USA's Gruesome Cuban Shame

Cardinal Dolan Tells THE WORLD!!

         In this mostly Wonderful Wide World all of the decent and intelligent people abhor rare instances whenever a criminal element in a powerful nation is allowed to punish or eviscerate masses of totally innocent people in a much smaller nation. It is called genocide. In the world's largest Democracy, Americans for decades have been propagandized to shout LOUDLY if a powerful nation like Russia or China commits anything approaching genocide in their regions against people in much smaller countries. BUT INCREDIBLY, the last two generations of Americans have strangely and successfully been proselytized into not only accepting but also participating in genocide against masses of totally innocent Cubans on the nearby Caribbean island to appease two generations of exiles chased to the USA by the Cuban Revolution's overthrow of the US-backed Batista-MAFIA dictatorship way back on January 1, 1959. This week in mid-February of 2020 the very decent and very intelligent Cardinal Timothy Dolan has been in Cuba observing the effects of the American genocide against Cuban families. Cardinal Dolan, the famed Archbishop of New York, himself was severely punished on this trip. He wanted to visit as many Cuban cities and towns he possibly could but to do that he needed air flights. But to his chagrin, the extreme genocide being committed against Cuba by the current Trump administration in Washington has blocked such flights on the Caribbean's largest island. Thus, Cardinal Dolan was subjected to an 11-hour car ride from Santiago de Cuba, the island's second largest city on the southeast, to Havana, the largest city on the northwestern tip. In a ferment effort to starve, deprive, and make miserable the people in Cuba, the USA in 2020 not has only blocked domestic flights but is also fervently restricting international flights to the island and has blocked cruise ships from bringing the much-needed tourisists to the island. Using the USA's incomparable wealth and military power, the United States can also intimidate other nations and foreign companies to capitulate to its Cuban genocide...for example, lavishly levying huge fines or otherwise punishing companies that might have the temerity to exercise some independence by bravely doing business with Cuba. Somehow, Revolutionary Cuba has survived and maintained its hard-earned sovereignty since 1959, and the reason is the basic fact that a return of the US-backed Batistiano and MAFIOSI hoodlums is not a viable OPTION. In Cuba this week Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who was born 70 years ago in St. Louis, observed the effects of...a powerful nation committing genocide against masses of totally innocent people in a much smaller nation.

     On what was an excruciating 11-hour drive from Santiago to Havana, Cardinal Dolan asked his chauffeur to take him to some small towns. The photo above was taken on the edge of Florida, Cuba. Cardinal Dolan this weekend is telling the world what he has seen and heard from totally innocent Cubans like these. For example, Cardinal Dolan said: "I was especially happy to see young couples and families at the El Cobre shrine and other churches. I was very inspired to see a good number of vocations. I met this priest, a young priest, who has no church. He's the pastor of an important area, and every day he visits a home." Cardinal Dolan this week experienced first hand the genocide the USA is committing against everyday Cubans such as those depicted in the town of Florida, Cuba.

      When a decent and intelligent illuminary such as Cardinal Timothy Dolan visits Cuba in mid-February of 2020 and tells what he sees and hears about the genocide being heaped upon the Cuban people, Americans are not supposed to pay any attention to what he says about what he personally observed. And, perhaps most shameful of all, the mainstream U. S. media, for the most part, is much too intimidated to report what people like Cardinal Doan explain about their trips to Cuba.

          Yet, in all Republican administrations since the 1950s, a mere handful of extremely biased, self-serving, and cruel Cuban Counter Revolutionaries are allowed to dictate the USA's Cuban policies even if genocide is a large component of that diabolical strategy. And of course, extreme pipelines of tax dollars are allowed to continue flowing from Washington's lush spigots to the denizens in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood that since 1959 has already benefited from an unchecked ultra-rich and powerful exiled government. In the current Trump administration, for example, self-serving and vicious anti-Cuban zealots Mauricio Claver-Carone, Marco Rubio, and Mario Diaz-Balart can readily dictate USA's Cuban policies even if the rest of the 330 million Americans object and the rest of the 7.2 billion people in the world disapprove. YES, IN 1959 THE CUBAN REVOLUTION CHANGED CUBA. BUT MOSTLY IT CHANGED THE United States of America.

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An HONEST Article About Cuba

Yes, But Rare Indeed!!!

