Havana-born Lincoln Diaz-Balart Has Died in Florida

He was a giant in Little Havana USA!!

     Despite two foreign wars that direly concern the United States, the death today at age 70 of Lincoln Diaz-Balart in Miami is headline news. He was born in Havana in 1954 during the height of the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in Cuba and while the Fidel Castro-led Cuban Revolution was well underway in far eastern Cuba in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, although in 1954 it was not a huge worry to the powerful dictator Batista in Havana. In 1954 one of Batista's top ministers/politicians was Rafael Diaz-Balart, who was Lincoln's father. On January 1st in 1959 things changed drastically with the victory of the Cuban Revolution that chased Batista to his getaway airplane, which was bound for dictator Trujillo's Dominican Republic. It also chased Rafael Diaz-Balart to southern Florida where Lincoln became a powerful lawyer and an even more powerful anti-Castro politician. As the headline today on March 3rd in 2025 from Washington by Axios News says, it was Lincoln Diaz-Balart "who put the Cuban embargo in law" in the superpower United States.

      In fact, Lincoln Diaz-Balart was a prime architect of all the major U. S. laws that were intended to destroy Revolutionary Cuba and to enrich and empower Cubans in Miami's Little Havana area. Those two major laws shown above, of course, have been the ageless Helms-Burton Law and the endless Cuban Embargo.

       So the death at 70 of Lincoln Diaz-Balart is resonating loudly today, especially in Havana where Lincola was born and in his beloved Little Havana USA in Miami.

     The father of Lincoln was Rafael Diaz-Balart who was born in Fidel Castro's hometown of Banes/Biran, Cuba in 1926 the very same year that Fidel Castro was born there. They were close friends through Law School but to say that they became bitter political enemies would be an historic understatement. Fidel became a rebel fighting to overthrow dictator Batista while Rafael became a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship. In fact, after Fidel's ill-advised attack on the Moncada Army Barracks on July 26th in 1953, Batista considered giving Fidel amnesty as a gesture to the majority of Cubans who loved Fidel madly. But the person in the Batista dictatorship that spoke successfully against the amnesty and advocated successfully for at least a long prison sentence was his childhood friend Rafael Diaz-Balart.

       

In fact, this photo shows Rafael Diaz-Balart in one of his forceful anti-Castro speeches that influenced dictator Batista to sentence Fidel to a long prison sentence in the Isle of Pines prison in 1953. In 1955 Batista did release Fidel because the U. S. advised him to do so to appease the Cuban peasants.

    This historic photo shows Rafael Diaz-Balart, in the center wearing a holstered pistol, at an anti-Castro/pro-Batista rally in Cuba. After Fidel Castro's Revolution overthrew Batista on January 1st in 1959, Rafael Diaz-Balart quickly formed in nearby Miami the very first anti-Castro organization on U. S. soil. That organizattion was called "The White Rose"/"La Rosa Blanca" and was named after a famous Jose Marti poem.

      This montage of photos show Rafael Diaz-Balart standing in the center next to his father who was also named Rafael. The two photos on the right show father Rafael's two sons Lincoln, who was born in Havana in 1954, and Mario, who was born in Florida. Lincoln was in the U. S. Congress from 1993 till 2011 when he retired back to Miami and was succeeded in the U. S. Congress by his brother Mario who remains there until this day in March of 2025. So from 1993 until today Rafael Diaz-Balart has had an anti-Castro son in the U. S. Congress. Both, of course, tried to bring an end to Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, which incredibly remains in power in Cuba although Fidel himself died at age 90 in 2016. And, by the way, Rafael also had two other sons -- one of whom is a nationwide news anchor at NBC News and another son that is a highly successful banker in Miami.

       The amazing history of the Diaz-Balart & Castro families intertwined wildly. Rafael Diaz-Balart's sister was Mirta Diaz-Balart and, incredibly, she became Fidel Castro's wife. They had a son named Fidelito.

        But today -- in March of 2025 -- the amazing Love-Hate saga of the Diaz-Balart and Castro families focuses on the death of Lincoln Diaz-Balart in Miami. And, of course, the reactions in Havana and in Little Havana USA are particularly profound.

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WOW. A major nation has courage to HELP Cuba!!

 Hard to Believe!!!

