Biden's War on Cuba

 Another Bay of Pigs Or...

Will Little Havana Win This Time??

       One of Little Havana's most powerful political activists in Miami, Sasha Tirador, has long and successfully advocated vigorous Pro-Little Havana politicians and policies that enrich & empower U. S. Cubans while also promoting extremely cruel policies against Cubans on the island. Well, last night {July 21st, 2021} Sasha Tirador got a phone call from President Joe Biden that got Sasha Tirador hilariously HAPPY!!

     Today -- July 22nd, 2021 -- these are the top Headlines in the U. S. regarding Cuba. These headlines explain what made Sasha Tirador in Little Havana so hilariously happy last night when President Biden called her with the news that he was not only keeping former President Trump's genocidal polices against Cuba...but EXPANDING them!!

   The powerful Politico media source in Washington best reported on President Biden's announcement last night, first given to Little Havana zealot Sasha Tirador via a phone call, that his new sanctions on Cuba will finally allow Little Havana to recapture Havana. Even as Tirado was being "briefed" last night by Biden himself, Politico explained Fox News' powerful Sean Hannity was using his entire primetime broadcast from Little Havana to allow only Little Havana extremists such as Senator Marco Rubio to explain yet again to Fox News's large audience how wonderful Batista's Cuba was in the 1950s before the Cuban Revolution in 1959 chased the wonderful Mafiosi-aligned Batistianos to Miami where they quickly created Little Havana, expecting the U. S. would recapture Havana for them within a couple months, which was 6+ decades ago.

     Also Politico, which is no friend of Cuba, today correctly told its millions of readers that Bob Menendez, the long controversial but also long U. S. Democratic Senator from New Jersey, is the dire Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American who is dictating President Biden's genocidal Cuban policies, just as the long controversial Republican U. S. Senator Marco Rubio from Little Havana for the past four years had dictated President Trump's genocidal Cuban policies. For example, Rubio & Trump activated the extremely cruel Title 3/Helms-Burton genocide on everyday Cuban families, and even two-term Republican president George W. Bush refused to activate Title 3 because even Bush knew how genocidal it was. But now Menendez & Biden have continued it!!

     As you can see above, today's {June 22nd} Politico article admitted that it passed its information directly to the Wasington Post, the ultra-powerful anti-Cuba media source that is owned by Jose Bezos, the world's all-time richest person whose step-father Miguel Bezos is a Cuban-born Counter Revolutionary Cuban-American. And as you see above, Politico today named the Washington Post as well as a host of Little Havana zealots who have spent their time in Miami trying desperately to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. Those rich & powerful Counter Revolutionaries are on Cloud 9 after President Biden last night declared he would exceed Trump's genocide against Cubans on the island!!

     As you see above, Politico today again, for what it's worth, revealed that Little Havana's lightweight Senator Marco Rubio dictated President Trump's unchecked genocide against Cuban families. In today's money-crazed/two-party political system, it doesn't matter that the best investigative journalist in Washington and the USA, Ken Silverstein, penned an unchallenged and minutely detailed article in which he started by stating that Marco Rubio is: "Head and shoulders above everyone else in Washington when it comes to corruption, dishonesty and chicanery..." And that includes, of course, a Washington that includes Senator Bob Menendez whom the U. S. Justice Department tried desperately to convict on multiple felony charges and failed because of a hung jury verdict...just before, of course, he was re-elected to yet another 6-year term in the U. S. Senate. Just as the ultra-powerful Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Little Havana have grown rich and powerful in Miami since 1959 and later in Washington, and been able to dictate the USA's cruel and genocidal Cuban policies, the Rubio and Menendez types can remain in the U. S. Senate forever and control the most powerful Committees related to Cuba, such as the Chairmanships of the Senate and House Foreign Relations Committee, etc. Cuba, unfortunately, is a small nation close to Little Havana.

    For four brutal years Rubio dictated President Trump's genocidal Cuban policies just as the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictated Cuban policies in the 1950s, up till 1959's victory by the Cuban Revolution.

     On the heels of the Trump-Rubio genocide against Cuban families on the island, for the past 200 days the Biden-Menendez genocide against Cuban families on the island has been just as bad. In fact, as even Politico revealed in its massive article today -- July 22nd-2021 -- the Biden-Menendez cruelty against Cuban families on the island has been expanded above that of Trump-Rubio. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? 340 million intimidated and propagandized Americans DON'T GIVE A DAMN!!

