16.1.20

USA's Batistiano Media

A Massive Anti-Democratic Offshoot!!
{Of the Cuban Revolution}
      Because she works for the London-based Reuters News Agency, Sarah Marsh has the freedom to report fairly and internationally from Cuba and about Cuba. Unfortunately, that is a freedom U. S. journalists do not enjoy.
     For example, as a journalist for Reuters the talented Sarah Marsh is not obligated to dispense either left-wing or right-wing propaganda, which is a plight that has taken over journalism in the USA. In Cuba, as above, Sarah traverses the island to report about what is actually happening. For example, in the last few hours there have been loud, massive, and festive marches and demonstrations in the streets of Havana...and both Sarah Marsh and photographer Alexandre Meneghini have had the FREEDOM to fairly report on it.
       In the last few hours a total of twenty-two bands in New Orleans have joined Cubans playing, marching, and demonstrating in the streets of Havana in massive defiance of President Trump's exceedingly cruel Batatistino-driven effort to totally wipe out Cuba's economy. The mostly unchecked effort by the superpower U. S. to engage what amounts to genocide against innocent Cuban people in a much small sovereign nation is actually BIG NEWS, and it actually says more about the United States than it says about Cuba, as the people depicted above comprehend.
      This powerful nexus of New Orleans and Havana is an event that should be reported to Americans by American journalists, but it wasn't and isn't because the Batistiano-element that dictates America's Cuban narrative basically prohibits anything that might be construed as positive news regarding Cuba.
        Like Reuters, the London-based The Guardian, of course, had the freedom in recent hours to massively cover the boisterous demonstrations in Havana, something U. S. journalists didn't have the freedom to cover although the event had a lot more to do with the US than it had to do with the UK.
      In addition to reporting from Cuba for Reuters, Sarah Marsh also uses Social Media to post photos and updates from the island. The photo above was posted on Twitter by Sarah to show what she said was "Today's queve at the same gas station in Havana that has been going dry because of the increasing effects of the U. S. blockade." If Sarah Marsh can report to the world on Reuters and on Twitter about power outages and food shortages in Cuba caused by the genocidal Batistiano-dictated blockade imposed by the U. S. government, why is the U. S. democracy not strong enough to allow U. S. journalists to do the same??????"
        Or if The Guardian in London can publish an article, like the one above, from Cuba about two generations of everyday Cubans proudly coping with the 6-decades-old U.S. embargo/blockade, WHY in the hell are U. S. JOURNALISTS too afraid to do the save??????
         Actually, Michael Weissenstein is an excellent American journalist and he is based in Havana as the head of the Caribbean News Bureau for the Associated Press. His major article today -- Jan. 16, 2020 -- started with this exact very accurate sentence: "The Cuban government is warning citizens to prepare for shortages of cooking gas due to the Trump administration's sanctions on the island."
     And the U.S.-based Associated Press today also used the above accurate and very descriptive photo to illustrate that the Trump sanctions, of course, are greatly hurting everyday Cubans as they sate the cruel and greedy appetites of a handful of self-serving Cuban Counter Revolutionary zealots such as Rubio, Diaz-Balart, Menendez, and Claver-Carone.
      The major article in the Miami Herald today was written by Mario J. Penton and is entitled: "Fears Of A Total Ban On U. S. Flights To Cuba Leads To A Run On Tickets." Of course, anything in the Miami Herald has either a Batistiano dictation or a Batistiano slant to show that Revolutionary Cuba represents the world's worst government in history and that the Batista-Mafia government that preceded it was was the world's all-time best government. Yet, Penton's article today in the Miami Herald unwittingly shows that the Batistiano-driven U. S. sanctions also drastically hurt most Cuban-Americans in the Miami area while mostly aimed at harming innocent Cubans on the island.
     While trying to block all imports to Cuba and all exports from Cuba, the Batistiano-directed sanctions recently blocked cruise ships from visiting Cuba and a few days ago blocked U. S. air flights to nine Cuban cities, permitting only some flights to Havana. The Miami Herald now says the Batistianos will also block all U. S. flights to Havana, which most angers and most-of-all hurts most Cuban-Americans who desire such flights to all Cuban cities so they can visit and try to help their relatives or friends. Of course, the Batistianos feel they have such total control of America's Cuban policies, at least as long a Republican is in the White House, that they can dictate harm to the majority of Cuban-Americans too.
      When Rubio was anointed by Trump to be the USA's Cuban dictator-in-exile, Rubio believed it would enable him to orchestrate the long-desired re-capture of Cuba for the exile leaders in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. Trump still believes his payoff from Rubio will be Florida's 29 crucial Electoral Votes that will be vital to his re-election in November, 2020. That Pro Quid Quo deal with Rubio, not that one nebulous phone call to Ukraine, is why Trump should be impeached, but even the extreme mainstream left-wing U. S. media that DIRELY HATES Trump is too afraid of Little Havana to admit that glaring fact.
     As I study the three faces of Marco Rubio, this reminder dances glaringly in my thoughts: If the United States of America must impose massive sanctions against masses of people in a much smaller and weaker nation, that decision should NOT be rendered  by the likes of Marco Rubio; it should be rendered by a consensus of unbiased DECENT PEOPLE.
      Even Marco Rubio's hometown newspaper {the Miami Herald} is ashamed of Rubio's extreme cruelty against Cuban families on the island since President Trump put Rubio in charge of the USA's cruelty against Cuba. As shown above, the Miami Herald published a scathing article against Rubio penned by Cuban women who had created thriving entrepreneur careers  on the island thanks to the decency of U. S. President Obama,  but then under the Trump presidency Rubio purposely wiped out their businesses with sanctions. As you can see by the quote above, those Cuban mothers BEGGED Rubio to discuss the situation with them, but he refused. Of course, Rubio believes he can continue to assault innocent families in Cuba for his own political and economic gains as long as there is a Bush-like or Trump-like President or as long as neither the mainstream media nor the overly lobbied bought-and-paid-for U. S. Congress doesn't have the guts or decency to hold him accountable.
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15.1.20

