5.1.18

USA's Batista Dictatorship

From Cuba to America...
with Greed!!
{Sunday, December 7th, 2018}
    A couple of weeks ago someone sent me a copy of "The Breaking Point" by best-selling author James Dale Davidson. It's almost 600 pages and I just finished it. The 14th chapter -- entitled "The Domino Effect" -- is, I think, the best documentation I'm aware of that depicts the gigantic effect on the U. S. democracy of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba. It chronicles how the overthrown Batista-Mafia leaders were primarily chased to U. S. soil by the Cuban Revolution on Jan. 1, 1959. James Dale Davidson minutely documents what has since become, in his words, a massive "Domino Effect" cascading through America and Democracy. In one of his Chapter 14 footnotes he credits as a source a Cubaninsider essay that I entitled "The Cruel War on Innocent Cubans." I published that post on Sept. 17, 2013 but it is still quickly available by just Googling "The Cruel War on Innocent Cubans." I am proud that an economist and author of Mr. Davidson's statue seems to agree with me concerning how the proud United States of America has been so drastically transformed by first supporting the brutal-thieving Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba from 1952 till 1959 and then -- after it was overthrown on the first day of 1959 -- the USA has simply allowed it to reconstitute itself on U. S. soil with Little Havana in Miami as its new and current capital.
     As a best-selling author and renowned investor, James Davidson's latest book -- "The Breaking Point" -- is, I believe, a must-read for anyone interested in how the USA has been affected, effected, and infected by the transformation of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to the U. S. in 1959. And I say that not because in the crucial Chapter 14's "The Domino Effect" he credits Cubaninsider as one of his sources. Below are some pertinent excerpts from that Chapter 14 that Americans need to know about the "domino effect" the Batista-Mafia dictatorship has had on America since it was chased...in perpetuity, it seems...to the United States:
                "It is a little known fact that Cuba would have become a U. S. state in the wake of the 1898 Spanish American War if not for the fierce opposition of Western sugar beet farmers. Cuba had become the chief sugar producer in the world after 1860. Following the Spanish American War, the Treaty of Paris assumed the United States would occupy Cuba. As a result of U. S. occupation, tariffs on Cuban sugar were reduced by 52 percent. This exposed Western sugar beet farmers to competition, to which they proved predictably allergic. Not to worry: Senator Henry Teller of Colorado had proposed and enacted the Teller Amendment prohibiting the annexation of Cuba out of fear that annexation would open the inefficient U. S. sugar market to competition.
              "Remember, Cuba's penultimate dictator before Castro, the klelptocrat Fulgencio Batista, governed in conjunction with Mafia kingpins Meyer Lansky, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, and Santo Trafficante Jr. The Mafia bosses preferred to do business with Batista. It was well known that Batista's bag-men would call every night on Trafficante's casinos, including the iconic Tropicana Club, to collect 10 percent of the day's take."
            After those indelible facts, James Dale Davidson in his Chapter 14 -- "The Domino Effect" -- explains how Batista's Cuban and Mafia henchmen regrouped in South Florida starting in January of 1959, after being booted off the island by the Cuban Revolution. On United States soil they immediately and eternally began to apply what they had learned in Cuba, which is how to purchase corrupt leaders. To quote Mr. Davidson:
               "You probably don't know the Fanjuls, unless you see them lording around Palm Beach, as I sometimes do. To understand what happened next {After the Cuban Revolution's 1959 victory}, you have to appreciate the luminously corrupt way that business was conducted in pre-Castro Cuba. As the leading sugar plantation in mid-century Cuba, the Fanjuls had honed their political skills in dealing with a corrupt government whose leaders were only too keen to enrich the few at the expense of the many, especially when they could rake off a piece of the action for their pains."
          Then James Davidson in "The Domino Effect" chapter of his great book explained how the Fanjul sugar monoply in Cuba prior to the Revolution became the far more lucrative sugar monopoly in the USA after the Revolution, and by employing the exact same tactics -- buying off the necessary corrupt politicians. Mr. Davidson wrote:
                       "They {the Fanjuls} rigged the markets so that American consumers and taxpayers had to lavishly subsidize them. The CNN/GAO estimate that rigged sugar markets put about $60 million a year into the Fanjuls bank accounts is really a gross underestimation. The total costs are much higher than that. Economists put the dead weight loss to consumers from inflated sugar prices to $3.5 billion annually, and that doesn't count the follow-on costs. The sugar barons also convinced politicians to make taxpayers absorb the lion's share of the costs for cleaning up the mess they made." {That latter fact referenced the Fanjuls' vast sugar operation that has caused billions of dollars in environmental damage to Florida's crucial Everglades, costing taxpayers billions of additional dollars to subsidize the Fanjuls' sugar monopoly in the United States}.
