in Cuba viewed this week's latest denunciation by the entire world of the USA's draconian/genocidal blockade of Cuban families on the island:
EXCEPT FOR,
Of course,
the U. S. & Israel!!
Money Rules Democrats too!!!
With Propaganda Saturation!!
So, Who Is Worse Regarding Cuba??
Today is June 16, 2021. Above is the blaring headline today in the Miami Herald!! It is nothing more & nothing less than what the Miami Herald has done on a daily basis since January of 1959 when the Cuban Revolution chased the brutal, thieving U.S.-backed & Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship to its new sanctuary in nearby Miami, which spawned Little Havana on U. S. soil. Since then Little Havana and the Miami Herald -- even with a myriad of other economic, military, and terror-imbued supporters in the richest & strongest nation in the world -- have been unable to recapture Cuba but have continually used the effort to gain wealth and power while continually shaming the U. S. democracy by saturating America with unchecked and blatant PROPAGANDA!! The June 16-2021 headline above is merely the latest example.
Today's propaganda-riddled article in the Miami Herald, of course, is a continuation of what that once-respected newspaper has now been doing for six+ decades...either because, like everything in Little Havana, it partakes in the economic ramifications of its Counter Revolutionary Cuban propaganda or is too afraid to buck the Little Havana leaders, especially since 1976 when the bravest and best Cuban-American journalist in Miami, Emilio Milian, was car-bombed for simply telling the truth!!
As in the article beneath the June 16-2021 propaganda-smeared headline shown above, the Miami Herald blames every problem in Cuba...and there indeed are many...on the Revolutionary leaders that replaced the U.S., Batista, Luciano, Lansky, etc., cabal that was in charge of the island prior to January 1, 1959. And with such blatant lies, the Miami Herald refuses to blame Little Havana stalwarts for ANY of the trouble that Cubans have faced since January of 1959...even if those problems include the terrorizing, murdering, starving, depriving, and making miserable Cubans on the island to appease a handful of the richest and most powerful Cubans in Little Havana!!
When the Miami Herald vilifies Cubans on the island for supporting their revolutionary leaders...as many of them always have done...that constitutes profitable, unchecked, and blatant propaganda for Little Havana. And On the other hand, such unchecked and blatant propaganda spewing from the Miami Herald has shamefully promoted an unchecked sanctuary for the likes of infamous Cuban terrorists and profit-motivated individuals such as Posada, Bosch, etc., etc....while also promoting the profitable falsehood that all of Little Havana's richest and most powerful politicians and economic benefactors are the most decent people on the planet who are just trying TO HELP the poor, deprived, embargoed, blockaded and assaulted Cubans on the island!!!! OF COURSE, terrorizing, killing, starving, and depriving Cubans on the island is Little Havana's morbid definition of "helping them."
Lastly, as a fervent democracy-lover I have always thought that the most important pillar that supports the United States democracy is an honest and strong media. But that pillar no longer exists, and most Americans now, I believe, understand what media propaganda is. Some Americans, of course, accept it and even support it if it aligns with their profits or beliefs. But poor Democracy-lovers like me are merely ashamed. Today's headline in the Miami Herald is merely the latest testament to the basic fact that extreme propaganda is now the norm in even the mainstream U. S. media, and Little Havana's unchecked propaganda from January-1959 till June 16-2021 has shamed and continues to shame Democracy and the United States. In all that time, the Miami Herald and other Little Havana-aligned media has never had the guts nor the decency to mention these two facts: {1} In 1959 the Cuban Revolution overthrew the cruel, Mafia-infested Batista dictatorship on the island; and {2} Since 1959, with unchecked economic and terror-filled support from the richest and most powerful nation in the world, Little Havana counter revolutionaries in Miami and in Washington have been, with no restraints, unable to recapture Cuba!! SURELY, THOSE TWO FACTS SAY A LOT MORE ABOUT Little Havana THAN THEY SAY ABOUT Havana AND THEY SAY A LOT MORE ABOUT THE United States THAN THEY SAY ABOUT Cuba!!!
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