Batista-Like Miami Dictators

Punish Cuban-Americans TOO!!
    Today -- January 15th, 2020 -- an ultra-powerful Latina media source, Al Dia News, used the photo above to illustrate a scathing article that excoriates the minority of extremist Cubans who are allowed to dictate extreme punishment to Americans and Cuban-Americans...much like the U.S.-directed Batista-Mafia dictatorship punished everyday Cubans on the island prior to the Jan. 1-1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution that booted the Batistiano-Mafiosi leaders to their sanctuary on U. S. soil, mainly Little Havana in nearby Miami. The photo and article today referred to the latest extreme punishment to Cubans, Americans, and Cuban-Americans being handed out by the USA's Batistiano-controlled Trump administration. That extreme anti-democratic outrage now includes the U. S. dictating that airline flights to nine major Cuban cities are no longer permitted, just like cruise ships and other commerce are not allowed to visit Cuba. The reason is to make sure that Cuba's economy will be totally wiped out by the world's superpower nation but it's another Cuban policy that, as usual, harms the most innocent Cubans on the island, most Americans, and the majority of Cuban-Americans. Those now canceled flights had been most utilized by Cuban-Americans in the Miami area who desire to visit their families and close friends on the island. And also such policies also destroy the burgeoning private entrepreneurs that had taken advantage to thrive thanks to the decency of the pre-Trump administration of President Bararach Obama.
     The Caribbean island of Cuba continues to represent America's tragedy of following Obama-like decency with Trump-like indecency. 
    Representing the outrage of most Cuban-Americans, Albor Ruiz wrote the scathing article today -- January 15, 2020 -- entitled: "COWARDICE AS A POLITICAL STANCE: CYNICAL AND SHAMEFUL."
       Here are some of Albor Ruiz's exact words today: "Go on the streets to protest and demand the rights Americans are supposed to have, including freedom to travel. Go to organize to let everyone know that not all Cubans who live abroad agree with the abuses and stupid policies promoted by Trump, Rubio, Diaz-Balart and the string of sellouts. Americans and Cuban-Americans are arbitrarily deprived by a corrupt and abusive government like Donald Trump's of their rights to travel freely to their country of origin and visit mothers, wives, children, and friends, or just breathe the air of their land." Please understand that Albor Ruiz is a powerful and decent democratic voice for the majority of Cuban-Americans who believe that the likes of "Rubio, Diaz-Balart and the string of sellouts" are now dictators on U. S. soil in 2020 similar to the way the Batista-Mafia leaders were dictators in Cuba in the 1950s.
     Today's ultra-powerful article by Albor Ruiz originated in the ultra-powerful Al Dia News Media, which is based in Philadelphia...a city which is FAR FROM Miami and Little Havana. The photo above headlined an article by Philadelphia's major newspaper -- the Philadelphia Enquirer -- about just how ultra-powerful Al Dia is and how influential Al Dia's founder and owner Herman Guaracao is. The Philadelphia Enquirer article is entitled: "Newsman Behind Al Dia's Niche Success." In other words, Al Dia stands on its own while its precise opposite -- Radio-TV Marti -- is an anti-Cuban propaganda machine in Miami/Little Havana obscenely funded since the 1980s by tons of tax dollars from Washington, all to cater only to Batistiano extremists in Miami and in Congress.
     Emblematic of Al Dia's influence in the Philadelphia area is the important forum shown above that it will sponsor later this month -- on Jan. 22nd-2020. And for sure, Al Dia represents the sentiments of most Cuban-Americans, which means it lavishly opposes the fact that President Trump, in a classic pro quid quo payoff, has anointed Little Havana's Marco Rubio as the USA's Cuban dictator in exchange for what Trump believes will provide him Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes heading into the Nov.-2020 presidential election.
     This is a Al Dia photo of Marco Rubio that depicts the insult to America's democracy and to most Cuban-Americans of having a self-serving denizen of Little Havana dictating extreme punishment to innocent Cubans on the island as well as dishing out extreme punishment to Americans, Cuban-Americans, and to Democracy. Otherwise a Congressional and Little Havana lightweight, Rubio's anointment as America's Cuban dictator as long as Trump is President will linger for the rest of 2020 and four years beyond that if Trump is reelected in November. Albor Ruiz's article today in Al Dia correctly stated: "All Cubans who live abroad do not agree with the abuses and stupid policies promoted by Trump, Rubio, Diaz-Balart and the string of sellouts." Yet, when it comes to Cuba, the U. S. democracy is simply not strong enough to deal with the past U. S. support of the brutal, thieving Batista dictatorship in Cuba and with the current Batistiano dictatorship that governs most of today's Cuban policies. As the Al Dia News Media headquartered in Philadelphia pointed out scathingly today, allowing the likes of Rubio and Little Havana in Miami  to dictate the USA's Cuban policies drastically harms Americans, Cuban-Americans, and DEMOCRACY!!!!
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14.1.20

cubaninsider: US As Defined By Cuba

cubaninsider: US As Defined By Cuba: A Very   Divided  America !!      A new  FRONT LINE  documentary  { PBS  image above }  explores the vast divide between America'...