           With those and many other documented facts, James Dale Davidson chronicles how Cuban monopolies prior to the Revolution became far bigger monopolies in the U. S. after the Revolution beginning in 1959. And both in Cuba and then in the United States, easily purchasing politicians fueled the Cuban monopolies in both nations. The fiercely Counter Revolutionary Bush political-economic dynasty, for examplehas been massively supported for decades by Cuban-American billionaires.
     For example, if in 2018 you Google "Jeb Bush's major billionaire supporter" you will instantly be engaged with numerous historic and topical reports about how Miguel "Mike" Fernandez has fueled and funded Jeb Bush's political success that has included such things as two-terms as Florida's governor as well as a lushly funded 2016 presidential bid. Mike Fernandez was born in Manzanillo, Cuba...the southeastern Cuban city where the greatest of all revolutionary heroines, the incomparable Celia Sanchez, so bravely started the Cuban Revolution. Of course, Mike Fernandez didn't make his billions-of-dollars in Manzanillo, Cuba; those Mike Fernandez billions have been made in Miami-Coral Gables, Florida.
      And of course, after her revolution chased the Batistianos and Mafiosi to South Florida in January of 1959, the incomparable Celia Sanchez, as chronicled above by The Woman Project.org, made the most definitive quotation regarding the Cuban Revolution: "We rebels get far too much credit for winning the Revolution. Our enemies deserve most of the credit, for being greedy cowards and idiots."
     These are the Fanjul brothers that control the USA's Fanjul sugar monopoly. Prior to the Cuban Revolution it was a monopoly in Cuba. That's Alfonso "Alfy" Fanjul on the left with Jose "Pepe" Fanjul on the right. Any Google search takes you to a Bloomberg article that not only reveals their multi-billions-of-dollars but also the billions they have spent on politicians to buttress their billions. The incredible subsidies and other advantages the Fanjul brothers receive from Washington politicians has caused sugar prices in the USA to be by far the highest in the world
            The photo above famously illustrates precisely how powerful the Fanjul brothers can influence USA Presidents and members of Congress that gullible voters send to Washington. One afternoon when First Lady Hillary Clinton was out of town, President Bill Clinton was having sex with intern Monica Lewinsky. Presidential aides made sure Bill and Monica weren't disturbed...and they weren't until a phone call from Miami was patched in to President Clinton because it was a Democratic billionaire that couldn't be put on hold until the Clinton-Lewinsky session was over. The caller was the Fanjul brother that took care of Democratic politicians and the Fanjuls just wanted to make sure that President Clinton supported the sugar subsidy bill that was upcoming. The call, as documented by history only after DNA proved there was sperm on Monica's now historic blue dress, lasted well over 20 minutes. The iconic Clinton-Lewinsky episode, and that phone call, corresponds with what James Dale Davidson proved in Chapter 14 of his book "The Breaking Point" and what I proved in the Cubaninsider essay that he referenced -- "The Cruel War on Innocent Cubans." Of course, it has also been a CRUEL WAR on innocent American taxpayers since 1959, as the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal also conclusively proved.
     Miami's most famed author and most popular columnist for the Miami Herald -- Carl Hiaasen -- has amassed a fortune writing about the Cuban-related corruption of Miami and Florida politics, which long-ago extended to Washington -- both Congress and the White House. In 2001 Hiaasen was quoted in Variety as saying: "The most telling thing about Alfy Fanjul is that he can get the President {Clinton} on the phone during the middle of a blow-job. That tells you all you need to know about their influence."
