Welcome to Cuba

Obama Opened the Door
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016 

      This Disney Fantasy Cruise ship had a typical experience in the Florida Straits Tuesday, April 26th. It was sailing off the northwestern coast of Cuba when it spotted and rescued 3 Cuban-American fugitives clinging frantically to the side of an overturned boat. As usual, they were simply turned over to the long-frustrated U. S. Coast Guard that's over-burdened by such repetitious events based on salacious U. S. Cuban laws. 

             The U. S. Coast Guard identified the fugitives as Luis Rivera-Garcia, 30; Juliet Estrada-Perez, 23; and Enrique Gonzalez-Torres, 23. The Coast Guard said they were wanted in Florida and Louisiana on Credit Card fraud. It is routine for cruise ships in the Florida Straits to rescue Cubans fleeing Cuba to take advantage of U. S. laws that permit Cubans, and only Cubans, to be home-free with instant financial benefits beginning the moment they touch United States soil. By the same token, such United States laws favoring only Cubans results in many criminals also severely burdening American taxpayers. While the U. S. media is either too intimidated or too politically correct to point out such facts, the U. S. government is continually burdened by such Cuban-only laws. And, of course, for many decades documentaries, and even famous movies such as Scarface, have scripted story-lines based on such facts.

          Cuba, of course, tries to protect itself from U. S. laws such as Wet Foot-Dry Foot, the Cuban Adjustment Act, the Torricelli Bill, Helms-Burton and the vast array of other Cuban-related laws mandated for decades by a handful of self-serving Cuban Americans that are financially and politically aligned with a handful of their right-wing sycophants in the U. S. Congress. Cuba's problem...AND AMERICA'S...is the simple fact that the majority of U. S. citizens, since the 1950s, have had neither the guts nor the patriotism to challenge such affronts to the frayed U. S. democracy. The episode in the Florida Straits, a typical derivative of America's Cuban policy, is a daily problem for the U. S. Coast Guard...and cruise ships in the Florida Straits.

       These are the mugshots of the Cuban fugitives that the Disney cruise ship turned over to the U. S. Coast Guard in the Florida Straits yesterday, Tuesday, April 26th. They epitomize U. S. Cuban laws that entice Cubans to the U. S. -- great Cubans, not-great Cubans, all manners of Cubans and only Cubans, making for a gigantic immigration joke. The discriminatory Cuban laws have sapped U. S. tax dollars and U. S. prestige for many decades and a bought-and-paid-for segment of the U. S. Congress wants it to continue, so it probably will. Meanwhile, regarding these three former fugitives, Americans allegedly paid for their credit card fraud and will now pay dearly for their lawyers, their incarcerations, etc. It's a sad, unending sympathy without a coda.

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         Posters like this -- "Bienvenido A Cuba" or "Welcome to Cuba" -- now greet the avalanche of tourists flocking to the island since Presidents Obama and Castro in December of 2014 announced their mutual goals of normalizing relations. The reaction has spawned a plethora of growing pains, such as not enough hotel rooms to meet the demands, but most people around the world welcome the bold and brave effort.

        Sarah Stephens, the founder and director of the Washington-based Center for Democracy in the Americas, is the prime proof that President Obama, more than any of the previous ten U. S. presidents, is accepting advice on Cuba from democracy-lovers and not just hard-line and self-serving Cuban exiles and their easily acquired sycophants in the U. S. Congress. For example, famed musicians and artists flocking to Cuba are a direct result of President Obama taking suggestions from Ms. Stephens: "Culture has enormous power. It cannot replace diplomacy, but collaboration in the arts and humanities between the U. S. and Cuba can play an important role in moving it forward." The President heeded those words and also listened to Ms. Stephens when she begged him to confront the congressional dictation of America's Cuban policy. She said, "Cuba sanctions in the hands of the U. S. Congress is like a hammer in the hands of a child who discovers that everything is a nail." President Obama, with such reminders, has attempted to restrain such senseless pounding. Thanks to Ms. Stephens, Mr. Obama has created The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. That has resulted in such resounding events as the scintillating Rolling Stones' concert last month followed by other high-profile visitors from the world of arts and entertainment.