13.1.20

US As Defined By Cuba

A Very Divided America!!
     A new FRONTLINE documentary {PBS image aboveexplores the vast divide between America's two-party/left-wing Democratic Party as represented by former President Barack Obama and the right-wing Republican Party led by Obama's current predecessor President Donald Trump. The left-wing/right-wing fringes comprise about 20% of the US's 330 million Americans while the remaining 80% or so are simply mostly out in the cold because they are basically moderates in what now is a frayed, grossly splintered, and dangerously explosive political system. That predicament is now exacerbated by what has evolved into a propaganda-obsessed mainstream U. S. media that is now largely unconcerned with gathering and dispensing news via utilizing real journalists but merely devoted to hiring or creating biased pundit-propagandists. That political-media nexus might well result in a revolutionary uproar depending on the outcome of this year's presidential election in November that will re-elect Trump or likely replace him with a left-wing Democratic extremist that might well be more dangerous even than Trump. In that milieu, the FRONTLINE documentary is worth watching as long as it doesn't further proselytize America's overly propagandized 80% of the citizenry that does not exist on either OF the left-wing/right-wing fringes. As a member of that moderate, non-elitist 80%, I don't need a FRONTLINE documentary to tell me what best defines America's great, dangerous, and undemocratic schism being greedily propagated by the 10% left-wingers and the 10% right-wingers who fuel the propaganda-obsessed U. S. media as well as both of the paranoid and money-inflated political parties. FRONTLINE should be admired for concocting an expensive documentary focusing on America's revolution/civil-war-inspiring "divide" that is reminiscent of colonial times and civil war times in the USA's past. But FRONTLINE should have shortened its documentary by focusing on the best definition of America's "divide" that might spawn into an explosive revolution or civil war in the last two months of 2020. If you study the Obama-Trump montage above, the "divide" they now represent within the nefarious political-media bowels of the U. S. is BEST DEFINED by the following definition that a moderate, non-elitist American like me comprehends but the elitist, propaganda-obsessed mainstream media will not dare divulge to their viewers or readers:
           During his 8 years as President Obama did his best to normalize relations with Cuba, and largely and very BRAVELY succeeded. But he was followed by the last three years in which Trump has tried {and is trying} his best to use genocide against the masses of Cubans on the island to bring about the long-desired overthrow and re-capture of Revolutionary Cuba's government, which overthrew the brutal U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship way back on January 1, 1959, and incredibly resisted being re-captured by powerful Batistianos still backed by the USA, the world's economic and military power. The sharp Obama-Trump dichotomy today relating to Cuba is the best representation of the salient "divide" in the United States now, and that is true although the mainstream U. S. media does not have either the integrity or the courage to report such a fact. All the while, the mainstream U. S. media has spent most of its time and energy in the last three years trying to find or fabricate something that will destroy Trump's presidency, finally finding and distorting a nebulous pro quid quo Trump phone call to the President of Ukraine but Trump will not be destroyed by that poorly produced and projected lie and, in fact, it might help get him re-elected in November. But the PRO QUID QUO that should be actually used to remove Trump involves him giving Counter Revolutionary Cuban extremists the power to use the U. S. government to commit genocide against innocent Cubans on the island, all because Trump believes his quid pro quo payoff will be Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes that he needs for his re-election on November, 2020.
Not with Ukraine -- NO!!
But with Cuba -- YES!!
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10.1.20