        Miami, of course, was America's Tropical Paradise but Carl Hiaasen and other brave Miami residents realize it has been a "Paradise Screwed" since January of 1959 when the Cuban Revolution chased top leaders of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to their new haven, Little Havana in Miami. That included Mafia thugs like Meyer Lansky who returned to their homes in Miami...and Rafael Diaz-Balart, a key Batista Minister. Rafael quickly created the first anti-Castro paramilitary unit in South Florida. Two of his sons, Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart, have been elected from Miami to the U. S. Congress. To this day Miami sends a steady stream of only Counter Revolutionary extremists to Congress although, as Hiaasen has referenced, most Cuban-Americans in Miami favor normalizing relations with Cuba. So, since 1959 "Paradise Screwed" pertains not only to Miami but to America. The ease with which Cuban monopolies and corrupt politics transferred from Cuba to the U. S. after the 1959 triumph of the Cuban Revolution has not only reshaped Miami but all of America. The Fanjul sugar monopoly is only one of the examples of how pre-revolutionary Cubans learned to deal with corrupt politicians and then expanded that knowledge in the U. S. after 1959. If you disagree with that, you should read Chapter 14 -- "The Domino Effect" -- of James Dale Davidson's book that is entitled "The Breaking Point" regarding the U. S. democracy...a breaking point that started in 1952 when right-wingers in the Eisenhower administration were allowed to team the U. S. with the Mafia to support the wicked, thieving Batista dictatorship in Cuba so rich American businessmen could partake in the rape and robbery of the plush island. Then in 1959 that assault on Democracy was exacerbated when right-wingers in Washington welcomed the remnants of the overthrown Batistianos into the basic and cherished fabrics of the American Democracy. So Carl Hiassen's Paradise Screwed analogy, like James Dale Davidson's book, is both accurate and precise.
     Remember the still famed 1976 "Taxi Driver" movie that starred Robert De Nero and Jodie Foster. Decades later both of them were among the most powerful actors-directors-producers in Hollywood...and they had the power to make any movie they desired...and they desired to make a movie entitled "Sugar Kings" about the Fanjul sugar monopoly that to this day causes Americans to pay by far the highest price in the world for sugar. But...tuh...the normally fearless De Nero was in for a rude awakening regarding ultra-rich Cuban-Americans "Domino Effect" on America.
     There are few Hollywood superstars as powerful as Robert De Nero. He spent a lot of time and money preparing to make "Sugar Kings." He was the producer and he would have played Alfy Fanjul. He hired high-priced Jodie Foster as the director and she would have played a lawyer fighting for the sugarcane workers that the Fanjul sugar monopoly was...huh...allegedly mistreating. After incoming flak, De Nero agreed to change the title from "Sugar Kings" to "Sugarland." But incoming flak persisted. 
     Even teamed with the equally super-powerful Jodie Foster, Robert De Nero's "Sugar Kings" was not made into a movie. They were, in fact, very naive.
     Now 78-years-old, Edna Buchanan is renowned as one of America's most successful authors of crime novels. But prior to that career she was America's best actual crime reporter for the Associated Press and the Miami Herald. As a journalist, Edna Buchanan won a plethora of awards, including a Pulitzer Prize.
      Throughout the 1960s and the 1970s Edna Buchanan was stationed in Miami for the AP and the Miami Herald because Miami had replaced Havana as the drug and crime capital. The Batista-Mafia leaders in Cuba were booted off the island with most of them debarking from their cash-and-gold-strewn ships, yachts, and airplanes in Miami. The drug wars alone in Miami fueled unspeakable violence along with unchallenged anti-Cuba terrorism from famed anti-Castro Cuban exiles. In 1976 a decent and well-known Cuban newsman in Miami, Emilio Milian, complained about the ceaseless crime such as car bombings but also the murders of totally innocent people caught in the crossfires or merely just killed to hurt or embarrass Cuba, such as the 1976 terrorist bombing of the child-laden Cubana Flight 455 in which all 73 aboard were killed. Then the brave Emilio himself was car-bombed. The great Edna Buchanan wrote the above article about the car-bombing that silenced Emilio.
   In 2006 Billy Corben's award-winning documentary "Cocaine Cowboys" brilliantly chronicled the transition of Cuba's Batista-Mafia dictatorship to Miami in 1959, transitioning Miami into a very rich but crime-ridden city with tentacles that spread across the USA as USA Today has repeatedly headlined regarding Miami as the "epicenter" of drug trafficking, Medicare fraud, etc. Of course, Edna Buchanan was a prime expert in the "Cocaine Cowboys" documentary. One of her typical revelations was: The entire Miami police academy graduating class ended up dead or in jail." She stressed that the police that didn't sell out to the drug-dealers were either killed or jailed. At the end of "Cocaine Cowboys" in 2006 Edna Buchana is shown pointing back at the magnificent Miami skyline. She then looked back at the camera and said that it "was built by drug money." Today Edna Buchanan is a great crime novelist but she is the journalist that best chronicled the unprecedented crime waves that, then and now, followed the Batista-Mafia dictatorship in Cuba to U. S. soil.