      For example, two prime promoters of genocide against Cuban families on the island -- Little Havana's Rubio and Fox New's Hannity -- last night used one whole primetime hour from the famed Versailles Restaurant in Little Havana to tell Americans yet again that: {1} Batista's Cuba in the 1950s was the nicest and best government in history; {2} Revolutionary Cuba since 1959 is the worst and most brutal government in history; and {3} therefore the Biden administration should overthrow Revolutionary Cuba this month of July so the great Little Havana Cubans can re-capture Havana from those terrible Cubans!!!

      Of course, most of the world's 8 billion people are outraged by the USA's genocide against Cuban families on the island, especially as Cuba battles mounting deaths from COVID-19 as U. S. Cuban extremists are allowed to take advantage of the pandemic!! Of course, most Cuban-Americans are decent people who are also outraged about U. S. genocide aimed at Cuban families on the island. For example, Carlos Lazo is a Cuban-American professor in Seattle. He and some of his students have ridden their bicycles 3,000 miles from Seattle to Washington to beg Congress and the White House to end its genocide against Cuba. And this month of July-2021 Carlos Lazo is walking the 1300 miles from Miami/Little Havana to Washington to do the same thing!! As you see above, Carlos had made it to Atlanta on July 7th and now he has made it to Richmond. But of course, being a totally decent Cuban-American makes Carlos Lazo ineligible to be heard by the mainstream U. S. media nor is he eligible to be elected to a public office such as the U. S. Congress!!!!

  But, of course, if you are Mendendez or Rubio you can be elected to the U. S. Congress and re-elected to as many 6-year terms as you choose!!!!

     And that is how the United States of America can maintain history's all-time longest and all-time cruelest Embargo ever imposed by a very large nation against people in a very small nation!!

     And that is how, during both the Trump and Biden presidencies, the United States of American can get away with taking advantage of COVID-19 to expand its genocide against Cuban families on the island!!!

Indeed....

Welcome to Little Havana USA!!

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Little Havana & Fake News

Emblematic of the Vast Distrust of U. S. Media!!

       In the rich and powerful Little Havana section of Miami, this is the famed Versailles Restaurant. Any national politician seeking Florida's often crucial 29 Electoral Votes must genuflect in Versailles and proclaim their total allegiance to the 6+-decades-effort of the Little Havana Cubans to regain control of Cuba, implying strongly that the former Batista dictatorship was the best and kindest government in the Western Hemisphere's history until the murderous and brutal Cuban Revolution chased the nice Batistianos to Little Havana WAY BACK on January 1st, 1959. Of course, the third premise espoused by Little Havana for the past 6+ decades is that any day now we will be back in Havana as the rulers of Cuba!!!!

    Well, tonight at 9:00 PM -- July 21st, 2021 -- Little Havana's superstar U. S. Senator, Marco Rubio, and Fox News's superstar anchor, Sean Hannity, will host a Town Hall discussion in Little Havana's famed Versailles Restaurant. The entire primetime hour will consist of only, as usual, nothing but extreme right-wing propaganda about how necessary it is for wonderful Little Havana to have the help of the Biden administration to regain control of murderous Revolutionary Cuba here in JULY of 2021!!!

      The most famed Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson -- the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776 -- famously declared that honest and informative Newspapers...the U. S. media...was the most vital tool related to the preservation of THE U. S DEMOCRACY!!! Were he and the other Founding Fathers alive today in July of 2021, I believe they would be shedding crocodile tears about the depths to which the U. S. media has sunk including recent years. To no one's SURPRISE, in July-2021 a new Gallup Poll, the USA's oldest and most respected pollster, reveals that barely any Americans "trust" anything they see, read, or hear in the mainstream media in the United States today!!! PLEASE, if you are a democracy-loving American, shed a tear for Thomas Jefferson when you study that new Gallup Poll.

        FOR EXAMPLE, the United States has three prime 24-hour cable news networks -- CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News. All three have bundles of corporate money and have the wherewithal to gather and dispense real and important news and information to their viewers; but all three make sure their anchors, reporters, and pundits only dispense extreme propaganda -- with CNN and MSNBC only concerned with dispensing extreme left-wing propaganda. And Fox is only concerned with dispensing only extreme right-wing propaganda.