Cuba In The Age of Trump

As Genocide Replaces Cruelty!!
      Since overthrowing the brutal, thieving, U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship on January 1, 1959, the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island, for its sake, has hoped that it would have normal relations with its superpower and nearby neighbor, the United States. It still does has that hope in this first month of 2020, as a powerful Cuban leader Lina Pedraza Rodriguez clearly states above. Yet, because two generations of the rich and powerful Batistiano leaders from January of 1959 till January of 2020 have maintained an unchecked new capital of Little Havana on U. S. soil in the heart of Miami, Revolutionary Cuba has had to survive...history's all-time longest and cruelest economic blockade/embargo ever imposed by a strong nation against a much-weaker nation; an air-sea-and-air military attack known as the Bay of Pigs; well known and continuous unchecked terrorist attacks including the bombing of Cubana Flight 455 that included all on aboard, including two dozen Cuban teenage athletes; the Trump administration's 2019 activation of Title 3 of Helms-Burton that is designed to make rich Batistianos even richer while also targeting everyday Cubans on the island with genocide, just so Trump's 2020 re-election campaign will gain Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes; etc., etc. Not only does Lina Pedraza Rodriguez, who experiences such facts from Cuba's perspective, know all about such things, but do decent and brave Cuban experts and observers in the United States. Yet, neither the intimidated U. S. media nor the Batistiano-aligned U. S. government has the decency nor the courage to reign-in the Little Havana extremists who are raping and robbing America even more than the U.S.-aligned Batista-Mafia dictatorship rape and robbed Cuba in the 1950's.
     Just back from Cuba to observe how the Trump-sanctioned genocide against everyday Cubans is impacting the island, John McAuliff and two other U. S. professors who are also renowned Cuban experts have penned an article about what they have just detected on the Caribbean's largest island. The U. S. government hopes, as always, that Americans don't go Online to read and study the article that John McAuliff and the two other professors wrote about their latest trip to Cuba. John McAuliff, on his Facebook page and elsewhere, has stated that the extreme cruelty he is now observing on the island against totally innocent Cubans is directly due to President Trump turning over the U.S.'s Cuban policy ONLY to extremely self-serving and lifelong Counter Revolutionary zealots such as..."Claver-Carone," as John McAuliff so correctly states.
     From Miami to Washington, Mauricio Claver-Carone has spent his adult life vehemently and lucratively trying to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. Now President Trump believes his 2020 re-election absolutely needs Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes, Claver-Carone since August of 2018 has been in charge of the U. S. State Department's powerful Western Hemisphere Affairs division. Cuba, of course, is in the Western Hemisphere, and not only Cuba but all of Cuba's top allies in the Western Hemisphere -- Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc., etc. -- are now feeling the extreme wrath of America's incomparable economic and military power, thanks to unchecked decisions made daily by Claver-Carone.
    Most Americans have never heard of Mauricio Claver-Carone and, of course, he has never held an elected position. And, of course, most Americans are not supposed to be aware that, on their behalf, that Claver-Carone now is making daily Western Hemisphere decisions to whet his long-standing very extremist views against Cuba and everyday Cubans.
      Shown here in the red tie, Mauricio Claver-Carone has long been one of Washington's most powerful lobbyists while gratuitously soliciting money and congressional support for his torrid anti-Cuban views. During the eight years that the decent President Barack Obama was trying so hard to normalize U.S.-Cuban relations for the benefit of most Cubans, most Cuban-Americans, and most Americans, Claver-Carone was out of the spotlight but still raising massive anti-Cuban dollars while using all means...such as the airways, the Internet, interviews, speeches, etc...propagandizing against Revolutionary Cuba while implying that the brutal-thieving U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship  that preceded it provided a sweet Mother Teresa-like treatment for everyday Cubans on the island and for rich U. S. businessmen.
