3.5.18

Fidel's Tragic Love Story

Was With A U. S. Journalist!!
{Sunday, May 6th, 2018
     Anyone...and I do mean ANYONE...who has seriously studied U.S.-Cuban relations since the 1950s is well aware that Americans have been fed a continuous passel of lies -- from the U. S. government, from vicious Batistianos who fled the Cuban Revolution, and from an intimidated U. S. media. In fact, if Americans are unfamiliar with America's greatest investigative journalist, Peter Kornbluh, it is safe to assume they know practically nothing truthful about U.S.-Cuban relations since the 1950s. Kornbluh, among his exhaustive research, has unveiled troves of de-classified U. S. documents that reveal vitally important and extremely fascinating U.S.-Cuban facts. One of them -- Fidel Castro's massive love affair with powerful U. S. journalist Lisa Howard -- is illustrated above. Note on the lower-left that Kornbluh's revelations are buttressed by de-classified U. S. documents. The graphic above, newly spotlighted by Politico Magazine, illustrated a massive NEW essay that details the Fidel-Lisa love affair that "reshaped the Cold War" and, as many believe, factored into President Kennedy's assassination on Feb. 22-1963 and quite possibly led to Lisa's death at age 39 on July 4th, 1965. Incredible history.
     Thus, Peter Kornbluh's new documentation is an absolute must read and is entitled: "MY DEAREST FIDEL: AN ABC JOURNALIST'S SECRET LIAISON WITH FIDEL CASTRO -- The Untold Story of How Lisa Howard's Intimate Diplomacy With Cuba's Revolutionary Leader Changed the Course of the Cold War." In addition to being a great journalist-historian with impeccable credentials, Peter Kornbluh is a national treasure in the United States at the U. S. National Security Archive in Washington.
When he speaks, other historians listen.
    As an investigative journalist, author, and Cuban expert, Peter Kornbluh is nonpareil. Here is his very first paragraph about the Fidel-Lisa love affair:
                "Lisa Howard had been waiting for more than two hours in a suite at the Hotel Riviera, enough time to bathe, dress and apply makeup, then take it all off to get ready for bed when she thought he wasn't coming. But at 11:30 P. M. on that night in Havana -- February 2, 1964 -- Howard, an American correspondent with ABC News, finally heard a knock at the door. She opened it and saw the man she had been waiting for: Fidel Castro, the 37-year-old leader of the Cuban Revolution and one of America's leading Cold War antagonists."
     Titillatingly beautiful, Lisa Howard had been a successful movie and TV actress but had dreamed of being a journalist. She quit acting and started with the top radio network, Mutual Broadcasting, and quickly proved her mettle. She was hired by ABC News, then one of three television networks. She quickly zoomed to the forefront of television news in the U. S., but that ascendance coincided with learning some facts about U. S. relations with Cuba. She believed that right-wing Mafia extremists ousted from the Batista dictatorship were allied with right-wing politicians in creating criminal atrocities in trying to recapture Cuba. And that's how, as a high-profile U. S. television journalist, she got to know famous men...and to deeply love one of them, Fidel Castro.
     The photos above, used in Peter Kornbluh's superb newly updated depiction of a truly historical love affair, capture intimate dining moments shared by Lisa Howard and the man who had become the love of her life, Fidel Castro. Kornbluh unearthed and declassified sweet, haunting words Lisa wrote to Fidel, such as: "But I shall treasure will all my heart for as long as I live my trip to Cuba in April of 1963 and my meeting with you, my dearest Fidel. No matter...our personal desires are not important. We met and came together and, I know, felt something for one another that could not go further. Nothing personal could be realized. I am who I am and you are Fidel Castro and for us, at this moment in history...our personal desires are not important."
        The legendary Fidel Castro did not accept Lisa Howard's realistic explanation about why they could not continue as lovers. The three photos above -- taken by Elliot Erwitt and owned by Magnum, show in the lower-left Fidel pleading with Lisa but the other two photos show why Lisa felt she could not own Fidel...because she knew everyone else did. In his splendid portrait of this love affair, Peter Kornbluh declassified one of Fidel's pleadings to Lisa: "You don't understand me. You just want to do what you want to do. Why can't you treat me like a man?" Again, after that plea Lisa had to remind Fidel that he was not just a man but he had become a legend too...a legend that led an historic revolution but now had to SOMEHOW defend it.