  This photo was taken by renowned Cuban photographer Jamil Lage and was used to illustrate the best international or American article this week about Cuba...and perhaps the most honest one. The article has a two-sentence title: "THE INTERNET IS WIDELY ACCESSIBLE IN CUBA. WHY IS THE U. S. INSISTING IT ISN'T." Well, of course, since 1959 the U. S. government and the intimidated U. S. media have not exactly been in the business of telling the truth about Cuba, instead leaving the Cuban narratives to the Batistiano extremists who fled the victorious Cuban Revolution for the sanctuary of U. S. soil beginning in the wee hours of January 1, 1959. The interesting article underlined in pink above is written by a notable journalist-author who was born in LA but has traveled the world and writes for CBS, PBS, the Australian Broadcast Corporation, and many of the world's best print sources.

        The aforementioned article this week was written by Reese Erlich and it bears repeating: "THE INTERNET IS WIDELY ACCESSIBLE IN CUBA. WHY IS THE U. S. INSISTING IT ISN'T." Like Mr. Ehrlich, I believe that American citizens, considering how many of their tax dollars are being used daily to recapture Cuba, have a right to know that the Internet is widely accessible in Cuba and, furthermore, American citizens also have the right to know why neither the U. S. government nor the U. S. media won't let them know about such things. That's why I suggest Americans dial up this article to know at least this bit of truth about arguably the Caribbean's most beautiful island and certainly its largest and most fascinating sovereign nation. All this is especially true and timely in February of 2020 as America's Little Havana-led President Donald Trump is vowing to once-and-for-all destroy Revolutionary Cuba on behalf of a handful of extremist Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami and in the United States Congress.

     According to Wikipedia, Reese Erlich "visited Cuba for the first time in 1968, which led to a continuing interest in that country." Among Mr. Erlich's best-selling books is: "Dateline Havana: The Real Story of U. S. Policy and the Future of Cuba." So if Reese Erlich knows enough to write a best-selling book about those two topics, surely his cogently researched article this week about why the U. S. "insists" Cuba, which now is "widely" connected to the Internet, is not connected to the Internet is an INTERESTING article. After all, Mr. Urlich is unlike most of the U. S. "journalists" who write {or propagandize} about Cuba but have never been to Cuba and therefore know nothing about the island and its people. Reese Erlich, on the other hand, writes about Cuba and its people FROM Cuba and he obviously is neither too afraid to publish the truth about Cuba nor is he paid to publish lies about Cuba.

     The book "Dateline Havana: The Real Story of U. S. Policy and the Future of Cuba" was written by Reese Erlich.

     And this week's best article about Cuba was written by Reese Erlich, and it has a two-sentence title: "THE INTERNET IS WIDELY ACCESSIBLE IN CUBA. WHY IS THE U. S. INSISTING IT ISN'T."

Uh...Cubans know the Internet too.

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Cuba Plans to Survive Trump

Cuban People Informed Via TV!!

      Born after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution that overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictators on January 1, 1959, Miguel Diaz-Canel has been Cuba's President since April of 2018.

         This CNN photo of President Miguel Diaz-Canel was taken a few days ago when the Cuban leader permitted international journalists from CNN, Reuters, Associated Press, etc. to travel with him as he traversed the island telling Cubans to continue resisting what he calls the Trump administration's "genocide against all of you who support this island's revolutionary-achieved sovereignty. But being recaptured by another generation of foreign criminals is not in my DNA, nor yours." Cuba's former Education Minister, Diaz-Canel has instructed his current Ministers to appear regularly on national television and radio programs "to tell the people what each of you are doing on their behalf, if anything. And remember, they  are smart, well educated, and live on this island with us so don't lie to them. That's the stupidest thing we can do."

     Cuba's Minister of Domestic Trade is Betsy Diaz and she appears regularly on national television and radio to update the Cuban people about what is adversely affecting their daily lives. She said during the above session: "As a sovereign small island nation, we are susceptible, as you all well know, to whether a Democrat or Republican administration rules Washington. The Democrat President Obama did his best to be our friend but he was followed by the Republican President Trump who wants to starve and destroy us, even restricting visits and financial support from U. S. Cubans. Since his applying of Helms-Burton Title 3 against us, Trump has blocked or erased all of Obama's positives, causing some energy blackouts as well as shortages of food and other products. I am aware of how this affects you and your children as well as me and my children. I want everyone of you to know that I and other Ministers that you depend on to help you are doing everything we can during this dire situation of foreign crimination aimed at us from Miami and Washington."

      Like other Ministers, Betsy Diaz often speaks to the Cuban people to let them know what Havana is doing to cope with Trump. She uses the island's state-run sophisticated radio and television News and Cultural programs...such as Mesa Redonda.

      Cuban television stations often show and interview Cuban customers trying to purchase things at U.S.-embargoed stores like the one above. Like the woman at the counter above, even when they have money to buy things, there are now shortages.

