Photos Best Tell Cuba's Story

Better Than Rubio's Words!!

       The BBC, the London-based international media giant, used the above AFP photo to illustrate a report on July 16th-2018 concerning Cuba's National Assembly enacting "A New Constitution Recognizing Private Property." The BBC explained that it merely "reaffirmed" a Cuban law that has been in effect since 2011. It also reflects affirmation of Cuba's new non-Castro President.

     An article today -- July 16th, 2018 -- written by Marc Frank of Reuters used the above AFP photo to illustrate that the Cuban National Assembly has "given the green light for private taxi service on the island." The green convertible is a  new taxi.

     Since April 19th, 2018, Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel has left some subtle and not-so-subtle imprints on the island. The 58-year-old Diaz-Canel was born after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and is the first non-Castro leader since 1959. But, as the above photo indicates, Diaz-Canel aims to make sure that Cuba "remains sovereign and remains Fidel's independent island without foreign domination." President Diaz-Canel is shown paying homage at the tomb of his idol Fidel Castro, who died at age 90 on Nov. 25, 2016. In fact, one of Diaz-Canel's strengths is the simple fact that there has, since the 1950s, been enough Fidel idolaters on the island to fuel and sustain the Revolution, and that still particularly includes the powerful young leaders comprising the vital Federation of University Students, a group that has massively supported Fidel and the Revolution since 1953. Diaz-Canel's trajectory to the top leadership of Cuba included his popularity across the island as Education Minister.

     Fiery defenders of Fidel Castro's Revolution today include all the top leaders of the Federation of University Students {FEU} such as Jennifer Bello Martinez. Batista's gunmen in the 1950s killed many top FEU leaders, such as the famously martyred Jose Eccheveria, but he couldn't kill them all even as he {Batista} closed the University of Havana. Jennifer and her associates today are cast in Jose's mold as fierce defenders of Fidel, the Revolution, and now President Diaz-Canel...and that's very important.

       The above photo was taken on Saturday, July 15th, 2018, in Havana, and it reflects one of President Diaz-Canel's already indelible imprints. He has ordered his Ministers to appear regularly on Cuba's excellent television news programs to "inform the people what you are doing to solve their problems so they can judge for themselves if they are being solved or at least know that we are trying." The past weekend in Havana -- July 14 & 15, 2018 -- featured a major parliamentary National Journalism session defining Diaz-Canel's newly embedded emphasis on television news. The photo above shows Sergio Gomez flanked on the left by Rosy Amaro and on the right by Cristina Escobar. The two young women are brilliant television news anchors and Diaz-Canel's Ministers welcomed their input regarding broadcast journalism on the island.

       While Americans are programmed to form most of their opinions about Cuba based on the words of self-serving Counter Revolutionary-Miami extremists such as U. S. Senator Marco Rubio, Alexandre Meneghini is a far better and fairer source for Cuban information. Meneghini is an internationally renowned Brazilian photographer based for many years in Cuba. His Cuban photos for 12 years while working for the American Associated Press won numerous awards and he now works for England's Reuters news agency...and is still winning internationally acclaimed photographic laurels. The following array of Alexandre Meneghini photos from Cuba, for example, paint a true portrait of the island as actually lived by actual islanders.

      This award-winning Meneghini photo was taken on January 9th, 2015. At a point when Barack Obama was the first and only U. S. President since the 1950s to have both the courage and the decency to treat Cubans on the island with respect, this photo shows 12-year-old Jenifer Lopez watching television in her Havana home.

Meneghini's Cuban motorcyclist.

     This Meneghini photo shows Elia Gabriel of South Sudan. The photo was used in a Reuters report about Fidel Castro's legacy related to Cuba having the world's largest Medical School and one that continues to offer totally free 6-year scholarships to poor foreign students, including 170 from the United States, who never pay Cuba a cent but just promise to return to the destitute areas from whence they came to provide medical services for at least five years. Elia Gabriel said, "As the Mandela defender who beat apartheid, Fidel was already Africa's best friend. My medical education is also his."

