Rubio's Cuban Lies

Hurt Both the USA & Cuba!!
{Fresh update for: Tuesday, January 30th, 2018}

     This is an updated photo this week of ten top Cuban Foreign Ministry officials. That's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in the middle wearing the red tie and the Ministry's American expert Josefina Vidal third from the right in the blue jacket. The other three are members of the U. S. Congress standing just to the right of Rodriguez. They are Congresswomen Barbara Lee, up front, and Karen Bass, both from California; and Congressman Roger Marshall from Kansas. Marshall is also a doctor. The members of Congress were in Havana to investigate the alleged sonic attacks on 24 members of the U. S. embassy in Havana. The U. S. State Department, pressured by Cuban Americans in Congress, has convenient used the alleged attacks as the pretext to gut the embassies in Havana and Washington while also, of course, "WARNING" Americans it is unsafe to visit Cuba. Most expert observers are convinced that the Cuban government would be the last force on earth to be responsible for such attacks because tourism, including visits from Americans, is vital to the island's economy. Cuba has, in fact, begged the FBI to investigate the alleged attacks and release the results, and indeed the FBI has repeatedly VISITED. But with the FBI and most everyone...for months now...not believing Cuba is at fault, the U. S. State Department Monday-Jan. 29-2018 claimed nineteen...19...U. S. visitors to Cuba are now showing symptoms, but -- with the U. S. and Counter Revolutionary forces famed for creating historic pretexts against Cuba -- non-Counter Revolutionaries desire some proof. Right after the above photo was taken, Congresswoman Barbara Lee released this official statement: "I think we should restore our diplomats and either end this travel warning or share with the public the evidence that supports the travel warning." Yet, the pretext still reigns supreme.

     Yesterday -- Sunday, January 28th, 2018 -- marked the intersection, or clash, of factions trying to forge good relations between the U. S. and Cuba vs. elements trying to destroy those prospects. At considerable expense and effort, New York City's magnificent Marti Statue was transported to Cuba and gifted to Havana along with the official reminder that "New York City is proud to be Cuba's friend." For 50 years the statue had graced New York City where Jose Marti lived as an acclaimed poet until he returned to Cuba to fight against Spanish soldiers to try to attain independence for his beloved island. He died in battle on Cuban soil in 1895, three years before the U. S. gained dominance of Cuba with an easy victory in the 1898 Spanish-American War. The ceremony officially transferring the Marti Statue to Havana from New York City was bittersweet and that was expressed best by Marc Frank, the great Reuters journalist whose article is entitled: "Trump Casts Pall on Inauguration of U. S. Statue of Marti in Cuba."  In other words, all the good people who had made the decision to transfer the statue to Havana did so when the decent Barack Obama was President of the United States and trying desperately to normalize relations with Cuba. All that changed when the Democrat Obama was replaced by the Republican Trump, which is the difference between decency and indecency as far as Cuba and America's democratic reputation is concerned. Marc Frank, in the aforementioned article, wrote: "With the advent of the Republican administration in Washington, a pall has fallen over the two countries' fragile detente." That pall, as Marc Frank explained, darkened Sunday what otherwise should have been a happy U.S.-Cuban interaction.

   The present and future leaders of Cuba -- Raul Castro and Miguel Diaz-Canel -- are shown Sunday arriving for the transfer of the Marti Statue from New York City to Havana. They were both silent and solemn throughout the ceremony. In April the 86-year-old Castro is due to retire as Cuba's President and be replaced by the 57-year-old Diaz-Canel, marking the first time since 1959 that Cuba will have a non-Castro as its leader. But Cuban insiders note that Raul Castro worked closely with President Obama to normalize relations but Diaz-Canel, soured by another Republican administration in Washington, prefers to devote his time and energy to "Cuba's friends, not our one enemy. Waiting for another Obama is just not practical for us." 

     A teacher, Diaz-Canel is Cuba's former Education Minister and he has popular support across the island, according to Reuters' two outstanding Cuban journalists, Marc Frank and Sarah Marsh, who are free to report very objectively about Cuba.

       The world's most renowned and most respected Travel Writer/Photographer is Christopher P. Baker. He was born 62 years ago in Britain and that fact is important. It means, in shameful contrast to USA journalists, he can write not only expertly but also truthfully about Cuba. In that vein, Chris Baker this month of January-2018 has penned a major article that Americans are not supposed to dial up and read because it clearly depicts Miami's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio, President Trump's latest Republican USA Cuban dictator, as a liar as he dictates USA Cuban policies that reverse the decent detente that former democracy-loving President Barack Obama had painstakingly forged until he was replaced a little over a year ago by Trump.

