Cuba Could Cut U.S. Ties

And Here's Why:
{Sunday, September 17th, 2016}

     An important American, David Beasley, is touring hurricane-ravaged Cuba. The 60-year-old Beasley is a lawyer and Republican politician; he was the Governor of South Carolina from 1995 to 1999. He is now the Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme. Mr. Beasley has earmarked $5.7 million to help Cubans.

     This Reuters photo shows the UN's David Beasley this weekend on his trip to survey Hurricane Irma's devastation of Cuba. He said, "Over 60,000 hectares of prime agricultural land has been dramatically affected in Cuba. The UN is providing $5.7 million of initial help for Cubans most in need of food and shelter. Because of global warming, Hurricane Irma could be a sign of more to come in the near future."

Photo courtesy: Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press.

      The photo above was used to illustrate a major article this weekend in America's largest newspaper -- The USA Today. The huge headline is: "U.S. Rushes Hurricane Irma Aid to Caribbean Islands, But Not to Cuba." The article pointed out that Irma was "the strongest storm to hit Cuba in more than 80 years" and that millions of Cubans are without shelter and safe "agua," the Spanish word for water. The Cubans shown above, getting at least a little safe water, are among the lucky ones. Despite the desperate straits on the island caused by Hurricane Irma, The USA Today article states: "Yet the U. S. has not sent a USAID rapid response team to Cuba, nor dispatched any U. S. military ship loaded with boiled water and blankets, as it has to other devastated Caribbean neighbors." In fact, the U. S. embargo against Cuba prevents the island from securing "devastation recovery loans" from international banking institutions that can serve, in varying degrees, all other nations except Cuba. And the U. S. embargo, established way back in 1962 by the most revengeful Cuban exiles from the overthrown Batista-Mafia regime, also prevents Cuba from purchasing needed supplies and rebuilding materials from nations and companies scared away by the embargo. American people who sit on their cowardly rear ends and continue to let a handful of revengeful and vile Cuban-Americans punish millions of decent Cubans on the island are as guilty as the nefarious Cuban-Americans who orchestrate such inhumane cruelty in the name of the United States of America.

    The supposedly benevolent USAID Agency is a U. S. government entity that uses tons of tax dollars to "help" needy foreign nations. Note the handshake emblem and the "Aid from the American People" pretense. As far as Cuba is concerned, such dollars go only to dissident Counter Revolutionary types, one reason that Cuba long ago would probably have been better off cutting off all ties with the United States. As noted above, this weekend's USA Today article pointed out how USAID showers money on "devastated Caribbean neighbors, EXCEPT CUBA." Fine, except for the fact that Cuba is tired of USAID money flowing to Counter Revolutionaries but never to decent, desperate Cubans such as those now trying to survive Hurricane Irma.

      This weekend five gutless U. S. Senators led by the ultra-gutless Marco Rubio sent a gutless letter to U. S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson DEMANDING the United States shut down the Obama-orchestrated U. S. embassy in Havana {above} and the Obama-orchestrated Cuban embassy in Washington. The other four gutless Senators signing that letter were: Tom Cotton, Richard Burr, John Cornyn, and James Lankford. If they succeed in pressuring Secretary Tillerson, it might be good for Cuba, which could then concentrate more fully on dealing with friendly nations.

   Meanwhile, Americans who allow a Marco "For Sale" Rubio to dictate America's cruel Batistiano treatment of innocent Cubans deserve presidential wannabe Marco "For Sale" Rubio to be dictating to them as President of the United States. But eleven million decent and innocent Cubans on the island do not deserve Marco "For Sale" Rubio dictating to them. By currently having Obama-orchestrated diplomatic relations with the United States, Cuba makes Marco "For Sale" Rubio's cruel counter-revolutionary schemes that much easier to craft and to make "legal." Thus, Cuba would probably be better served trying to go in totally opposite directions. After all, the rest of the world -- according to the current 191-to-0 vote in the UN -- loudly and unanimously disapproves of America's Batistiano-directed Cuban policies. If a Marco "For Sale" Rubio, hiding behind the skirts of the world's superpower, can direct America's hate-filled Cuban policy, Cuba's diplomatic ties to the U. S. are surely much more harmful than helpful to everyday Cubans.