      The Fanjul Sugar Monopoly was founded in Cuba in 1924 but, unwittingly, it got a huge break in 1959 when it was chased to South Florida. If the Fanjuls made millions in Cuba, it is for sure they have made and are making MANY BILLIONS in the United States. And as James Dale Davidson's great book -- "The Breaking Point" -- expertly explains, the Fanjul Sugar Monopoly in the United States of America since 1959 learned about corrupt governments on the besieged Caribbean island. The Fanjul tie-in with the President Clinton-intern Monica Lewinsky scandal is merely one tip-off to how very, very much the USA has changed since the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship fled the Cuban Revolution only to resettle, stronger than ever, on American soil beginning on January 1, 1959. And that fact spawned the theme for Cubaninsider, which is: THE CUBAN REVOLUTION SAYS A LOT MORE ABOUT THE UNITED STATES THAN IT SAYS ABOUT CUBA. If propagandized Americans don't understand that, I believe Alfy and Pepe Fanjul do understand it, as do great American journalists like Edna Buchanan and great American authors like James Davidson.
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2.1.18

How Rubio Dictates Pain

To Cubans & to Americans!!
(Thursday, January 4th, 2018)
     The photo-graphic above is courtesy of the Washington-based Center for Democracy in the Americas. Of course, in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, Americans today are not not supposed to have the guts, the intelligence, nor the patriotism to either read or understand exactly what it means.
But I'll try to explain it:
          Massively aided by right-wing Republicans in Congress and in the White House and by an intimidated, politically correct or incompetent U. S. media, the internationally condemned U. S. Cuban policy enters the New Year-2018 dictated by a handful of extremely biased, self-serving, revengeful Cuban-Americans from Miami's Little Havana enclave. Their "choirboy" Senator Marco Rubio has shamefully been anointed by President Trump as America's latest Cuban dictator -- in the mode of Fulgencio Batista-Lucky Luciano on the island in the 1950s and, after 1959's triumphant Cuban Revolution, the likes of Jorge mas Canosa-Rafael Diaz-Balart in Miami. On November 9th, 2017 -- while President Trump was on an Asian trip sucking up to China and Vietnam -- the U. S. government announced Rubio's latest 180 "legal" assaults reversing the Herculean efforts of former President Obama who bravely defied the Batistiano-directed U. S. Congress to attach some decency to America's Cuban policy. With undisguised shame, Rubio bellowed that on Nov. 9th he could have gone further had it not been for a few liberals in Congress. Rubio -- like Batista/Luciano/Canosa/Diaz-Balart in the past -- is able to act like America's new Cuban dictator because another generation of proselytized-propagandized Americans are, frankly, too ignorant, too scared, and too unpatriotic to care about a U. S. Cuban policy that is condemned 191-to-ZERO in a UN vote and also condemned by America's bravest and most patriotic citizens...such as Emily Mandrela, the Executive Director of Washington's Center for Democracy in the Americas. When she posted the photo-graphic depicted above, Emily Mandrela wrote: "Cubans deserve better." Yes, Cubans deserve better than Marco Rubio. BUT BOTH AMERICANS AND CUBAN-AMERICANS DESERVE BETTER THAN MARCO RUBIO, and so does the rest of the entire world.
     So, even if it might require a modicum of courage and patriotism, I believe Americans should study the photo-graphic above. Like Batistiano-Mafiosi dictators in the past, Rubio -- hiding behind the skirts of Republican right-wingers in Washington and an intimidated-incompetent mainstream U. S. media -- says his attacks on Cuba are to hurt the Castros. Only propagandized idiots or extremists in Little Havana believe that, yet in the world's most famed democracy it is allowed to prevail. So here at the start of 2018 America's post-Obama Cuban policy has been handed to Marco Rubio, the Little Havana "choirboy" who got to the U. S. Senate still claiming his parents escaped the Castro tyranny in Cuba while, in fact, his parents escaped the Batista tyranny in Cuba long before Americans ever heard of Fidel Castro. And this is the Marco Rubio that a huge and easily Googled article by Ken Silverstein, one of America's most respected investigative journalists, minutely documented facts indicating that Rubio is perhaps the most corrupt politician in Congressional history...an article, of course, that Americans are not supposed to GoogleAs indicated above, even the Miami Herald, with Cuban-Americans in dominant managerial positions, has seemingly grown tired of Rubio and is lamenting the sheer fact that the majority of Cuban-Americans even in Miami support Obama's efforts to normalize relations with Cuba BUT ONLY CUBAN-AMERICAN EXTREMISTS like Rubio can seemingly get "elected" to the U. S. Congress from Miami. Recently in a a major article written by the Miami Herald's top journalist, Mimi Whitefield, it was pointed out that America's Batistiano/Mafiosi-ruled Cuban policies prevent Americans and Cuban-Americans from benefiting from proven treatments developed by renowned Cuban scientists that prevent such things as death from cancer and amputations from diabetic complications. The article pointed out that many Americans, such as cancer patient Mick Phillips, regularly defy Rubio's "legal laws" and bravely travel to Cuba for treatments and then return home with the Cuban medicine, but again...Americans are not supposed to Google the name Mick Phillips or the Cuban medical scientists like Dr. Pedro Camilo Rodriguez that have invented medicines that are saving Mick's life and are preventing diabetic amputations. The inference from that major Mimi Whitefield-penned Miami Herald article was this: Rubio and his ilk are willing to harm Americans and Cuban-Americans -- not to mention the U. S. DEMOCRACY -- in order to seek revenge against the Cuban Revolution WHILE ALSO garnering economic and political benefits for themselves. And this insanity has persisted for six decades because two+ generations of Americans have not had the guts or the patriotism to challenge the likes of Marco Rubio or entities, such as the Bush dynasty, that created them.