       Fulfilling Sarah Stephens' considerable cultural input, photos by Desmond Boylan/AP chronicled last week's 4-day visit to Cuba by American superstar musicians Usher and Dave Matthews, for example. 

     In Havana, Dave Matthews asked many questions about Cuba's past.

       Dave Matthews posted the above photo on his Facebook page. It shows him and Smoky Robinson with two members of Cuba's famed Buena Vista Social Club. And on his Facebook page, Dave Matthews wrote these words about Cuba: "The responsibility people have to each other here is very rare, and I love it."

U. S. superstar Usher thrilled his Cuban fans.

         Usher's four-day visit to Cuba was a part of Sarah's and the President's large Committee on the Arts and Humanities contingent, but he loves Cuba and is no stranger on the island. The photo above was taken last September when Usher and his new bride, Grace Miguel, flew to Cuba for their honeymoon.

    The legendary Smokey Robinson made friends with Cuban schoolchildren.

      This Desmond Boylan/AP photo shows Smoky Robinson watching an audacious Cuban schoolgirl performing a dance just for him. He later said, "She was fantastic. All the kids were. I am impressed with the priority Cuba places on its children -- safety-wise, education-wise, and health-wise. The parents and teachers are allowed to fawn over those kids. I believe they are happy. I believe we should try to make them happier." 

       Sarah Stephens at the Washington-based Center for Democracy in the Americas agrees wholeheartedly with Smoky Robinson and disagrees just as strongly with the assaults by the U. S. Congress on Cuba and its schoolchildren. Ms. Stephens: "Cuba sanctions in the hands of the U. S. Congress is like a hammer in the hands of a child who discovers that everything is a nail." In addition to influencing Obama, Ms. Stephens also influences fair-minded members of the U. S. Congress...such as Kathy Castor and Tom Emmer who will soon sponsor legislation to repel the U. S. embargo of Cuba.

       President Luis Guillermo Solis of Costa Rica, speaking for other Latin American leaders, this week railed against U. S. laws that discriminate grossly in favor of Cubans and against all other would-be immigrants. For months his nation has been roiled by up to 8,000 Cubans and now another 2,000 stranded at its border with Nicaragua as they seek to reach the U. S. via the Mexican border. Once setting foot in the U. S., Cubans are home-free with instant financial and residence rewards, a judicious enticement totally unavailable to non-Cubans thanks to the long-standing U. S. Wet Foot/Dry Foot law. An exasperated President Solis said, "It's up to the United States to administer its laws but its Cuban laws should be fair enough so as not to bring hardship to everyone else, including nations like mine who do not deserve and can't afford these fall-outs. The American people need to consider all the Cuban fall-outs."

         President Solis is shown here holding a Cuban flag after his arrival at Jose Marti Airport in Havana. Like every single Caribbean and Latin American nation, Costa Rica strongly opposes the U. S. embargo of Cuba as well as such discriminatory laws as Wet Foot/Dry Foot and other U. S. laws enticing Cubans.

      The death toll from the devastating earthquake that struck Ecuador has reached 654 with many more still missing. Three of the dead were Cuban doctors that were among the 742 Cuban health personnel working in Ecuador. The day this latest earthquake struck, Cuba dispatched 53 more health workers to the stricken country from its Henry Reeve International Medical Team that is considered the world's best in dealing with such disasters. When Hurricane Katrina was barreling down on New Orleans, Cuba begged the George W. Bush administration for permission to fly 1500 Henry Reeve professionals to New Orleans, but that permission was denied even as the Bush administration famously botched the disaster. By contrast, the Obama administration has gone out of its way to thank Cuba for being among the first to respond to disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti and the Ebola crisis in Africa.

And by the way:

 This is a tribute to Cardinals by Season's Splendor.

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Cuba Allows U.S. Cruises

They Will Start May 1st

       The above photo is courtesy of Yamil Lage/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. It shows a Semester at Sea cruise ship entering Havana Harbor in November, 2014. Such cruises skirted the U. S. embargo because of their educational aspects, but for over a half-century commercial U. S. cruise ships have been denied permission to visit Cuba. BUT THAT WILL CHANGE IN A FEW DAYS -- on May 1st, 2016!!

