13.6.22

Cubans IN CUBA Can Speak Too!!!

 

Johana Tablada speaks!!

    Johana Tablada is a wife and mother in Havana. She is also perhaps the planet's greatest expert on historic topics such as...Batista, the Mafia, the United States, and the Cuban Revolution. For those reasons, I believe Americans should listen to what she says in June of 2022!! And, oh yes, she is extremely talented in speaking or writing in Spanish or English.

     As a mother and wife, as well as a key Cuban official who is a prime expert on U.S.-Cuba relations, Johana Tablada is a fierce defender of the Cuban Revolution. Moreover, she fiercely believes that: "A strong majority of the Cubans in Cuba today and since 1959 agree with me as strong defenders of the Revolution. That is the only reason we have survived in Revolutionary Cuba for all these decades against the massive and criminal exploits of the strongest nation in the world, the United States, and the strongest criminal organization in the world, the Mafia. Of course, the non-Democratic U. S. government and the fake U. S. media deny that fact but, while lying to the American people everyday since the 1950s, they are never able to give any explanation of why and how the Revolution beat the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista brutality, and then for over six decades the U. S. government and the U. S. media have lied daily about why they have not recaptured little Cuba despite military attacks, terrorist attacks, assassination attacks, and six decades of a historic and genocidal blockade against Cuban families. And I speak of families like mine and like the families of my parents and grand-parents."
    As far as the U. S. media is concerned, Americans are only told about Cuba in words that come from the voices and writings of self-serving anti-Cuban zealots. But Johana Tablada can also speak & write & sing beautifully and forcefully in both Spanish and English!! And, moreover, she is also a powerful force inside Cuba when it comes to shaping the island's cooperative endeavors as well its resistances to what she says is "the U. S.'s greedy and brutal tactics against Cuban women and children to facilitate Miami's and Washington's ageless efforts to dominate Cuba, as the U. S. and the Mafia did prior to the Cuban Revolution when in 1959 our rebels managed to shock the world by kicking the thieves and murderers off our island. Yes, we want and need normal relations and trade with the United States, but not at the expense of having the United States and the Mafia once again dictate greed and murderous brutality as they did to us in the 1950s. Of course, as in the Summit of the Americas held in Los Angeles last week, the United States government and the United States media again lied loudly about what spawned the Cuban Revolution and why, by January of 1959, why and how the revolution was motivated to defeated a powerful dictator, Batista, that was supported by the world's most powerful nation, the United States, and by the world's most powerful criminal organization, the Mafia. When IF and WHEN the U. S. government and the U. S. media have the decency to tell the truths about the Cuban Revolution and about Revolutionary Cuba, I will then, and only then, regain some respect for the U. S. democracy that is, unfortunately, on our northern front porch."
     Yes, Johanna Tablada speaks brilliantly in both Spanish & English and, moreover, she is a brilliant expert on U.S.-Cuban Relations...as President Obama, the only U. S. President who had the courage to treat Cubans in Cuba decently, discovered when Obama's negotiators in 2016 tried to being some decency to U.S.-Cuban Relations. But, of course, Americans are only permitted to hear or to read what rich and politically powerful Cuban-Americans say and write about how terrible Cubans in Cuba are and how fantastic are the Cubans in Miami and in Congress. While the Summit of the Americas last week in Los Angeles was saying dastardly things about Cuba, Johana Tablada said, "The United States is closing in on having 50 different Presidents. And only Obama has had the guts to say that it is wrong that the world's superpower has a policy that starves children in a much smaller nation. What does that tell you about the U. S. democracy, and what does it tell you about Cuba, the little nation that has resisted that would-be genocide for all these years."
     Yes, Johana Tablada is correct when she says that President Obama has been the only U. S. President that has had the courage to fly to Cuba and also had the decency to tell the Cuban people: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." Of course, the decent Obama presidency has been replaced by the presidencies of Trump and Biden. And that, I believe, is why Americans in June of 2022 should listen to what Cubans like Johana Tablada say, not just to what self-serving U. S. Cubans in Miami and Washington say!!!!
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10.6.22

How U.S. Gets Away With Cuban Genocide!!