     Returning to the important and definitive photo-graphic that Americans need to study, both the Center for Democracy in the Americas AND the Miami Herald agree that Rubio's endless propaganda lie about hurting the Castros is, of course, hurting the most innocent Americans, Cuban-Americans, and Cubans on the island. The photo-graphic above references a heart-wrenching article in the Miami Herald completely written by four hard-working and totally innocent female entrepreneurs in Cuba - - Niuris Higueras, Yamina Vicenta, Julia de la Rosa, and Marla Recio. After U. S. President Barack Obama and the Cuban government defied the Batistiano-plagued U. S. Congress and brought decency and santity to America's Cuban policy, entrepreneurs on the island -- like the four aforementioned women -- created thriving businesses on the island that cared for their families and for the families that worked in those businesses. But in the past year as the decent Obama was incredibly replaced by yet another indecent Republican administration in Washington, the Rubio-orchestrated assaults on Cuba have virtually destroyed the magnificent businesses such as the ones created so successfully by the four Cuban women. THE ENTIRE WORLD -- 191-to-ZERO -- UNDERSTANDS RUBIO. So does the Miami Herald. And, of course, so do the brave and totally innocent four Cuban women who wrote that article in RUBIO'S HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER, THE MIAMI HERALD. The Cuban-American bosses at the Miami Herald refused to question, challenge, or contradict the gripping honesty in that article, an article that excoriated Rubio and exposed him as a coward for refusing to meet with the four Cuban women -- and many more like them -- to even discuss their issues. MARCO RUBIO, OF COURSE, DOESN'T HAVE TO MEET WITH THEM BECAUSE HE CAN HIDE BEHIND THE GUTLESSNESS OF THE MAINSTREAM UNITED STATES MEDIA AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
It thus comes down to this:
 Either Rubio is a duplicitous liar......
          .........or the brave Cuban women who wrote that scathing article excoriating Rubio are the duplicitious liars. For the sake of all Americans, including Cuban-Americans, it is perhaps time for this generation of Americans to have the guts and the patriotism to render a simple but very important decision: Is Rubio a duplicitous liar or are those four Cuban women duplicitous liars?
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31.12.17

Trump Sends Soldiers to Cuba

A Warning? A ThreatOr NOT?
{Monday, January 1, 2018}
     In the closing hours leading up to News Year Day 2018, Fox 10 in Phoenix reported that 50 Arizona Army National Guard soldiers are being deployed to Guantanamo Bay on CUBAN SOIL for at least the next nine months. The operation is so secretive that Fox 10 was not allowed to identify any of the soldiers. But in a somewhat strange development, Arizona Army National Guard Sergeant Major Fidel Samora gave Fox 10 this exact and ominous statement: "There was some discussion some time back about actually shutting it down. Right now that's not what's going to happen so it's still very important for us service members to be prepared to go and continue our mission." Fidel Samora??? Or is that name just a coincidence in the Era of Trump?
       The comment from Major Sergeant Fidel Samora -- "some discussion some time back about actually shutting it down" -- referenced the fact that former U. S. President Obama wanted to close the U. S. Naval Base and infamous prison on occupied Cuban soil. And Fidel Samora's comment -- "Right now that's not going to happen" -- appears to be a threat to Cuba on the heels of President Trump's statement a few week's ago when he said he intended "to straighten Cuba out." In April of 1961 in the infamous Bay of Pigs attack, the U. S. military tried to quickly "straighten out" Revolutionary Cuba. That failed, crowning Fidel Castro as a revolutionary legend. In the first hours of 2018 Fidel Samora arrives at the head of another U. S. army. Ummmm...I wonder?