     Empowered by the Little Havana-aligned Bush dynasty, extreme Counter Revolutionary zealots such as Mauricio Claver-Carone, Otto Reich, Roger Noriega, etc. have thrived openly without restrictions in all Republican administrations in Washington. But like Claver-Carone they also prosper during Democratic administrations such as Obama's by being propped up by congressional Republicans and by many of Washington's well-funded right-wing "Foundations" or "Think Tanks" as well as extreme and well-funded right-wing media sources such as Breitbart, Townhall, etc., etc. In that milieu, the likes of Claver-Carone, Reich, Noriega, etc. await Republican presidents to take over the White House. With Trump turning out to be their greatest jewel -- even  more tasty than during the one Bush CIA directorship, the two Bush Vice Presidencies, and the three Bush presidencies -- has been the current Trump presidency. Not even President George W. Bush was so cruel as too activate Title 3 of the infamous Batistiano-written Helms-Burton Act but President Trump in 2019 activated Title 3 and that has enabled the U. S. economic embargo/blockade of Cuba, in place since 1962, to be expanded to genocide against the Cuban people while also, of course, creating vast new pipelines of tax dollars flowing and gushing from Washington to Miami. With the unchecked Claver-Carone as America's Western Hemisphere Affairs dictator, the genocide against Cubans on the island and the increased money for selected Cubans in Miami has evolved into the stratosphere -- even as the mainstream U. S. media and even as the majority of propagandized and scared Americans are supposed not to care.
     While Helms-Burton TITLE III is a Godsend for the likes of Claver-Carone, Reich, Noriega, Rubio, the Diaz-Balart brothers and their ilk, its genocide aimed at everyday Cubans on the island from U. S. soil is apparent to decent Americans such as John McAuliff who just reported on his personal latest observations on what Title III is doing to everyday Cubans. Of course, in America's Batistiano-weakened Democracy Americans are not supposed to know what decent, well-informed experts like John McAuliff say about U.S.-Cuban relations.
            A genocidal blockade against innocent everyday Cubans on the island, greatly exacerbated by the recent activation of Title 3/Helms-Burton to appease a handful of Little Havana miscreants, is a gigantic lie rammed down the throats of Americans as supposedly targeting "a few mean elitist Cubans" is well-known by those who visit the island as really targeting everyday totally innocent Cubans...including children and the elderly. When the world's strongest nation allows extremely biased zealots such as Claver-Carone to dictate genocidal measures against innocent people in a much weaker nation, the tenets of Democracy become unhinged. If drastic sanctions and embargoes are indeed necessary, they at least should be made and carried out by unbiased, decent people.
     A Superpower country trying powerfully to deprive and starve innocent children and elderly women {such as the two above} is being conducted today by the United States against Cubans because this generation of Americans lacks the guts to intervene to stop something that shames both America and Democracy. Former U. S. President Barack Obama AND THE WHOLE WORLD WITH STARTLING UNANIMITY expressed that EXACT OPINION with a 191-to-0 vote at the United Nations.
      But in January of 2017 Donald Trump replaced Barack Obama as President of the United States. Obama had tried bravely and decently to normalize relations with Cuba; Trump has cowardly, self-servingly, and indecently permitted Counter Revolutionary Cubans to impose genocide against innocent Cubans on the island...as a payoff for what Trump believes will provide him Florida's crucial 29 Electoral Votes needed to re-elect him in November of 2020.
     In my opinion, America's powerful mainstream left-wing media that doesn't have the courage or integrity to ask people like Mauricio Claver-Carone about genocide against innocent Cubans is even more of a threat to America and Democracy than Russia, China, Iran, North Korea AND Donald Trump will ever be.
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8.1.20