         The world-famed Travel Writer Christopher P. Baker has won just about every top journalistic award he has been eligible for, and as indicated above just about every single U. S. network has used him as a renowned and honest travel expert.

     The Christopher P. Baker Travel Books under the Moon banner are legendary, including the Cuba book above and many others. In countless countries that are tourist attractions he has met the people and studied the landscape traveling by foot, autos, motorcycles, etc. So, Chris Baker knows those countries, including Cuba, better than other foreign journalists. His article today, the one Americans are not supposed to read, can easily be dialed up online with the title: "Let's Stop Calling Cuba Unsafe." The article was surely inspired by the Rubio lies that have persuaded President Trump's State Department to "warn" Americans, who visited Cuba in record numbers during the Obama presidency, not to visit the largest and safest Caribbean island because it was "unsafe." Being a Brit, Chris Baker, unlike U. S. journalists, had the guts to contradict the lie in the aforementioned article. He wrote:

                   "On January 18, 2018, Cuba was named 'Safest Country for Tourism' at the 38th annual International Tourism Fair in Madrid, Spain. That is no surprise to me. I've always considered Cuba to be the safest place in the Americas outside Canada despite the almost laughable accusations of 'sonic attacks' in the U. S. diplomatic staff in Havana. But the wide publicity given to these accusations, together with the State Department warning have reduced U. S. Cuba travel to a trickle...tour operations specializing in Cuba 'people to people' programs report this winter is down about 80 percent. That's a pity because the nation of Cuba being unsafe is bogus."

      The internationally renowned travel expert, Christopher P. Baker, easily challenges the Rubio-orchestrated indecent reversal of President Obama's decent Cuban policy. Baker calls the lie about Cuba being unsafe "a pity" because it cruelly targets innocent Cubans as well as cruelly targeting Americans and Cuban Americans as well as the U. S. democracy by dictating that everyday U. S. citizens are the only people in the world without the freedom to travel to Cuba. That reversal of Obama's decency harms everyone except a few extremists Cuban Americans, and Rubio knows it. Chris Baker understands that but U. S. citizens are bombarded with propaganda from the vast Castro Cottage Industry in the United States that people like Rubio in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood use to build their political and economic nests, and their pathway to Congress. With the Cuban narrative in the U. S. dominated by Cuban extremists, Americans {including the intimidated, mainstream U. S. media} are programmed to ignore true, unbiased experts like Chris Baker and believe every word that proven benefactors and liars, like Rubio, say about Cuba...the Rubio who has never set foot on Cuban soil and who got to Congress from Little Havana still claiming his parents escaped the Castro tyranny in Cuba for the Freedom of Miami when Rubio's parents actually escaped the very brutal Batista tyranny long before the world ever heard of Fidel Castro.

    Sufficiently propagandized Americans are not supposed to complain or even acknowledge how much the photo above mocks the United States democracy to appease a mere handful of Counter Revolutionary extremists in Little Havana, which is U. S. territory in Miami just as occupied Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is a highly controversial U. S. military base and prison. The photo above was taken on June 16, 2017, when President Trump embarrassed Democracy. This photo illustrates why the U. S. Cuban policy was condemned 191-to-0 in a UN vote during the last year of the decent Obama presidency. On June 16-2017 in a plush Little Havana building named for a Bay of Pigs "hero," Trump stood before a huge Bay of Pigs assault banner and promised the few remaining Bay of Pigs veterans that he would reverse Obama's decent Cuban policies and also reverse their smashing defeat in the Bay of Pigs attack in April of 1961. Such utter anti-Democratic gutlessness was accepted by the gutless mainstream U. S. media and by the sufficiently propagandized American people. And if that is not so, perhaps some Cuban expert in Miami could explain why the photo depicted above does not represent sheer and utter anti-Democratic gutlessness.

      The Getty photo above shows an insult to the U. S. democracy earlier this month of January-2018 that, typically, the mainstream U. S. media didn't have either the competence or the courage to report to the American people. On the left is U. S. Senator Robert Menendez alongside U. S. Senator Marco Rubio. They are two extreme Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans, the only kind that can get elected to the U. S. Congress although the majority of Cuban Americans even in Miami support Obama's efforts to normalize relations with Cuba. In this photo this month Rubio was the Chairman and Menendez was the Co-Chairman of a U. S. Senate Foreign Relations and Western Hemisphere Committee hearing designed to brutally assault Cuba based on the "bogus" claim, as depicted by Chris Baker and by even the FBI, related to the "sonic attack" scheme. Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans such as Rubio and Menendez flock to the Foreign Relation and Western Hemisphere committees, of course, because Cuba is a foreign country and in the Western Hemisphere. And like in the 435-member House of Representatives, in the 100-member Senate it is anti-Cuban extremists like Rubio & Menendez who are allowed to dictate Congress's Cuban policy, a policy the world condemns 191-to-0 and a policy that not even decent Presidents like Obama can overcome. Since the 1950s the Cuban Revolution -- which chased the Batistianos-Mafiosi to U. S. soil, has said more about America and its Democracy than it has said about the island of Cuba itself.