     This Meneghini gem shows the Cuban musical group Quintela Rebelde. All five fought as rebels for Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra Mountains during the Revolution and then fought for Fidel at the Bay of Pigs in April-1961 to successfully defeat the air-land-&-sea military attack by the U.S./CIA/Mafia/Cuban-exile force that intended to recapture the island. Today the five veteran Castro rebels known as Quintela Rebelde make their living singing and performing for visitors to the Bay of Pigs, which Cuba just calls Playa Giron Beach even as it attracts history-minded tourists.

     This Meneghini photo shows a Cuban cooking a meal at a Casa Particular that caters to tourists at the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron Beach}. Casa Particulars are privately owned Restaurants or Bed & Breakfast operations that many tourists favor as a means of understanding Cuba and also helping out everyday Cubans on the island who have been targeted so unmercifully since 1959 by unchecked Counter Revolutionaries anchored in Miami, in the U. S. Congress, and in six Republican White Houses. When I was in Cuba, I tried to eat and sleep at excellent Casa Particulars like this one.

      This nighttime Meneghini photo was taken in Manzanillo and shows young Cuban men checking the Internet near a Wi-Fi station. Manzanillo is the city at the foothills of the Sierra Maestra Mountains and it played a vital role in the Revolution because is was where the doctor's daughter Celia Sanchez from the town of Media Luna, the island's Superstar revolutionary heroine, recruited rebels and supplies to kick-start the anti-Batista, pro-Castro revolution in 1953 that ended up drastically changing Cuba and the United States of America by shocking the world on the first day of January, 1959.

     This nighttime Meneghini photo depicts a street scene in Santiago, Cuba's second largest city and former capital located on the far eastern end of the alligator-shaped island. The well-lit Fidel Castro photo is something he never encouraged and, in fact, he insisted that no statues should honor him and no roads, buildings, etc., should ever be named for him.

    This nighttime Meneghini photo shows two young Cuban women in Santiago-de-Cuba engrossed in whatever they are detecting from a Smart Phone.

     This Meneghini photo shows a schoolboy raising the Cuban flag to start the day in Santo Domingo, the hamlet closest to Fidel Castro's wartime military headquarters known as "Comandancia La Plata" high up in the Sierra Maestra Mountains. "Comandancia" remains a prime tourist attraction but to get all the way there and see the restored Fidel Castro-Celia Sanchez cabin is only possible if you happen to be an extremely healthy hiker.

     These Havana teenagers, supportive of and excitedabout the Obama overtures to Cuba in 2014, were photographed by Meneghini. Of course, at the time neither these enthused young Cubans nor anyone else realized that Obama's successor in the USA White House would be Donald Trump.

Meneghini's old Cuban tobacco farmer.

     Meneghini's photo of a Cuban with "I Love Fidel" painted on her cheek as she very sincerely mourned his death during the last week of November, 2016.

       Popular young Havana television news anchor, Rosy Amaro, on a day off from work visiting Fidel's tomb on the eastern end of the island.

      Meneghini's photo of a pink vintage 1950s convertible taking tourists for a ride on an uncrowded Havana street.

     A Meneghini photo of Miguel Diaz-Canel as he was just getting used to the avalanche of fresh attention accorded to the new President of Cuba.

     Formerly the award-winner with the Associated Press and now a Superstar at Reuters, Alexandre Meneghini's photos from Cuba are essential, I believe, to truly understanding the rhythms and pulses of the very fascinating but often misunderstood island of Cuba. There are 200+ other favorite Meneghini photos from Cuba that I'll try to share periodically in future Cubaninsider postings.

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America's First Journalist

Is He More Powerful Than Trump??