       The photo on the lower-left above shows Fidel & Lisa briefly believing they were relatively alone. The photo on the lower-right shows the crowd after recognizing Fidel squeezing Lisa, shown in the lower-right, away from him as Fidel rubs his beard and capitulates. The top photo showed Lisa that being in the backseat of a chauffeured car with Fidel also offered very little privacy. Lisa loved the man, but not the legend.
     Peter Kornbluh for decades has uncovered or declassified a massive trove of documents -- typed and handwritten -- that reveal the torrid Lisa Howard-Fidel Castro love affair. But beyond that, it's historical significance takes precedence. On Jan. 20th, 1960 President John Kennedy inherited massive U. S. plans from the Eisenhower administration to recapture Cuba. Those plans included all-out schemes to murder Fidel Castro, the April-1961 Bay of Pigs military attack, and even a unanimous 7-0 opinion from the Lyman Lemnitzer-led Joint Chief of Staff to conduct murderous attacks on innocent Americans so they could be blamed on Cuba and then used as pretext for a massive attack on the island. But while all that was enveloping the Kennedy White House, Lisa Howard, while a high-profile journalist, worked massively to normalize relations between the U. S. and Cuba, and President Kennedy used her for that purpose. While informing both Kennedy and Castro, Peter Kornbluh's updated masterpiece quotes Lisa as telling Fidel, "The U. S. might attack you." Yet, THANKS TO LISA HOWARD, in the first two weeks of Nov.-1963 President Kennedy told his staff that, upon his return from Texas, his next priority would be to normalize relations with Cuba. But that decision was not a secret to Kennedy's enemies. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22-1963 and his return from Texas was in a casket.
        After the murder of President Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, the new U. S. President, Lyndon Johnson -- among many other historically controversial things related to the much-younger John Kennedy blocking his ambitions to be President -- descended on Lisa Howard. President Johnson used his power to persuade ABC News to fire Lisa. It was an appeasement to the radical Cuban exiles and Mafiosi who had targeted Kennedy since blaming him for the defeat at the Bay of Pigs in April of 1961. But even after losing her treasured job at ABC News thanks to President Johnson, Lisa Howard continued to bravely work to normalize relations with Cuba. She was still doing that when she mysteriously died at age 39 on July 4, 1965.
      Since 1952, the year the United States government sicced the Mafia on Cuba to support the brutal and thieving U.S.-Batista dictatorship in Cuba...and especially since 1959 when the Cuban Revolution overthrew the Batista dictatorship, chasing its leaders to U. S. soil...Americans have mostly gotten false narratives about Cuba from the U. S. government and from the usually unchallenged Batistiano-Mafiosi exiles in Miami & in the U. S. Congress. In May of 2018 -- the first full month in six decades that Cuba has had a non-Castro leader, and one who was born AFTER the triumph of the Revolution -- PERHAPS IT IS FINALLY TIME THAT AMERICANS WERE TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT U.S.-CUBAN RELATIONS. That truth starts, not with the Batistiano-aligned U. S. government and not with the sycophantic mainstream U. S. media, but with America's greatest investigative journalist, Peter Kornbluh. His fascinating and historic update in May of 2018 of Fidel Castro's torrid love for Lisa Howard, and hers for him, is an example of great journalisn that Americans have a right to know. And yes, the intrigue includes the murder of a U. S. president and the possible murder of the American movie star-journalist who passionately loved both him and Cuba.
       When Lisa Howard fell in love with Fidel Castro, she was the most beautiful and the most well-known female journalist in the United States...and one of the very best.
Fidel and Lisa.
Fidel and Lisa.
   Lisa and Fidel.
      While Fidel Castro died of natural causes at age 90 in Havana on November 25th, 2016, Lisa Howard died under very mysterious circumstances at age 39 in New York City on July 4th, 1965. Not surprisingly, in his terrific May-2018 update on Lisa's love affair with Fidel Castro, the great journalist Peter Kornbluh bravely said, "The FBI would launch a bizarre inquiry" into her death.
      This photo shows the body of Lisa Howard. Peter Kornbluh: "The FBI would launch a bizarre inquiry." As posted on its letterhead, the theme of Cubaninsider has always been the same: The Cuban Revolution says a lot more about the United States than it says about Cuba. The life...and the death...of Lisa Howard is just one example. "The FBI would launch a bizarre inquiry." 