    In the USA's two-party political system a Democrat, Antony Blinken, is the current Secretary of State. Thus...he is the person who now has the task of telling Americans and the world why the United States, amidst all of its other problems, must continue its genocidal Embargo/Blockade against the nearby island of Cuba. It is, of course, an impossible task because all sane and decent people in the world consider it the longest and cruelest Embargo/Blockade in the history of the world, as the image above explains.
    This massive headline/article in the Los Angeles Times concerns Antony Blinken doing the impossible, representing the United States of America and telling the world why the genocidal and endless U. S. Blockade of Cuba is necessary and will last another sixty years or so...unless, of course, the U. S. and Little Havana in Miami manage to regain control of Cuba as soon as possible. This huge article relates to the U. S. blocking Cuba's President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, from attending the Ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. Of course, Cuba says the U. S. invited the most U.S.-beloved Cuban dissidents to the Summit in LA and Cuba, of course, also says that such dissidents -- both in Havana {Cuba} and Little Havana {USA} have been lushly funded since 1959, the year the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship was ousted by the Cuban Revolution...chasing it to its haven in nearby Miami, which spawned Little Havana, which expected -- with the money and power of the Superpower U. S. -- to recapture Cuba within a few months. That expectation was formed over six decades ago and continues in June of 2022...and continues to enrich and empower Cubans in Little Havana and in Congress but stil imposes genocide against a new generation of Cuban families in Cuba.
    This Los Angeles Times article, as shown above, explains that some key nations in the Americas have "snubbed" the U. S. Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles because Cuba, a high-profile nation in the Americas, is not represented. Of course, Antony Blinken told the LA Times that "I would dispute" the objection to the USA's latest anti-Cuba blockade in LA at the Summit of the Americas. Some of the key leaders in the Americas have reminded everyone that, of course, the U. S. would love to have Cuba represented in LA's Summit if the USA's Batistiano and Mafiosi friends were still the brutal dictators of Cuba!!

    The President of Mexico Lopez Obrador made pertinent comments about Democracy aimed at the United States barring Cuba and Cuba's friends from the Ninth Summit of the Americas being held in Los Angeles. He said: "While trying illegally for over sixty years to regain Cuba, and doing it cruelly and brutally in many cases, the United States claims that Cuba and its closest friends are not members of the Americas. Why? Because the U. S. is not making money on them. Back when Batista and the Mafia ruled Cuba, and while Somoza ruled Nicaragua, and Trujillo ruled the Dominican Republican, and Pinochet ruled Chile, etc., the United States wildly supported those brutal dictators and kept them in power because the United States was reaping incredible financial benefits from those cruel dictatorships. Back then...the U. S. considered Cuba, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Chile to be wonderful members of the Americas. But not now. Now the U. S. is not financially reaping profits it desires from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela...so is that why they can't attend the Summit in their own neighborhood? The U. S. says, 'Oh, we can't allow dictatorships to the Americas Summit!!' But who decides what is a dictatorship. Dictators...even mean ones like Batista, Trujillo, Pinochet, Somosa, and such...were wonderful leaders when the U. S. made tons of money in Batista's Cuba and so forth. My point is this: While U. S. Cuban policy is dictated by a handful of Miami Cubans, are you telling me that 13 million Cubans in Cuba, as defined by a few rich and powerful Cubans in Miami, are bad people that should be punished...or not represented at the Summit that concerns them. If the American people and the American media believe what their government tells them about it, then they are as guilty as a few of the Cubans in Miami, which is where I have Cuban friends that agree with me although they are the Cubans that Americans are never told about."
   Mexico's President Lopez Obrador has called the U. S. Embargo/Blockade, "A six-decade affront to democracy, and also illegal, criminal, and insanely cruel. If the American people are too ignorant or too cowardly to admit those facts, then maybe the United States is in more trouble than Cuba."
    As long as a few rich and powerful Cubans in Little Havana USA are allowed to dictate the USA's Cuban policies, Americans will continue to be programmed to approve and fund atrocious Cuban policies in the richest and strongest nation in the world. That approval and funding includes believing that all the best Cubans are in Miami and in the U. S. Congress while all the bad Cubans are still in Cuba. So...it's alright to keep starving Cuban families on the island while we keep enriching and empowering Cubans in Miami and in Congress!!
      And, of course, another generation of Americans is being programmed not to be ashamed of this worldwide image of their Democracy and of their United States of America.
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6.6.22