       This photo is courtesy of Cristobal Herrera/European Pressphotoagency. It shows the 704-passenger Adonia, the pride of Carnival Cruise Lines. On May 1st the Adonia will sail to Cuba on a 7-day cruise. It will dock at the Bay of Havana for two nights and then go westerly around the island and dock at the southern city of Cienfuegos. The third and final stop before returning to Miami will  be Santiago de Cuba on the island's eastern tip. The original plans were postponed because Cuba has a decades-old rule that prohibits Cuban-born people to visit the island via ships or boats, although it allows hundreds of thousands of Cuban-Americans to visit each year via airplane flights. But the Cuban airports have the capacity to screen the visitors who might be terrorists while its ports do not. But the furor that discriminated against Cuban-Americans caused Carnival to postpone the cruises that both the U. S. and Cuba had permitted. But yesterday, Friday, Cuba relented and said it will allow Cuban-Americans to arrive on the Carnival cruises, which will greatly help the Cuban economy. Also, cruises will not tax the Cuban hotel capacity that has been strained by the influx of tourism since Presidents Obama and Castro, back in December of 2014, announced plans to normalize relations, which now allows Carnival cruises to Cuba.

        Arnold Donald, a native of New Orleans, is the President and CEO of Carnival Cruise Lines. He arranged the May 1st cruise to Cuba and he didn't give up when the uproar that banned Cuban-born passengers postponed the historic enterprise. After Cuba relented Friday, Mr. Donald said, "We were very positive this would be the outcome and were proceeding in that fashion." He added, "if Cuba feels safe and believes it is being treated fairly, U. S. companies can negotiate with the island that has so much promise now that the U. S. government is opening up to it." {Carnival is opening doors for other American companies}.

 And therefore, Arnold Donald can now cruise to Cuba!! 

        Pedro A. Freyre, who was born in Cuba, is the top lawyer for the Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines. Mr. Freyre supports normalizing relations with Cuba. After Friday's announcement that Cuba will allow Cuban-born Americans to travel to the island via cruises, Mr. Freyre said, "When the ban caused the furor, I said why are people so upset? 300,000 Cuban-Americans travel to Cuba every year. But the ban tugged at heart strings. What the Cubans did Friday reveals it is glad to be engaged with the United States. You can talk about things instead of shouting at each other." {Cuban-Americans like Mr. Freyre are now in the majority}.

      This map shows the three Cuban cities where Carnival's cruise ship, The Adonia, will dock. The 704-passenger vessel will leave Miami on May 1st and dock first in Havana. And then it will take a westerly cruise around the alligator-shaped island till it docks in the south-central city of Cienfuegos. The third and final stop will be at Santiago de Cuba on the island's south-eastern tip. Then, after the historic 7-day journey, it will return to Miami as the first American cruise ship to visit Cuba in over half a century.

       There are, to be sure, a lot of very rich Cuban-Americans in the Miami area. Many of them, such as the Sunset Harbour Yacht Club, own luxurious yachts docked in Miami, Miami Beach, Dodge Island, Fisher Island, etc. For many years, they have begged Cuba and the United States to allow them to sail back-and-forth to Cuba. Those pleas accelerated Friday when Cuba agreed to allow Carnival Cruise Lines to take Cuban-Americans on its cruises to Cuba starting May 1st, easing the island's acute security concerns.

         So, don't be surprised if luxury Miami yachts like this beauty soon can set sail for Cuba. After all, Cuban-Americans who own such toys have a whole lot of money that they could be spending in Cuba.

          In fact, even if you don't own a yacht, Miami Five-Star Yachts based in Miami-Fort Lauderdale will be very glad to rent you a yacht that will take you in style across the Florida Straits to enchanting Cuba!!

Meanwhile: 

         Dilma Rousseff, the two-term President of Brazil and Cuba's dear friend, took her fight against impeachment to the United Nations in New York yesterday, Friday. The photo is courtesy of Jewel Samad/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. It shows President Rousseff speaking at the UN yesterday. She said: "I cannot conclude my remarks without mentioning the grave moment Brazil is undergoing. Despite this, I must say that Brazil is a great nation with a society that was able to defeat authoritarianism and build a vibrant democracy. Our people are hard-working and have great esteem for freedom. I have confidence that they will be able to prevent any setback."  Within minutes, her enemies back in Brazil assailed her trip.