The Answer, my friend, Is Blowing in the Wind!!
{UPDATED: Sunday, July 15th, 2018}

    American President Donald Trump has a beautiful, independent-minded First Lady and he also has an ultra-powerful First Journalist -- the omnipotent Sean Hannity. Of the three -- Malania, Donald, and Sean -- who is the most powerful person in America? My answer is: Sean Hannity {with actually Cuban-American Jeff Bezos second}. Before I explain that reasoning, understand that my all-time favorite President is Barack Obama. And until recently I had never watched Hannity's one-hour Prime Time television program on Fox and I had never listened to his Equally Powerful 3-hour-daily Radio Talk Show because I considered both venues to be right-wing propaganda outlets. However, I do not think either Hannity or Trump is the biggest threat to America. Nor do I think Russia, China or North Korea are the biggest threat to America. I think the extreme left-wing news media is the biggest threat to America...and that's what put the {I personally think} unqualified Trump in the White House and what has driven me to watch and to listen to...Sean Hannity.

    To understand who Sean Hannity is today and comprehend how he became the most powerful man in America in 2018, you need to know where he came from. He was born in New York City 56 years ago. In his youth he worked as a dish-washer, in construction, and as a bartender. Three decades ago he became a conservative Radio Talk Show host and to this day his 3-hours-a-day on the radio precede his one-hour Prime Time television show on the Fox News network. His weeknight television shows dominates Prime Time news programs. But his Radio Talk Show for three hours each day is on 570 radio stations across America!! His use of those two powerful propaganda mediums has elevated Sean into America's most powerful person, a man who most influences President Trump who was gifted with the most powerful office in the world by an extreme left-wing media and its establishment presidential contender that called his supporters "a basket of {ignorant white right-wing} deplorables." Such racism and stupidity from white elites and their strong support from minority groups put Trump in the White House and, consequently, has now elevated Sean's remarkable status -- the most powerful person in America at the moment.

     On CNN and MSNBC -- Sean Hannity's two competitors on Cable News networks -- most of the airtime is spent not covering news but rebuking whatever Hannity says on his Fox News program. All of the CNN anchors and almost all of the anti-Trump propaganda pundits lash out at Hannity and Fox as being "Propaganda Machines." There is certainly truth to that accusation but, incredibly, beginning at 6:00 A. M. each morning and extending into reruns beginning at midnight, CNN and MSNBC are much more pronounced as "Propaganda Machines" than Hannity and Fox are...and that is saying quite a lot as it attests to the extremely SORRY STATE of broadcast journalist in the United States today.

Yes, it's Hannity's America.

    And yes, the sorry state of broadcast journalism in America has made a Superstar out of Sean Hannity, enabling him to play a huge role in putting Trump in the White House and keeping him there!! Left-wingers who deny that are deluding themselves when they blame the "deplorable, stupid, uneducated white ignoramuses who support Trump." They themselves -- the extreme left-wingers in charge of five news networks in the U. S. -- are to blame because they created Sean Hannity and now they must live with him as the United States evolves into what might well be a cascading Revolution or Civil War.

     While being far too conservative and right-wingesh for my liking {remember, I'm a huge fan of Barack Obama}, I nevertheless now consider Sean Hannity preferable to the left-wing extremists that control today's Democratic Party PLUS five of the six most important television news networks AND arguably the two most influential print sources -- the New York Times and the Washington Post. So, who or what can offset or even overwhelm such an array of ultra-powerful left-wing extremists? Both the who and the what, in my newly constructed opinion, is...Sean Hannity. Yes, the Sean who was with Trump in the hours before Trump announced Sean's choice as the new Supreme Court nominee; And yes, the Sean who broadcast his omnipotent radio and television shows on July 11th-2018 from London because...uh...President Trump's Air Force One was about to land in England's capital city.

     Instead of hiring anchors and broadcast journalists, CNN, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, and ABC "news" executives hire left-wing propagandists and then saturate at least 95% of their airtime in a coup/propaganda conspiracy...along with the New York Times and Washington Post...designed solely to impeach or eliminate President Trump. That leaves millions of American citizens searching for fair-and-honest news coverage such as the BBC presents to the UK and the world, including the USA on cable providers. But America's mainstream media has descended into left-wing & right-wing propaganda machines that serve about 10% of America's left-wingers and about 10% of America's right-wingers while leaving the 80% of moderate and more decent Americans out in the bitter cold thirsting for the type of real journalism that the BBC has.

