US Harassing People Helping Cuba?

     Today -- on September 20th, 2022 -- this top engineer reported to the Cuban people on nationally televised newscasts the progress being done to rebuild the island's most important power station in Matanzas 65 miles southeast of Havana. It was destroyed recently in the latest in a series of explosions and fires that have devastated Cuba's energy and tourist sectors, killing dozens of Cubans. Prior to the Matanzas disaster even the famed Saratoga Hotel in the heart of Havana had been destroyed with the loss of two dozen lives. Accidents? Sabotage?

  The Cuban government has said that the deadly explosions have been caused by coincidental accidents or natural causes but Cuba's prime minister/diplomat regarding the United States, Carlos Cossio, is not adverse to cast blame on Cuba's superpower northern neighbor: "After the explosions in the Mariel Economic Zone and the Saratoga Hotel, we did not ask for foreign help. But we did ask for help, even from the United States, after the deadly fires in Matanzas took us, with help from Mexico and Venezuela, five days to extinguish. Our phone call to the U. S. was not helpful. It came at a time when the U. S. was offering more millions of dollars to people who wanted to receive the money in exchange for helping in the six-decade-old U. S. efforts to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government, apparently to restore the cruel previous Batista-Mafia-style rule that made the U. S. businessmen so rich throughout the 1950s till the revolution intervened in 1959. Still in late 2022 the U. S. is openly still pumping millions of dollars into attacking Cuba...and also now in late 2022 the Miami and Congress stalwarts are urging the U. S. FBI to begin investigating certain organizations that are trying to help Cuban children and their families who are being severely assaulted by the U. S. blockade that has severely harmed generations of children and families on this island."

     A large group of Puerto Ricans dedicated to helping Cuban families during the endless blockade of Cuba "says it has been targeted by the FBI for visiting Cuba." Both Cuba and Puerto Rico came under the U. S. umbrella in 1898 after the U. S. won the easy Spanish-American War fought in Cuba. After losing two revolutionary wars against Spain, Cuba in 1952 began a revolutionary war against the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship, and finally the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959 was finally successful, shocking the world. But then Cuba has had to spend the last six+ decades trying to fend off the dire efforts of the United States to regain control of the Caribbean's largest island nation.

     While the U. S. Territory of Puerto Rico has a large group of people, all of whom are U. S. citizens, trying mightily to help Cuban families, there are also thousands of Cuban-Americans in the U. S. who are also trying to do the same thing. The most notable Cuban-American passionately trying to help Cuban families on the island is the professor from Seattle, Carlos Lazo. That is Carlos second from the right above. His powerful organization BRIDGES of LOVE flies planeloads of food and medicine to Cuba. In the photo above Carlos and some of his followers were delivering vital boxes of medicine to help the children at Cuba's largest Children's Hospital, the one that was named for "William Soler."

     The photo above shows William Soler's mother, wearing the sunglasses and the white blouse, leading one of the marches that fueled the revolution that ended up defeating the Batista dictatorship. Little Willie Soler was one of the Cuban children that mothers such as these said were gruesome victims of Batista's plans to quell dissent, but instead of quelling dissent such murders arguably led directly to Batista's amazing defeat because of brave marches like the one depicted above.

    The historic black-and-white photo of Little Willie's mother contrasts with the modern color photos shown above in September of 2022. On the left is Carlos Lazo, the Cuban-American professor who is desperately trying to help Cuban children and their mothers on the island survive the blockade and other obstacles hurled at them from Miami and Washington. On the right is Marco Rubio, the Cuban-American U. S. Senator from Miami who is trying desperately to thwart everything that Carlos Lazo is trying to do. For sure, Senator Rubio seemingly is dealing from a stacked deck...or at least he is backed by the ultra-power of the U. S. government as well as the U. S. media. But, apparently worried about the nascent yet burgeoning power of Carlos Lazo, it seems that Senator Rubio recently reached into his abundant tool chest to pick out a new ploy -- asking the FBI "to investigate" Carlos Lazo's growing BRIDGES of LOVE movement.

      Senator Rubio's hometown Miami Herald published the above official statement about why Rubio believes the FBI should investigate BRIDGES of LOVE and its leader Carlos Lazo.