       This Associated Press photo shows Giorgia Meloni, the first-ever female Prime Mnister of Italy. She has held that position sternly since 2022 and prior to that she was a non-political factor before her brave and stern speeches boosted her to the top spot in Italian politics. Because the United States has incomparable worldwide influence financially and militarily, most nations don't dare try to help the dire economic situation in Cuba. But Giorgia Meloni is, uh, not your normal world leader. She is not afraid to help the drastic economic crisis devastating masses of Cuban families.

     As Prime Mnistter of Italy, Giorgia Meloni is a political conservative that now happens to have dear friends such as South African-born Elon Musk, the world's richest person who now happens to be a powerful force in U. S. politics since January of 2025 when Donald Trump returned as President of United States.

      Today is February 25th in 2025 and if you Goggle the Top Cuba News Items circling around the world today you see the Top Two as shown above. One reveals that Cuba's legendary Cigars  are bucking the U. S. Embargo of the island and actually regaining some of its worldwide sales. And, thanks to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Italy has started the Linea Verde Project designed to help Cuban families who are suffering from dire shortages of food, medicine, electricity and other necessities.

       In this last week in February in 2025 most of the headlines related to Cuba tell the world of the impending "economic collapse of the island" while U. S. President Donald Trump and his top cabinet member Marco Rubio tighten the already drastically tight economic sanctions against Cuba. But, at least today, some help from Italy and the newly found Asian appetite for Cuban cigars appears to show two positive signs for the maligned Cuban families.

     But what Cuba needs the most is for the nearby United States to allow tourists to freely visit the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island-nation, the way the U. S. flooded Cuba with tourists in the 1950s during the US-friendly and Mafia-friendly Batista dictatorship.

      Back in the 1950s ubiquitous U. S. ads like this promoted massive tourism to CUBA. Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, such spigots have been shut.

     Since 1959 Cuba still has some of the "World's Best" tourist attractions, such as Varadero Beach. And, of course, Varadero is on Cuba's northern coast just a few miles from Key West, Florida. But the endless six-decade-old Embargo doesn't like Varadero Beach, and so there is nothing Cuba can do about it.

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Has Cuba Collapsed OR Is It Still Trying?

In the 63rd Year of the U. S. Blockade!!

     At the start of his second 4-year term as President of the United States, Donald Trump has continued to drastically tighten the U. S. Embargo-Blockade of Cuba that has existed for 63 Years since 1962. After the air-land-sea military attack known as the Bay of Pigs in 1961 failed to overthrow the Cuban Revolution, which overthrew the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in January of 1959, Cuba became the target of numerous assassination attempts as well as the economic Embargo/Blockade that was, indeed, designed to "starve, deprive, and make misrable" the Cuban people to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. It has not worked, at least not yet. But starting in January of 2025 President Donald Trump appointed two of the most vicious Miami-Little Havana Cuban-Americans -- Mauricio Claver-Carone and Marco Rubio -- to apparently finish off the demise of Revolutionary Cuba. Rubio, as the ultra-powerful U. S. Secretary of State, is now America's top anti-Cuban official. And now as Trump's Envoy to Latin America, Claver-Carone seems to now have the power to fulfill his lifelong dream of overthrowing Revolutionary Cuba.

         Now, for sure, most observers believe that Rubio and Claver-Carone will have an easy time of ending Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution once and for all. For example, even top international forums such as YouTube are telling the world that "Cuba Has Collapsed." So, tap and study the YouTube video shown below:

     But yet, in these last few days in February of 2025, poor little drastically out-numbered and out-gunned Cuba is still trying to survive Trump, Rubio, and Claver-Carone. While also trying mightily to survive dire food, medical, and other shortages, Cuba now is having to battle frequent nationwide power blackouts that further make living conditions on the island almost unbearable. But, instead of capitulating to the nearby Superpower, Cuba has created a "PARQUE FOTOVOLTAICO" that might alleviate the frequent power blackouts.

Yes, Cuba has somehow survived the drastic U. S. EMBARGO since 1962.

       And, YES, Revolutionary Cuba has surprised the world since 1959 by surviving historic events such as the 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack, having the ultra-modern U. S. Military Base on Cuban soil at Guantanamo Bay since 1903, etc., etc.

     But now in 2025 Little HavanaMiami has its two most determined native sons -- Maurico Claver-Carone and Marco Rubio -- with enough unchecked powers to finally finish off the pugnacious Cuban Revolution. Will it HAPPEN??? This time it seems to be when, and not if.

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If the Cuban Revolution is Overthrown, Who Becomes Cuba's President?