  The photo above depicts in the front row Congresswoman Ileana Ros Lehtinen and Senators Marco Rubio & Robert Menendez. They have ample reason to cheer the clearance they have in the 535-member U. S. Congress to self-servingly dictate America's Cuban policy. The Havana-born Ros-Lehtinen has always been aligned in Miami with the most anti-Castro Cubans, even including the infamous Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles. She has been in the U. S. Congress since 1989 when Jeb Bush was her Campaign Manager, denoting the Bush dynasty's mutually beneficial alliance since the 1950s with Cuban American extremists. American citizens are not supposed to question such things, and when Miami's top Cuban-American newsman, Emilio Milian, did so, he got car-bombed. Of course, Americans are also not supposed to Google the name Emilio Milian just as they are not supposed to question Rubio & Menendez as the Chair & Co-Chair of a Senate hearing designed to assault Cuba and, of course, solicit "expert testimony" from famed Counter Revolutionary zealots such as the infamous Otto Reich. Of course, expert testimony from true and unbiased Cuban experts, such as the aforementioned Chris Baker, would not be permitted because of a sharply altered democracy since 1959.

     Although it was surely a big deal this month when Rubio & Menendez were the Chair & Co-Chair of a Senate committee designed to bury Revolutionary Cuba, the fact the mainstream U. S. media was too afraid to report on it is perhaps the biggest insult to a democracy founded in the belief a strong media was essential. That committee session could not have had two more controversial Chairmen. One of America's best and most respected journalists, Ken Silverstein, penned an easily dialed-up and unchallenged article that called Rubio, with massive documentations, "head and shoulders above everyone else" when it came to chicanery and corruption in Washington. And that's a massive statement. The U. S. Government has spent three exhaustive and expensive years investigating and trying to convict Menendez of 18 corruption and bribery charges. In 2017 after an exhausting and expensive 3-month trial in Menendez's backyard of Newark, New Jersey, a hung jury was declared. Still determined, the U. S. Justice Department has announced its intention to retry Menendez. Yet, with no complaints from the mainstream U. S. media nor from propagandized U. S. citizens, Chairman Rubio & Co-Chairman Menendez are typical Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans who are allowed to control America's Cuban narrative and America's Cuban policies.

And by the way:

     This is a very important memorial that neither Americans nor tourists are supposed to take particular notice of in America's capital city of Washington. It concerns a day -- September 21, 1976  -- when two totally decent and productive people were murdered by a car-bomb within sound of the White House. They were Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his beautiful, young American aide Ronnie Moffitt. The memorial engraves the words "Justice-Peace-Dignity" with the images of the two victims as well as the dates of their births and deaths. But neither Orlando nor Ronnie have ever received Justice, Peace, or Dignity. And to this day Americans are not supposed to care enough to even Google why it happened, who was responsible, and did the CIA Director and future President mislead the FBI's investigation to protect the culprits? Did right-wing thugs in the White House who promoted the coup that overthrew and killed the wildly popular democratically elected President of Chile, Allende, to install the murderous U.S.-friendly Pinochet dictatorship for 17 bloody years have anything to do with the infamous car-bombing? And how many anti-Castro Cubans were involved in the car-bombing that murdered two innocent people near the White House on September 21, 1976?

But does any of that matter?

      And speaking of memorials, this one still resonates in Cuba and elsewhere in the Caribbean as well as in Latin American history books, but not in the USA. A few days after the deadly car-bombing near the White House on September 21, 1976, a child-laden civilian Cuban airplane -- Cubana Flight 455 -- was blown into the ocean October 6, 1976 by a terrorist bomb, killing all 73 people on board including two dozen teenage athletes. Within hours, de-classified U. S. documents revealed the U. S. government had quickly pinpointed the culprits. By the way, Luis Posada Carriles will turn 90-years-old in a few days -- on Feb. 6, 2018 -- as a heralded citizen of Miami, Florida!

But does any of that matter?