     While he certainly doesn't have the U. S. government nor the U. S. media on his side, as you see above Carlos Lazo makes ubiquitous use of Social Media platforms as well as very visible demonstrations and marches from Seattle to Washington and in Senator Rubio's hometown of Little Havana/Miami. The image above shows a "Carlos Lazo's response" to Rubio.

    And, of course, worldwide organizations such as OXFAM support Carlos Lazo's struggle to help Cuban women in their daily struggle to have the "RIGHT TO LIVE WITHOUT  A  BLOCKADE."

     And so...in September of 2022 Carlos Lazo's fight to end the Blockade and Senator Rubio's fight to oppose Carlos Lazo appears to be a stacked deck that favors the U. S. Senator from Miami.

     But tireless and also supremely dedicated, Carlos Lazo will not stop "until the blockade of Cuba ends so this current generation of children and their mothers in Cuba no longer live under the cruel dictates, the yokes, of a few ultra-powerful people that benefit from it and live, like me, in my beloved United States of America. It pains me how the blockade still harms Cuban mothers in Cuba, like my own mother, but it also pains me about how much it still casts shame on my beloved United States of America."

Carlos Lazo is ashamed of the Blockade!!

Carlos Lazo

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Key Democrat Slams Biden About Cuban Genocide

 

    In 2016 the Democrat that persuaded President Barack Obama to try to end the Republican genocide against Cuban families in Cuba was Ben Rhodes. After the Obama administration left the White House in January of 2017 the Republican President Donald Trump immediately restored the genocide, to the dismay of Ben Rhodes. In the book above he had explained how he had steered Obama to end the genocide, but only to have the Trump presidency reinstate it to new heights starting in January of 2017. Then in January of 2021 Ben Rhodes believed that Trump's successor, the Democrat President Joe Biden, who had been Obama's Vice President for 8 years, would quickly stop the genocide. But now in September of 2022 Ben Rhodes is excoriating President Biden for not ending Trump's Cuban genocide.

     This week Reuters, Yahoo News, and other media are telling the world that Ben Rhodes, who orchestrated Obama's effort to end the genocide against Cuba, is blasting the Joe Biden presidency for failing to end the Trump-expanded genocide against the Cuban families: "Disappointed doesn't begin to scratch the surface of how I feel about the Biden-Cuba policy." Yes, even most Democrats now are direly disappointed with President Biden's Cuban policy but, in a political system now influenced by mammoth financial donations, money counts more than majority opinions.

     In his excoriation of fellow Democrat Biden, Ben Rhodes said what Americans -- Democrats and Republicans -- believe: "Granted it was Trump who initially reversed Obama's policy of normalizing relations with Cuba. But then Biden doubles down on Trump policies. Why would any Cuban official ever, ever negotiate anything with America ever again after this? We had Trump -- in the most grotesque, callous way -- politicizing this. But then to have a Democratic administration legitimize what Trump did by continuing it -- it's a gaslighting to those people in Cuba."

     In the USA's money-crazed political system, what 330 million Americans might think about Cuban policy bows to political financial power...as Ben Rhodes admits in September of 2022. The photo above shows President Obama and Ben Rhodes peering out the windows as the presidential airplane Air Force One flew over Havana in March of 2016. Ben Rhodes was the man who had persuaded President Obama to end the genocide against Cuban families...and it was Ben Rhodes who had persuaded President Obama to actually visit Cuba, becoming the first President to do that since Republican President Herbert Hoover had arrived in Cuba in 1928 on a warship.

    In addition to being a key advisor to President Obama, Ben Rhodes was also his boss's prime speech writer. So, yes, it was Ben Rhodes who wrote the words that President Obama cogently delivered in a live statewide radio and television broadcast when he told the Cuban people: "Cuba Does Not Need To Fear A Threat From The United States." But shamefully, for both America and Democracy, that promise lasted only for a few months...till the Obama presidency was replaced by Trump's on January 20th, 2017. NOW IN SEPTEMBER OF 2022 UNDERSTAND WHY DECENT PEOPLE LIKE DEMOCRAT BEN RHODES ARE SO DISMAYED THAT DEMOCRAT PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IS PERMITTING THE GENOCIDE THAT REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD LEFT HIM.

     By the way, in the great book Ben Rhodes wrote to explain how he had orchestrated the Obama administration's effort to end the U. S. genocide against Cuban families, it is interesting to know the lengths Ben went to in order to do it. One thing he did was to make secret flights to Canada and to a Caribbean island to meet with Alejandro Castro Espin, the son of two Revolutionary icons Raul Castro and Vilma Espin. During their delicate negotiations in which Ben represented President Obama and Alejandro represented Cuba, the two men became friends.