Cuba and Miami Courts

Where Cuban Lawyers Reign!!
      Both history and topical headlines register the fact that on January of 1959 the Cuban Revolution reshaped Cuba and the United States by chasing the leaders of the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship from Havana to Little Havana, which is a salient bailiwick in nearby Miami, USA. The plan in Little Havana has been to recapture the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island "any day now." But, over six decades later, the process is ongoing...even after unchecked terrorist assaults, assassinations, the military Bay of Pigs attacks, a cruel economic embargo/blockade that has existed since 1962, lucrative lawsuits in Little Havana-favorable state and federal courtrooms, ETC., ETC. Since the 1950s in the USA's two-party political system, all Republican Party presidents -- from Eisenhower to Trump -- and all Republican-controlled congressional sessions have permitted a handful of Little Havana's most extremist leaders to dictate America's Cuban policies. And still, except for atrocious cruelty imposed on everyday Cubans on the island and for creating a lot of politically-connected millionaires and billionaires in Little Havana, the ultra-rich and ultra-powerful denizens in Little Havana HAVE YET to regain control of Havana. In fact, even in a Miami federal courtroom this week in these early days of 2020, Little Havana even lost a massive lawsuit against Cuba.
     This week in the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, a Little Havana-designed lawsuit to garner multi-millions-of-dollars was dismissed. While revenge against Cuba and punishing Cubans on the island have been primary and unending motivations in Little Havana, money remains  the uppermost objective. MSC Cruise Lines, headquartered in Italy for over 300 years under generations of the Aponte family, has been an international power in commerce. Abiding to dictates from Little Havana, President Trump has blocked all cruise ships from visiting Cuba and he has done the same with most air traffic, including flights to nine major Cuban cities in recent days even though those flights were very important to most Cuban-Americans in Miami. But like other rich U. S. and international companies who can hire their own lawyers, MSC decided to fight Little Havana even in a federal courtroom in Miami. And Little Havana's massive lawsuit against MSC has now been dismissed.
    The U. S. federal judge who dismissed the Little Havana lawsuit against MSC Cruise Lines in the Southern District of Florida courtroom was the brave Beth Bloom. For four major reasons, including that the Little Havana claim "violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment", Judge Bloom dismissed all the claims. It will, of course, be appealed and Little Havana have dozens other lawsuits pending against just about any company that has had any dealings with Cuba since 1959, and that includes other powerful cruise lines such as Norwegian Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean, etc. And, of course, some major companies such as Expedia have chosen to pay-up settlements as opposed to paying lawyers to fight endless claims against them in Little Havana-friendly courtrooms.
     The current bevy of Little Havana lawsuits, as well as what many believe to be unconscionable genocide aimed at everyday Cubans on the island, has resulted from the Trump administration's activation in 2019 of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act. Since 1996, Helms-Burton has been a legal Little Havana congressional law that has grossly enriched selected Cuban exiles while also reaping and then rendering untold hardships against innocent Cubans on the island and against Cubans in the USA who disapprove of how their friends and relatives in Cuba are treated. But the U. S. democracy, even during the decent pre-Trump/two-term Democratic administration of President Barack Obama, has not simply been strong enough to erase Helms-Burton. Not even the Republican