And speaking of hurricanes:

      Cuba's Rosa Miriam Elizalde has released the very interesting photo-painting depicted above. Her friend Rebecca rescued it from the ravages of Hurricane Irma. It shows the narrow escape from Hurricane Flora in September-1963 of three Revolutionary icons -- Juan Almeida, sitting in the center of the tiny boat; Fidel Castro, balancing himself with his hands on Almeida's shoulders; and Celia Sanchez, in the back of the boat. Hurricane Flora first slammed into Cuba near Guantanamo Bay in September of 1963, four years after the triumph of the Revolution. Indications are that two dedicated Cubans with the tiny boat rescued Fidel, Celia, and Juan.

      Rosa Miriam Elizalde is an expert on Cuba's Revolution. Also, as the above photo indicates, she is a disciple of the Revolution's greatest heroine, Celia Sanchez.

 Rosa Miriam Elizalde.  

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Cuba Si, Cuba No + A Mystery

The Cuban Triangle Puzzles

Havana, Miami, & Washington

      The latest strong Republican voice in the U. S. Congress urging Republican President Donald Trump to normalize relations with Cuba is 51-year-old Rick Crawford of Arkansas. He has made his case in a major, sane, and powerful article entitled: "Expanding Agricultural Trade Between the US and Cuba Would Benefit Both Countries." He states, "With the advantage of geographical proximity, American farmers should be suppling $1.4 billion of Cuba's $2 billion yearly agricultural needs."

      An expert on agriculture and commerce, Congressman Rick Crawford is pressuring his fellow Republican Trump on behalf of America's hard-pressed farmers.

      Of course, the powerful counter-revolutionary Cubans in the United States Congress are pressuring President Trump to not only cease all commerce with Cuba but to support their half-century effort to regain control of the island...by, among other things, expanding the half-century-old Draconian embargo against Cuba that the first generation of Cuban counter-revolutionaries evilly got the United States to impose on Cubans way back in 1962. De-classified U. S. documents confirm that the purpose of that 1962 cruelty was to starve and deprive the Cuban people to entice them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government, paving the way for a return of the Batistianos and Mafiosi. With no significant input from the cowardly U. S. media and the majority of U. S. citizens, Trump the President and not Trump the Businessman is expected to side with the cruel, self-serving counter-revolutionaries instead of the sane and decent suggestions of decent patriots like Congressman Rick Crawford.

Photo courtesy: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images.

     Along with the insightful article by Congressman Rick Crawford, a major update co-authored by two literary giants -- London's The Guardian and America's Associated Press -- is must-reading today. It's entitled: "Mystery of Sonic Weapon Attacks at US Embassy in Cuba Deepens." The counter-revolutionary Cubans are using the mysterious assaults that have affected the health of dozens of Americans and even a Canadian as as excuse to attack Cuba itself...in varying ways. But the article depicted above states: "If the Trump administration felt convinced that Raul Castro's government was to blame it's likely the US would have already taken major punitive steps like shuttering the newly re-established American embassy in Havana and the Cuban embassy in Washington. And the U. S. hasn't stopped sending new diplomats to Cuba even as the victim list grows." Both Cuba and the U. S. have had months, individually and collectively, to study the mystery and no conclusions have been reached. The article stressed Cuba's official statement, which is: "Cuba has never, nor would it ever, allow that the Cuban territory be used for any action against accredited diplomatic agents or their families, without any exceptions."

And by the way:

       The photo above shows the Queen and King of Spain. This week El Pais -- the top Spanish newspaper in print and online -- had a very positive article about Cuba in reporting the Queen and King would be visiting Cuba. Whenever a positive like that sees the light of day, the vast and vile anti-Cuban counter-revolutionary forums go ballistic. For example, the extremist but influential Babalu Blog on September 15th, today, blared out a tantrum that began with these exact words: "El Pais, Spain's version of the New York Times, has published an editorial about the upcoming royal visit to Castrogonia. It is, of course, strongly in favor of the trip, which it says should have taken place much earlier. It notes, ruefully, that French, American and Canadian heads of state {such as they were} visited Cuba before Spain made such a move, and it regurgitates the customary hypocritical and self-serving rationalizations supporting 'normalization' with one of the most abnormal and unnatural regimes on earth."