        After her address at the United Nations yesterday, President Rousseff signed the program and then held a news conference in which she repeated her claims that the impeachment process back in Brazil is "a coup being led by conspirators. In the past, coups were carried out with machine guns, tanks and weapons. Today all you need are hands that are willing to tear up the Constitution." President Rousseff said that those "hands" belong to members of Brazil's Congress and to the owners of Brazil's major newspapers that have ties back to the military thugs who mounted the 1964 coup that terrorized Brazil, and imprisoned and tortured her, till they were dealt with by Brazilians "who have great esteem for freedom." She hopes similar Brazilians will support her now and she worries about anti-Cuban U. S. elements "against me in America."

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Anti-Cuban Coups

Reshaping Latin America
{Updated: Friday, April 22nd, 2016} 

     This photo -- courtesy of Fernando Bizerra Jr./EPA -- was taken this week at the Planalto Palace in Brazilia. It shows Brazil's embattled President Dilma Rousseff blowing a kiss to her loyal and fervent supporters, the country's poor people that she has so remarkably helped. But, continuing a recent trend in Latin America, Dilma is about to be impeached although she was reelected to a second term as Brazil's President in 2014. But Dilma doesn't call it an impeachment; she calls it "a coup." Furthermore, she says the "coup-leaders" are acting at the behest of right-wing U. S. members of Congress aligned with powerful anti-Castro Cuban-American hardliners, "not so unlike the 2002 coup" that briefly overturned Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's Cuban-friendly democratically elected President. That coup, bloodily successful for 72 hours, was tied to anti-Castro zealots in the George W. Bush administration, which indeed famously celebrated Chavez's overthrow in the White House till millions of poor Venezuelans quickly restored Chavez to power. This week Dilma supporters pointed out that leaders of the "coup" against her met with, among others, powerful U. S. Senator Bob Corker and with Carlos Gutierrez, who was President George W. Bush's anti-Castro Secretary of Commerce. The Dilma supporters suggest strongly that what happened to Chavez is the same thing that is happening to her and other democratically elected Cuban-friendly leaders in Latin America. Dilma, a legendary fighter, is taking her fight to the United Nations today -- April 22nd -- where she is expected to point out that her "impeachment" is really a "coup" supported by U. S. factions.

       On Thursday, London's The Guardian used this photo of Dilma Rousseff in a terrific article written by David Miranda entitled: "The Real Reason Dilma Rousseff's Enemies Want Her Impeached." The British press is much fairer regarding former and current Latin American coups than the American press, and thus Miranda wrote: "Corruption is just the pretext for a wealthy elite who failed to defeat Brazil's President at the ballot box. Indeed, most of today's largest media outlets in Brazil supported the 1964 military coup that ushered in two decades of rightwing dictatorship and further enriched the nation's oligarchs."   

        The Guardian used this photo of Eduardo Cunha, the very controversial man who is leading the mighty impeachment movement against President Rousseff. After pointing out that at least 60% of the Brazilian congressman opposing Rousseff have criminal charges against them, The Guardian caption to this photo said: "Eduardo Cunha was caught last year with millions of dollars in brides in secret Swiss bank accounts." 

        The London-based The Economist used this SOS photo in its article entitled "The Great Betrayal" regarding the impeachment farce against Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. If you go online to read the two aforementioned British articles, you will take note of revelations about the remnants of the 1964 Brazilian coup now in Congress and leading the coup against President Rousseff: "One of them, prominent right-wing congressman Jair Bolsonaro -- widely expected to run for President and who a recent poll shows is the leading candidate among Brazil's richest -- said he was casting his vote in honor of a human-rights abusing colonel in Brazil's military dictatorship who was personally responsible for Rousseff's torture when she was imprisoned as a youthful resistor. Bolsonaro's son Eduardo cast his vote against Rousseff in honor of the 'military men of 64' -- the ones who led the coup." That revelation about the Brazilian Congress may be eerily reminiscent of the U. S. Congress, which includes Mario Diaz-Balart of Miami as one of the most vehement congressmen opposing President Obama's efforts to normalize relations with Cuba. Mario Diaz-Balart's father, Rafael, was a Minister in the 1950s Batista dictatorship in Cuba. And so, the rightwing second generational congressional problem Rousseff is having in Brazil parallels Obama's U. S. problems.

