Cuba-US Relations in the Age of Trump

In March of 2025!! 

      Today is March 13th in 2023 and above are the Top Cuban Headlines flashing around the United States and the world. Since January 20th in 2025 the new Trump administration has been mostly obsessed with domestic and international problems but the Superpower USA's decades-long attempts to end the Cuban Revolution is taking a backseat to things like fierce wars elsewhere in the world...but there is no doubt that the USA's big problem with little Cuba will not be forever forgotten. As usual, today the most pertinent Cuban Headline is by the London-based Reuters News Agency: "Defiant Caribbean leaders dismiss trafficking accusations as US targets...{Cuba}." As usual, this important headline today -- on March 13th in 2025 -- indicates that the US remains alone with its fiercely and endlessly "targeting of Cuba."

     As shown above, today's London-based Reuters article points out correctly that the rest of the Caribbean as well as the rest of the world simply disagrees with the USA's war-like policies regarding Revolutionary Cuba "since Cuba's 1959 revolution" overthrew the lucrative but not-so-nice USA/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship.

     The USA in 1898 very easily won the Spanish-American War fought in Cuba, making the United States the latest imperative power to covet and then dominate Cuba. Then that war later in the 1950s spawned the Cuban Revolution.

     In mid-March of 2025 the neighboring flags of Cuba and the United States are still waving in the ever-shifting Caribbean winds. But, as usual, the David vs. Goliath battles of little Cuba trying to come to grips with its northern superpower neighbor continues. It actually began in 1492, which was the year explorer Christopher Columbus discovered both territories, quickly writing in his diary that the island that became Cuba "is the most beautiful land that these eyes have ever seen." Spain then began fighting with or against other imperative powers to maintain control of Cuba. By 1898 the United States felt it was powerful enough to launch the Spanish-American War on nearby Cuban soil and easily ended Spanish control of Cuba. But the U. S. influence by 1953 had spawned Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution that in 1959 shocked the world by overthrowing the Batista dictatorship that was considered invincible when it was supported by the superpower United States and by the powerful Mafia.

     But, as shown above, long before the thievery and brutality of the Batista rule in the 1950s, the United States, almost even as it became a nation in 1776, had longed to control Cuba. If you deny that historical fact, study the quotations shown above. The most important U. S. Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson, by 1817 was loudly proclaiming "If we seize Cuba, we will be masters of the Caribbean." By 1823 Mr. Jefferson was still proclaiming "I candidly profess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could be made to our system of States." That was from the famed writer of the U. S. Declaration of Independence from England who then became the third President of the United States. Besides Thomas Jefferson other key politicians and newspapers routinely and loudly bellowed over the need of the United States to control Cuba...finally fueling the Spanish-American War in 1898.

      And yet, pugnacious little Cuba somehow has protected its Cuban Revolution since 1959, which was the year that powerful remnants of the ousted Batista dictatorship began to create Little Havana in nearby Miami Florida. And quickly while becoming very rich and politically powerful, the Cuban-Americans in Little Havana -- led by Cuban-born anti-Castro zealots such Rafael Diaz-Balart, Jorge Mas Canosa, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, etc. -- have always been at the forefront of the mammoth U. S. efforts to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba.

In other words............................

     ........but even with Cuba in Miami since 1959, Cuba in Cuba in mid-March in 2025 is still playing David to the United States Goliath. By no means is David winning, but at least it is still standing after being continually counted out daily since 1959.

       But, Yes, a third generation of Cuban mothers in Cuba are now barely able to survive the ageless decades of revolutionary leaders trying to oppose six decades+ of...Little Havana Miami Florida dictating U. S. Cuban policies.

      It has been argued that Cuba is the only little country that could have survived six-decades of a massive EMBARGO imposed by a much larger and much richer Superpower neighbor. But both history and topicality reveal that the U. S. EMBARGO of CUBA has existed continually since 1962 and has also been routinely expanded, including by the new Trump administration in 2025. So Trump is merely the latest U. S. President to try to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba since 1959. Below in mid-March in 2025 the Spanish El Pais News Agency explains why Cuba is more vulnerable than ever in its defense of the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

    Of course, as shown below, U. S. headlines and articles daily promote "South Florida's" viewpoints regarding the complicated US-Cuba conundrum.

   With Miami-superstar Marco Rubio now the top official in the Trump administration as the U. S. Secretary of State, some observers are merely counting down the days till MiamiFlorida topples the Cuban Revolution's rule in Cuba.

      But the two Vladimi Molina photos shown above were taken this week in mid-March in 2025 and they actually show some Cuban women on the island still strongly supporting the Cuban Revolution. So...STAY TUNED. It ain't over till it's over.

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Can Revolutionary Cuba Survive Both Trump and Rubio?

     On January 20th in 2025 Donald Trump began his 2nd 4-year term as President of the United States and then quickly appointed Cuban-American Marco Rubio as essentially the second most powerful person in the world. The 53-year-old Rubio has spent his entire adult life as a ultra-powerful Counter Revolutionary force in both his hometown of Miami and in the U. S. capital of Washington, D. C. Now as U. S. Secretary of State many US-Cuba observers believe Rubio will now with ease quickly finally overthrow the Cuban Revolution that has ruled Cuba since 1959. But, at least as of March 10th in 2025, the overthrow of the Cuban Revolution has not yet happend.

