Little Havana Hurts Miami too!!

 

     Little Havana has existed in the heart of Miami since January of 1959, or right after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution over the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship on the nearby island. In the last six+ decades, Little Havana has been unable to regain control of Havana but, fully supported by the Superpower U. S., it has created an unending string of Cuban millionaires and billionaires in Miami while creating grave hardship, some say genocide, against generations of Cubans on the island.

     Since 1989, when the Bush dynasty {above} began sending only the fieriest Havana-born Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami to Washington -- such as Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, etc., etc., etc. -- extremist Cuban-Americans have dictated the USA's Cuban policies in the manner Fulgencio Batista-Meyer Lansky dictated it from Havana prior to 1959...by permitting rich U. S. businessmen, via kickbacks, to partake in the wholesale rape & robbery of Batista's Cuba. Although it will be roundly disputed by powerful, self-serving Americans to this DAY in March-2022, it has been a long-standing and on-going affront to Democracy to allow only the minority Counter Revolutionary Cubans to dictate America's Cuban policies. ln other words, that leaves out the participation of the majority {and presumably} the best Cuban-Americans...such as the professor from Seattle Carlos Lazo, the great and wealthy Miami businessman Frank Del Rio, Dr. Anmari Alvarez-Aleman, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.

    This is Dr. Anmari Alvarez-Aleman. She is one of the world's greatest marine biologists, and she is surely one of Cuba's and Florida's greatest treasures. Like many great and decent Cuban-Americans, Dr. Alvarez-Aleman prays for decent cooperation between Cuba and Florida. She is aware that Cuba has long had the region's best program regarding marine life...its shore waters and its natural environs. And she wants Cuba's help in helping Florida improve its waters and its natural environs.

This is Dr. Alvarez-Aleman scanning her waters.

     As a researcher at the Clearwater Institute in Pinellas County, Florida, Dr. Alvarez-Aleman is obsessed with saving her beloved Manatees endangered by Florida's polluted waters.

Tampa's WFLA TV News above explained her work.

Her work takes Dr. Alvarez-Aleman to Cuba.

To save the Manatees, Dr. Alvarez-Aleman needs Cuba.

    The written words of the great Dr. Anmari Alvarez-Aleman and by the famed Florida Humanities Journal shown above reveal the dire need of Cuba and Florida to work together on mutually beneficial projects, of which there are many. Yet, of course, that has not been possible because, since 1959, self-serving Counter Revolutionary extremists in Miami have not permitted such cooperation. For EXAMPLE:

    Every marine Biologist in Florida is well aware that Cuba for decades has had the best defense against Hurricanes, far superior than any other nation in the Western Hemisphere has. In August of 2005 every prognosticator in Cuba and Florida was well aware that the murderous Hurricane Katrina was about to annihilate the low areas of the great U. S. city of New Orleans. Cuba BEGGED the Miami-aligned Bush administration to allow it to send 1500 of its renowned hurricane experts, along with their bags filled with necessary supplies, to New Orleans before Katrina hit. The Bush administration refused the urgent request from Havana. From 2005 till 2022 decent experts are still contemplating how many lives those Cuban hurricane experts could have/would have saved if they had been allowed to fly to New Orleans on their life-saving mission!!!!

    Of course, The Cuban Narratives in the U. S. since 1959 don't allow true discussions of even dire acts related to Miami's dictations of the USA's Cuban issues. Thus, since 1959 self-serving entities such as the Bush economic & political dynasty are never held accountable, not even for disasters such as Katrina!!!!

It doesn't matter if {above} such things are known.

     But just for the historical record, please take note of the two Cuban hurricane experts who waited in Havana while they and 1500 others like them were begging the Bush White House to let them fly to New Orleans so THEY COULD SAVE LIVES during Hurricane Katrina. And just for the record, those two Cuban doctors/hurricane experts shown above were/are named Luis Sanchay and Marta Fernandez. But of course, Americans have never bothered to thank Luis or Marta for what they so badly wanted to do, which was to save lives in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. You see, Cubans in Cuba like Luis & Marta are the "bad guys" as far as the Cuban narratives in the U. S. since 1959 tell it.

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Endlessly Defaming Cuba's Media

 

    Yesterday -- March 14-2022 -- was National Press Day in Cuba. After a long and typical day on state television news in Havana, these 8 journalists celebrated with drinks and brownies. All 8, including the 8-year-old who is a daughter of an anchor, sincerely believe they are well-educated, honest, proud, and true journalists. Of course, they are abundantly aware that the U. S. media as well as pro-U.S. journalists in Cuba spend 24-hours-a-day defaming their journalism and their integrity.

    Today -- March 15- 2022 -- these are the typical daily five headlines defaming Cuba by Diario-de-Cuba, one of the plethora of powerful outlets that exist to defame and destroy Revolutionary Cuba. This has been been going on since January of 1959, the month that the Cuban Revolution evicted the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafiosi rule of Cuba off the island...all the way to Miami.

     Today -- March 15-2022 -- here is a Major Article by Diario-de-Cuba that has been quickly picked up by Havana Times and other anti-Cuban outlets...as you can see above. Needless to say, this article about a black Cuban who was a News Anchor on a top nightly newscast in Cuba is a prime revelation because it grossly defames Cuba. It explains that Yunior Smith Rodriguez is now in Mexico about ready to cross the open border into a safe haven...and presumably a rich life...in the United States. The first line above reveals that he "wanted to 'escape all the rotten shit, the lies, and the desperation.'" That explanation splashed around Facebook and other Social Media as well as by the usual suspects in the media surely is a nice entrée for Yunior's entry into the U.S., probably Miami.