Punishing Cuba Remains USA Obsession

{Did the U. S. Love Batista's Cuba that much?} 

     The United States has just finished hosting the Ninth Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. At a time when the nations of the Americas, including the United States, have massive problems with things such as runaway inflation, runaway crime, runaway health issues, etc., etc., etc., the biggest headlines emanating from the LA Summit of the Americas concerned the USA's continuing obsession with its decades-old obsession with destroying Revolutionary Cuba. Therefore at the Summit in LA the U. S. pretended that Cuba and its allies Venezuela and Nicaragua were not nations in the Americas, so they were not invited. Of course, from 1898 till 1959 -- from the Spanish-American War till the Cuban Revolution -- the U. S. dominated Cuba and thus Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua were considered nations in the Americas, especially from 1952 till 1959 when the U. S. and the Mafia supported the brutal Batista-Lansky dictatorship.
     The "News about the Summit of the Americas in LA forcused on Cuba." with headlines such as: "U.S. Excludes Cuba, Venezuela, & Nicaragua from Americas Summit;" "Mexican President Won't Attend U.S.-Hosted Summit of the Americas Due to Cuba Not Being Invited;" and so forth.
    The United States can get away with the Blockade of Cuba, the Embargo against Cuba, blocking Cuba from the Summit in LA, etc., because the United States is the strongest and richest nation in the world...and thus the U. S. can beat all of them or shower aid money on them for cooperating. But, perhaps, the biggest surprise to the the USA's Cuban policy, especially in the past six+ decades, is what it means to the image it presents to much of the world about the U. S. democracy.
     And meanwhile, during the first weekend of June-2022 while the U. S. was hosting the Summit of the Americas in LA, Cubans on the island were still being punished by...the Blockade, the Embargo, the Summit, Little Havana's beloved Helms-Burton Act, and all of the other uncontested Little Havana USA-dominated Cuban policies.
    And meanwhile, during this just completed first weekend in June-2022, Hurricane Agatha also visited Cuba with deadly floods in Havana {above} and the rest of western Cuba and some of central Cuba. {But, remember, Americans are not supposed to care because, you know, all the nice Cubans are in Little Havana USA and all the bad Cubans are still in Havana!!}.
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3.6.22

US Denys Cuba Is In The Americas

    Today -- June 3rd, 2022 -- the United States began hosting the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles. Only extreme Cuban anti-Cuban dissidents were invited, not Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel. Of course, back in the 1950s...prior to the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution...the United States wildly believed that the Batista-Mafia dictatorship on the island was a monumentally important nation in the Americas...because Fulgencio Batista and Meyer Lansky allowed rich U. S. companies to partake in the wholesale rape and robbery of the Caribbean's largest and, arguably, its most beautiful island nation. But since 1959, unable to regain control of Cuba, the U. S. even denies that Revolutionary Cuba is a nation.
    Actually, Cuban President Miguel Diaz Canel said, "I never for a minute considered being in Los Angeles for the Summit of the Americas. The genocide the United States has committed against everyday Cuban families since 1959 must not ever be rewarded or ignored...and that is not to even mention the cowardly military attack, unlimited assassinations and attempts, unlimited terror attacks by U.S.-paid Cubans, and history's longest and cruelest blockade that was expanded to take advantage of the COVID pandemic. No, the U. S. can use the Summit in Los Angeles to continue to lie about its Cuban atrocities, but in these next days it will use the well-funded Cuban dissidents to support their lies. Unlimited dollars to build lies can hide atrocities, I suppose."
    Born after the Cuban Revolution's 1959 triumph, President Miguel Diaz-Canel has been a popular Cuban on the island since his long stint as Minister of Education. And that appears also to be so since he became President in 2018. He is a ubiquitous and effective communicator and loves to talk with the Cuban people in street walks, on radio & television, and on Social Media platforms. He says, "The last two U. S. presidents, Trump and Biden, according to polls, have only the support of about 30% of the American people. I can say to my people, if most of them did not support me, I would resign as their President."

      As a communicator, President Miguel Diaz-Canel is well-known and apparently well-beloved by the majority of the Cubans in Cuba. But the United States, the nation that loudly promoted tourism to Batista's & Lansky's Cuba in the 1950s, doesn't even think that Diaz-Canel's Cuba is a country in the Americas, and therefore the U. S. makes it illegal for Americans to visit Cuba as tourists because tourist dollars would not compute with the U.S.'s ageless plan, since 1962, to legally starve the Cuban economy with no regard about how that affects and effects everyday Cubans.
Since 1962, the Blockade.
   And since 1898's Spanish-American War, the United States has had huge magnets specifically aimed at Cuba to make sure who sucks away the resources from the coveted island. Of course, to have the cooperation of the USA's 330 million citizens, the USA uses the cooperation of the U. S. media to constantly tell the American people that, since 1959, all the good Cubans have been in Miami, Newark, and Congress while all the bad Cubans are still in Cuba, so it's OK to starve them.
  No mother and no little girl in the Americas should be targeted all their lives by things such as an endless and genocidal Embargo/Blockade imposed by a much more powerful foreign nation. I believe that sentence is true regardless if Americans are programmed not to believe it.
     And regardless of what the United States is saying at the Ninth Summit of the Americas now being held in Los Angeles, Cuba is not only a country in the Americas but it is the largest and most beautiful country in the Caribbean, which is at America's southern back door...right below Florida!!
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2.6.22