     In addition to putting Trump in the White House, the extreme left-wingers in Washington and around the USA have made Sean Hannity America's most powerful person. If that sounds ridiculous to you, it's because you may not realize that Sean...more than Melania, Putin or anyone else in the world...dictates Trumpian decisions. After all, Trump & Melania -- not Morning Joe & Mika on MSNBC -- are America's President and First Lady. And America's First Journalist, Sean Hannity, is more powerful than any of them. If you thank that makes me happy, you are wrong.

    Remember? My all-time favorite politician is Barack Obama, the antipathy to Trump...and Hannity. Obama's greatest legacy, I believe, will be his Herculean efforts to end the Embargo of Cuba, which...as registered by the 191-to-0 condemnation in the United Nations...has greatly harmed innocent Cubans on the island since 1962 and, consequently, has done more than anything else to harm America's worldwide reputation. With left-wing and right-wing control of the mainstream U. S. media, Americans are programmed to ignore such realities, and the Cuban reality caused me to wish, like FDR, Obama could have had 4 terms and 16 years as President, not just 2 terms and 8 years AND THEN BE SUCCEEDED BY TRUMP & HANNITY. So I resent the left-wing extremists who made Trump the successor to Obama and thus elevated Hannity as the even-more-unlikely MOST POWERFUL PERSON in the world right now.

    With America the world's economic and military Superpower, Hannity & Trump, in that order, are the two most powerful people in the world. Taking full advantage of the left-wing extremism in the mainstream media and in the Democratic Party, Hannity skillfully and incredibly put Trump in the White House in Nov.-2016 and plans to keep him there for a second inauguration in January of 2020. Meanwhile, Trump follows Hannity's meticulous suggestions. So, you tell me. Who is the most powerful person in the world, the U. S. President and Commander-in-Chief, or the media whiz that put him in those positions??

      Neither the Democratic Party nor the Mainstream Media seem capable of relinquishing their extreme left-wing bias. That plays perfectly into Hannity's hands as Trump's puppet-master, and Hannity is skilled enough as a right-wing media artist to fully take advantage of the gift bequeathed to him by the extreme left-wingers. That is so even though in America's two-party Republican-Democratic system, Hannity & Trump have, at best, no more than tenuous 40% support from the population. But the extreme left-wingers are much-more frayed than that as are the extreme right-wingers. I consider Hannity a right-winger but not an extreme right-winger and that gives him the edge over the extreme left-wingers who dominate the Democratic Party and the Mainstream U. S. media. I repeat, total extremism on the fringes represents the biggest threat to America and the left-wing fringe is the most dangerous.

     The above estimate of Sean Hannity's net worth was posted a few years ago, so now it's a gross understatement. At a mere $40 million-a-year, he was also grossly underpaid. That may surprise many Americans who know Hannity's 9:00 P. M. Prime Time television show is top-rated but forget that Hannity's 3-hour Radio Program each day is awash with sponsors on hundreds of radio stations across the country. By hiring Pundits & Propagandists instead of real broadcast journalists and anchors, the extreme left-wing networks are conceding power and influence to Hannity -- except for the 10% or so of left-wing U. S. extremists who form a choir of seal-like, fringe-clapping sycophants. The smarter Hannity has the 10% or so of Americans who are extreme right-wingers in his hip-pocket but gradually he is also filling his front-pockets with the 80% or so of the middle-of-the-roaders, including me!! Remember, my all-time favorite politician is Barack Obama, who is antithetical to everything Hannity stands for.

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America's Murderous Cuban Embargo

And What Americans Don't Know!!
{Wednesday, July 11th, 2018}

     Because she works for the London-based Reuters news agency, Sarah Marsh, unlike American journalists, can report the truth from Cuba to the rest of the world.