    Every single day since January of 1959 Revolutionary Cuba has been forced to fend off desperate efforts by Miami Cubans and the Superpower United States to regain control of the Caribbean's largest island nation. Three notable times in history Fidel Castro announced that he would help Cubans who wanted to defect to the U. S. to get there. The most famous of those times was the Mariel Boat Lift in 1980 when some 125,000 Cubans used the opportunity to leave Cuba for nearby Florida. History correctly registers the fact that Fidel Castro famously wanted to empty his jails...presumably sending such problems to Miami, where most of them landed.

     While the U. S. media and U. S. historians mostly ignore inconvenient facts about the Mariel Boat Lift, four Hollywood superstars -- as shown above -- produced a 1983 movie named Scarface, which remains a popular classic that bloodily told the story of the Al Pacino character who arrived in the Port of Miami thanks to the Fidel Castro-orchestrated Mariel Boat Lift. The movie starts with actual black-and-white video of Cubans arriving at the Port of Miami...and then follows "Al Pacino's" fictional path to becoming the Cuban drug king of Miami. Surely, both before and after 1980's Mariel Boat Lift...and both before and after 1983's Scarface...there have been nice Cubans and millions of others who wanted to get to the U. S. for legitimate, nice reasons. But within the bowels of the U.S.-Cuban equation, there are often two-sides of what is often only depicted as one-side of events, especially events such as...the Cuban Revolution, the Mariel Boat Lift, Scarface, etc., etc., etc.!!!!!

      This is a popular News Anchor on state television in Cuba. She is smart, well-educated, talented, and a young mother. She has flown to major cities in Europe and Asia and she has no plans to defect to the United States. Therefore, unlike defecting baseball stars and Cuban anchors like the aforementioned Yunior Smith Rodriguez, she will never be mentioned in the U. S. media. Yet, she considered herself a proud Cuban journalist and she believes that most Cubans on the island love and respect her. In the above photo she is shown as she herself was being interviewed when she flew to a Latin American capital city on a story. She had just been asked, "Will the blockade of your country ever be ended?" She said, "Maybe, if Miami ever shows some compassion for families on the island."

    Here she is shown interviewing the President of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, on a street in Cuba. Once on Cuba's most-watched television news program, the Round Table, Diaz-Canel mentioned her name and thanked her for "criticizing my government two times recently when she believed everyday Cuban workers were not being treated fairly by the government. I want others to criticize us in that manner and I will thank them too."

    Born after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, President Diaz-Canel since 2018 has been a strong and popular leader of Cuba. Truth be known, it has been estimated that 80% of Cuba's 13 million people love Diaz-Canel and would vote for him in a democratic election today. And they know him well from his days as the island's popular Education Minister. Americans have known presidents Trump and Biden well and either one of them would love to be able to be rated as high as 50% in popularity polls. And Gallup, America's top poll, now reveals that most Americans don't trust their mainstream U. S. media, the same media...along with the plethora of sheer anti-Cuban mushrooming media outlets...that daily report how terrible Diaz-Canel and the Cuban media are. Well, what is more terrible than a genocidal 60-year-old blockade by the "good" people in a powerful country against the "bad" people in a small country?? Could it be that "bad" people are the ones doing it to the "good" people???????

     For sure, it was President Trump who expanded the cruel 6-decade-old Embargo of Cuba into a genocidal Blockade of Cuba, and then President Biden beginning in January-2021 has continued President Trump's genocide. Perhaps, the U. S. media might mention such a significant thing.

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The Blockade-War-Pandemic Plagues Cuba

    Cuba is blessed with the best beaches in the world and many of them are just below the southern tip of Florida. Yet, to {for one thing} protect Florida's trillion-dollar tourism industry, the six-decade-old+ U. S. Embargo -- which has been severely and cruelly tightened by both the Trump & Biden presidencies -- tries to destroy Cuba's economy, especially its tourist sector. And now in March-2022, Cuba battles the COVID Pandemic and the bloody Russian-Ukranian War too.

     Surrounding the gorgeous Cuban beaches, which rate far higher in international polls than any in Florida, are gorgeous 5-Star hotels maintained by Madrid-based Hotel & Resorts giants Iberostar & Melia. Yet, three factors that Cuba oppose -- the blockade, the pandemic, and the war -- may be combining to finally starve Cuba completely.

     Today -- on March 11-2022 -- both UK's Reuters News and the USA's NBC News blasted the above headline and sub-headline around the world.

    The Reuters News and NBC News updates above on March 11-2022 accurately report on the extreme cruelty facing Cuban families on the island because of...the Blockade, the War, and the Pandemic.

    This is Cuba's Veradero Beach earlier this week right after 8,000 Russians had departed in two days because of the Russian War in Ukraine. Canadians with flights from Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa also have loved Cuba's beaches and cays...and bucked the U. S. embargo/blockade millions of times in 2016 and 2017 when President Obama had briefly normalized relations with Cuba...very briefly prior to the extreme cruelty of Trump and then Biden.

     Genocidal Blockades against masses of families in any small country should not be HAPPENING ANYWHERE...certainly not in March of 2022!!!

But it is HAPPENING in 2022 in...Cuba!!!

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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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