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Trump Sets Cuba's Doomsday

Mark It Down: February 7th, 2018!!
{Updated: Sunday, January 28th, 2018}

       Even as the Trump administration in Washington has set Cuba's doomsday as February 7th, 2018, as we will explain, U. S. executives were in Havana signing major deals with state-owned Cuban businesses. Guy Henderson, President of U.S.-based Sony ATV Music Publishing, is shown on the right after signing a mega deal on January 24th, 2018 with Mario Angel Escalona Serrano, head of Cuba's Egrem Record Label. Now Sony will distribute the catalog of Cuba's state-run Egrem Music. The U. S. Sony music giant sought and has received the rights to renowned Cuban artists. 

      The Voice of America this week used this Reuters photo to illustrate a major article on the VOA's international platforms to hint that February 7th-2018 is the day the Trump administration has set as the start of its effort to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government. The photo shows a man using a computer in the lobby of a Havana hotel. The VOA article is entitled: "U. S. State Department Creates Cuba Internet Task Force." That Task Force will meet Feb. 7th-2018 in Washington and it is in keeping with a pledge that President Trump made to hard-line Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans in Miami's Little Havana on June 16, 2017. That day Trump stood before Bay of Pigs Assault Banner 2506 and essentially told elderly survivors of the April-1961 military attack on Cuba that he would fulfill their dreams of overthrowing Revolutionary Cuba. The "Cuba Internet Task Force" that holds its first meeting on Feb. 7th-2018 is a culmination of Trump's June 16-2017 promise.

Photo courtesy: Desmond Boylan/Associated Press.

     The same day this week the VOA article appeared, the Miami Herald used the above photo to headline an article entitled: "Trump Administration Wants to Expand Internet Access in Cuba." While that is supposed to be a benign headline in Miami, in Havana it signals the start -- on Feb. 7-2018 -- of the Trump administration's effort to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba. The article, written by anti-Cuban zealot Nora Gamez Torres, stated: "As part of President Trump's Cuba policy, as outlined in its June presidential memorandum, the Department of State has created the Cuba Internal Task Force." Not surprisingly, the Miami Herald article said that Miami's lushly funded Radio-TV Marti anti-Cuban propaganda vehicle will be a part of that Task Force when it meets on Feb. 7-2018 in Washington. It is presumed that other fierce Counter Revolutionary forces from Miami will also dominate that Task Force meeting.

      Anti-Cuban zealot Nora Gamez Torres wrote this week's celebratory article in the Miami Herald about the upcoming Feb. 7-2018 Cuban Task Force meeting in Washington that supposedly will begin Cuba's long-awaited doomsday. But such celebrations since 1959 in Miami have been premature and overly optimistic, so this one too might prove more humiliating to the Batistianos in Miami than to Cuba.

     When Obama was the U. S. President, Internet giant Google opened the above Technology Center in Havana on March 21, 2016. This proved that Cuba wanted to expand and improve Internet service on the island...at least when it trusted the U. S. when Obama was President. But Cuba in 2018 doesn't trust the U. S. with Trump in power and therefore Cuba believes the Feb. 7th-2018 Cuba Internet Task Force in Washington is designed to "destabilize" the island's sovereignty and security.

    The photo above shows President Trump displaying that memorandum he signed on June 16-2017 in Little Havana before a choir of vicious Counter Revolutionaries in Miami. Cheering the presidential action was, on the far left, Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart whose father was a key Minister in Cuba's Batista-Mafia dictatorship. Third from the right is Senator Marco Rubio, another flagrant Miami anti-Cuban extremist.

     In a drastic but expected departure from the decent Obama presidency, on June 16th, 2017, President Donald Trump made the above speech in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood standing before a huge Assault Banner of the Brigade 2506 that attacked Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in April of 1961. Only a handful of those failed attackers are still living but Trump, tossing democracy into the trashcan, promised them he would make up for their humiliating defeat from six decades ago. As Trump made that promise, all the nations in the UN had voted 191-to-0 to condemn the Bastistiano-driven U. S. Cuban policy. In fact, polls show most Cuban-Americans in Miami favor Obama-like normal relations with Cuba. But the weakness of America's two-party political system for decades has been crystallized by the USA's effort since 1959 to recapture Cuba for a few Batistiano-Mafiosi extremists. When the Democratic Party is in control of the White House, democracy is generally respected regarding Cuba. But when the Republican Party controls the White House it is like putting Batistiano-Mafiosi boss Lucky Luciano in charge of America's Cuban policies. And for six decades, two generations of gutless Americans have allowed this assault on their democracy to persist without even a modicum of embarrassment that the USA Cuban policy is the only topic that could possibly get a 191-to-ZERO condemnation in a very diverse world. Reversing the decency of Democratic President Obama, Republican President Trump, as shown above, turned America's Cuban policy back over to a mere handful of vicious, self-serving Counter Revolutionaries in Miami's Little Havana and, in today's milieu, if that Cuban Task Force that meets in Washington on Feb. 7-2018 decides to nuke 11.4 million innocent Cubans neither the United States media nor this generation of United States citizens would likely have the guts to object.

