Miami Cruelty to Cuba INCREASES

 

    The latest of a long and unending string of extreme Little Havana/Miami Cubans to reach the U. S. CONGRESS is Maria Salazar. She has been one of the most extremists since she arrived in Washington in January of 2021. Of course, within the bowels of the U. S. Congress this avalanche began in 1989 when the self-serving Bush dynasty dictated that only extremists Cuban-Americans could help dictate the USA's Cuban policies, with the first two being the Havana-born Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Havana-born Lincoln Diaz-Balart, the son of a former ultra-powerful Minister in Cuba's Batista dictatorship. As you can see above, as anticipated Maria Salazar quickly, once she got to Washington, bolted for the House Foreign Affairs Committee where, of course, extremist Republican Rubio and extremist Democrat Menendez have been the last two anti-Cuban ultra-powerful Chairmen of the Foreign Affairs Committees {better to dictate Cuban policy?}. Thus, Maria Salazar's all-consuming vitriol against Cubans on the island starts in the congressional Foreign Affairs Committee and then ubiquitously expands to the mainstream media whenever she chooses. When she screams "There is no EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA!", there, of course, is never any rebuttal. And being a Little Havana zealot, Maria Salazar is not about to miss any apparent chance to attack Cuba, such as trying mightily {as shown above} to tie the island nation to the ongoing Russian-Ukraine War. It is like proclaiming repeatedly: "The best government in world history was when Batista Lansky, Luciano, and the U. S. companies controlled Cuba! Since 1959 the worst regime in history has been Cuba's. The biggest threat to the U. S. and Democracy is not White Supremacists, Global Warming, China, Russia, or Iran. IT IS CUBA!!!! Miami and the U. S. have been shamed by the 1961 Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba long enough!! We must do it right this time!!"

     Since 1959 Little Havana's determined effort to regain control of Cuba has had every advantage imaginable...the White House, Congress, the U. S. taxpayers, the U. S. Media, etc. Yet, as shown above, Maria Salazar still in March-2022 is uninhibited and unchallenged in her use of the U. S. government and the U. S. media to lobby for the Superpower USA to finally, after all these decades, to finally overthrow Cuba's revolutionary rule of the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful nation. Then what? To put the rich leaders of Little Havana in control of Havana?

    Maria Salazar, Rubio, Menendez, the Diaz-Balarts, etc., have Congress, the White House, the U. S. media, the U. S. taxpayers, etc., on their side to finally finalize their re-conquest of Cuba. "RUSSIA THREATENS MILITARY DEPLOYMENT TO CUBA!!" Surely, that will do the trick!!!

     In her current campaign against Cuba Maria Salazar has the support of an array of millionaires and billionaires in Little Havana as well as in the U. S. Congress and in the U. S. media. Yet, incredibly, she has sent a dire message to Elon Musk, who happens to be the richest person in the world: "HELP ME WITH CUBA!!" Incredible!!!!!

     Even this Miami Herald headline reported that "CUBA AND NICARAGUA DECLINED TO SUPPORT RUSSIA IN U. N. VOTE ON INVASION OF UKRAINE." But Little Havana still will not miss the chance to tie Cuba to the Ukrainian War.

      In Havana {above} Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel told the President of the Russian Parliament that Cuba wanted a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine War and that Cuba in the UN would not vote to back the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Then {above} Diaz-Canel tweeted that he didn't want Cuba to be involved in such an international conflict...and he cited the fact that Cuba had endured "for over 60 years military aggression and a brutal blockade" from the United States.

      Today -- on March 9-2022 -- above are the Top Cuban Headlines worldwide.

     This REUTERS article today explains that more-and-more Cubans are trying to get to the U. S. because Little Havana/Miami's tightening of the Embargo/Blockade is causing dire problems for Cuban families on the island.

     This headline from yesterday -- March 8-2022 -- explains that the U. S. Embargo against Cuba, at the behest of Little Havana, has sharply tightened the USA's unique hold on the world's banking system to make sure the USA's starvation tactics aimed at Cuba continued to starve Cubans on the island: "You Would Understand Bitcoin If You Were Under Cuba's EMBARGO." Of course, only Cubans on the island truly "understand the Embargo" because, in all of history, it has been the cruelest & longest Embargo ever imposed by a powerful nation against a much smaller nation!!

        Of course, with Little Havana politicians in tight control of both the USA's Cuban policies and the USA's media narratives, the American taxpayers will continue to support and tolerate whatever Little Havana dictates regarding Cuba.

     In the meantime, Cuba  is still more beautiful than Florida and Cuba's beaches rate far higher than Florida's in worldwide polls!!! Little Havana and Florida each day rake in billions of dollars from tourism, so Little Havana surely doesn't want to loosen the U. S. restrictions against Americans getting to sample Varadero and the other world-class tourist attractions in Cuba that are due south of Miami and Little Havana!!