    For the international news agency Reuters, Sarah Marsh covers the Caribbean's largest island and reports the truth -- even about Cuban plane crashes in which U. S. journalists either misuse the key facts or ignore them entirely. I'm speaking of, for example, the two Cubana Airlines crashes on Oct. 6-1976 and on May 18-2018. In 1976, as an ongoing and unchecked part of Cuban exile-CIA terrorist attacks on innocent Cubans, Cubana Flight 455 was blown into the ocean killing all 73 on board, including two dozen teenage athletes and little girls who were the children of coaches. Sarah Marsh, who knows the history of U.S.-Cuban relations, is free to tell the truth about Cubana Flight 455, which can also be easily Google-searched. On May 18-2018 a Cubana Airlines plane crashed right after take-off in Havana killing 112 people. Sarah Marsh has also told the truth about that disaster. In her latest July-2018 article about that crash, Sarah Marsh pinpointed the primary cause -- "the U. S. trade embargo against Cuba" that has existed since 1962 and stands as history's all-time longest and cruelest embargo ever imposed by a powerful nation against a weak nation.

     Americans are purposely not told how the U. S. embargo of Cuba figures into such things as the deadly crash of an airplane in Havana on May 18, 2018, just as they have not been told the truth about the terrorist bombing of Cubana Flight 455 back in 1976 or the subsequent car-bombing in Miami of Emilio Milian, the top Cuban-American journalist who complained about such things. But Sarah Marsh of Reuters feels free to tell the truth about historic or topical events in the vast U.S.-Cuban conundrum.

       Sarah Marsh reminds us in this month's Reuters update that it is a 16-hour bus ride from Havana to Holguin, which was the route the doomed plane was trying to take on May 18, 2018. {See the above map}. The Cuban government, Sarah reported, greatly subsidized such flights to expedite the travel between such key Cuban cities. Now those flights have been canceled and replaced by subsidized bus travel. Marlene Mendoza told Sarah that she had to wait "seven hours" in sweltering heat to get her flight ticket changed to a bus ticket, such is the urgency for Cubans to travel between the far-flung cities for family reasons or simply for business or leisure reasons. 

      Among the 112 victims of the May 18th-2018 plane crash in Havana were Dr. Monica Leyva Garcia and her baby daughter Alexia. Dr. Leyva was a doctor at the hospital in Holguin. Monica's husband and Alexia's father, who is also a doctor at the Holguin hospital, was driving to the Holguin airport to pick up his two precious family members when the plane crashed on the edge of Havana. You will very painfully understand the news that awaited him at the Holguin airport if you study the precious photo above.

     The plane crash occurred less than a month after Miguel Diaz-Canel had taken over as Cuba's President and the island's first non-Castro leader since 1959. Shown in the center of the above photo in the white shirt and tan pants, Diaz-Canel reported from the tragic crash site on live television. A few days later he ordered all Cuban ministers to regularly go on live television and tell the people "what you are doing about their problems so they can judge whether you are actually doing it...or not." As Sarah Marsh explained, President Diaz-Canel has explained to the Cuban people why the ill-fated 39-year-old Boeing-737 airplane had been leased from a tiny Mexican company and why Cuba has trouble getting spare parts for such planes because of the U. S. embargo. In fact, as Sarah Marsh explained, Cuba is also prohibited from getting planes and parts from "even European Airbus and Brazil's Embraers" because they are afraid of the USA's international economic influence. This month -- July, 2018 -- the USA's Boeing and Brazil's Embraer signed a joint deal to produce regional jets that will seat 100-to-150 passengers...with Boeing owning 80% and Embraer 20%; such deals mean Cuba's former friends in Brazil have succumbed USA dollars to become anti-Cuba. Americans are not supposed to understand such things, just as Americans are not supposed to understand why a small Jamaican company paid the U. S. government a substantial fine because it sent a box of baby aspirin to Cuba in violation of the embargo. Of course, huge international banks have paid billions in such fines when accused by the U. S. of even doing small transactions with Cuba. While Cuba's economy has understandably been pulverized by such "legal tactics"...meaning easily passed laws in the 535-member U. S. Congress routinely dictated by a mere handful of Counter Revolutionary extremists since 1962, extremists such as Miami's JORGE MAS-CANOSA and RAFAEL DIAZ-BALART in the 1960s and such as Miami's MARCO RUBIO and MARIO DIAZ-BALART in 2018. 