           For example, if you want to sample the depths that the mainstream U. S. media has sunk, at 9:00 P. M. tonight -- on July 21st, 2021 -- dial up the primetime Fox News hour hosted by Sean Hannity. For that hour of extreme but important right-wing propaganda, Hannity -- the Fox superstar -- will be hosting a special program from the famed Versailles Restaurant in the Little Havana section of Miami. His prime guest, of course, will be Little Havana's superstar U. S. Senator Marco Rubio. The prime purpose of the program tonight is to continue to fan the flames to persuade the Biden administration to take advantage of Little Havana's current latest exalted effort to overthrow Havana, which has been ongoing since January of 1959 when the Cuban Revolution defeated the brutal U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in Cuba. Thus, tonight's entire special RUBIO-HANNITY hour on Fox News -- July 21st -- will only air the extreme views of self-serving Little Havana zealots such as Rubio, and those views will demand that the superpower United States finally recapture Cuba on behalf of the rich and politically powerful Little Havana Cubans.

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Little Havana War Drums Still Beat Loudly

 Now Into A Second Week!!

      This photo from NBC-10 News in Miami/Little Havana illustrates the Counter Revolutionary media in the U. S. fanning the flames of the imminent and anticipated overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba. The effort from the rich and politically powerful Little Havana stronghold in Miami has fervently had the backing of the U. S. government since January of 1959 to regain control of the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island, which is 90 miles from Miami. January of 1959 was when the Cuban Revolution overthrew the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship...which then fled to Miami where it created the Little Havana stronghold. Since then Little Havana has increasingly gotten richer and more powerful as it controls the Cuban narrative as well as dictating U. S. Cuban policies. The narrative includes saturating U. S. media with the lie that the nice Cubans are in Little Havana and that the bad Cubans are in Havana. Of course, when decent Cuban-American journalists in Miami, alarmed about deadly terrorist attacks from and in Little Havana against innocent Cubans and Cuban-Americans, the most decent and bravest journalist in Little Havana, Emilio Milian, was car-bombed for having the audacity to loudly denounce such terrorism.

       This, actually, is what NBC-10 News in Miami/Little Havana, and other such U. S. media, is telling its viewers and readers, which is: Only Little Havana's self-serving opinions are allowed about the July-2021 efforts by Little Havana to finally, after 6+ decades, re-capture Havana. Miami/Little Havana is unchecked when it informs Americans that the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship from 1952 till 1959 was the best and kindest government in all of Western Hemisphere history while since 1959 the Revolutionary Cuban government is the worst and most brutal government in Western Hemisphere history. Of course, such insatiable propaganda has made a lot of millionaires and billionaires in Miami and has seen a steady stream of only vicious Counter Revolutionary Little Havana-like Cubans entering the U. S. Congress since 1989 when the Bush Dynasty put Havana-born Iliana Ros-Lehtinen in Congress for three decades...followed shortly by the Diaz-Balart brothers Lincoln and Mario, the sons of the former powerful Minister in the Batista dictatorship before he and other Batista leaders were chased to South Florida as rich and powerful Counter Revolutionaries by the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959.

     Superbly powered by the Bush Dynasty in the 1980s -- CIA Director/VP/President George H. W. Bush, two-term President George W. Bush, and two-term Florida governor Jeb Bush -- Little Havana emerged from not just dominating the economy and politics in Florida but by the 1980s began dominating all Cuban policies emanating from Washington...enacting their own laws such as the Helms-Burton Act that from 1996 until July-2021 has massively enriched Little Havana Cubans...while also also massively assaulting successive generations of Cuban families on the island!!!! Since the 1950s all Republican administrations in Washington have been fully aligned with the Batistianos, first in Havana and since 1959 in Little Havana. But now, beginning in 2021, and for the first time, the Democratic administration headed by President Biden is also dominated by Little Havana USA!!! Americans, of course, are not supposed to know or understand that basic fact but, nevertheless, it is true.

