Dissidents Assail Cuba in Peru

Cubans React Against "Mercernaries"
{Friday, April 13th, 2018}

     As this Roberto Suarez photo taken today in Peru indicates, Cuba has a strong, pro-Revolutionary contingent at this week's Summit of the Americas. They are shown demonstrating fervently but not violently against vicious assaults on Revolutionary Cuba by well-prepared and supposedly well-funded dissidents. The loud barrage of pro-Cubans above include those in the back top row holding up placards accusing the anti-Cuban forces of being "mercenaries" backed by "unlimited amounts of USA dollars or by pesos and other currencies converted from ugly Yankee dollars."

     The exchanges between the pro-Cubans and the anti-Cuban dissidents-"mercenaries" have evolved into furiously heated rhetoric for the past two days. One Cuban reaction was: "Use USA nukes and finally overthrow our revolution and those of us still alive will begin a Fidel-like Revolutionary War that he would be proud of."

       This selfie taken by Roberto Suarez shows helmeted and heavily armed Peruvian police trying to keep peace today at the Summit of the Americas in Lima.

      The Cuban dissidents in Peru this week are being powerfully supported by well-known Latin American anti-Cuba/pro-USA politicians, a virtual potpourri of the Usual Suspects. The photo above shows the former Mayor of Caracas, Venezuela -- Antonio Ledezma -- warmly greeting Cuba's globe-trotting dissident Rosa Maria Paya.

     Above is Cuban dissident Rosa Maria Paya at the microphone in Lima vehemently denouncing Revolutionary Cuba. The frowning, high-profile pro-capitalist politician supporting her is Miguel Angel Rodriguez, the former President of Costa Rica.

     All of the big-name Cuban dissidents, such as the ones in Lima this week, readily show up in the U. S. Congress in easy quest of financial and political support against Cuba. The photo above shows Rosa Maria Paya holding court with four sycophants. Just to her right is Senator Marco Rubio, President Trump's choice as America's new Cuban dictator. On the far left is Senator Robert Menendez. With friends like that in the U. S. Congress, Cuban dissidents basically get whatever they need or want.

   This is vehement Cuban dissident Rosa Maria Paya addressing a Foreign Relations Subcommittee in the United States Congress. If there are ten prime dissidents on the island of Cuba, they all are welcome to spread such anti-Cuban venom in the hallowed halls of Congress. But millions of Cubans on the island who might fervently support the Revolution would be shunned and condemned in the U. S. Congress.

        OF COURSE, if you are a big-name Cuban dissident, you surely can't wait to GET TO MIAMI to bolster your wherewithal to assail Cuba. The photo above shows Rosa Maria Paya happily spewing her anti-Revolutionary venom in Miami, the same Rosa Maria Paya who is doing the same in Peru this week at the Summit of the Americas.

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Cuba Strong At Americas' Summit

The USA...NOT SO MUCH!!
{Thursday, April 12th, 2018}

       At the Summit of the Americas this week, as chronicled by Cuba's superstar photographer Roberto Suarez, Cubans are prominent and supported in Lima, Peru.

  Sessions at the Summit are well-attended.

       Photographer Roberto Suarez Wednesday got stuck in a traffic jam in Lima, Peru. For the folks back in Cuba, Roberto tagged this photo: "El trafico es tremendo."

      With their Cubana Airlines plane in the background, Cubans showed their fervent support for their island upon arriving in Lima, Peru on Sunday, April 8, 2018, for this week's 8th Summit of the Americas. The Lima photos are by Cuba's Roberto Suarez. 

     Cuba's dedicated, hard-working radio & television news outlets are lavishly covering this week's 8th Summit of the Americas being held in Peru. The photo above shows a live broadcast on Cubadebate TV with journalist Anisley Torres, in the upper-right wearing a "Our America" t-shirt, just prior to her excellent update from Peru.

     Earlier this week the Miami Herald had a major article entitled: "A Trump-Castro Encounter May Steal The Show At The Summit of the Americas." But Tuesday, April 10-2018, U. S. President Donald Trump canceled his scheduled trip to Peru for the Summit of the Americas. His office cited his impending military attack on Syria but domestically Trump is also reeling from the FBI's breaking into his lawyer's office using a warrant seeking possible criminal information. So, no Trump "encounter."

But Cuba is well represented in Peru.

       The large Cuban journalistic contingent in Lima, Peru this week includes Superstar television anchor Cristina Escobar...that's her in the Center...and Superstar photographer Roberto Suarez, who took this selfie as he sat in front of Cristina.

    This is Cristina Escobar today preparing a live report back to Cuba on the Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru. Speaking in Spanish or English, many...and I'm one of the them...consider Cristina the best broadcast journalist in the Western Hemisphere.

      This is Cuba's Superstar broadcast journalist Cristina Escobar in a crowded Press Room at the Summit of the Americas today in Peru. In the upper-left is Rosa Miriam Elizalde, one of the all-time most influential Cuban journalists and educators.

  Young-adult Cubans in Lima, Peru.

Young Cubans singing in Lima, Peru.

Cuba cheered today in Lima, Peru.