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1.5.18

Smithsonian Magazine Spotlights Havana

A Terrific 18-Page Update!!
{Updated Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018}
     The new edition -- dated May-2018 -- of Smithsonian Magazine, a magnificent offshoot of the famed Smithsonian Institute, reached my mailbox this week and it featured an 18-page article entitled "The Man Who Saved Havana." Brilliantly written by Tony Perrottet and buttressed with splendid photographs by Nestor Marti, the Smithsonian Magazine paints the best portrait of what is actually happening in the historic capital city of the Western World's most intriguing and, perhaps, most misunderstood island nation, a nation whose new and historic President, Miguel Diaz-Canel, turned 58-years-old just a few days ago.
Smithsonian photo of Eusebio Leal.
"The Man Who Saved Havana"
      The current -- dated May-2018 -- edition of Smithsonian Magazine features this map to delineate 15 of the historic landmarks in Havana that the now 75-year-old Eusebio Leal has "saved" with truly incredible reconstruction projects first approved and funded by Fidel Castro after Leal was sharp enough back in the 1970s to get Celia Sanchez to persuade Fidel to finance Leal's ambitious rebuilding plans. The new edition of Smithsonian Magazine reveals, with 18 splendid pages, that Leal's visions have come to remarkable fruition and are now on vivid display in Havana, Cuba.
    This is the magnificent 5-Star Hotel Manzana Kempinski restored by Eusebio Leal in Old Havana. The building dated from 1917 and had been run-down prior to Leal.
    This is the now restored Palacio del Segundo Cabo that Leal restored from a building that was first constructed in 1772. Smithsonian Magazine says it is now "the center for Cuban-European relations." {Those are key relations for Cuba's future}.
     This is the Hotel Ambos Mundos in Old Havana after it has been magnificently restored by Eusebio Leal. This is the building where Hemingway wrote "For Whom the Bell Tolls" when he was paying $1.50 a day for his room. Smithsonian Magazine says Havana is "one of the most extraordinary urban historical centers in the world." Leal himself told Smithsonian Magazine that, "Much has been done but much more can be done." And much more is being done in Havana thanks to Mr. Leal.
     When powerful people come to Havana, like Federica Mogherini above, they often ask to be shown around by the capital city's truly renowned Historian Eusebio Leal.
     The top official at the 28-nation European Union, Federica Mogheriniis depicted above being shown around historic Old Havana by Eusebio Leal when she visited Cuba on January 3, 2018. In the recent past Eusebio Leal has done the same for many historic figures such as Pope Francis and United States President Barack Obama.
     The greatest of the world's Travel Journalists, Tony Perrottet, wrote this latest masterpiece for Smithsonian Magazine -- the 18-page update for May of 2018 about "The Man Who Saved Havana." It is a splendid piece of journalism about Cuba that the mainstream U. S. media will not provide, and I heartily recommend it. It also reveals why I am a regular subscriber to the print edition of Smithsonian Magazine.
AND BY THE WAY:
     As one of two American biographers of Celia Sanchez, I'm aware that she -- as the Super Heroine of the Cuban Revolution and the one person that Fidel Castro idolized above all others -- I found it interesting that the aforementioned Smithsonian Magazine article revealed that Eusebio Leal credited Celia Sanchez for giving him the green light to restore Havana's historic landmarks. Leal told Smithsonian that, "Celia helped and protected me." America's best Castro biographer, Georgia Anne Geyer, wrote that Celia "over-ruled Fidel" wherever and whenever she chose, with his complete concurrence. Marta Rojas, Cuba's greatest {and still-living} author-historian, told me in 2005, "Since Celia Sanchez died of cancer at age 59 on Jan. 11, 1980, Fidel has ruled Cuba only as he precisely believes Celia would want him to rule it." And while she lived, any smart person who wanted something from Fidel, like Leal, first consulted Celia Sanchez.
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25.4.18

How Dangerous is Rubio?

Even Top Miami Experts Wonder!!
{Friday, April 27th, 2018}
      If you Google-search How Dangerous Is Rubio, the first page that comes up will include this Cubaninsider update but also the following articles:

                "Why Marco Rubio Is So Effective and Dangerous" by the Washington Post.