      In 1903, shortly after the United States gained dominance over Cuba following the 1898 Spanish-American War, the U. S. occupied Cuba's plush Guantanamo Bay on the southeastern tip of the island. Cuba and the rest of the world considers it one of the last, and certainly the most salient, unwanted occupations of land and waters in a small nation by a powerful nation...echoing bygone imperialist eras when countries like the U.S., Britain, Spain, France, etc., routinely spread their imperialist tentacles around the world. In 1903 the "treaty" usurping Guantanamo Bay stated that it was "in perpetuity" unless both nations agreed to end it. The U. S. agreed to pay Cuba a token of a few measly hundred dollars a year. Revolutionary Cuba since 1959 has refused to cash such yearly checks to express its displeasure with the strong-arm and unwanted occupation of its sovereign-independent land.  
    Any Google search about the U. S. occupation of Guantanamo Bay will focus on the notorious U. S. prison that turned globally infamous in 2002 when the viciously anti-Cuban George W. Bush administration began putting international prisoners there. Soon, photos and other documentations depicting torture of those prisoners flashed all around a newly inflamed world, shaming America's best international friends but, obviously, not shaming enough pro-democracy American citizens. Therefore, the notoriety of the prison survived President Obama's Herculean efforts to close it, leaving it as a prime propaganda tool for American's enemies as well as for President Trump and his newly anointed Cuban garu, Senator Marco Rubio, to use it to PERHAPS, uh, "straighten out Cuba" beginning early in 2018 with Arizona soldiers.
    The U. S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay has evolved into an anti-Cuban eyesore and embarrassment, making it a jewel for 6-decades of Cuban-American Counter Revolutionaries and right-wing Republicans. The infamous Gitmo prison merely exacerbates those facts. With other massive nearby U. S. military forces on other land, on the seas, and beneath the seas, the U. S. surely does not need a U. S. base in Cuba other than to intimidate, threaten, or to simply embarrass the Revolution that, way back on Jan. 1-1959, chased the leaders of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to U. S. soil, mostly to the new capital known as Little Havana in the heart of nearby Miami. In that milieu, the U. S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is generally considered a plush, Americanized vacation spot for U. S. military personnel and, often, their families.
       So why, in the closing hours of 2017, is the Trump presidency sending a very secretive contingent of U. S. soldiers to Cuba led by Sergeant Major Fidel Samora. And why does a leader of that unit have the ominous name of....Fidel Samora?
    It's quite apparent that President Trump has turned America's Cuban policy over to two vicious Counter Revolultionary members of the U. S. Congress from Miami -- Marco Rubio and Mario Diaz-Balart. All three realize that U. S. citizens probably would not object to whatever they have in mind for Cuba. After all, this generation of Americans replicates the cowardice and lack of patriotism displayed by previous U. S. generations regarding the USA designs on Cuba. In 1952 Americans didn't object to right-wingers in the Eisenhower administration teaming the U. S. with the Mafia to support the thieving-brutal Batista dictatorship in Cuba because it allowed rich American businessmen to partake in the rape and robbery of the island. Then beginning in 1959, after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, U. S. citizens didn't object to any CIA-Mafia-Cuban exile attempts to recapture Cuba -- including rampant assassination efforts, terrorists bombings of Havana hotels and even a child-laden civilian Cuban airplane, bombings of Cuban sugar and tobacco operations, the Havana-to-Miami transition of the Mafia's prime crime city, and to this day a Miami that only sends Counter Revolutionary extremists to Congress although the majority of Cuban-Americans even to this day favor Obama-like normal relations with Cuba. So the Trump/Rubio/Diaz-Balart belligerency against Cuba now has -- as of New Year's Day 2018 -- a new contingent of U. S. soldiers on a secretive mission on U.S.-occupied Cuban soil. Trump's choice of two prime Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans from Miami as his prime Cuban experts is something that innocent Cubans and innocent Americans will have to deal with, it seems. Typically concerning the top Miami politicos, Rubio and Diaz-Balart are products of the Bush dynasty. Rubio made it all the way to the U. S. Congress with his bio still very conveniently claiming his parents escaped the tyranny of Castro's Cuba when, in fact, they escaped the Batista-Mafia tyranny in Cuba long before Americans ever heard of Fidel Castro. Now Americans on New Years Day-2018 will be hearing about Fidel Samora at the head of a secretive new U. S. army at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mario Diaz-Balart followed his Havana-born older brother Lincoln Diaz-Balart to the U. S. Congress from Miami. Mario and Lincoln are the sons of Rafael Diaz-Balart who was a key Minister in the Batista dictatorship and then, after Jan. 1-1959, the rich and powerful creator of the first anti-Castro paramilitary unit in South Florida. So, Trump has apparently turned over America's Cuban policy to Marco Rubio {Google the respected U. S. journalist Ken Silverstein's amazing article on the "most corrupt" Rubio} and Mario Diaz-Balart {son of a former Batista Minister}. That seems par-for-the-course for a Republican White House as the U. S. and Cuba enter the New Year of 2018. The key point, I believe, is the fact that the majority of Americans in 2018 will not care if Trump turned over America's Cuban policy to reincarnations of Mafia thugs Lucky Luciano,  Meyer Lansky, and Fulgencio Batista.