    The nightly primetime Mesa Redonda {Round Table} program, hosted by Randy Alonso, is the Cuban government's main source for updating the people on developments from Havana, Miami, and Washington. As above, Alonso pointedly grills top Ministers, as President Diaz-Canel suggested.

     A regular on Mesa Redonda is Iset Maritza. She is the head of CIMEX, Cuba's largest commercial corporation. The Trump administration has declared total war against CIMEX in an effort to eviscerate Cuba's economy but Iset Maritza plans to not only keep it viable or perhaps expand it even with Trump in power. In this appearance Ms. Maritza reported, "We have opened about 80 dollar stores and we will open more. We will do anything that we believe will help us survive Trump. We must stay sovereign."

        According to Iset Maritza, "We must remember that Trump will be the U. S. President for the next nine months, and maybe for four years beyond that. Therefore we Ministers that you depend on to help all our people against Trump and the brutal Counter Revolutionaries that control him will also need the support of everyone's perseverance."

      Cuba's Economy Minister Alejandro Gil is shown above appearing on Mesa Redonda. He said, "We must manipulate our regular pesos and collectible pesos with dollarizations that will create more purchasing power for our people. Bear with us on that. It's a work in progress. With your help it will work."

      Cuba's Minister of Finance and Prices is Meisi Bolanos Weiss. On Mesa Redonda she said, "Beginning on February 24th we will begin to sell cars in tradable currencies rather in convertible Cuban pesos as we continue to dollarize swathes of our retail sector."

       Cuba's Finance Minister Meisi Bolanos Weiss also sternly said, "With enough honest people in Washington and enough decent and brave Cuban-Americans in Miami, the Little Havana minority would not be allowed to try to destroy us and then again dominate the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island. But we are a small nation and when criminals run the Superpower USA we must do what we can to survive. The USA's criminal support of Batista's Mafia thugs created the Revolution that at least chased the Mafia criminals to Miami in 1959. From there we did not realize they would criminalize Washington as well as Miami. We believed the U. S. democracy was at least strong enough to prevent that."

      Finance Minister Meisi Bolanos Weiss and Transportation Minister Eduardo Rodriguez Davila regularly update Cubans on progress related to transportation around the island despite the awesome restrictions of "Trump's blockade."

      Transportation Minister Eduardo Rodriguez often talks about "what friendly future Obama-like relations would mean to us in Cuba and to the Cuban business people and others in the United States who want so badly to do commerce with us. Russia, China, Vietnam, and Japan are helping us modernize are railway and bus highway transportation, for example.  America was a false democracy when it allowed the Mafia to brutalize Cuba prior to the Revolution and it is a false democracy now that Trump replaced Obama in the White House. Our only alternative is to struggle and resist when criminals in Miami and in Washington target us. Waiting and hoping for decency from the Superpower that is so close to us is not something we can count on. But even with the U. S. has the economy and military power to block both our imports and exports, we still have to fight back to improve our lives, including our economy."

       This Reuters photo shows vintage American cars, now due to be sold, lined up along Havana's famed Malecon Seawall. They are shown directly across from the 7-story U. S. Embassy that Obama reopened for the first time in six decades but that Trump has since totally gutted. Now Cuba's Ministers claim that the U. S. Embassy in Havana "only exists to fund and train dissidents to destroy honest and meaningful U.S.-Cuban relations."

      Including the vintage, finely-tuned American cars from the 1950s, Cuba also now has many brand-new Russian-made Lada cars that can be hopefully sold beginning on February 24th, 2020, via a new currency revision.

        But, as noted by the words of Cuban Ministers speaking on Mesa Redonda, Cubans on the island are abundantly aware of the "indecency" of President Trump that has followed the "decency" of President Obama. And to combat Trump, Cuba is trying to do all it can.

      This photo reminds Cubans of the day in 2016, his last year in office, that President Obama flew on Air Force One to Havana's Jose Marti Airport. This was the U. S. limousine, bearing U. S. and Cuban flags, that took Obama to visit the Cuban people...the first U. S. President to do so since Herbert Hoover arrived on a warship in 1928 to remind Cubans that America was the dominant power on the island and had been the ruler since the 1898 Spanish-American War. And from 1898 till 1959 the U. S. had been able to do things such as...steal Guantanamo Bay from Cuba in 1903, team with the Mafia in 1952 to allow rich businessmen to better partake in plundering, brutalizing, and ransacking the island at will, etc., etc. -- at least till the Cuban Revolution intervened in January, 1959. 