And so was the Cuban Revolution.

     At the Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru, music-loving Cubans headline the festivities amid the seriousness of the important regional event. Even with America's embattled President Trump bowing out, twenty Latin American presidents are expected to be on hand for the final two days of the Summit this coming weekend.

Meanwhile, back in Cuba:

      This photo is courtesy of Adweek/Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. Looking wistfully out to sea near sunset in Havana is a talented Cuban actress-dancer named Gabriela. With strong support, she aspires to be the National Ballet's first black prima ballerina.

This is Gabriela Lugo Moreno.

{Photo courtesy of Mary Jane Doherty}

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U. S. CEOs Love Cuba

In the Awesome Age of Trump!!

    The President of the Miami-based Carnival Cruise Line is Christine Duffy. Like almost all of the top American business executives even in Miami, Christine Duffy loves Cuba and she especially admires the business opportunities the nearby island represents for Miami and for America. Ms. Duffy has announced huge additions to Carnival's already prominent number of cruises to Cuba. In a USA Today article on April 9-2018 written by Gene Sloan, she said, "Our Cuba cruises have been met with phenomenal guest response since we first began sailing to the island last year."

      From its huge and classic fleet, Carnival's Paradise is a Miami-based 2,052-passenger gem that is finding success sailing to Cuba despite a Republican Trump, not the Democrat Obama, being the President of the United States. USA Today's Monday, April 9th article included this Cuban update: "Carnival, the Miami-based cruise giant, on Friday unveiled plans for 20 voyages to the island nation in 2019 out of Tampa on the 2,052-passenger Carnival Paradise. These sailings are in addition to 17 voyages to Cuba out of Miami that Carnival recently announced for 2019."

   MEANWHILE, there are a few ultra-powerful people in Washington who are famously and revengefully determined to overthrow the Cuban Revolution, AFTER ALL THESE DECADES. That includes, left to right above, America's new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump, and #1 National Security Adviser John Bolton. Yesterday -- April 9th -- marked Bolton's very first day as Trump's very dangerous top Security Adviser in a era when Cuba is a zero threat to the U. S. in a world in which there are INDEED real national security threats to America. But Bolton, perhaps the most dangerous current product from the Bush dynasty, once accused Cuba of having weapons of mass destruction apparently as a pretext to attack the island. As a U. S. Congressman, Pompeo was just as outrageous regarding Cuba. And based on his choirboy speech in Miami's Little Havana, Trump as President and Commander-in-Chief made a chilling promise to the few remaining veterans of the 1961 Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba. America has only a two-party political system and since the 1950s the Republican Party has been tightly aligned with the extremists Batistiano-Mafiosi rulers in Cuba and exiles in the United States. All the while, most Americans like Christine Duffy, the President of Miami-based Carnival Cruise Line, have sanely and decently advocated honest engagement with Cuba. And so, in April of 2018 with Republicans Trump, Pompeo, and Bolton in Washington, the distortion of America's democracy when it comes to Cuba is back in high gear in the post-Obama era.

Yet, Cuba's sovereign flag still waves. 

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A Big Week Ahead for Cuba

At the Summit of the Americas!!
{Monday, April 9th, 2018}

First two photos courtesy of: Roberto Saurez.

   The photo above shows a large and enthusiastic contingent of Cubans arriving yesterday {Sunday, April 8th, 2018} in Lima, Peru. They are there for this week's Summit of the Americas conferences. Cuba has often dismissed the Summit of the Americas for being overly dominated by the United States.

    With their Cuban Airlines plane in the background, the Cubans were still enthused about representing their island. The Summit of the Americas in Lima this week will also have a strong contingent from the anti-Cuban USA Trump administration, with Presidents Castro and Trump both invited.

     This 8th Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru will have meetings starting today -- Monday, April 9th, 2018 -- but the main sessions will take place Friday & Saturday, April 13th & 14th. Twenty Presidents have confirmed their participation. A major headline Sunday in the Miami Herald had this title: "A Trump-Castro Encounter May Steal the Show at the Summit of the Americas." The article was written by the Miami Herald's long-established Counter Revolutionary Andres Oppenheimer, so understand it's anti-Cuba from start to finish.

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Cuba-US: What Might Have Been

{Perhaps} The End of the World!!
{Monday, April 9th, 2018}

    The map above is a vivid reminder that contentious U.S.-Cuban relations in October of 1962 could have ended the world as we knew it then and as we know it now. This map is now being put up for sale by a Boston-based company. Why? It was authenticated by the U. S. Secretary of Defense in 1962, Robert McNamara, that this is the map President John Kennedy "pored over" as his top Generals were unanimously urging him to make a devastating nuclear attack on Cuba during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. That event to this day remains the closest the world has come to a nuclear holocaust. After painstakingly studying this map, President Kennedy bravely and sanely decided not to attack Cuba but instead worked out a much-needed diplomatic solution with the Soviet Union to remove that nation's nuclear missiles from Cuba. At the time...like today with the USA and Russia...in 1962 both the U. S. and the Soviet Union each had enough nuclear weapons to destroy the entire world.