     The anointment of former Brigade 2506 soldier Jorge Mas Canosa as America's Cuban dictator by the Bush dynasty soon made Canosa a Miami billionaire and the architect of such Counter Revolutionary things as...the Cuban American National Foundation, the Helms-Burton Act, Radio-TV Marti, etc. Yet, even with unchecked U. S. Cuban dictators during all Republican administrations, Cuba somehow has managed to maintain its hard-earned sovereignty except for its inability to regain control of Guantanamo Bay, which has been a controversial U. S. Naval Base since 1903.

      One of the many lucrative enterprises created by the Bush-anointed Canosa was Radio-TV Marti that has, everyday since the 1980s, sucked untold millions-and-MILLIONS of tax dollars in a steady pipeline from Washington to Miami. It is supposed to be an anti-Castro propaganda machine that will cause the Cuban people to rise up and overthrow their government but, first-off, it is just a cash-cow for hard-line Cubans in Miami. Decades ago ABC-News had a famous report entitled "The Broadcast to Nowhere" that explained, despite sucking up hundreds of millions of tax dollars even then, the broadcasts were easily blocked by Cuba and, in any case, Cubans would consider it slanted propaganda from a foreign enemy. YET to this day tax dollars flow to Miami for Radio-TV Marti and, not surprisingly, Radio-TV Marti has reportedly been added to the Feb. 9-2018 Cuban Task Force in Washington, along with similarly motivated entities, that will supposedly commence the Trump effort to reshape Havana solely in Little Havana's extremist image. 

     For all intents and purposes, Miami's Senator Marco Rubio has been anointed by Trump to be America's latest Cuban dictator, the same Marco Rubio that candidate Trump mocked as "Little Marco" during the 2016 Republican primary. 

    Meanwhile, Cuba is busy preparing for a new President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, who will officially take office in April, 2018, with the retirement of 86-year-old Raul Castro. Diaz-Canel will be the first non-Castro to lead Cuba since 1959 and he also will be the first Cuban leader born since the triumph of the Revolution. A teacher, he rose from the ranks in Villa Clara and Holguin Provinces far from Havana but became Cuba's Minister of Education, a priority still dear to him. Popular on the island with everyday Cubans, he is known as a huge fan of the Beatles and motorcycles. But as First Vice President he has traveled widely to meet world leaders. Also, Diaz-Canel is considered less likely than Raul Castro, who teamed with President Obama to try to normalize relations with the U. S., to "bend over backwards to accommodate America," as one key Diaz-Canel observer recently articulated. Instead, since Trump replaced Obama, Diaz-Canel has stressed acutely improving relations with three particular forces -- the European Union, China, and Russia. And those efforts in January-2018 are already showing up on the streets of Havana.

     In the very first week of January-2018, Federica Mogherini, the powerful High Administrator of the 28-nation European Union, paid an ultra-friendly and productive visit to Cuba. She is known to be impressed with Cuba's next President Miguel Diaz-Canel. At a news conference in Havana, Mogherini said, "The U. S. blockade of Cuba is self-defeating, cruel, and illegal." She wants the EU nations to make up for the U. S. embargo and for the diminished trade Cuba had with now crisis-wracked Venezuela.

Cuba's important EU friend.

      The powerful EU leader Federica Mogherini joins the unanimity of world opinion that condemns the cruelty and illegality of the U. S. embargo/blockade against Cuba.

     A huge plus for Cuba is Miguel Diaz-Canel's close friendship with the EU's ultra-powerful Federica Mogherini. She is excited about Miguel Diaz-Canel leading Cuba.

Diaz-Canel is a friend of China's President Zi.

      But President Putin of Russia is courting Cuba's next leader, Miguel Diaz-Canel, every bit as anxiously as the EU and China. Diaz-Canel believes, "We have spent, I believe, too much time hoping for friendship with the United States at the expense of cultivating better friendship with our friends who accept our nation's sovereignty."

    Quite significantly this month -- on January 17th, 2018 -- Gerardo Penalver became Cuba's Ambassador to Russia. Penalver had been Cuba's important Director General of Domestic Affairs but Diaz-Canel wanted him to be the island's top man in Moscow.

     Positioning a key Cuban, Gerardo Penalver, as Cuba's new Ambassador to Russia provides a window into how Miguel Diaz-Balart plans to rule Cuba in the Trump era.