      On Cuban television President Obama brought tears to the eyes of millions of Cubans when he said: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." But, of course, in 2016 neither President Obama nor the Cuban people thought that the next U. S. President in 2017 would be Donald Trump, another Republican totally aligned economically and politically with the Counter Revolutionary Cubans who have ruled Republican administrations in Washington since January of 1959, shattering America's once-renowned reputation for decency and democracy.

      An America in 2020 that allows the likes of Marco Rubio, Mauricio Claver-Carone, and Mario Diaz-Balart to dictate America's Cuban policy is as shameful of America was in the 1950s when it allowed Mafia thugs like Fulgencio Batista, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky to dictate Cuban policy.

1950's Luciano, Lansky, & Batista.

Today's Claver-Carone, Rubio, & Diaz-Balart.

 

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U.S. Cubans Punish Everyone

Including A Spanish Billionaire!!

     As long as President Donald Trump is in the U. S. White House, a handful of extremist Cuban-American zealots -- Claver-Carone, Rubio, Diaz-Balart, etc. -- can punish anyone anywhere in the world that might have the temerity to do business with Cuba. That includes Gabriel Escarrer, the billionaire who is the CEO of Melia Hotels International. In a blitzing and genocidal effort to destroy Revolutionary Cuba, the Trump administration sent a letter back in October to Escarrer giving him 45 days to comply with the Claver-Carone/Rubio/Diaz-Balart rules as stipulated in the newly activated Title 3/Helms-Burton regulations that are designed to vastly enrich certain Cuban-Americans in Miami's federal courts and secondarily to grossly starve and deprive everyday Cubans on the island. Escarrer's 45 days are now up and, among other things, he is now barred from entering the United States...yes, the "democratic" United States of America that now has Cuban dictators such as Claver-Carone, Rubio, and Diaz-Balart, not so unlike U.S.-backed dictators in Cuba back in the 1950s such as Batista, Luciano, and Lansky.

     Neither the mainstream U. S. media nor everyday Americans are supposed to object about decent people like Gabriel Escarrer being barred from entering the United States if Claver-Carone, Rubio, and Diaz-Balart dictate that Gabriel Escarrer is doing "illegal" business in Cuba.

       From one end of Cuba to the other, from Melia Cohiba in Havana to Melia Santiago in Santiago de Cuba, Melia Hotels International has 39 magnificent hotels on the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island. But the United States, to appease and to enrich a handful of Counter Revolutionary zealots, uses its unequaled financial and military power to keep tourists from using those splendid hotel rooms in Cuba.

This is Melia Varadero in Varadero, Cuba.

Melia Santiago in Santiago de Cuba.

       Three Cuban dictators on U. S. soil -- Mauricio Claver-Carone, Marco Rubio, and Mario Diaz-Balart -- today seem to believe that they can dictate to Cuba just as lucratively and brutally as MafiA KINGPINS Batista, Luciano, and  Lansky did in the 1950s with U. S. support!!! Now even IF 330 million Americans and Cuban-Americans disagree, no problem; and if the world votes unanimously in the UN {as it has done 191-to-0} to oppose such hubris, no problems. Since 1898 when the U. S. replaced Spain as the imperative dictator of Cuba, the U. S. has never had a democratic thought regarding Cuba, instead just viewing it as a capitalistic piggy-bank. Unfortunately, after the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959 chased the Batista-Luciano-Lansky dictators from Havana to their new sanctuary of Little Havana in nearby Miami, the Cuban-government-in-exile has existed  as LUCRATIVELY and BRUTALLY on U. S. soil in the fashion the BATISTA-LUCIANO-LANSKY dictators did on Cuban soil prior to the 1959 Cuban Revolution.

      Of course, in 2020 the United States will not apologize for its current Claver-Carone/Rubio/Diaz-Balart trio just as it will  never apologize for the U.S.-backed Mafiosi trio of Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Fulgencio Batista that ransacked and brutalized Cuba in the 1950's...with rich U.S. businessmen very famously going along on the lucrative ride.

        Truth be known, THE MIAMI CUBAN MAFIA since 1959 has been a lot more lucrative and just as brutal as THE HAVANA CUBAN MAFIA was in the 1950's...AGAIN with rich U. S. businessmen going along for the ride.

       Thus, if by chance you read this week that one of the world's most decent billionaires, Gabriel Escarrer, is now barred from entering the United States, I believe that Americans should know why. I say that, please understand, while not suggesting that Americans should object, considering that it might be wise, or un-healthy, to do so. AFTER ALL, as Gabriel Escarrer and a lot of other decent people know, the blockade of Cuba is embedded in the soul of the U. S. democracy like an incurable cancer.

      If vivid images that shame America and Democracy don't shame Americans, the red-eyed and claw-fingered United States might well soon be as problematic as Cuba itself is today.

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