                 "Marco Rubio's Dangerous Misreading of History" by CNBC.
                  
                 "Rubio, Cruz Scarier Than Trump" by The Atlantic.

                 "Marco Rubio Is Now The Most Dangerous..." by The New Republic.

                  "Why I'm More Worried About Marco Rubio Than Donald Trump" by Vox.

       Those titles are just some on the first page of your Google-search about How Dangerous Is Rubio? And I haven't even mentioned the image above that illustrates a major article by respected journalist Ken Silverstein who concluded that Rubio is "head and shoulders above others in Washington when it comes to corruption and chicanery." AND YES, AMERICA, THIS IS THE MARCO RUBIO THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS PUT IN CHARGE OF AMERICA'S POST-OBAMA CUBAN POLICY!! And, of course, Americans are supposed to be stupid enough and unpatriotic enough to ignore this insult to the United States and to democracy.
     One of America's greatest investigative journalists, Ken Silverstein's definitive, almost-book-length bio of Marco Rubio has never been sued nor, to my knowledge, has it ever been challenged. In fact, the top {#1} Cuban-American journalist and Editorial Writer in Miami who knows Rubio best seems to agree with Ken Silverstein.
Photo courtesy: Pedro Portal
    If there is anybody on this planet who knows how dangerous U. S. Senator Marco Rubio of Miami is, that would probably be Fabiola Santiago. She was born in Matanzas, Cuba, in the spring of 1959 three months after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution had chased the leaders of the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship to U. S. soil, mostly Miami. According to her biography on his own Website, Fabiola spent the summers of her first ten years "digging her feet into the softest sands in the world and frolicking in the bluest beach, Varadero." Then in 1969 her parents took her to Miami. By 1980 Fabiola was a fast-ascending journalist with the Miami Herald. She is now an acclaimed author, the mother of three successful daughters, and a top Editorial Writer for the Miami Herald, Marco Rubio's hometown newspaper. Fiercely critical of Revolutionary Cuba over the years, it seems that Fabiola now has reached the insightful conclusion that Marco Rubio, newly positioned by President Trump as essentially America's new Cuban dictator, is the dire threat not only to Cuba but also to America. Unfortunately, most of the rest of the mainstream U. S. media is not nearly as courageous or as astute regarding Rubio as Fabiola is. And that's why her article is both topical and important in April of 2018.


    Therefore, I believe it is important for Americans to dial up and read Fabiola Santiago's latest Editorial in the Miami Herald entitled: "President Trump Should Engage Cuba's New President, Not Leave Policy to Marco Rubio." The article, from the hometown journalist in Miami who knows Rubio the best, paints the U. S. Senator as a dangerous right-wing extremist and it assails President Trump for turning over America's Cuban policy to such a dangerous individual. Fabiola Santiago thus has both the courage and the insight to make these valid points regarding Trump's decision to appoint Rubio the new Batista-like United States dictator of Cuba:



      "Rubio is all too happy to lead the U. S. and Cuba back to isolation from each other."

       

     "Trump delegated the shaping of U.S.-Cuba policy to his former campaign foe Sen. Marco Rubio of Miami..."


       "Surely Rubio will get the applause of the dwindling ranks of hard-liners in the Cuba Exile who've been fighting without success to change the political course in their homeland for the last 60 years and will go to their graves without shaping strategy."

       "What we don't need is a a Marco Rubio vs. Diaz-Canel Little Cold War."

    "This attitude won't leave Cuba's new President Diaz-Canel any room but to hunker down...and seek new and old alliances with Russia, China, the Middle East and the European Union, which has continued strengthening its relationships with Cuba..."

        "President Trump should engage Cuba's new President, not leave policy to Marco Rubio."

        "It's an ill-suited strategy to squeeze and isolate Cuba at the moment."