administration of the Little Havana-aligned George W. Bush presidency activated Helms-Burton's atrociously cruel Title III clause. But in 2019 President Trump, totally capitutating to Little Havana because he believes it will help him get Florida's crucial 29 Electoral votes needed for his 2020 re-election, did activate Title III of Helms-Burton. In addition to providing a vast array of lucrative Little Havana lawsuits, Title III also legalizes what many decent people believe to be genocide in the form of food shortages, power blackouts, and other deprivations against everyday Cubans on the island. 
       While Helms-Burton has long represented a piggy-bank effect for Little Havana Cubans, the activation in 2019 by President Trump of Helms-Burton's Title III clause created the genocidal tag against Cuba as shown above.
         The mainstream left-wing U. S. media has primarily focused on impeaching President Trump since his inauguration in January of 2017, but the left-wing media is too afraid of Little Havana to tell the American people THE PRIME REASON TRUMP SHOULD BE IMPEACHED, which is Trump's activation of the genocidal Title III against innocent Cubans. An internationally respected media source, the London-based The Guardian, used the photo above to illustrate an honest article entitled: "QUIET DOCKS, EMPTY STREETS...Cubans Count the Cost as Tourists Stay Away." The Guardian in London has the freedom to tell the world the real reason Trump should be impeached -- Title III's genocide against Cuba -- but the U. S. media is too afraid of Little Havana to tell the truth about things as devastating as Title III.
      The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives recently impeached President Trump but next the Republican-controlled U. S. Senate will UN-impeach him. That means, at least until the next presidential election in November-2020, Little Havana's genocide against Cubans on the island as well as those lawsuits in Miami's federal U. S. Southern District Court will continue.
     Prior to Little Havana's firm grip around President Trump's neck and around Helms-Burton, the only U. S. President that has had the guts to challenge Little Havana's dictation of America's Cuban policy was President Barack Obama, as mentioned in the graphic above. But Trump has erased all of Obama's decent and sane positives and replaced them with the genocidal Title III provisions.
      Believing that both his 2016 election and his 2020 re-election needed-needs support from Little Havana, President Trump went to Little Havana and shamefully turned America's Cuban policy totally over to Little Havana extremists as he stood before the 1961 Bay of Pigs Brigade 2506 battle flag. That flag to this day in Little Havana celebrates the humiliating {for the USA} defeat of the April-1961 military attack on Revolutionary Cuba, but it remains to this day something that all Republican presidents, such as President Trump, must bow to and genuflect before.
      In other words, the "genocidal blockade" against Cuba remains the longest and cruelest economic embargo "in history" that has ever been imposed by a powerful nation against a smaller nation.
      But the U. S. democracy has proved unable to "End The U. S. Blockade Of Cuba" even though the decent President Obama ALONG WITH the whole world voted to end it in 2016 via a unanimous 191-to-0 vote in the United Nations.
     Yes, most Cuban-Americans support Obama-like normal relations with Cuba, not Trump-like genocide against innocent Cubans on the island. But organizations such as CUBAN AMERICANS for ENGAGEMENT have no voice within the U. S. government nor the U. S. media when it comes to Little Havana's dictation of America's Cuban policies.
 A CUBA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN is ignored!!
     And what results decade AFTER decade from Little Havana being allowed to dictate America's Cuban policy is this international image of the United States and Democracy.
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