          After the opening salvo quoted above, the Babalu Blog continued its absurd excoriation of the Spanish King and Queen's upcoming visit to Cuba with vile words that included "bitch," "whore," and "f***." Now understand that I'm not in the business of promoting such one-sided diatribes but I point out that they are ubiquitously out there fervently vilifying Revolutionary Cuba with every article while also, of course, promoting or sanitizing the Batista-Mafiosi regime that spawned the Revolution that, since 1959, has itself spawned unmitigated and unfair assaults from safe, vicious and holier-than-thou counter-revolutionaries. I believe, in fact, the likes of Babalu Blog should be checked out from time-to-time by fair-minded, unbiased individuals just to comprehend the historic significance of the Cuban Revolution, with ramifications that, among other things, has created an unending plethora of Babalu-type propaganda enterprises always urging the superpower U. S. government to punish Revolutionary Cuba for them or, better yet, return it to them. Cubaninsider, on the other hand, has never made a penny of profit and never will...nor does it have any nefarious agendas. Its concern is for totally innocent Cubans and the United States democracy, desiring that neither of those factions should unceasingly be preyed upon by self-serving miscreants.

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The Soul of Cuba

She Competes Against the Souls of Miscreants!
{Updated: Friday, Sept. 15th, 2017}

      In my opinion, Rosy Amaro Perez is the soul of today's Cuba. If Cuba survives the wrath of Hurricane Irma, Rosy will be one key reason why. If Cuba survives the gutless but powerful assaults of the second generational and relentless Batistiano-Mafiosi exiles, Rosy will be one key reason why. As a high-profile and outstanding broadcast journalist on the island, Rosy is also a leader of the young-adult generation of Cubans who will predicate Cuba's future instead of it being dictated by vile foreigners. It's a future very much in limbo now that its revolutionary icon Fidel Castro died at age 90 on Nov. 25-2016 and now that 86-year-old Raul Castro will step down as President on the island no later than February of 2018. The transitions in Cuba amidst man-made and natural hurricanes will focus on Rosy's generation of Cubans. Either she wins or Cuba finally loses to ultra-rich, ultra-powerful, ultra-unchecked, and ultra-unworthy Cuban-Americans such as Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez. I happen to know Rosy and I know this: She is a far more honorable and decent person than any of her high-powered, self-serving, and miscreant enemies in the United States.

     On her Facebook page Rosy Amaro Perez posted the above GenteDeCuba photo, which crystallizes and chronicles Cuba's current struggles to survive the ravages of Hurricane Irma. The young Cuban boy above is holding a bust of Jose Marti that was blown off a statue of the Cuban independence fighter. This young man's concern for that statue is commendable. Jose Marti was a world-famed Cuban poet who died on Cuban soil in 1895 fighting against Spanish imperialism after he had also very presciently and famously decried America's imperialist designs on the island. Rosy Amaro Perez added this haunting caption to the above  photo: "!Verso, o nos condenan juntos o nos salvamos los dos." {"Verse, or condemn us together, or save us both."}. In other words, Rosy seems to be saying: "Condemn this Cuban boy and condemn me or save us both." Her analogy rekindles independence-lover Marti.

       Struggling against all the natural and man-made hurricanes targeting the Cuba that she loves, including the most dangerous ones that originate in Miami and in the United States Congress, Rosy Amaro Perez will either survive on her island or, without ever surrendering, be beaten after an honorable fight. Hurricane Irma took a direct aim at Rosy. Concerned, I was quite relieved when she informed me: "Thanks. We're fine. My house was damaged. But we are alive. That is the most important."

     I believe that Rosy and her young family have a right to continue to try to survive in Cuba against natural hurricanes and against unholy and fiendish assaults from unchecked Cuban exiles still smarting about the Cuban Revolution that in 1959 kicked the Batistianos and Mafiosi as well as greedy U. S. businessmen off the island...all the way to Miami as it turned out. England's top newspaper, The Guardian, had a major article this week -- Sept. 13th -- entitled: "Cuba: Crumbling Infrastructure No Match for Might of Irma." Even Americans who are scared to death of the Batistiano-Mafiosi dictation of America's Cuban policy should summon up the guts to read that entire article on The Guardian's powerful website. It includes these exact words:

                "With macabre comic timing, Donald Trump renewed the U. S. embargo on Cuba for another year just hours before Irma made landfall. With dozens of hotels smashed, millions still without power, and thousands of hectares of sugar cane destroyed, financing the reconstruction effort will be a challenge; the embargo also prevents Cuba from joining the IMF and the World Bank, as well as other regional lending institutions that grant infractrasture loans to other nations. As Cuban authorities go about patching up walls and constructing new homes, Cuba will have to pay over the odds for building materials. Cuba cannot buy from multinationals that trade with the U. S., so it is forced to source higher priced items from further afield."