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Is Biden Following Trump's Cuban Genocide?

    The cartoon above by the The Institute of Policy Studies shows current U. S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat, smiling and the previous U. S. President Donald Trump, a Republican, smirking. Stymied by the USA's two-party political system, neither the smile nor the smirk is amusing to 11 million innocent Cubans on their Caribbean island in September of 2022 who are facing dire hardships from energy blackouts, food shortages, and other problems acutely being exacerbated by the Trump-Biden Embargo that has existed since 1962 but has been drastically expanded in the past six years by these two men.

     Starting in January of 2017 the Republican President Donald Trump drastically bowed to only the most extremist Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans in Miami and in Congress to expand the six-decade-old Embargo into what millions...nee billions...of people consider U. S. genocide against masses of Cubans in Cuba. In January of 2021 when Democrat President Joe Biden replaced the Republican Trump, many observers believed that Biden would stop at least the most genocidal aspects of the Embargo, but that simply has not happened...even though Biden had spent 8 years as the Vice President during Democrat Barack Obama's two-term presidency from 2009 till 2017. Obama has been the ONLY U. S. President since the 1898 Spanish-American War that had the guts and compassion to try to end the USA's genocidal Embargo against Cuba that still so powerful appeases and benefits a band of rich and ultra-powerful Cuban-Americans in Miami and in Congress.

     As President of the United States Barack Obama even had the guts and compassion to actually make an historic TRIP to CUBA in March of 2016.

     In march of 2016 on his trip to Cuba President Obama had the guts and compassion to go on national radio and television to tell the Cuban people: "Cuba Does Not Need To Fear A Threat From The United States." On behalf of the U. S. Democracy, President Obama meant those words and, very importantly, so did the Cuban people. But unfortunately, soon after he spoke those words Obama was followed as President of the United States by first Republican Trump and then the Democrat Biden. So thus since the sincere Obama told the Cubans in Cuba there was "no need to FEAR the United States", the U. S. Democracy has simply not been strong enough to back up the words he so bravely and decently told the Cuban people.

      Yes, each year for decades the nations of the world have voted to "LIFT THE EMBARGO!!/"LIFT THE EMBARGO." In fact, in 2016 the UN vote to end the Embargo was 191-to-0 because the U. S. President in 2016, Obama, had both the guts and the compassion to to make sure that the United States ITSELF did not vote to JUSTIFY the UNJUSTIFIABLE!!!

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Cubans Suffer as Americans Tighten the EMBARGO

     The great British free-lance journalist Ed Augustin is an excellent and unbiased reporter and his articles from Cuba are often published by NBC News and other U. S. sources.

    This article this month in Sept.-2022, written by Ed Augustin, explains how Cubans on the island are suffering from blackouts that, in a season of high heat and the tightened U. S. EMBARGO, are greatly exacerbating such ills as Cubans having their precious food supply quickly spoiling.

     Being a rare honest Western journalist reporting from Cuba, Ed Augustin is able to tell the world that everyday Cubans are direly suffering all over the island in September of 2022, with their problems being cruelly "compounded by tightened U. S. sanctions" that the world knows as the U. S. EMBARGO.

    Of course, Americans for over six decades have been programmed to NOT GIVE A DAMN how much Cubans such as Miriam Cortes suffer mightily every day of their lives because of the endless U. S. Embargo against Cuba. But at least in the above article Ed Augustin and NBC News tell Americans...for what it is worth...how much their gutless silence is making Miriam Cortes suffer. "Hey, we are the good guys and Miriam is a bad guy, SO LET HER SUFFER!!"

     Of course, for over six decades Americans have been programmed to support the U. S. Embargo of Cuba WHILE ALSO NOT BEING A BIT ASHAMED OF THIS IMAGE IT MAKES AROUND THE WORLD OF THEIR UNITED STATES. You know..."We are the good guys and Miriam Cortes is a bad guy, so let's make her suffer!!! HaHaHa."

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WHY U. S. Has Cuba on Its Terrorism List

AND WHY THE U. S. BLOCKADES CUBA!! 