 A Prediction!!

     But first...today is February 19th in 2025 and the two headlines shown above correctly reflect what is happening today in Cuba. The London-based worldwide Reuters news agency honestly updates dire shortages in Cuba such as energy power, food, and other deprivations. And the other headline today from Ciber Cuba honestly explains that the Cuban government is working tirelessly to curb the foreign-supplied drug trade plaguing communities in Cuba. But now the prediction about a Marco Rubio-fueled future leader of Cuba!!

        Above: Miami's Marco Rubio and Havana's Yoani Sanchez.

     If Miami-born Cuban-American Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been tasked by President Trump to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary leaders, as most observers believe, a question becomes this: Who will become Cuba's new leader? My predictiion is it will be Yoani Sanchez...who is shown above visiting Miami to speak on Radio-TV Marti about the demise of Revolutionary Cuba.

      Internationally recognized as the most effective dissident in Cuba, Yoani Sanchez has worldwide support, financially and otherwise, to daily use her media and internet platforms to demean Cuba's revolutionary government. The photo above shows the awesome support she has had for two decades from the two most powerful Cuban-Americans in the U. S. Senate -- Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez. Born in Miami, Rubio had been in the U. S. Senate since 2011 until back in January when he was named the ultra-powerful U. S. Secretary of State by President Trump. Born in Newark, NJ, Menendez was in the U. S. Senate from 2006 till 2024 when he was convicted of multiple fraud charges involving foreign sourcess. During their long stints in the U. S. Senate both Republican Rubio and Democrat Menendez often alternated as Chairmen of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, depending whether Republicans or Democrats had the majority power in the Senate. For sure, Yoani Sanchez in Cuba depended on Rubio and Menendez for their massive support as she worked furiously to dethrone the revolutionary leaders of Cuba.

    Above are suggestions that Yoani Sanchez, Bob Menendez, and Marco Rubio surely agree on the six-decade-old U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba. "Estoy" means "I am."  

        Above are some of the comments from Yoani Sanchez on two of her forums to lavish Marco Rubio's new role as U. S. Secretary of State, which affords him massive influence on the USA's Cuban policies. From Havana Yoani Sanchez above said: "The Havana regime swallows dry in the face of the new winds blowing in Washington. The presence of Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban exiles, as Secretary of State will be one of the bitterest pills for Havana."

     In contrast to Yoani Sanchez's counter revolutionary diatribes in Havana, above are comments about Marco Rubio by revolutionary supporter Johana Tablada in Havana. Note that Johana Tablada says that Rubio was 'the author of the extreme measures that Trump imposed on Cuba during his previous term and that it caused so much loss and pain to Cuban families and to our economy and public services." After reading that comment, know that Johana Tablada believes that in Trump's second term as President that Marco Rubio now has full authority to impose even more "extreme meaures" on Cuba.

    Above you can see more of what Johana Tablada says about Marco Rubip: "Marco Rubio never tells the truth. Even less so when it comes to Cuba. He says he doesn't want to come to Cuba until he overthrows the 'regime.'"

     But regardless of Johana Tablada's views about Marco Rubio, she seems correct to assume that, as Secretary of State, it appears that he has full authority from President Trump to finally overthrow Revolutionary Cuba, which has been Rubio's lifelong dream. And if he does so, I predict that the new leader of Cuba will be Rubio's dear friend Yoani Sanchez.

    While President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are now at the top of the superpower U. S. government, Johana Tablada is still smiling in Havana and she speaks for the Revolution. But why is she smiling? She says, "We have survived so much from our superpower northern neighbor since 1959 -- murders and murder attempts, military attacks like the Bay of Pigs, terror attacks such the bombing of the civilian Cubana Flight 455, and daily lies from the U. S. government and U. S. media. But we are still here, even with Miami heroes Rubio and Claver-Carone in 2025 now in total charge of the superpower's current Cuban policies."

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Trump Has Tasked 2 Men to Overthrow Cuba's Government

 Little Havana/Miami-Florida will celebrate!!

 Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959, generations of Cubans in the Little Havana section of Miami Florida have tried mightily to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba's government, with considerable help from the superpower U. S. government. After 66 years it is shocking that Cuba's revolutionary government is still ruling Cuba in the first two months of 2025. But, finally, in mid-February of 2025 two men have been given the directive and the wherwithal to fulfill the 66-year dreams of rich and powerful Cubans in Little Havana Miami Florida. Those two men are Mauricio Claver-Carone and Marco Rubio. Born in Miami 50 years ago, Claver-Carone has spent his entire adult life trying to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. And Rubio, born in Miami 53 years ago, has also spent his entire adult life trying to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. Now both men have been given all the tools to accomplish that goal by U. S. President Donald Trump who, on January 20th in 2025, began his second 4-year-old term as the President of the World's Superpower.

      For sure, Maurivio Claver-Carone has spent his adult life in powerful positions such as a lobbyist, money-raiser, talk show host, head of the money-fueled Inter-American Development Bank, and key advisor on Latin American {Cuban} Affairs in Trump's first presidential term. From such positions Claver-Carone almost took down Revolutionary Cuba starting in 2017. But now in 2025 in Trump's second presidential term, Claver-Carone's new job as Trump's Special Envoy for Latin America {Cuba} gives him the power to complete his job of reshaping Cuba.

 Actually, of course, Claver-Carone's direct boss is his Little Havana Miami buddy Marco Rubio. Starting off in Miami politics as the protege of extreme Counter Revolutionary Cuban-born Cuban-Americans such as Iliana Ros Lehtinen and Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Rubio from 2011 till 2025 represented Little Havana Miami in the U. S. Senate as an ultra-powerful Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American in Washington. As a Senator Rubio several times believed he was about to overthrow Revolutionay Cuba but now he has the direct authority to do so as Trump's ultra-powerful Secretary of State. So, yes, it was not surprising Rubio named Claver-Carone, his Little Havana Miami pal, as his and the USA's Special Envoy on Latin American {Cuba} Affairs.

      Anwering only to President Trump, who is now by far the most powerful person in the world, Mauricio Claver-Caroe and Marco Rubio -- the two Miami-Little Havana heroes -- now clearly have all the tools they need to finally overthrow Revolutionary Cuba as well as changing the regimes of Cuba's friends such as Venezuela and Nicaragua. The question is when not if.

     Meanwhile, from Cuba's standpoint, the ubiquitous voice of Johana Tablada keeps tabs on the island's bitter enemies Marco Rubio and Mauricio Claver-Carone. The two Miami-born Cuban-Americans -- Tablada now fully realizes -- have been given unchecked superpower means to finally overthrow Revolutionary Cuba, which is in its 66th year of ruling the island after overthrowing the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in 1959. Above tap to enlarge the latest diatribe posted on social media today by Tablada about Rubio and Mauricio Claver-Carone.

     And above are pertinent headlines that predict the "imminent" demise of Revolutionary Cuba, most likely as soon as the spring in 2025.

      Meanwhile, of course, heading into the last half of February in 2025 Cuba is having dire problems apart from Marco Rubio and Mauricio Claver-Carone. Cuba finds itself almost alone because even nations friendlly to Cuba are too afraid to defy the incomparable economic and military influence of the United States. Thus the embargoed-blockaded Cubans are facing island-wide power blackouts, shortages of food and medicine, and other dire deprivations.

     This Politico montage in Washington, by the way, shows a firm President Donald Trump suggesting he is determined to dethrone the leaders not only in Cuba but also punish countries deemed friendly to Cuba, which have also long been priotities of Rubio and Claver-Carone. And for sure, fueled by the very strong election that has given him a second 4-year term as U. S. President, Donald Trump feels he is unchallenged as he has positioned two vicious Miami-born men -- Mauricio Claver-Carone and Marco Rubio -- with the superpower tools they are currently using to finally end the historic Cuban Revolution.

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What You Need to Know about Cuba-US Relations Today

 On February 13th & 14th in 2025!!!

    Because of its beauty, location, and size, the island of Cuba has been wildly desired by imperative nations since 1492, the year it was discovered by explorer Columbus who famously noted in his diary that it was "the most beautiful land that these eyes have ever seen." From that day in 1492 tiil today in 2025  the wild fights and shenanians to control Cuba have, indeed, been riveting!!! To prove that just GOOGLE today's Top Cuban Headlines {as shown below} and I think you will agree.

       As you study the Top Cuban Headlines today, shown above on February 13th-14th in 2025, note that the new U. S. administration led by President Donald Trump and Miami's U. S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is/are expected to dominate Cuba early in 2025. But take close note of the You Tube/Firstpost headline entiled "Putin's Migration War: Cuba..." Below I post that 7-minute "You Tube" video:

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