      Is the U. S. blockade of Cuba the most genocidal and longest embargo in History? Would an easing of the blockade/embargo siphon off a few billion of those tourist dollars from Florida? Of course, don't ask anyone in Little Havana either of those questions. But Maria Salazar apparently believes that Havana could once again be far more lucrative than Miami.

     Back in the 1950s both Mafia kingpin Meyer Lansky and his pal Fulgencio Batista, both of whom owned mansions and other property in Florida, apparently believed that Havana was an even bigger piggybank than Miami.

    Matthew Reiss {above} is one of the few journalists who tell the true story of the 1950's Batista-Lansky dictatorship in Cuba.

    As you can see above, Matthew Weiss was brave enough to expose some of the facts of Mafia-run Cuba from 1952 until it was overthrown by the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959. Please note the quotes above from Wayne Smith, the American diplomat-historian-author who best knows Revolutionary Cuba.

     A 90-year-old Texan, Wayne Smith has written four brilliant books about Revolutionary Cuba from his unique perspectives as a key U. S. diplomat in Havana and as an honest U.S.-Cuban historian. He knew Fidel Castro well and Fidel Castro knew him well. Although Fidel Castro died at age 90 in 2016, Wayne Smith knows Cuba is still Fidel Castro's Cuba.

     One of the most tragic and most "absurd" aspects of U.S.-Cuban relations, I believe, is the fact that "THE U. S. POLICY IS EXACTLY THE WRONG WAY TO GO ABOUT IT." And thus the Wayne Smith quotation above is 100% correct and honest. If the U. S. government and the U. S. media would be as honest and correct about that as the honest and correct Wayne Smith is, the Western Hemisphere would be much better place today.

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Cuba On Women's Day March 8-2022

 

    Today -- March 8th-2022 -- is International Women's Day in a troubled and war-torn world. Revolutionary Cuba, unlike the pre-revolutionary U.S./Mafia/Batista-ruled Cuba back in the 1950s, has corrected the Batistiano-era rule that both ignored everyday Cuban women and brutalized them if they complained.

Batista-era Cuban women & children.

     The U.S. support of Batista's Cuba in the 1950s was because Luciano, LANSKY, and Batista permitted rich U. S. companies to partake in the wholesale rape & robbery of Cuba in exchange for kick-backs and for the superpower USA's support of the Batista regime. Of course, after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1-1959 the Batistianos quickly and permanently took over Little Havana/Miami and to this day on March 8th-2022 the superpower U. S. government has continued to support Little Havana economically and militarily. In that milieu, Little Havana-Miami has dominated Cuban politics and Cuban narratives in the U. S.; consequently, Americans to this day do not know the Cuban women who dominated the Revolutionary War in the 1950s and who have dominated Revolutionary Cuba since 1959...women such as Haydee Santamaria, Vilma Espin, Tete Puebla, and CELIA SANCHEZ MANDULEY!!!

    During the anti-Batista War in Cuba, it can correctly be argued that the primary player was the child-loving/doctor's daughter Celia Sanchez. She was, in fact, the prime recruiter of the supplies, weapons, and rebels who began the War and made it viable. After that, with the idolizing and unending support of Fidel Castro, it was Celia Sanchez who made the prime decisions both during the War {both before, during, and after Fidel was in a Batista prison from July-1953 till May-1955}...and, truth be known, Celia Sanchez after January 1-1959 still made the prime decisions in Revolutionary Cuba.

    Of course, since January of 1959 Little Havana/Miami has made sure that Americans are unaware of the brilliant, child-loving heroine Celia Sanchez who was most responsible for defeating Batista, the Mafia, and the United States...and also is most responsible for the equally amazing longevity of Revolutionary Cuba from January 1, 1959 till March 8, 2022...and counting!!

     And of course, Little Havana/Miami will not allow Americans to make their own opinions about things such as this famed and definitive Lee Lockwood photo. In Revolutionary Cuba it shows, early one morning, Celia Sanchez writing down definitive rules for governing the island...you know, things like creating laws such as The Block by Block Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, the Permanent Organization and Federation of Cuban Revolutionary Women, Free Health Care for All Cubans for Their Lifetimes, Free College Educations for All Cubans, etc., etc., etc. While she wrote such decisions above, Fidel Castro was rocking in his chair but ready to defend whatever she ruled. And to this day, even though some of the organizations and rules have altered their names, they continue in March of 2022 to be the main protectors of the embargoed, blockaded, and severely targeted nation.

    At age 59 on January 11-1980, Celia Sanchez died of throat cancer, apparently because during the War she became a chain-smoker. While Americans in March-2022 are supposed to vilify Fidel Castro and the other famed rebels -- while sanitizing Luciano, Batista, Lansky, U. S. businessmen, etc. -- Americans are not supposed to know about the significance of Celia Sanchez. You see, that would simply not compute with the narratives dictated in the U. S. since 1959 by Little Havana/Miami.