     In the USA's two-party political system, you should know that Democrat Bob Menendez is the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the U. S. Senate while Republican Marco Rubio, of course, would have that powerful Chairmanship if the Republicans were in the majority in the Senate. Both Menendez & Rubio owe their unchecked political power as Cuban-Americans to their extreme radical Counter Revolutionary desires. Making sure that Counter Revolutionary Cubans dominate the U. S. Senate and the House of Representatives {such as first Havana-born Lincoln Diaz-Balart did and now his younger brought Mario Diaz-Balart along with two new 2021 Little Havana additions to Congress, Havana-born Carlos Jimenez and Miami-born Maria Elvira Salazar!! Thus, only extreme Cubans control Cuban policies in the U. S. Congress. The only check on that was when Democratic presidents such as Carter and Obama were in the White House. Now in July of 2021...although a Democrat, Joe Biden, is the President...the extreme financial and political power of Little Havana has erased all checks-and-balances to Little Havana's absolute dictation of Cuban policies...as well as many other policies...in Washington. In that milieu during the Trump presidency, Rubio, a Republican, dictated U. S. Cuban policy that included genocidal policies such as activating Title 3 of Helms-Burton, which even President George W. Bush refused to activate because he well knew it legalized genocide against totally innocent Cuban families on the island. But Trump dictated to by Rubio did activate Title 3 of Helms-Burton, which Americans are not even supposed to know about. But now in 2021, with the Biden presidency dictated to by Menendez, Title 3 of Helms-Burton remains very much activated, and Title 3 of Helms-Burton is still, in July of 2021, imposing genocide against Cuban families on the island...legally, of course...even as the island is also direly plagued by the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.

     Because the Democratic Biden administration has continued the activation of Title 3 of Helms-Burton that Trump-Rubio activated, the world's 8 billion people, excepting 340 million Americans, know that Title 3 of Helms-Burton is still being activated in 2021 by the current Biden administration...even, as noted above, Cuban families on the island are reeling from the deadly effects of COVID-19. Thus, in July of 2021 the internationally acclaimed Carlos LaTuff graphic above continues to inform the world that the U. S. is taking advantage of the deadly pandemic to expand the Title 3 of Helms-Burton genocide against Cuban families on the island.

     In July of 2021 to understand how Little Havana in Miami has control of the Cuban narrative and Cuban policies in the United States, you need to know the history and topicality of the photo montage above. On the left is Rafael Diaz-Balart, the patriarch of the Diaz-Balart political dynasty in first Cuba and, after 1959, in the United States. He was mayor of Banes, Cuba. In 1926 his son, also named Rafael, was born in Banes...the same year that Fidel Castro was born in nearby Biran, Cuba. Fidel and Rafael were classmates at the University of Havana Law School, and Fidel married Rafael's sister Mirta. But Rafael became a powerful Minister in the Batista dictatorship where he was a key Interior Secretary and also the Majority Leader of the Cuban House of Representatives during Batista's brutal reign. When Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution overthrew the Batista dictatorship on Jan. 1-1959, Rafael Diaz-Balart was one of the major Batista leaders who fled to nearby Miami, Florida. Flush with money and his hatred of Castro, Rafael created the very first paramilitary group in South Florida that he called the "White Rose" and used it viciously to eliminate Fidel Castro and Revolutionary Cuba. His fervent efforts to do so were not successful by the time he died in Key Biscayne, Florida in 2005...but two of Rafael's four sons -- Lincoln and Mario -- have viciously continued their father's war against Revolutionary Cuba from 2005 until July-2021 both in Florida and in the U. S. Congress in Washington, D. C.

         This is Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart. Born in Havana in 1954 in Batista's Cuba, Lincoln represented Little Havana in the U. S. Congress from 1993 until 2011, when he retired his safe seat to resume other White Rose-like anti-Counter Revolutionary efforts. Rich and powerful, Lincoln in 1996 co-wrote the infamous Helms-Burton Act, the congressional law that exists to this day in July of 2021 and continues to enrich and empower Little Havana and torment Cubans on the island. Lincoln's younger brother Mario was born in 1961 in South Florida. Mario has represented Little Havana in the U. S. Congress since 2002. So at least one of the Diaz-Balart brothers have been in the U. S. Congress from 1993 till today.