       As a two-term President of Brazil, by far Latin America's most powerful nation, Dilma Rousseff once enjoyed a whopping 91% APPROVAL RATING. That was because her Workers Party greatly improved the lot of Brazil's majority poor people. Of course, Brazil's minority rich people and apparently their U. S. supporters strongly oppose Dilma's social efforts. So, what is she accused of? THE ANSWER: "She is accused of breaking budgetary laws by borrowing from state banks to cover a shortfall to pay for social programs that help poor people." Helping poor people, of course, incurs the wrath of the greedy rich.

       Dilma Rousseff is a dear friend of Cuba's revolutionary icon Fidel Castro. Her Brazilian government largely financed the billion-dollar modernization of Cuba's economically important Mariel Port. As her impeachment nears, Dilma blames it partly on U. S. anti-Castro zealots that she feels "are unchecked."  

      Dilma's friend Cristina Fernandez is also Fidel Castro's dear friend. Cristina just completed two terms as Argentina's democratically elected President and, under Argentine rules, she was not allowed to run for a third term. Like Dilma, Cristina maintained that her support of poor Argentinians and of Cuba caused "anti-Cuban U. S. factions that include greedy hedge fund Wall Street billionaires" to continually battle her presidency. Thus, Cristina's chosen successor, considered a friend of poor people, was defeated and the new Argentine President is "U.S.-friendly," which to many Latin Americans means "rich-friendly." 

       The lucrative and revengeful Castro Cottage Industry in the U. S. hasn't targeted Dilma Rousseff and Cristina Fernandez coincidentally. Harassing or impeaching two two-term Cuban-friendly Latin American presidents has a lot of fall-outs and collateral damage such as hurting Cuba, helping rich people in the U. S. and Latin America, and brutalizing poor people. Cristina said, "Cuba-friendly Presidents of Chile, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Bolivia and other Latin American nations are facing the same thing Dilma and I are facing." Dilma said, "Any Latin American President who supports the majority poor in their countries will encounter unending problems from rich Americans who believe Latin America's natural resources should benefit them, not Latin American natives. From the 1950s into the 1980s, from Batista in Cuba to Pinochet in Chile, U.S.-backed dictators were armed and supported in exchange for allowing rich Americans to join them in pillaging those helpless nations. Latin American democracies finally prevailed, but my democracy, Cristina's democracy, all our democracies are still targeted by like-minded U. S. imperialists." As she fights her impeachment, Dilma presumably will make similar claims at the UN today -- Friday, April 22nd.

        As a beautiful young and non-poor girl in Brazil, Dilma Rousseff became a guerrilla fighter against a U.S.-backed Brazilian dictatorship that was, she believed, "brutalizing poor people," She later said, "If little Cuba could overthrow a U.S.-supported dictator, why couldn't big Brazil? Yes, little Cuba inspired me to try."

The Brazilian dictatorship arrested Dilma Rousseff.

       The very day she was forced to sit without her glasses at a sham trial, Dilma had already been beaten on her back, buttocks, and legs -- areas hidden by her clothing to appease the dictators. She was told that if she didn't publicly admit to treason, she would be beaten daily, which she was. But she never admitted to treason, just to "trying to keep foreign-backed dictators from preying on my country's poorest people."

       Later when she was the democratically elected President of Brazil with that 91% approval rating, Dilma Rousseff was asked by the United Nations to provide details of her years of torture by the Brazilian dictatorship. As the above montage and photo shows, she provided those details, evoking memories that made her cry. Her vivid testimony was recorded by the UN and by the Hague and to this day "crimes against nature" are being pursued in trials against some of those long-ago but unpunished perpetrators.

       This photo of President Dilma Rousseff was taken this week at a news conference in Brasilia in which she confirmed that she will be at the United Nations in New York today to explain why she believes the impeachment proceedings against her constitute "a coup." It is believed that she decided to fly to the UN after she learned that "coup leaders" had, among other things, met with "known U. S. meddlers in Brazilian and Latin American affairs, and I mean backers of other coups." It is believed she was referring, in particular, to U. S. Senator Bob Corker and Cuban-American Carlos Gutierrez, two men she compares to Otto Reich and Roger Noriega. {People throughout Latin America still consider Reich and Noriega as two prime Bush administrators who backed the 2002 coup that briefly overthrew Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez}. 