        "And we know that before he became a presidential candidate with the need to win Florida, Trump had his eyes on a Trump Tower in Havana and a golf course near Varadero Beach."
     There is much more in Fabiola Santiago's aforementioned article that Americans need to read before, as usual, they sit back on their collective asses and let yet another Republican duo in Washington, this time Trump & Rubio, target the supposed easy-pickings island of Cuba to sate their own economic and/or political greed. Fabiola Santiago is the Cuban-American who rose to become the top Editorial Writer in Marco Rubio's Cuba-obsessed hometown of Miami. But unlike Rubio and his ilk, Fabiola Santiago is concerned with the larger picture, which entails the threat Trump & Rubio represent not just to the island of Cuba but, yes, to America itself.
       A few days ago, Rubio took his Destroy Cuba campaign to the Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru, where he sought regional support as he rallied the few big-name dissidents that Cuba's 100-person delegation in Lima called "mercenaries."
    The above photo shows Rubio's Destroy Cuba campaign getting applause from the choir in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood at the Manuel Artime Theater, which is a plush building named for a leader of the 1961 Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba that served to make the island's Revolutionary hero Fidel Castro an everlasting Rebel legend. Now in April of 2018 Rubio believes the apathy and tax dollars of propagandized U. S. citizens will enable him to finally get revenge for the 1961 Bay of Pigs USA debacle.
     And the man who has unleashed Marco Rubio on Cuba, President Trump, went to Little Havana in Miami and embraced the huge 1961 Bay of Pigs Brigade 2506 Assault Banner as he shouted obscenities about Revolutionary Cuba to impress what Fabiola Santiago called "the dwindling ranks of Cuban exile hard-liners." All the while knowledgeable and concerned Cuban-Americans in Miami like Ms. Santiago are aware that even an inexperienced, unpredictable, and unpopular President like Trump can say or do anything regarding Cuba and the programmed American people are expected to be too stupid, too afraid, or too unpatriotic to give a damn. After all, as Ms. Santiago suggested, this has been going on practically unheeded for 60 years so why can we expect the current generation of pusillanimous Americans to care if it continues for...say...another 60 years, saddling their own children and grandchildren with a policy that the decent President Obama and the entire world condemned unanimously -- 191-to-0 -- as recently as October of 2016. But, with Rubio & Trump now in Washington, things have worsened considerably today. 
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24.4.18