      Little Havana in Miami began controlling Florida's economy and politics in 1959 but the photo above shows the moment that Little Havana began controlling Cuban policies in the whole United States in 1989. In 1989 Havana-born Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, with Jeb Bush as her Campaign Manager, was elected as Little Havana's first member to enter the U. S. Congress. From a vehement anti-revolutionary Cuban family, her election to Congress later, of course, made Jeb Bush a two-term Governor of Florida. And with the powerful financial and political power of the Bush dynasty, Ros-Lehtinen served in the U. S. Congress from 1989 till 2020 as a vehement Counter Revolutionary leading Little Havana's charge against Havana.

       With the financial and political muscle of both Little Havana and the Bush dynasty, Ros-Lehtinen began making sure that other prime Little Havana Counter Revolutionaries were elected to the U. S. Congress, including both Diaz-Balart brothers, Lincoln and Mario.

      Soon, Ros-Lehtinen had a long string of her prime Little Havana Counter Revolutionaries in the U. S. Congress -- including the Diaz-Balart brothers, Senator Marco Rubio, etc.

      Even after she retired after three decades in Congress, Ros-Lehtinen can still get her vicious Counter Revolutionary Little Havana proteges elected from Miami to the United States Congress. That includes Maria Elvira Salazar who was elected to Congress from Miami starting in January of 2021. Already in July of 2021 Congresswoman Salazar is ubiquitously appearing on Fox News and all the other right-wing outlets promoting Little Havana's current overthrow of Havana that began in earnest on July 11th-2021 with demonstrations in Little Havana and in Cuba. Taking full advantage of Little Havana's full control of the Cuban narrative in the U. S. media, Salazar has even been loudly preaching on national TV that "THERE IS NO U. S. EMBARGO AGAINST CUBA, just the murderous Castro regime brutalizing the Cuban people in Cuba." Of course, with it tight grip on all the Cuban cards in the United States deck, Little Havana can get away with any lie it chooses.

      This is the world's view of the U. S. Embargo against Cuba that was first imposed in 1962 for the purpose of "starving, depriving, and making miserable" Cubans on the island to induce them to overthrow their Revolutionary government and re-install Miami/Little Havana Cubans as the rulers on the Caribbean island. The longevity of the EMBARGO easily makes it history's longest and cruelest EMBARGO ever imposed by any powerful nation against any much-weaker nation. Yes, it has existed since 1962 because cowardly generations of U. S. citizens -- afraid of Little Havana -- have allowed it to exist!!

     It was Little Havana-produced Rubio's dictation of President Trump's Cuban policies that activated Title 3 of Helms-Burton and expanded the cruel U. S. Embargo into a genocidal Blockade, which continues full-bore in July, 2021.

      Unfortunately, in the USA's two-party political system, the Republican TRUMP-Rubio presidency has been followed by the Democratic BIDEN-Menendez presidency. That means that in July of 2021 only extremely radical Counter Revolutionary Cubans still dictate the USA's genocidal Cuban policies. Unfortunately, the USA's money-crazed political system creates lifelong incumbencies, such as Biden who has been a Senator, Vice President and now President dating back half-a-CENTURY!! And the controversial Menendez has been ultra-powerful in the U. S. Senate since 1996 although his last six-year term as Senator came when he was easily re-elected right after an expensive hung-jury verdict ended in serious federal felony U. S. charges against Menendez NOT BEING re-tried.

     And thus, Little Havana continues its grip on the USAs's Cuban policies even though a Democratic administration has replaced Republicans as the power-broker in Washington in both the Congress and the White House. You see, money is all-powerful. The entire world opposes the Embargo-Blockade as the UN vote each year reveals. OXFAM, the London-based organization that has powerful offices in Washington and other major cities around the world, currently is focused on ending the U. S. genocide against Cubans in Cuba with it's massive program build on the universal belief that Cuban women and children "DON'T DESERVE TO BE FACING A BLOCKADE!!!" And, in fact, it even doesn't matter if ultra-powerful Democratic members in the U. S. Congress such as Alexandria Ocasio Contez rail against the genocidal Little Havana assault on masses of Cubans on the island. As you can see above, the Congresswoman known as AOC decently and loudly, like the rest of the non-Little Havana world, decries the "ABSURDLY CRUEL" embargo of Cuba.