Biden Eases Trump's Cuba Genocide


    For all four years of his Presidency, Donald Trump turned the USA's Cuban policy from decades of cruelty into sheer genocide against Cuban families on the island to further appease, enrich, and empower a minority of counter revolutionary U. S. Cubans that already were rich and powerful, especially in Little Havana/Miami and Newark/NJLittle Havana in the heart of Miami is the home to Assault Brigade 2506, the veterans that used tons of tax dollars to attack Revolutionary Cuba in April of 2021. Trump, of course, announced his genocide against Cuba in front of the Assault Brigade 2506 banner in Little Havana/Miami. While the infamous Helms-Burton Act in 1996 greatly enriched and empowered Little Havana, Trump became the only U. S. President to activate Title 3 of Helms-Burton, which created genocide against Cubans in Cuba but, also of course, increased lawsuits that more enriched Miami's Cubans. Not even President George W. Bush, who increased the Bush dynasty's historically close ties to Little Havana, refused to activate Title 3 of Helms-Burton, but Trump activated it as neither the U. S. media nor the U. S. citizens showed the decency to object to its genocidal designs.
      But in the USA's two-party political system in January of 2021 the Democrat Joe Biden replaced the Republican Donald Trump as President of the United States. Many believed Biden would quickly end much of Trump's genocide aimed at Cuba, but he didn't. Then finally, in June of 2022...deep into his second year as President...Biden apparently is beginning to at least ease some of Trump's starvation tactics against Cuban families on the island.
     Here are the Top Cuban Headlines for today -- June 2nd, 2022. As you can see, the Biden administration has ordered its Transportation Secretary to "Lift Trump-era restrictions on Cuban Flights." Trump had allowed some U. S. flights to Havana but not to the other major Cuban airports. Back in the 1950s prior to the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution, the U. S. had wildly supported tourism to the brutal Mafia-run Batista dictatorship because Batista permitted rich U. S. businesses to partake in the looting of the island, but since 1959...while unable to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba...the U. S. has tried to starve the island with the Embargo/Blockade that blocks tourism money from reaching the nearby island via airplanes & cruise ships. So, the June 2nd-2022 headlines above indicate that the Biden administration is "lifting" at least some of those starvation tactics against Cubans on the island.
    Above on June 2nd-2022 NBC News was among the sources reporting that the Biden administration will now allow U. S. airlines to fly to other Cuban cities, not just to Havana. The photos above show when, prior to Trump, a Jet Blue airplane was welcomed at the International airport in Santa Clara, Cuba.
    But, as noted, in the USA's two-party political system the Republican Marco Rubio from Miami and the Democrat Bob Menendez from Newark presumably can continue to dictate, or at least massively influence, Cuban policies in either Republican or Democratic Congresses or White Houses. For example, under Trump Senator Rubio was conveniently the Chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee in the U. S. Senate. And under Biden Senator Menendez is conveniently the Chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee. Cuba, of course, is a foreign nation...and, of course, only extremely fierce Counter Revolutionary Cuban Americans from Miami and Newark -- such as Rubio & Menendez -- get elected to Congress and then quickly aspire to such positions as...Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
    In other words, even as the June 2nd-2022 Headlines report that the United States is "lifting" some of the "restrictions" against Cuba, that doesn't mean that the genocidal blockade against the island is or will end.
    The U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba has existed since 1962 and it followed the April-1961 Bay of Pigs/Brigade 2506 military attack that embarrassingly failed to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. But, despite international condemnation from the United Nations and elsewhere, the EMBARGO apparently will exist for another six decades or so!! That, of course, means that American tax-payers and voters will continue to be told that all the good Cubans are in Miami and Newark while all the bad Cubans are still on the island. And also, of course, the Embargo/Blockade of Cuba will exist another six decades or so if the American people continue to be programmed to not to be ashamed of the worldwide image of the United States depicted above.
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