    But as noted above, some brave U. S. groups such as THE WOMAN PROJECT.ORG knows about the unique greatness of Celia Sanchez. And, yes, quotations by Celia Sanchez still define her Cuban Revolution, such as: "We rebels...get far too much credit for winning the Revolution. Our enemies deserve most of the credit, for being greedy cowards and idiots." Such quotations, of course, don't go over very well in 2022 in Little Havana/Miami.

     The 99-pound doctor's daughter started the anti-Batista War...and she also ended it. Her name is Celia Sanchez. In March of 2022 she remains the prime reason Little Havana/Miami, always supported by the world's Superpower USA, still has not recaptured Cuba.

During the war, Celia ruled.

After the war, Celia still ruled.

    This photo shows Fidel Castro the first day he ever laid eyes on Celia Sanchez. It was the the day he joined her War in the Sierra Maestra Mountains in far eastern Cuba after he had spent almost two years in a Batista prison and then returned from his sojourn in Mexico to join her war. Yes, Celia gave Fidel this telescopic rifle. But from 1953 till 1957 Fidel had already idolized Celia as the leader of the War. Georgie Anne Geyer, the legendary U. S. conservative columnist/author, in her seminal book, pointed out that Fidel always staunchly backed Celia "even when he disagreed with her decisions during the War and in Revolutionary Cuba," and Geyer pointed out that Celia "over-ruled  Fidel" whenever and wherever she chose to do so. The legendary Cuban writer/author/rebel Marta Rojas told me in Cuba in 2004, "Celia, even after her death in 1980, still ruled Cuba because Fidel still rules Cuba to this day only the exact way be believes Celia would want him to rule this island."

Above, 1962 till 2022.

Above, 1959 till 2022.

       And YET, even in March of 2022 it is still Celia Sanchez's Cuba...and that will remain so until or if Little Havana recaptures the pugnacious Caribbean island from a rich & lofty perch nearby in the superpower USA...just across the Florida Straits from Cuba!!

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Cuba's Stance on the Ukrainian War

 

  Cuba's veteran Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez speaks for Cuba and his official statements about Russia's bloody invasion of Ukraine are generally well-received around the world, including in the United States.

     This is Bruno Rodriguez's official statement for Cuba on the Russian-Ukrainian War, which calls for a "serious, constructive and realistic diplomatic solution to the current crisis, one that guarantees the security and sovereignty of all, as well as peace, stability and regional and international security."

    The top Cuban headlines today -- March 4th-2022 -- include even a Miami Herald headline that surprisingly spotlights Cuba in a true light: "Ukraine's top diplomat in Havana: Cuba's vote at the U. N. 'gives us cautious hope.'" In the UN, indeed, Cuba refused to support Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Of course, the media that is obsessed with only anti-Cuban propaganda continues to draw wedges between Cuba and anyone that desires honorable relations with the Caribbean's largest island nation. The headline above comes, not surprisingly, from Yoani Sanchez's well-funded digital newspaper 14YMEDIO that is based in her Havana apartment and then flashed around the world.

      Of course, Yoani Sanchez has powerful friends in Miami at Radio-TV Marti.

    And, of course, Yoani Sanchez has some ultra-powerful friends in the United States Senate.

      So, on any normal day the media devoted to undermining Cuba prevails in the United States and around much of the world.

      At NBC News Carmen Sesin has been one of the USA's highest-profile anti-Cuban/pro-Miami journalists in the United States. But, surprisingly, this week she and NBC News have penned true journalistic-style articles about Cuba's own very effective COVID-19 vaccines and now she pens a fair article entitled: "U. S. Boosts Embassy Personnel in Cuba."

    This is Carmen Sesin's article for NBC News that surprisingly gives Americans an honest view of a topical U.S.-Cuba perspective this week.

   A respected spokesman for Cuba, Bruno Rodriguez is rarely recognized in the mainstream U. S. media. But when a source such as NBC News at least quotes Mr. Rodriguez, then perhaps it is a sign that the dismally low rating the U. S. media has with the American people is being uplifted.

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U.S. PRAISES Cuba!!!

 AT LEAST MORE SOFTLY THAN USUAL

     In this first week of March-2022 Cuba, its northern neighbor USA, and the Whole World remains absorbed with the bloody repercussions of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War. Cubans on the island, as indicated by the headline above by the independent OnCuba News, are being subjected with updated news reports from their state media as well as online articles/videos via international sources such as the BBC and the Social Media giants such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

    The Cuban diplomat who is most respected by unbiased U. S. journalists and politicians, Carlos de Cossio, got a surprise question from a U. S. journalist: "Carlos, the Miami Herald today had an article that actually praised Cuba...at least somewhat. Did you know that?" He smiled and said: "Yes, I read that article. It stunned me. Even Nora Gamez, one of the mainstream U. S. reporters who seem to be devoting their careers to damning Cuba on behalf of Little Havana benefactors, may have even participated today in what you can call a bit of praise of Cuba. Shocking. Yes, I must say it was shocking, at least to me."