      Worldwide, leaders who are not under Little Havana's grip decried the genocide against Cubans in Cuba that appeases Cubans in Little Havana, in Congress, and in the White House. Typical is the quotation shown above from Alberto Fernandez, the President of Argentina: "If we are really concerned abut Cuba, let's end the blockades." In other words, President Fernandez of Argentina, like most other world leaders, bows to the USA's unique economic and military power...but they will loudly denounce one facet of the USA's democracy, and that is the genocide against masses of Cuban families in Cuba even as the policy continues to enrich and empower some USA families.

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Little Havana's War on Havana Heats Up

 U.S. TV & Little Havana Promote Capture of Cuba!!

     Today -- Saturday, July 17, 2021 -- this is the typical headline in Miami/Little Havana promoting an intervention...a war...between the U. S. and Cuba. This headline blared on NBC-10 airways in Miami-Little Havana today heralding Little Havana zealots who have raced to Washington to persuade President Biden to take advantage of weeklong demonstrations in Miami/Little Havana and in Cuba to FINALLY make sure that Little Havana recaptures Havana after trying so hard to accomplish the feat since January 1st, 1959...the day the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship.

     Today -- July 17-2021 -- not only are television stations in Miami/Little Havana demanding a recapture of Cuba but nationally television networks are also obliged to "demand" that the U. S. do something drastic about the bad people in Havana to appease the nice people in Little Havana. The blaring headline today was by Fox News, which is among the propaganda-obsessed network television stations in the U. S. clamoring for President Biden to help Little Havana zealots recapture Cuba. The U. S. since January of 1959 has been trying to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba, using such things as terrorist attacks, paying off and cultivating dissidents, the 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack, assassinations, and, of course, the genocidal Embargo/Blockade that started in 1962 with the intention of "starving, depriving, and making miserable" the Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overcome their government themselves. But for going on seven decades now, Revolutionary Cuba has somehow endured. But now...in July of 2021 Little Havana disciples believe their dreams will at last come to fruition on the heels of massive Counter Revolutionary demonstrations.

     But what was wrong with the USA's obsession with Cuba in the 1950s is the same thing that is wrong today in July of 2021. In fact, the USA's greed-filled obsession with Cuba grew to a breaking point in 1898 when the U. S. warship Maine happened to blow up in Havana Harbor killing 261 young U. S. sailors. That was the convenient "Remember the Maine" pretext to declare war on Spain so the U. S. could gain control of Cuba from Spain. And the easy victory in the 1898 SPANISH-AMERCAN WAR did that!! So, starting in 1898 the United States, the world's most renowned Democracy, could easily have made Cuba a world-class Democracy. That never came close to happening. By 1903 the U. S. had stolen plush Guantanamo Bay from Cuba, created a document legalizing the use of troops in Cuba whenever the U. S. desired, etc. Thus, like Spain had done for many decades prior to 1898, the U. S. also viewed Cuba as a piggybank, not a Democracy. But then Washington knew that foreign Democracies would not readily allow other nations to strip them of their natural resources but, via kickbacks, dictatorships would. So, from 1898 till 1952 there were various "pretend" Democracies in Cuba but by 1952 there was no longer even a pretense. In 1952 the U. S. teamed with the Mafia to support the brutal and thieving Batista dictatorship in Cuba. Starting in 1952, the Batistianos, the Mafiosi, and rich U. S. businessmen made fortunes in Cuba, which had been made into a veritable playpen for tourists. But as soon as 1953 the Batista dictatorship didn't think it had to toss even a few crumbs to the majority, everyday Cubans who were left with virtually no food, no health care, and no education. Batista believed murdering a few dissidents would warn everyday Cubans not to resist. When that didn't work, Batista ordered his goons to kill children as a warning to their families not to resist. And when that didn't work either, Batista shut down the University of Havana because it was the cradle of much of the burgeoning anti-Batista outrage. Famously, Batista's henchmen hunted down University leaders and gruesomely murdered them, with the most famous being student leader Jose Antonio Echevarria who today has many edifices named for him in Revolutionary Cuba. Also, four student leaders who believed they were hiding in a safe house were captured and murdered; that is known to history as the Humboldt Avenue Massacre. A huge bounty was put on young teacher Frank Pais because he was a prime recruiter of anti-Batista rebels and supplies, so Frank's 17-year-old brother Jesus was gruesomely murdered and then Frank himself was gruesomely murdered. By 1957 the massive killings of Cubans like Frank Pais and Jose Antonio Echevarria were routine. You may Goggle their names and learn how much they are remembered in Revolutionary Cuba today.