       The aforementioned article in The Guardian -- an article I don't believe many Americans have the compassion or the guts to read -- used photos like the one above to illustrate its points about what lies ahead for Cuba while miscreants in the U. S. revel in punishing the vulnerable island to exacerbate its punishment from Irma.

     This photo used by The Guardian shows a flooded street in Havana. It is a reminder that the primary threats to Cuba are not hurricanes but the sheer gutlessness of the American people who don't have the courage or the intelligence or the patriotism to challenge a Batistiano-Mafiosi Cuban policy that the rest of the world -- with a 191-to-0 vote in the United Nations -- severely challenges. But that worldwide challenge is useless because the Batistiano-Mafiosi miscreants -- such as Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez -- can hide behind and utilize the power of the world's superpower.

     The article in The Guardian also included this photo of Cubans having their furniture outside to try to dry it out and salvage it. The article also included this paragraph that the United States media would be too afraid to publish: "Yorka Gutierrez Perez came to a shelter when her house was unlivable. She's hoping to now stay in the shelter until she's given a new house, but given that hundreds of Cubans in her neighborhood are in temporary housing, it's likely she'll have to wait. 'But I've got faith in this government,' she said. 'The Revolution has never abandoned us.'" The U. S. media that doesn't have the courage to publish such a paragraph, as published yesterday by the top British newspaper, reflects an America that has watched its precious Democracy decline precipitously each day since the 1950s when the cancerous U.S.-backed Batistiano-Mafiosi union in Cuba in 1952 became permanently engraved on the U. S. government and U. S. psyche since 1959's victory by the Cuban Revolution, a revolution that says much more about the U. S. than about Cuba.

     Always portrayed as a Mother Teresa-like Cuban-American Miami choirboy, Senator Marco Rubio was, as usual, all over CNN and other U. S. networks this morning -- Thursday, Sept. 14th -- portraying himself as the choirboy he IS NOT.

     A huge but highly financed failure in his 2016 presidential bid, Marco Rubio in 2020 will again powerfully seek the U. S. presidency. And, of course, the U. S. media will again portray him as a Cuban-American choirboy from Miami. And again, in 2020 Rubio's presidential bid will be backed by billions of dollars because he is famed for selling out to the highest bidders, and in politics that, of course, means billionaires.

     A more accurate portrait of Marco Rubio -- the presidential wannabe who also wants to be the Commander-in-chief so he can dictate to Cuba -- is an almost book-length article by highly respected American journalist Ken Silverstein. The famed article, which Americans are not supposed to read, was fronted by the graphic above. Silverstein started off with this sentence: "When it comes to sheer brazen corruption, chicanery and dishonesty, there is one candidate that stands head and shoulders above everyone else and he is the right-wing Cuban-American and Tea Party darling Senator Marco Rubio of -- naturally -- the great state of Florida." After that damning preamble, Ken Silverstein's diligently researched article goes to great length and expressive name-calling depth to document the Rubio bio, which...as I stated...Americans are not supposed to read. Meanwhile, Rubio can appear daily on U. S. "news" programs explaining why he will make sure that the embargo of Cuba is enforced and even enlarged to make sure it continues to severely punish everyday Cubans on the island. Of course, neither Rubio nor the mainstream U. S. media has the guts or the integrity to admit this fact revealed by DE-CLASSIFIED U. S. documents: The embargo against Cuba dates back to 1962 when Batistiano-Mafiosi thugs got the U. S. government to legalize it for the purpose of starving and depriving Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. Meanwhile, the likes of Marco Rubio is daily portrayed in the United States media as a Miami choirboy by an intimidated, biased or incompetent media.

      The London-based Reuters, the world's best news agency, this week in mid-September of 2017, flashed the above photo around the globe. It shows Cuban-American U. S. Senator from New Jersey, Bob Menendez, heading to trial in the Menendez-dominated city of Newark. In a trial expected to consume two months, Senator Menendez is facing massive corruption and bribery charges related to a Miami multi-millionaire who himself has been convicted of massive Medicare fraud, costing American taxpayers millions of dollars. Using his wealth and his power in the U. S. Senate, Menendez has been an ultra-powerful Counter Revolutionary against Cuba. In 2015 when the Obama administration brought the corruption charges against him, the Democrat Menendez gave up his omnipotent position as Chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, but he remains an ultra-powerful Counter Revolutionary, of course. AND he plans to seek reelection to a third six-year term as the U. S. Senator from Newark, a city, like Miami, that is renowned for its Mafiosi-type crime. Ultra-serious Federal Corruption Charges, even with a conviction, might not disrupt Menendez, such is the power of Counter Revolutionary Cuban Americans even though most Cuban Americans strongly favor normal relations with Cuba.