     This photo reveals how Russia is trying to take advantage of the Trump-Rubio belligerency towards Cuba. That's a 2018 Russian Lada auto driving past the Russian embassy in Havana this week. Following a Russian delivery of oil to Cuba, this week a Russian ship delivered 344 new Lada cars to Cuba. Russia's top auto dealer, AvtoVAZ, believes it now produces quality cars that deserve international exposure and it now believes its strong presence in Cuba will advertise that fact.

      Many of the 344 newly arrived {on January 19th, 2018} Lada cars from Russia have already been added to Cuba's taxi fleet, like the four shown here. Luis Diaz Hernandez, the head of Taxis Cuba, beamed this week, "These new Lada cars have greatly bolstered the island's capacity to serve its citizens and the tourists. These Russian cars are world-class." Cuba, when Obama was President, hoped such trade would be with the nearby U. S. but, with Trump as President, Cuba's next leader, Miguel Diaz-Canel, has already helped orchestrate important oil and automobile deals with Russia as well as sign key trade agreements with the EU.

      And so, as Cuba prepares to transition to a Fidel Castro-loving but non-Castro leader born after the triumph of the Revolution, President Trump's Feb. 7-2018 Cuban Task Force meeting in Washington may or may not be the beginning of doomsday for Revolutionary Cuba, as Trump seems to have promised Miami extremists. After all, the pugnacious island has survived NUMEROUS predicted doomsdays since 1959.

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Cuban-American Extremists vs. Democracy

A 60-Year Quest to Recapture Cuba!!

And a 60-Year Insult to Democracy!
{Updated: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018}

      One of America's greatest experts regarding Cuba and U.S.-Cuban relations is Philip Peters. He was a State Department official in the Batistiano-loving/Cuba-hating George H. W. Bush administration. He is Vice President of the Lexington Institute. He is a highly respected author-writer and in 2007 he started the blog The Cuban Triangle to explain the tenuous tentacles that connect Havana, Miami, and Washington. His very first post on his blog, by the way, was entitled: "What Next for Posada?" Luis Posada Carriles, of course, is the most famous/infamous Cuban-American terrorist whose imprint on U.S.-Cuban relations from 1959 till today remains one...but just one...of the greatest insults to the U. S. democracy. {Posada turns 90 on Feb. 15th and remains today a very heralded citizen of Miami}. The current Philip Peters essay on his The Cuban Triangle blog is entitled: "The Havana Health Mystery." Within the bowels of that topical headline, Philip Peters expertly and fairly discusses the latest pretext for self-serving Cuban-American extremists who are presently led, as Mr. Peters points out, by Miami's Counter-Revolutionary contribution to the U. S. Senate, Marco Rubio. Of course, because Philip Peters' current update on "The Havana Health Mystery" is fair and balanced, Americans are not supposed to read it because it contradicts Rubio's propaganda. And that, unfortunately, is the way a few self-serving Cuban-Americans extremists have dominated America's Cuban policy for the past 60 years...or ever since they were booted off the island by an historic phenomenon known as the Cuban Revolution, which has affected the U. S. even more than it has affected the sovereign and neighboring island of Cuba.

     Nevertheless, I believe it is important that brave, democracy-loving Americans read and study the current essay posted on Philip Peters' The Cuban Triangle blog. His expertise examines the present pretext that right-wing extremists like Rubio are using as their latest reason -- the alleged "sonic attacks on Americans in Cuba" -- to implore the Superpower U. S. government to recapture Cuba for them. The previous 60 years, as Mr. Peters references, included the criminally hatched but long-classified OPERATION MONGOOSE and Operation Northwoods. "Mongoose" was the record-setting and government-funded assassination attempts against Fidel Castro and "Northwoods" was the even more infamous plan to murder innocent Americans so the murders could be blamed on Cuba. Of course, proselytized Americans still are not suppose to Google those two schemes even though they have been de-classified since the 1990s. Likewise, Americans today are not supposed to dial up Philip Peters' fair and expert appraisal of Rubio's current pretext -- the "sonic attacks" -- because Peters expertly challenges Rubio's latest excuse to assault, nuke, or otherwise attack Revolutionary Cuba. But just for the record, here are some of the highlights of Philip Peters' "The Havana Health Mystery" article:

                               "This is a doozy even in the context of U.S.-Cuba relations. Within weeks Senator Rubio was urging the Secretary of State..."