         Bob Corker has been a Republican U. S. Senator from Tennessee since 2007. He is currently the powerful Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Unfortunately, Brazil and Cuba are still classified as foreign countries. If Mr. Corker indeed met with people President Dilma Rousseff believes are "coup leaders," perhaps she and the United Nations need to know what transpired at that meeting.

        Carlos Gutierrez was born 62 years ago in Havana, Cuba. From 2005 till 2009 he was U. S. Secretary of Commerce in the administration of President George W. Bush. An extremely wealthy businessman, he is currently co-chair of the right-wing Albright Stonebridge Group, a think-tank regarding foreign relations.

        When he was President Bush's Secretary of Commerce, Carlos Gutierrez was extremely unkind to his native country, Cuba, especially during the period when the island was devastated by back-to-back hurricanes and he teasingly withheld aid. If, as President Dilma Rousseff believes, Mr. Gutierrez has had meetings with people she considers "coup leaders," perhaps she has a right to know what transpired at that meeting. Moreover, perhaps the American people need to know...considering the fact that past coups and support of dictators in Latin America has so massively deflated the United States image around the world.

Dilma Rousseff is a great lady.

         But Dilma Rousseff is a sad lady today as she prepares to fly to the United States tomorrow to fight at the United Nations against her unwarranted and unsavory impeachment. She has fought all her life for poor people, especially the poor people in her Brazil and in Cuba. That is not an impeachable offense, except in the eyes of greedy rich people who have been her lifelong enemies. She has twice been democratically elected President of Brazil after being imprisoned and tortured in her youth by a U.S.-backed dictatorship. Today the people who should be impeached are the ones trying to impeach her. And saddest of all for democracy-loving Americans, it appears that once again some of the "coup leaders" might be rich and powerful Americans who, as in decades past, will never be held accountable for their actions.

        This Associated Press photo shows Brazilian women strongly supporting their beloved President, Dilma Rousseff, as they try to defend her against the coup being orchestrated by a band of unsavory rich Brazilians who could care less about Brazil's poor and middle class citizens.

         This poor Brazilian lady has ample reason to cry. Rich thugs are trying to impeach her President, Dilma Rousseff. Portuguese and Spanish are the two main languages in Brazil. In Portuguese, the banner this lady is holding says, "DOWN WITH THE COUP, IMPEACHMENT NO." She punctuated the words with tears.

It's not an impeachment.

It's a coup.

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Fidel Addresses Congress

Appears Fairly Strong

Wants No Major Changes 
Mentions His Impending Death 

       This was Fidel Castro yesterday -- Tuesday, April 19th -- addressing the 1,300 delegates at Cuba's National Assembly in Havana's Convention Palace. The photo is courtesy of Amara Garcia Mederos/EPA. His appearance was carried on state television and he was greeted with loud applause. He began by saying: "I'll be 90 years old soon. Soon I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the idea of the Cuban communists will remain as proof of this planet that if they are worked at with fervor and dignity, they can produce the material and cultural goods that human beings need, and we need to fight without truce to obtain them." His voice was strong but trembled occasionally. At times he referred to the written notes of his speech. His words and tones served as a suggestion to his 84-year-old brother, President Raul Castro, not to change the Cuban system drastically, and not to sacrifice Cuban principles just to gain concessions from the United States, which he referred to as "the enemy." Fidel turns 90-years-old on August 13th. He seemed to consider this appearance as a farewell address to the National Assembly and, via television, to the Cuban people. His recovery from the near-fatal respiratory illness in July of 2006 is ongoing but obviously he feels the coda is near. It was also apparent yesterday that he feels at peace with himself and is quite proud of the revolution he forged, one that cataclysmically altered Cuba's course.

Fidel speaking; Raul listening; Tuesday, April 19th, 2016.

        85-year-old rebel ally Jose Ramon Machado Ventura congratulates Fidel after his speech yesterday, April 19th. The 1300 delegates were awed when he mentioned "The last time I will speak in this building."

"I'll be 90 years old soon."

"Soon I'll be like all the others."
"The last time I will speak in this building."

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