     The Menendez corruption trial got underway on Wednesday, Sept. 13th, 2017. The opening remarks by lead U. S. prosecutor Peter Koski were: "This case is about a corrupt politician who sold his Senate office for a life of luxury he couldn't afford."

     The charges against Menendez, a Democrat, originated in the administration of President Obama, also a Democrat. Obama is shown above on friendly terms with Saloman Melgen, the rich Miami friend of Senator Menendez, before Melgen was convicted of massive Medicare fraud and before the massive corruption charges against Menendez became public. As Cubans and the Mafia discovered in the 1950s, U. S. politics spawn corruption. Innocent Cubans still suffer from that basic fact.

       The Menendez Trial that is "Happening Today" is a gigantic political story even if the mainstream U. S. media is too afraid to emphasize its significance. The Republican majority is a thin 52-48 in the Senate and several seats are up for grabs in the upcoming elections. If Menendez is forced from office by a corruption conviction, New Jersey's Republican Governor Chris Christy would name his replacement. The Menendez Trail in the coming weeks will reveal the Miami-Newark Cubans close ties to the Dominican Republic, ties that date back to when the fiendish U.S.-backed Trujillo was the ruthless dictator of the Dominican Republic. The U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Batista, of course, fled Havana on Jan. 1-1959 and his getaway airplane first touched down in Trujillo's Dominican Republic. Menendez and his convicted Miami friend Salomon Melgen have close ties to the Dominican Republic as the Trial will reveal. Also, historians are well aware that Miami and Newark were the two cities that, unfortunately, top exiles from the vile Batista dictatorship chose.

       While the likes of U. S. Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez might be the Soul of Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans, I would like to suggest that Rosy Amaro Perez is the Heart and Soul of Revolutionary Cuba today. Her house was damaged by Hurricane Irma, but Rosy and her little daughter survived. It is hoped they will survive an American Cuban policy that, to this day, is dictated by the likes of Rubio and Menendez with the gutless connivance of U. S. citizens too afraid, too stupid, or simply too unpatriotic to object. Innocents like Rosy suffer from such sad facts that permeate a hostile nearby foreign superpower...decade after decade.

Innocent, non-corrupt souls of Cuba.

Rosy and her daughter.

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A Test of Cuban Resilience

Hurricane Irma was Unkind!

      Not surprisingly, Will Grant of the London-based BBC has provided the best coverage from Cuba as the island now tries to recover from Hurricane Irma. His latest headline: "Hurricane Irma: Cuba Faces Period of Darkness and Rebuilding."

      Surprisingly to some, the Al Jazeera network still has some of broadcast journalism's best reporters although many -- such as Ali Velshi and Morgan Radford -- have been hired away by NBC and other networks. From Cuba Al Jazeera's Julia Galiano has filed brilliant reports on the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, such as the one above that features a heart-broken Cuban woman in tears. Yes, Cubans cry too.

        The streets of the famed Vedado district of Havana remain flooded. Resident Yaritza Mendoza told the BBC's Will Grant: "This didn't even happen during the so-called Storm of the Century in 1993." As she was talking, a forensic team was removing the body of an 87-year-old victim, the 10th Cuban fatality of the storm.

     The Cuban government and individual citizens are doing the best they can to cope with the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. Accustomed to natural and man-made hurricanes, Cuba 's recovery and resilience is left to Cubans. Theirs is a sovereign nation, a gift provided in 1959 by the Revolution. But most of the rest of the Caribbean includes island nations governed with the help of rich foreign nations, especially the U. S., the UK, France and the Netherlands. Russia has now sent some aid to Cuba.

    While Havana itself took a terrible hit from Irma, to the northeast the fishing village of Caibarien and outlying islands like Cayo Coco were particularly devastated.

        This map of the Caribbean shows Cuba as its largest island nation...and arguably its most beautiful and certainly its most vulnerable. As a starkly independent nation and the only one that has been severely punished by the nearby superpower United States since 1959, Cuba, for the most part, is left to fend for itself the best it can.

     Cuba's great young broadcast journalist, Rosy Amaro Perez, lives in a section of Havana that was particularly hard hit by Hurricane Irma. She is my friend so I anxiously inquired about Rosy and her little daughter Mariana. She replied, "Thanks. We're fine. My house has been damaged. But we are alive. That's the important thing."