                  That preamble by Peters referenced Rubio's efforts to use the "alleged sonic attacks" as the Mongoose/Northwoods-type excuses to assault Cuba. Peters continued with these factual refutations of Rubio's pretext:

                                   "The shorthand for what happened in Havana quickly became 'sonic attacks' even though there is no evidence of attacks, sonic or otherwise. What we really have is a health mystery that has confounded U. S., Canadian, and Cuban investigations. The FBI, after sending four experts and their equipment four times to Havana, has concluded that there is no evidence of a sonic attack. But you have to hand it to Rubio and his allies: Sonic attacks is quite a branding triumph without having to argue the merits of diplomatic relations with Cuba. They scored a substantial policy victory that has hobbled diplomatic relations. Senator Rubio was quite sure that no one from Miami could be involved."

             With those comments, Philip Peters was referencing the fact that Rubio and his ilk also are "quite sure that no one from Miami" could possibly have been involved in the terrorist bombing of the civilian, child-laden Cuban airplane that sent 73 innocent souls into the ocean and, of course, Rubio is also "quite sure that no one from Miami" had anything to do with the terrorist car-bombing of the decent and brave Cuban-American newsman in Miami who broadcast opposition to such terrorism. Moreover, even today Americans are not supposed to Google facts about such things as the Miami-based airplane bombing of CUBANA FLIGHT 455 or the car-bombing of EMILIO MILIAN, further evidence that the Cuban Revolution says a lot more about the U. S. than it says about Cuba itself. And Philip Peters astutely suggested that January of 2018 is a particularly crucial time for the U. S. to leave its dastardly Cuban policy in the hands of a handful of self-serving extremists like Rubio. Peters put it this way:

                             "Cuba is about to go through a leadership transition and the uncertainly that will come with a government that, for the first time in 60 years, is not led by a Castro."

          But such sane, decent, and accurate words from an expert like Philip Peters are not supposed to factor into the U. S. democracy's Cuban policy, one dictated by extremists like Rubio and one that is condemned in total unanimity by a 191-to-0 vote in the United Nations when not even the Obama administration could support it. But in the Trump era in the past year, the unanimity of world opinion and the majority opinions of Americans and Cuban-Americans are not supposed to count but the anti-American/anti-democracy opinions of Marco Rubio are supposed to count.

     The decent Obama has been out of the White House just over a year. In defiance of a Batistiano-controlled Congress, Obama's Cuban policies were approved by most Americans, most Cuban-Americans and the entire world. But, as indicated above, Rubio from Miami and the U. S. Senate, with self-serving idiocy from his fire-spewing mouth, opposed Obama's Cuban decency that was probably the only topic in the world that could have attained unanimous support in a very diverse world.

    And that brings us up-to-date with this photo of Senator Marco Rubio in January of 2018. It was taken on Jan. 9-2018 when Rubio chaired an anti-Cuban session of the Senate Foreign Relations and Western Hemisphere Committee. Only anti-Cuba Cuban-American zealots, it seems, can get elected to the United States Congress from Miami and Newark, and they immediately apply for Foreign Relations & Western Hemisphere Committees and therefore such anti-Cuban zealots as Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Robert Menendez, and now Rubio have chaired such committees so they can better assault Cuba, a foreign nation in the Western Hemisphere. Thus, on January 9th, 2018, Rubio chaired the Senate's latest massive anti-Cuban boondoggle, using the "sonic attacks" that Philip Peters fairly addressed as the new Mongoose & Northwest-type pretext to defeat the Cuban Revolution once-and-for-all to...WHAT? Restore the Batistiano-Mafiosi rule??

         IINCREDIBLY, within the bowels of the great American democracy, that Jan. 9th-2018 U. S. Senate assault on Cuba was chaired by Marco Rubio and co-chaired by Bob Menendez. They are not only the two most anti-Cuban Cuban-Americans in the U. S. Senate, they are easily the two most controversial U. S. Senators. Rubio reached the U. S. Senate from Miami with his bio still claiming that his parents fled the tyranny of Castro's Cuba while, in fact, they fled the tyranny of Batista's Cuba LONG BEFORE Americans ever head of Fidel Castro. The best true biographical update on Rubio is by Ken Silverstein, one of America's greatest and most respected journalists. Americans are not supposed to Google Silverstein's easily dialed-up and in-depth Rubio bio because Silverstein minutely documents Rubio as "head and shoulders above everyone else" when it comes to chicanery and corruption in Washington and that says quite a lot. As for Rubio's Cuban-American co-chair in that U. S. Senate Jan. 9-2018 assault on Cuba, Menendez after a bruising 3-month trial in 2017 was bailed out by a hung-jury that failed to convict him on any of the 18 felony charges expensively prosecuted by the U. S. Justice Department after 3 long and expensive years of investigating the Menendez shenanigans with a convicted Miami felon and multi-millionaire. Yet, in this month of January-2018 the U. S. Justice department has announced it will ONCE AGAIN try to convict Menendez in yet another federal courthouse although trying to convict a high-profile Cuban-American in Miami or Newark courts is an almost impossible task. AND YET, Americans still tolerate Rubio & Menendez as the Chair and co-Chair of this month's farcical U. S. Senate assault on Cuba, an assault in which Chairman Marco Rubio and Co-Chairman Bob Menendez punctuated the farce with "testimony" from the most radical anti-Cuban propagandists such as the infamous Havana-born benefactor Otto Reich.