     In this second week of September-2022 the two photos above have flashed around the world because they were taken by Yamil Lage who works in Cuba for the powerful Paris-based AFP News Agency. Among the top news sources that featured the twin images above were the USA's Associated Press and NBC News.

    Above is the blazing headline and photo that the USA's AP and NBC News and others have spread around the United States this week. Of course, Americans are not supposed to pay any attention to such articles because it relates to Cuba's denunciation of both the U. S. Blockade of the island and it also explains why the U. S. has Cuba on its very, very short list of the nation's that the U. S. claim are "SPONSORS OF TERRORISM." And, of course, the U. S. says Cuba is on the list because the little nation just below Florida  continually commits vicious terror acts against the Superpower United States. That, of course, is a vicious but very convenient lie although, as the headline says, it is "illegitimate and immoral." Cuba claims that the true reason the U. S. has Cuba on its Terror List is: "BECAUSE IT MAKES IT MUCH EASIER FOR POLITICALLY POWERFUL CUBANS IN MIAMI TO SUE CUBA IN FLORIDA COURTROOMS FOR ANYTHING THEY WANT TO SUE CUBA FOR, with the U. S. GOVERNMENT BACKING UP SUCH LAWSUITS.

        And of course, either Cuba or the U. S. is lying about why the U. S. has Cuba on its Terror List. Most honest historians and journalists believe, on this particular issue, Cuba is the nation that is not lying. At least, in the article this week by the Associated Press and NBC News Americans were provided Cuba's side of the "terrorism" story in which little Cuba claims that, since 1959, the superpower U. S. routinely doesn't mind committing vicious terror acts against Cuba...such as the terrorist bomb that blew the civilian Cuban Flight 455 into the ocean, killing all 72 souls aboard, including two dozens teenage Cuban athletes. Meanwhile, Cuba admits that since 1959 it is direly concerned with defending itself but "does not PROVOKE THE U. S. FURTHER BY COMMITTING TERRORISM."

     Normally in the U. S. media regarding US-Cuba issues only the opinions of Miami counter revolutionary Cubans are featured. But, as shown above, in the above AP-NBC News this week, at least a chief Cuban spokesman was allowed to present Cuba's side.

        The Cuban official charged with presenting Cuba's side of the U.S.-Cuban conundrum is Carlos Fernandez de Cossio, a man who is actually respected on both sides of the Florida Straits. That's why, thanks to President Obama's overtures to normalize relations with Cuba, Carlos was expected to be Cuba's Ambassador in Washington till President Trump, to appease Miami with promises to finally overthrow Revolutionary Cuba, quickly ended all of Obama's decency towards the Cuban people in Cuba. And, yes, Carlos was with 12 of his staff in the Cuban embassy in Washington when they ducked in terror when they were being threatened as 30 or so high-powered rifle shots pounded their embassy in Washington. In the above article this second week in September-2022, and whenever afforded other forums, Carlos has stressed the need for "Cuba and the United States to be friendly neighbors, for the good majority of people in each country." When invited to speak before business groups in Miami and Tampa, Carlos made these pertinent points: "I speak for Cuba when I say that I have great respect and admiration for the United States democracy. Many area companies eagerly desire trade with Cuba but it seems they are stymied by a few who do not want that to happen. That is why Americans, in this great democracy, are not told why the Embargo since 1962 has caused so much suffering for everyday Cuban families, and Americans deserve to know the reason for the Embargo as stated by the 1962 act itself. It was...and is...to induce Cubans on the island to overthrow their own government after the 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack and then many terrorist acts, including assassination attempts, didn't overthrow it. Americans are also not told such things as why Cuba is on the U. S. list of Sponsors of Terror. The reason is to help the lawsuits against Cuba in Florida courtrooms. Lying about such things such as the Embargo and the Terrorist List is something that helps a small number of bad people while it hurts most Cubans and Americans who are good people. Sunshine should remove the clouds that disguise such lies, and by the same token unbiased sources in the United States should criticize Cuba whenever those sources legitimately believe that Cuba is lying. I assure you, as Cuba's diplomat devoted to U. S. issues, I deplore any forms of terror. And I desire decent trade between the two neighbors."

 Of course, even non-Cubans like Bush, Scott, and DeSantis can actually get elected Governor of Florida but only if they support 100% of Miami's beloved Cuban policies such as the Blockade and having Cuba on the USA's Sponsors of Terrorism list. WONDERFUL!!

A Florida governor looking down at Cuba??

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