America's Cuban Absurdities

Dictated by Rubio-like Extremists!!
As It Shames Most Cuban-Americans!!
     Most journalists and newspapers in Florida are afraid to report the truth about U.S.-Cuban relations. But Paul Guzzo and the Tampa Bay Times are long-time, excellent exceptions.
     Yesterday -- April 23rd, 2018 -- the photo above illustrated a major article in the Tampa Bay Times written by its renowned journalist-historian Paul Guzzo. The article is entitled: "Having Cuba in the Name of Your Company Can be a Financial Risk and THERE IS NO SOLUTION." The Tampa building above is headquarters for The Cuba Club, which easily qualified for a $190,000 loan -- TILL the bank was reminded that the word "Cuba" is in the company's title. Then the loan was denied -- TILL the company proved that the ISLAND OF CUBA had nothing to do with the company's name. The city of Tampa has the 3rd largest Cuban-American population in the USA and Cuban-American Vicente Amor, expressing the opinion of most Cuban-Americans, said, "It is ridiculous. Someone needs to do something about this."
     "It is ridiculous. Someone needs to do something about this." Every decent and even slightly brave American and Cuban-American agrees with that Cuban-American comment in the aforementioned Paul Guzzo-Tampa Bay Times article. But Barack Obama has been the only U. S. President since 1959 with the necessary combination of courage, intelligence, and decency to seriously attempt to correct the insult to America and Democracy that garnered a 191-to-0 condemnation of the U. S. in the United Nations during the last year, 2016, of the Obama presidency. But Obama's courage, intelligence, and decency has fallen victim to a U. S. Congress in which right-wing, self-serving, Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans have been permitted to dictate America's apoplectic and nefarious Cuban policy, a policy SO ABSURD and UNDEMOCRATIC that no other topic in this very diverse world could possibly attain a 191-to-ZERO unanimity in the United Nations. Yet, the lament by the Cuban-American, Vicente Amor, in the Guzzo-Tampa Bay Times for "someone" to "do something about this" is a very sad commentary for Democracy-lovers like me...and like Tampa's U. S. Congresswoman Kathy Castor.
    Although she was born in Miami, Kathy Castor has represented Tampa in the U. S. Congress. If you didn't know that, it's because the mainstream media is not in the business of reporting about members of Congress from Florida who bravely advocate a sane and decent Cuban policy, which Congresswoman Kathy Castor has done for over a decade. Meanwhile, the mainstream U. S. media is compelled to lavishly report on all the Counter Revolutionary zeal of Miami's members of the U. S. Congress -- Rubio, Ros-Lehtinen, Diaz-Balart, and Curbelo. That has been so, I believe, especially since Miami's top Cuban-American journalist, Emilio Milian, was car-bombed in 1976 for complaining about extreme Miami-based terrorism against totally innocent Cubans. And it's so, I believe, even though MOST CUBAN-AMERICANS EVEN IN MIAMI favor Obama-like and Kathy Castor-like normal relations with Cuba. In the Paul Guzzo-Tampa Bay Times article yesterday, Congresswoman Kathy Castor was quoted by a brave journalist working at a brave newspaper and she reiterated that a sane and decent Cuban policy remains uppermost on her radar. Her quote was: "This has been on my radar. But the only real solution is to repeal the Cuban Embargo."
     But as Congresswoman Kathy Castor and other Democracy-loving Floridians well know, as long as the intimidated, incompetent, or unpatriotic mainstream U. S. media is too afraid to report fairly on Cuban issues, self-serving extremists like Marco Rubio will continue to dictate via the U. S. Congress and all Republican administrations a Cuban policy that has 191-to-0 worldwide unanimous condemnation.
     Her brilliant work at the U. S. State Department alerted Emily Mendrala to the absurdity and indecency of having America's Cuban policy and its Cuban narrative dictated by a mere handful of Cuban-American extremists. Now Emily Mendrala is the Executive Director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas. Each Friday her Cuba Central report on the CDA website provides the best summary of that week's U.S.-Cuban related news. The current posting of her Cuba Central update begins with Senator Marco Rubio's absurd and indecent Cuban directives...and later in that excellent update Emily Mendrala directs her readers to a Miami Herald article written by a famed anti-Castro Cuban-American editorial writer who also assails Rubio.
     As this airplane-pulled banner flying over Senator Marco Rubio's home turf indicates, he is not popular in South Florida except for Little Havana in the heart of Miami. Most of the 2+ million Cuban-Americans favor normal relations with Cuba. Yet, only Counter Revolutionary extremists, it seems, can get elected to the U. S. Congress from Miami. That Miami problem, as with others, is also America's problem.
And by the way:
      For six decades Counter Revolutionary extremists in Miami and in the U. S. Congress try to dictate the Cuban narrative by insisting that Americans are the only people in the world without the freedom to travel to Cuba, lest they form their OWN OPINIONS about the island. In 2017 thanks to President Obama, Cuba's tourism exceeded 4 million for the first time, including over 600,000 Americans. In 2018 with Rubio designated by President Trump as America's new Cuban dictator, the U. S. currently has a "Cuba Travel Warning" in place, a warning that benefits Counter Revolutionary extremists but harms everyone else -- including most Cuban-Americans in Miami and Tampa as yesterday's Tampa Bay Tribune article explained.
      The photo above was taken by Clara Johnson and used to illustrate a major article yesterday -- April 23rd -- in the financial giant Forbes. It's entitled: "Yes, Americans Can Still Travel to Cuba." If you are interested, you may want to dial up that article.
And yes, Cuba's Revolutionary flag still waves.
{In President Diaz-Canel's first full week}
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21.4.18

President Diaz-Canel's First Full Week

A non-Castro President!!!!
{Monday, April 23rd, 2018}
     Cuba's new President may be a non-Castro who was born after the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, but his quotation above is a forceful reminder that President Miguel Diaz-Canel is a Castro-like fierce defender of Fidel's Revolutionary Cuba.
    In fact, as if to send an additional quick message to Washington, as shown here, President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela visited President Miguel Diaz-Canel -- Saturday, April 21st -- at the Revolutionary Palace in Havana. Both Presidents are facing fierce antagonism from both Miami and Washington and both are confronting dire financial problems. Politically, Diaz-Canel is solid as long as foreign-backed coups are avoided but Maduro is trying desperately to survive internal and external political threats in his oil-rich but teetering, money-depleted nation.
Presidents Maduro & Diaz-Canel April 20th.
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cubaninsider: "The Country That Raped Me" (A True Story)

cubaninsider: "The Country That Raped Me" (A True Story) : Note : This particular essay on  Ana Margarita Martinez  was first ...