     In a review of the 60-year Cuban-exile extremists assault on Cuba, I invite democracy-loving Americans to dial up Ken Silverstein's unchallenged and lushly documented article that details why Rubio is "heads and shoulders above everyone else" when it comes to chicanery and corruption in Washington political circles.

       While the controversial Rubio chaired that Jan.9-2018 anti-Cuban farce in the Senate, the co-chair was Robert Menendez. Yes, the Robert Menendez that the FBI and the U. S. Justice department for three years has been trying to convict on multiple corruption and bribery charges as delineated above. In 2017 after a 3-month trial in federal court in his backyard in Newark, Menendez was bailed out by a hung-jury. But in January of 2018 the U. S. government announced it will not give up in trying to prosecute Menendez, meaning the expensive attempt is still ongoing.

      The farcical anti-democracy United States Senate assault this month on Cuba -- incredibly Chaired by Marco Rubio and co-Chaired by Robert Menendez -- was highlighted by the "EXPERT TESTIMONY" of Otto Reich. Born in Havana 72 years ago, Otto Reich epitomizes the extreme favor Fidel Castro in January of 1959 bestowed on exiles like Reich when the Cuban Revolution chased the Batista-Mafia leaders off the island to U. S. soil. As Cuban-American billionaires like the Bush-anointed Jorge Mas Canosa and like the politically savvy Fanjul brothers quickly learned, getting extremely rich being anti-Castro in the U. S. even beat getting rich being aligned with the Batista-Mafia leaders in Cuba back in the 1950s. After all, fleecing an island is not nearly as lucrative as fleecing the world's economic Superpower, which has proved to be quite easy with the proper political connections. Otto Reich as a Bush prodigy in the U. S. has personified that basic fact for decades and no one knows better than Reich how rewarding anti-Castro propaganda can be in the United States...EVEN AFTER THE DEATH OF FIDEL CASTRO AT AGE 90 ON NOV. 25-2016. And so...on Jan. 9th, 2018 the two anti-Castro CO-CHAIRS IN THE U. S. SENATE, Rubio and Menendez, naturally called on the "EXPERT TESTIMONY" of Otto Reich.

     From 1959 till today, the only trick the anti-Castro extremists in the U. S. needed to know was to hook-up with the Bush dynasty and that started in the 1950s long before 3 Bush presidential terms and 2 Bush terms as Florida's governor. Canosa was the all-time most important BUSH POINT MAN but, as indicated above, Otto Reich earned that moniker too.

    Somewhere in the last 60 years, America 's democracy-lovers deserved for such things as the Otto Reich alliance with the Bush dynasty to have been ferreted out and corrected. But the Rubio-Menendez-Reich menagerie playing out in the U. S. Senate on January 9th-2018 proves that such an alliance is still to this day far too lucrative for far too many in the United States.

     While Marco Rubio insults democracy by claiming his War on Cuba is designed to hurt "the Castros," every intelligent observer with even a modicum of guts fully realizes that Rubio and his ilk primarily hurt totally innocent everyday Cubans like the lady vendor depicted above. Rich thugs in a nearby rich nation hurting non-rich people in a weaker nation. Self-serving miscreants in the USA have gotten away with that for 60 years.

   While the mainstream U. S. media, for whatever reasons {the Emilio Milian car-bombing?}, still promotes Rubio as a Mother Teresa-like saint, his hometown paper, the Miami Herald, has had recent Editorials saying he is "out of touch," apparently with everything except assaulting Cubans on the island, promoting himself, and catering to right-wing billionaire donors. The Miami Herald, see above, provided an entire article for four female Cuban entrepreneurs to rant their outrage at Rubio, calling him a coward for at least not bothering to listen to them or meet with them to learn how much he is hurting not the Castros but everyday Cubans who had benefited from openings provided by former President Obama, openings that Rubio is determined to squash with headwinds provided by President Trump. The Miami Herald Editorial Board obviously agreed with the four female Cuban entrepreneurs, not with their own "out of touch" Rubio.

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