      Rosy has helped the iconic photo above to be re-posted thousands of times by the social media. It shows the stoic resilience of Cubans playing dominoes on a flooded street in Havana. The caption to this Rosy-propelled photo said: "Se llama resiliencia. Y caracter. En fine, Cuba." {"It's called resilience. And character. Anyway, Cuba."}.

    As an American, I worried about Rosy Amaro Perez and her little daughter Mariana. And I still worry about them even after Rosy told me they are "fine" although their house is "damaged." I say that because most Americans, shamefully, don't give a damn about Rosy and her daughter. That is a product of anti-Cuban propaganda that has permeated the U. S. media since January of 1959 when the Batista-Mafia leaders fled the island only to set up shop on U. S. soil with Little Havana in Miami being their new capital. Meanwhile in Revolutionary Cuba, the island can be proud of young adults like Rosy Amaro Perez who are more beautiful, more intelligent, better educated and more decent than their richer and more powerful foreign enemies.

      In America since the 1950s the unholy alliance between the self-serving Bush dynasty and two generations of vicious but unchecked counter-revolutionary Cuban-American benefactors like Marco Rubio have shamed America and Democracy into receiving its well-deserved 191-to-0 condemnation of its Cuban policy in the United Nations. But unfortunately, the same propagandized and cowardly Americans who don't give a damn about Rosy Amaro Perez and her little daughter in Havana also don't have enough patriotism to give a damn about America and Democracy.

      Thus, in September of 2017 the most famed Latin American terrorist, Cuban-born Luis Posada Carriles, still reigns as one of the most heralded citizens of Little Havana in Miami, along with counter-revolutionary zealots Marco Rubio, Mario Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and Carlos Curbelo in the U. S. Congress. A strong majority of South Florida's two million Cuban-Americans strongly favor normal relations with Cuba but only counter-revolutionary zealots seem eligible to being elected to the U. S. Congress from South Florida. Of course, neither most Americans nor the U. S. media have the guts to question such things in America's Democracy.

     Before Hurricane Irma slammed into Cuba, the Jamaica Observer used the above photo to report that Cuba "typically" sent doctors and other medical workers -- "750 in all" -- to help out in already-devastated islands, including multiple nations governed by and replenished by the United States, England, France and the Netherlands.

      The self-serving nexus of the Bush dynasty with counter-revolutionary Cubans started way back in the 1950s but, regarding hurricanes, it made particular headlines with the presidency of George W. Bush, the son of former CIA director and former President George H. W. Bush. President George W. Bush's Secretary of Commerce was Havana-born counter-revolutionary Carlos Gutierrez when two back-to-back hurricanes mauled Cuba, destroying over 200,000 homes. Many nations aided Cuba in that recovery but Gutierrez shamefully and cowardly represented the U. S. response. He made as if the U. S. had X-number of dollars to help Cuba's recovery but insisted it would only go to dissidents. Gutierrez held news conferences, upping the X-number of dollars each time but just teasing Cuba. He well knew Cuba was already tired of U. S. tax dollars going to dissidents as a component of the Cuban-exile effort to regain control of the island. Of course, to this day the shameful Gutierrez teasing has never been questioned by the post-1959 equally cowardly American citizens.

     And ultra-rich and still-unchecked second generational Counter-Revolutionaries now abound in the U. S. to harass and dog Cuba while hiding behind the superpower might of the U. S. government and the super apathy of unpatriotic Americans.

        The Diaz-Balart brothers Lincoln and Mario epitomize how very much the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 reshaped both the island and America. Rafael Diaz-Balart, the father of Lincoln and Mario, was a key Minister in the overthrown Batista-Mafia dictatorship and then one of the richest and most zealous of the Counter Revolutionaries in Miami. Of course, Lincoln and Mario were elected to the U. S. Congress as Counter Revolutionaries with Americans still not suppose to wonder why the Miami area can't elect a Cuban who favors normal relations with Cuba even though such Cuban-Americans even in Miami constitute a very strong majority.

       And so, in this month of September-2017 -- many decades removed from the 1950s -- Americans are still not supposed to give a damn when a precious, young and talented Cuban mother and her daughter are simultaneously assaulted by Hurricane Irma and the unconscionable heartlessness of an American Cuban policy that rightfully gets a 191-to-0 condemnation in the United Nations. And now you know, I hope, why I say the Cuban Revolution says a lot more about the United States of America than it says about Cuba. Yet, as a patriotic democracy-loving American, I will state for the record that...I care about innocent, egregiously targeted Cubans.

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