        But, as I will discuss later in this post, Batista's biggest mistake was when he authorized the killing of Cuban children in the belief that would quell the dissent. And, also unknown to Americans {I believe} is the fact that long before 1898 and the Spanish-American War, the United States of America had a FANTISTIC OBSESSION with Cuba. For example, read and study the historic facts listed below!!!!!!!!

       Yes, in the list above you will see that Thomas Jefferson in 1817 proclaimed: "If we seize Cuba, we will be masters of the Caribbean." Thomas Jefferson -- the most-famed Founding Father, the 3rd President, and the writer of the USA's Declaration of Independence -- in 1823 proclaimed: "I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could be made to our union of States." Beyond those two Jeffersonian proclamations about Cuba, you can read above other quotes from famous political and newspaper moguls regarding the USA's age-old obsession with Cuba. It was assumed, after the U. S. attained dominance of Cuba after the 1898 Spanish-American War, that Cuba would indeed become a major state in the United States...like Alaska and Hawaii or like the now 28 more traditional continuous states. But, for two reasons, Cuba has never become one of the U. S. states: {1} Excessive U. S. greed relating to Cuba; and {2} Cuba has always had a love for sovereignty and an insatiable love for independence. For example, just before the 1898 Spanish-American War, Cuba fought two losing Wars for Independence against Spain in which famed and revered men such as Jose Marti and Antonio Macea died on Cuban soil fighting Spanish soldiers. Then in 1959 the Cuban Revolution finally defeated Batista, the Mafia, and the United States to gain what to this day it reveres as its sovereignty. In 1961 Cuba again shocked the world when it defeated the U. S. at its Bay of Pigs military attack on Cuba. In July of 2021 the question is...would and could Cuba again survive another military attack from the United States, the world's military Superpower?? I don't know but I believe it would TRY. And further I believe if Cuba lost a foreign war in 2021, those still alive would begin to start another revolution on Cuban soil.

    This photo was taken in 1957 in Batista's Cuba. In the United States today this photo is not supposed to be included in the history of US-Cuban relations. But permit me to explain it. This photo shows Mafia kingpin Meyer Lansky leaving one of his hotels carrying a satchel holding some of that day's loot from his gambling, prostitution, drugs, tourism, etc., enterprises in the halcyon days in the 1950s when the powerful Batista dictatorship was supported wildly by the world's strongest criminal organization, the Mafia, and by the world's strongest nation, the nearby United States of America.

      So PLEASE, take a moment in July of 2021 to finally study the above photo from 1957. When it was taken, of course, neither Meyer Lansky nor anyone else in the world believed that the ultra-powerful, brutal, and thieving Batista dictatorship could ever be overthrown by the severely over-matched people of Cuba. When this photo was taken Meyer Lansky, for example, was still spending $12 million dollars of his own loot to build his own luxurious hotel in Havana!!! But history reveals that on Jan. 1-1959 that Batista and his dearest friend from Miami, Meyer Lansky, and the other leaders of the Batista regime in Havana, were chased off the island by the Cuban Revolutionary rebels, quickly spawning what today is the ultra-rich Little Havana section in nearby Miami.

     So indeed, study this photo on one of Meyer Lansky's typical days in Havana during 1952 till 1959 when the top echelon of the Mafia ruled Cuba...with the support of the United States. This photo led up to the morning of Jan. 1-1959 when the impossible happened -- the Mafia-infested Batista regime was overthrown by history's most improbable Revolution. And it happened because of an indominable do-or-die attitude from Cuban rebels and  two crucial mistakes made BY the Mafia, the United States, and all the Batistiano leaders: {1} While raking in tons of loot each day in Cuba, the Batistianos didn't have the intelligence or concern to at least toss some crumbs to the non-Batistiano Cubans, who constituted the vast majority of people on the island despite the vast influx of U. S. companies and tourism from the United States; and {2} to quell dissent from the everyday Cubans, Batista ordered his goons...including many policemen and soldiers who had been trained at the secretive Army of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia...to murder Cuban children and leave their bodies out in the open to serve as a warning to their parents and others not to resist what was happening to their Cuba. So PLEASE, remember the two {2} things that spawned the Cuban Revolution and made it necessary.