      In the 1950s Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the US-backed/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship on Jaanuary 1, 1959. But, even more SURPRISING, is the sheer fact that Revolutionary Cuba has survived since 1959.

    Above in March of 2025 the Miami Herald headlines anti-Cuban articles such as the one above to suggest that the always precarious Revolutionary rule in Cuba is now more precarious than ever now that the ultra-powerful Trump-Rubio forces seem to hold all of the primary cards.

      Above is one of the reports on YouTube that explain the dire financial situations in Cuba that apparently leave the Revolution with no hope of surviving any longer. The video above tries to explain things such as the money-lavishing "The USAID Program" that lavishes money on anti-Cuba programs, not on Embargo-ravaged Cuban families. And the video above explains how anti-Cuba Miami programs such as the supposedly benevolent "Brothers to the Rescue" planes nfluenced vast anti-Cuban programs such as "The Helms-Burton Act" that have spent decades starving and depriving Cuban families in Cuba while wildly benefiting Cubans in Miami.

    But since 1959 the best U. S. journalists covering Cuba -- such as Tracey Eaton and Jon Kofman -- have repeatedly reported on the vast advantages that counter revolutionary Cuban-Americans in Miami and Washington have had over the revolutionary Cubans in Cuba. Three decades ago Jon kofman at ABC News vividly explained how easy it has been for Cuban-Americans to enact whatever U. S. laws they want to enact to starve/overthrow Revolutionary Cuba while, of course, enriching and empowering themselves. Jon Kofman, for example, was the first to detail how such anti-Cuban entities such as the Radio-TV Marti broadcasts in Miami get millions of tax dollars to repeatedly broadcast anti-Cuban programs but -- as vividly reported by Jon Kofman at ABC News -- the main reason for the existence of Radio-TV Marti in Miami is to lavish counter revolutionary Cubans in Miami with millions of tax dollars. Other highly respected U. S. journalists and Cuban experts -- such as the great Tracey Eaton -- have also written uncontested articles echoing what Jon Kofman first reported decades ago about money-devouring programs such as Miami's Radio-TV Marti.

     As indicated above, it doesn't matter how many U. S. politicians describe Miami's beloved projects such as Radio-TV Marti as "political payouts," they are easy to be made into everlasting U. S. laws in Washington.

     Financed for decades by millions of tax dollars, Radio-TV Marti has helped make counter revolutionary top Cuban-based dissident journalists like Yoani Sanchez as international counter revolutionary Cuban superstars.

      And, of course, Yoani Sanchez also knows full well that her fame as well as such well-financed projects such as Radio-TV Marti in Miami thrive as long as top counter revolutionary U. S. politicians such as Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez are prime and uncontested proponents of anti-Cuban projects in the United States.

    The map above shows that Cuba's famed Varadero Beach is just a few miles south of the U. S. tourist-obsessed mecca of Southern Florida. It doesn't matter that Varadero has been voted "The World's Best Beach" in international tourist polls. U. S. laws -- such as the Embargo, Helms-Burton Act, etc. -- make sure that Revolutionary Cuba doesn't profit from such treasures as...Varadero Beach.

     But, of course, back in the 1950s prior to the victory of the Cuban Revolutionary over the Batista dictatorship, vastly popular Cuban tourist attractions such as Varadero Beach were wildly promoted by the U. S. government and by the U. S. media. WHY? Batista in the 1959s, in return for massive kickbacks, permitted major U. S. companies to partake in the vast tourist-ruled financial windfalls being lavished on Batista's Cuba. All of that, of course, ceased on January 1st in 1959 with the victory of the Cuban Revolution. But, supposedly in 2025, the tides of change will once again swing back around to reveal throngs of tourists flocking back to Varadero Beach.

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BIG Cuban News First Week in March-2025

 

      The MSNBC photo above shows Jose Diaz-Balart this first week in March of 2025 announcing the death of his brother Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Jose is a famous news anchor for both MSNBC and NBC News.

    In this first week in March of 2025 there are major headlines domestically and internatiionally concerning the United States but, as usual, somehow Cuban headlines keep seeping in. The two headlines shown above are examples --- one from the London-based The Guardian and one from The New York Times. One of the headlines tells about the dire hardships facing everyday Cuban families as the new Trump administration drastically tightens the U. S. Embargo/Blockade against Cuba, an Embargo/Blockade that has existed since 1962 and has drastically caused dire headaches for Cuban familes. And the other Top Cuban Headline shown above is about the death this week of Lincoln Diaz-Balart who was born in Havana in 1954 but, after the Fidel Castro-led Cuban Revolution on January 1st in 1959 overthrew the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship, fled to Florida with his father Rafael who had been a top Minister in the Batista dictatorship. Rafael's son Lincoln grew up to become a highly educated lawyer and a vicious anti-Castro U. S. politician in Miami and in Washingtton. Below are pertinent excerpts from the superb book-length article in the The New York Times regarding the death this week of Lincoln Diaz-Balart, a frontline player in the historic and ongoing United States-Cuban saga:

The NY Times article above was published March 4th, 2025.

The map above also highlights the US-Cuba saga.

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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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