    The only U. S. President to have had the necessity combination of guts, intelligence, and patriotism to challenge the Batistiano & Mafiosi dictation of America's Cuban policy was, of course, Barack Obama. In the process of normalizing relations with Cuba, President Obama went to Cuba and, in person and on live island-wide television, told the Cuban people: "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." With uncommon bravery and sincerity, President Obama meant those historic words. But he didn't anticipate that on Jan. 20-2017 his decency would be replaced by the indency of President Donald Trump.
     A well-educated, healthy generation of bold young Cubans on the island -- like the ones above -- have one enemy in this entire world -- Cuban-American extremists and their U.S. sycophantsIn the whole-wide diversified world, the only topic that could attain a 191-to-ZERO condemnation vote in the United Nations is probably America's cruel economic embargo-blockade of Cuba. In 2016 the decent Obama administration did not have the heart to support it at the UN but Obama could not end it because the cowardly 535-member U. S. Congress permits a handful of miscreants to maintain the anti-Democracy cancer that has been in effect since 1962 when it was made "legal" for the exact purpose -- as revealed by declassified U. S. documents -- to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of the Cuban people to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. But generations of Cubans remember the brutal U.S.-backed and crime-riven Batista-Mafia cruelty. And they have a right to those memories and to that history, the rest of the world as well as the young Cubans shown above truly believe.
       The transition a year ago from Obama to Trump bodes ill-well for 11.2 totally innocent Cubans on the vulnerable nearby island. It also bodes ill-will for America and Democracy, I believe, as Obama-to-Trump takes hold of the American democracy.
     In the New Year of 2018 it is perhaps time for Americans to be concerned by a Cuban policy that gets America condemned by a 191-to-ZERO vote in the UN...a policy so staunchly condemned by America's bravest and most decent recent President, Mr. Obama. When the Trump administration sends a secretive new contingent of soldiers to Guantanamo Bay apparently led by Major Sergeant Fidel Samora, Americans sitting back on their comfortable, cowardly, and un-caring asses is not exactly what the Founding Fathers intended for their brilliant democracy.
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29.12.17

Cuba's True Voice

In Both Spanish & English!!
{Sunday, December 31st, 2017}
     The best broadcast journalist in the Americas, including all of North America, is probably Cuba's Cristina Escobar, and that's true whether she is broadcasting in Spanish or English either as an anchor or expert interviewer. I think she's the absolute best and so, apparently, do many others, including NBC's veteran superstar Andrea Mitchell who made it a point to congratulate Cristina in Washington. Vivid examples of her work are recent, cogent interviews she conducted with two of America's most powerful Miami executives -- Cuban-born Frank del Rio, the CEO of the Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Lines; and Arnold Donald, the CEO of Carnival Cruise Lines. Both interviews are readily available on YouTube where you can hear each man tell Cristina Escobar about their incomparable love of the Cubans on the island and their utter fascination with Cuba's beauty and culture, and both men made it clear they were speaking not as businessmen who often visit Cuba but as human beings who believe the island and its people should be treated with respect and decency.
     Such Cuban and U. S. respect gained Cristina Escobar a Pulitzer Center-sponsored interview conducted by notable U. S. journalist and Cuban expert Tracey Eaton, and versions of the above interview are readily available on the Pulitzer Center website {above} and on YouTube. In that interview you can hear Cristina say: "Cuba's fate is up to Cubans on the island, not Cubans in Miami or Washington" and "Cuban journalists have more freedom to tell the truth about the U. S. than U. S. journalists have to tell the truth about Cuba." INDEED, as Cuba's top broadcast journalist Cristina is not afraid to criticize her government if her beloved Cuban people are not respected or properly cared for. AND INDEED, in the U. S. it might be said, with a brave degree of accuracy, that the last two well-known journalists who told the truth about Miami-directed terrorism against innocent Cubans were newscaster Emilio Milian and top columnist-journalist Jim DeFede, and Emilio was car-bombed while Jim was fired. In Cuba, Cristina -- with the heart and soul of a true journalist -- has criticized her government without getting car-bombed...or fired.