       And now, after studying the photo of Mafia kingpin Meyer Lansky in 1957 toting his money-filled satchel, study the two photos below that reveal the truth about the two {2} reasons that spawned the Revolution and also made it incredibly successful!!!

       Because Batista's Cuba in the 1950s didn't have the intelligence or the compassion to even toss a few crumbs to the majority non-Batistiano Cubans, this is a true and typical photo showing the plight of the Cuban children in Batista's Cuba -- scarcely no food, no decent shelter, no education, nor any access to healthcare.

     In contrast, this is an actual modern and true photo of Cuban children in Revolutionary Cuba. Yes, while Americans are not supposed to know it, they can actually Google this true fact: Immediately after winning the Revolution on Jan. 1-1959, Revolutionary Cuba began what is called history's "most successful" Literary Campaign. The "Cuban Literary Campaign" known to history consisted of Revolutionary Cuba sending a couple of hundred thousand literate revolutionary Cubans all across the island to teach illiterate Cubans how to first of all learn to read and write. At the same time, in 1959 Revolutionary Cuba decreed that, as long as the revolutionaries remained in power, all Cubans would have free food if needed as well as free shelter if needed, and have educations through college as well as lifetime free heath care. In the U. S. since 1959, Americans have been lied to about such facts, but the fact is...come hell or high water, since 1959 Cuban children in Revolutionary Cuba have fared a lot better than the children in Batista's Cuba!!  Yes, above the black-and-white photo in Batista's Cuba contrasted with the modern color photo in Revolutionary Cuba are real and true facts.

            But PLEASE remember, the extreme poverty of non-Batistiano children in Batista's Cuba was not even the main reason that spawned the necessary and successful Cuban Revolution in 1953. Instead...the main reason was and is shown by the real and true black-and-white photo depicted above. It, along with many others like it from the 1950s I could show you, shows outraged Cuban mothers..."MADRES"...bravely marching in Cuban cities holding placards proclaiming to the world that Batista goons were routinely murdering their children...their "NIJOS"...and leaving the bodies in the open to be found as a warning not to resist. But history shows that Cuban mothers did resist and by doing so they started the Revolution and provided the necessary resolve to even win it!!

        And now, if I may, I would like to say something personal about the photo shown above. The brave lady wearing the light-colored jacket in the front row was the mother of Little Willie Soler. Yes, history confirms that Little Willie and three of his closest friends were all murdered by Batista goons and their bodies left in a warehouse so they could easily be found and then serve as a warning to the non-Batistiano Cubans not to resist. TODAY -- July  2021 -- the top Children's Hospital in Cuba is famously named "William Soler Children's Hospital." Yes, you can Google Little Willie Soler's name, and you can also Google the children's hospital that is named in Havana for him. And now, if I may, I will explain why the photo above is so personal to me in July of 2021 while the latest Little Havana-US attempt is underway in Cuba and in Miami to finally overthrow Revolutionary Cuba.

       The lady shown above who had just taken down her COVID-19 mask to tell something to an assistant is...Dr. Susett Gonzalez. I know Susett. She is a dear friend of mine. She is a vital life-saving doctor at William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana. While she works tirelessly...during the Pandemic and during the U. S. Blockade...she also has a little one-year-old baby boy of her own named Roman who is being cared for by his grandparents while she works so diligently saving other lives at William Soler Children's Hospital. Yes, Dr. Susett knows why William Soler Children's Hospital got its name. She knows about Cuban mothers, like Little Willie's mother, who risked their lives to defeat the Batista dictatorship on behalf of the Cuban Revolution. Of course, Americans don't know that, and Americans don't believe that in Cuba today that there are a lot of  women like Dr. Susett Gonzalez who will be willing to die fighting for the Cuban Revolution, the revolution that gave William Soler Children's Hospital it's name.

             Again...look at this face, the face of Dr. Susett Gonzalez at William Soler Children's Hospital in Havana. She is saving the lives of children during COVID-19 while her precious work is being massively hampered by the U. S. Blockade, even if Americans are programmed not to believe it or to simply not care. There is no greed, revenge or gluttony in Dr. Susett Gonzalez's heart. I wish I could say the same about many American mothers who are supposed to hate her or to not understand her because she had rather be in Cuba saving the lives of Cuban babies instead of living in a mansion in Miami or anywhere else.

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