      The incredibly "secret" but historically significant data above -- dated "October 27, 1962" -- was also carefully studied by President Kennedy as later confirmed by his Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Many of the right-wing holdovers from the Eisenhower administration were heatedly urging Kennedy on Oct. 27-1962 to annihilate Cuba with a nuclear attack but the more decent and far-more-intelligent Kennedy refused because he knew the Soviet Union could and would retaliate.

     On Saturday, Oct. 27th, 1962 -- while five top Generals were begging President Kennedy to make a nuclear strike on Cuba, word reached the White House in Washington that a U-2 Spy Plane, supposedly flying over Cuba much too high to be shot down, was in fact shot down, killing the U. S. pilot from Alabama. Still, President Kennedy defied his Generals and refused to engage the Soviet Union in a nuclear war.

  U. S. U-2 Spy plane shot down in Cuba.

     The U-2 pilot killed on Cuban soil on October 27, 1962 was Air Force Major Rudy Anderson from Alabama. The incident caused the top U. S. Generals, led by Curtis LeMay and Lyman Lemnitzer, to go ballistic in berating President Kennedy to launch an all-out nuclear attack on Cuba. The world survived because Kennedy refused.

Cuban Missile Crisis historic facts.

More Cuban Missile Crisis facts.

     The photo above shows four top U. S. generals, in the Oval Office at the White House, begging President John Kennedy to attack Cuba with America's nuclear missiles. The general closest to Kennedy above is Curtis LeMay. In this first week of April, 2018, CNN has aired a 4-part series entitled: "American Dynasties: The Kennedys." The CNN documentary relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis includes chilling audio recordings of LeMay, the World War II hero, brow-beating President Kennedy in an attempt to goad him into attacking Cuba with nuclear weapons.

     This photo shows President John Kennedy with General Curtis LeMay ominously at Kennedy's left shoulder. If the Democrat Kennedy had not bravely and brilliantly resisted right-wingers that his presidency inherited in 1960 from the Republican Eisenhower administration, the whole world may have been devastated during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. In January of 1960 Kennedy had inherited the firm plans for the April-1961 Bay of Pigs military attack on Cuba; Kennedy had also inherited massive CIA-Cuban exile-Mafia plans to assassinate Fidel Castro; and Kennedy had also inherited Operation Northwoods, which was a unanimous plan concocted by General Lyman Lemnitzer and his entire Joint Chiefs of Staff to murder innocent Americans and create havoc on U. S. streets and blame it on Cuba so as to create a pretext for an all-out military attack on Cuba. President Kennedy, except for Operation Northwoods, initially carried through on such diabolical plans he inherited from Eisenhower right-wing thugs, many of whom had, back in 1952, teamed the U. S. democracy with the Mafia to support the brutal, thieving Batista dictatorship in Cuba, an American tactic that spawned the Cuban Revolution. But by October of 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the young President Kennedy believed the powerful right-wing thugs were more anti-American than Revolutionary Cuba. FAMOUSLY, as confirmed by renowned Kennedy aides Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Pierre Salinger, an exasperated President Kennedy one day in the White House screamed, "If I could I would blow the CIA to smithereens!!" But shortly, just as he was emerging as perhaps America's greatest President, John Kennedy was murdered on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. The week before leaving for Dallas President Kennedy had told his top aides, including Schlesinger and Salinger, that his "top priority" upon returning from Dallas would be "to normalize relations with Cuba." But he returned in a casket.

      Into the last seconds of his life in Dallas on Nov. 22-1963 John Kennedy, despite the right-wing thugs he had inherited, was emerging as a truly great U. S. President and world leader, one who had just decided to normalize relations with Cuba. Such new-found greatness, however, earned him some powerful and deadly enemies.

      And now today in APRIL OF 2018 the above map going on sale in Boston confirms the greatness of President John Kennedy in October of 1962. His generals presented the map to him to show the prime areas in Cuba they were going to attack with their nuclear weapons. The only man that prevented that from happening...and thus prevented the Soviet Union's nuclear response...was President Kennedy. So, this map is historically important because it shows how President Kennedy perhaps saved the world from annihilation. He's gotten credit for that, but not enough credit. By the same token, the right-wing thugs he inherited from the Eisenhower administration have never received the condemnation they so rightly deserve.

      And that October-1962 map that is now on sale in Boston...along with siccing the Mafia on Cuba in 1952 and other such egregious acts...is precisely why the Cuban Revolution from 1952 till 1959 and to this very day says a helluva lot more about the superpower United States than it says about the island of Cuba. And what it says is this: The U. S. needs a great President in 2018 to combat militant war-mongers.

      In April of 2018 Americans, I believe, should understand the meaning of the above photo-montage. It shows President Donald Trump flanked by John Bolton on the left and Mike Pompeo on the right. In recent days Trump has appointed Bolton as his top National Security Adviser and Pompeo as his omnipotent Secretary of State. Both Bolton and Pompeo are renowned right-wing thugs who have advocated overthrowing Revolutionary Cuba, among other foreign objectives. Donald Trump is no John Kennedy. And that's an American crisis confirmed by Bolton and Pompeo.

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