     And such respect gained Cristina Escobar a spot on the pantheon of American Journalism History. As shown above, she is the only Cuban journalist to ever ask questions at a White House news conference. That video is also on YouTube. In calm, perfect English she dominated that news conference, asking the best questions and getting the best answers, including the first confirmation that President Obama indeed planned to become the first sitting U. S. President to visit Cuba since President Hoover arrived in 1928 on a warship. Not only is the talented and well-educated Cristina Escobar a superb broadcast journalist, she is also an internationally recognized expert on U.S.-Cuban relations, and therefore in demand by foreign networks seeking both sides of the U.S.-Cuban conundrum that has international repercussions and got the United States condemned 191-to-ZERO in 2016 when even the decent President Obama couldn't support the Congress-directed cruel U. S. embargo against innocent Cubans. Cristina, for example, astutely and eerily predicted on her University Thesis the Cuban Effect President Obama would have at least temporarily on U.S.-Cuban relations, smartly realizing that Obama's sanity could be reversed when and if a Republican replaced Obama as President. 
      Mainstream U. S. broadcast outfits...either because of propagandized political correctness, sheer intimidation, or simple incompetence...generally present only the Counter Revolutionary side of the two-sided U.S.-Cuban equation. But unintimidated networks, such as the Washington-based CGTN America, often call on the expert views of Cristina Escobar in Havana with live hook-ups. For example, this week - - Dec. 28th, 2017 -- CGTN America aired a 5 minute, 29 second report entited: "Cristina Escobar Talks About the Effect Millennials Are Having on Cuban Society." You can easily dial-up that interview on YouTube and get concise and honest insights on the emerging input of millennials and young adults in Cuba.
     The montage above depicts a typical CGTN America set. The network was founded in 2012 and is a part of the China Global Television Network. But based in Washington it is more pro-America than pro-China, especially with its business reports. And CGTN America regularly provides international exposure to Cristina Escobar from Havana.
    Another recent example is also readily available on YouTube with this title: "Cristina Escobar and Dan Perkins Discuss Cuba in the Wake of Trump Policy Change." The interview runs 9 minutes and 8 seconds and it's worth every second. Perkins is a right-wing Counter Revolutionary businessman and commentator in Tampa, Florida. Cristina is Cuba's top broadcast journalist and an expert on U.S.-Cuban relations, including President Trump's reversal of President Obama's sane and decent Cuban policies. As you watch the interview, Perkins will espouse the viewpoint that Cuba should be what it was pre-Revolution from 1952 to 1959, which was to be a piggy-bank for the brutal Batista-Mafia dictatorship that was supported by the U. S. because it allowed rich U. S. businessmen, like the modern-day Mr. Perkins, to partake in the rape and robbery of the island. Of course, as I believe you will detect, Cristina Escobar more than holds her own against thuggish, right-wing Counter Revolutionaries like Perkins. When the name "Marco Rubio" comes up, Cristina calls a spade-a-spade, something the mainstream U. S. media is afraid to do. That exchange alone, which airs both sides of the equation, would be worth viewing.
   The brilliant Cuban broadcast journalist Cristina Escobar has paid journalistic visits to Washington on the East Coast and to California on the West Coast, and made speeches at U. S. universities in between. There are reports that she has been offered huge sums of money, with a mansion tossed in as a bonus, if she would defect to Miami or New York City. For sure, in Spanish or English, she could instantly be a star broadcast journalist in America...and a very rich one. But most of all, her defection would be a gigantic propaganda coup for the USA's well-heeled Counter Revolutionary extremists. But it won't happen. There is not enough Little Havana money in Miami to induce Cristina Escobar to turn her back on the island she loves and the Cubans she loves. As a broadcaster, her integrity matches her talent.
     The photo above shows Cristina Escobar on the island of Cuba with the people she loves and identifies with. That's Cristina second from the right. She is a highly respected Cuban jewel, not rich but very, very proud. She fervently and righteously defends everything beautiful and good about Cuba, and there is a lot to defend despite what Americans are told by Trump & Rubio, two Counter Revolutionaries.
Cuba's journalistic Superstar.
 A Cuban-Cuban, Cristina Escobar.
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