    This is the Miami Herald article today -- March 3rd--2022 -- that seems to be a glimmer of hope to Cuba's main U.S.-related diplomat Carlos de Cossio. For decades the Miami Herald has led the vast economic and political media assault on Cuba by the Anti-Castro Cottage Industry in the U. S. media on behalf of the ultra-powerful Miami/Little Havana Cubans. Was this little bit of praise today by the Miami Herald heralding a trend to a softer stand regarding Cuba?? PROBABLY NOT. But when a little nation has been cruelly blockaded for over six decades by a superpower neighbor, a glimmer of hope from the Miami Herald today was able to put a smile on the face of an important Cuba diplomat...Carlos de Cossio.

   Like most Cubans in Cuba Carlos de Cossio makes use of Social Media. Above you can see that at 7:13 A. M. this morning on 03 March 22 he fired off this Tweet. It related to the fact that Cubans who would love to have normal relations with the U. S. are frustrated that President Biden has cruelly continued the uniquely cruel attack on Cuban families imposed by the Trump presidency. For example, to appease his financial-political pals in Little Havana, Trump made Western Union close its hundreds of offices in Cuba that processed remittances from U. S. Cubans to needy Cubans on the island. de Cossio has repeatedly said, "Rubio and the other Little Havana Cubans have had the support of the whole U. S. government to get rich themselves while using the blockade and criminal Helms-Burton Act to starve Cuban families on the island. Trump and Biden shutting the Western Union offices in Cuba was to make sure Cuban families starved even quicker than Little Havana's Helms-Burton piggybank has intended that they starve." Well, to translate Carlos de Cossio's tweet today, here is what he says above: "So the U. S. banned remittances via Western Union to Cuba, which charged about $5 for every 100 shipped, to apparently authorize formulas that charge the sender up to $30 per 100." In other words, in the Tweet above and as he has stated repeatedly, Carlos de Cossio is repeating his seminal claim that Rubio and the other Little Havana benefactors lie about "every word they speak to benefit themselves while also using the U. S. government to try to starve Cuban families." In that manner, in his Tweet today, Carlos de Cossio is pointing out that Little Havana lies when it claims most of the money from the remittances goes to the Cuban government, not to Cubans families.

       And so, today -- March 3rd-2022 -- above are the main Cuban headlines. The London-based The Guardian reminds the world that 6-plus decades of cruel sanctions against Cuba have not led to the recapture of the island for Little Havana stalwarts in Miami and in Congress. NBC News today says the U. S. is boosting its embassy in Havana that Obama briefly reopened fully for the first time since 1961 till Rubio quickly persuaded Trump to gut it, hurting both Cubans in Cuba and in the USA. And the other two Top U. S. Cuban Articles today are from the Little Havana-aligned Miami Herald. Both of those articles, INCREDIBLY, even take a few words to praise Cuba {and its close ally Nicaragua} for failing to support Russia in the United Nations regarding the Ukrainian War. So these three paragraphs in the Miami Herald are indeed a surprise to Carlos de Cossio:

    As Cuba's top diplomat related to the island's relationship with the United States, Carlos de Cossio made a definitive statement the day a Trump supporter fired 30+ rifle shots at and into the Cuban embassy in Washington while de Cossio and 12 of his aides were inside. He said: "When a Cuban from Little Havana in Miami such as Marco Rubio can dictate Cuban policies to the U. S. government, how can the United States still say with a straight face that it is a world-class democracy comprised of 330 million people. In the 1950s U. S. businesses made fortunes in Cuba along with the Batista/Lansky mafia. Today Little Havana Cubans are doing the same."

           During his long career as a Cuban diplomat towards the United States, Carlos de Cossio has been rudely ignored when he has offered a Handshake to the U. S. government or even a Statement on behalf of Cuba to the U. S. media. But today, as quoted into English earlier, he at least made the statement shown above via Twitter. And, along with some non-belligerent paragraphs in the Miami Herald today, perhaps that is something that might portend a Handshake in the future.

     Neither Cubans on the island nor most Cubans in Miami want Cubans in Cuba to starve even as the cruel Helms-Burton Act remains being expanded. So the huge headline above on March 2nd-2022 brings hope for more sanity in U.S.-Cuban relations: "CANADIAN COMPANY BEGINS SENDING REMITTANCES TO CUBA WITH PERMISSION FROM THE U. S. GOVERNMENT." WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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