        Sarah Marsh of Reuters this week also informs us that, "For decades Cuba got around some U. S. sanctions and purchased airplane parts it needed" but the three Bush presidencies and now the Trump presidency, acting purely at the behest of Counter Revolutionary extremists, have managed to shut those doors. Sarah reminds us that in 2013 Cuba bought six new Antonov airplanes from a joint Russian-Ukraine company but getting parts for those planes has been impossible since "Russia annexed Crimea in 2014." So, according to a journalist with the guts and ingenuity to know...Sarah Marsh...we learn that Cuba now is flying only "4" of its "16" airplanes and the only international flights are now to "Buenos Aires and Madrid." Prior to the Bush and Trump alliances with only the most extreme Counter Revolutionaries, Sarah Marsh said that "for decades" safe Cuban planes "used to fly to all parts of the world."

    Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel is the island's former Education Minister and he remains very popular with everyday Cubans. He has explained to them how sorry he is that he has had to curtail flights from Havana to key destinations such as Holguin, Baracoa, and Santiago de Cuba on the other end of the island. There are 11.24 million Cubans on the island and all of them...for three generations...WELL KNOW how much they have been severely harmed by the U. S. embargo. While Americans are propagandized not to consider such things, Sarah Marsh of Reuters echoed President Diaz-Canel's words with her own words: "In the busy summer travel period in Cuba, a long line of people wait for hours in the sweltering heat outside the office of Cubana Airlines, many of them eager to visit families in the provinces. But they are not waiting to book flights anymore. Instead, they hope to get bus tickets..." As she interviewed Cubans in one of those lines, that's when Marlene Mendoza told her she had waited "seven hours in this sweltering heat" to get her plane tickets exchanged for 16-hour bus tickets. Back in the U. S. Congress, Miami stalwarts like Rubio & Diaz-Balart get away with calling Marlene's problems necessary "to hurt Castro." Such startling lies have worked in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave since 1959, so why would Rubio, Diaz-Balart, and their ilk cease using them after it has played such a mammoth role in their economic and political fortunes in Miami and Washington?

     The U. S. embargo was imposed against Cuba in 1962 and is still in effect today in 2018. TO THIS DAY propagandized {lied to} Americans are not supposed to know the reason it was imposed in 1962 and the reason it is still in effect in 2018. Declassified U. S. documents explained the reason: To starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. This egregious scheme was imposed after numerous terrorist acts, the April of 1961 air-land-and-sea military attack at the Bay of Pigs, and countless assassination attempts had failed to recapture Cuba. Incredibly, the embargo has also failed to recapture the vulnerable but pugnacious island as a mystified world watches.

    While Democratic presidents Kennedy, Carter, and Clinton made tentative efforts to end the embargo, all Republican presidents and all Batistiano-directed U. S. Congresses since the 1960s have mandated the embargo against Cuba to appease a mere handful of Cuban-American extremists. Only one President, Barack Obama, had the combination of guts, intelligence, and patriotism to sharply cut into the atrocities of the atrocious embargo. But Obama's two presidential terms were sandwiched between Batistiano-directed Bush and Trump presidencies...and only the Batistiano-directed Congress can actually end the embargo...and in flawed, money-crazed Washington that won't happen. In January of 1959 when the Batista-Mafia leaders fled the Cuban Revolution and regrouped back in Miami, they had the wealth to overwhelm South Florida economically and politically...and soon that was extended to Washington with the help of the Bush dynasty, the Tea Party, and such sycophants as Jesse Helms, Dan Burton, and Robert Torricelli in Congress who allowed extremists to write, in their names, such atrocities as Helms-Burton and Torricelli bills that to this day hurt innocent Cubans and insult democracy.  In Obama's last year as President, 2016, when he so adamantly and bravely opposed the embargo, the vote in the United Nations condemning the embargo was unanimous -- 191-to-0. It has been said that no other topic in this VERY DIVERSE world could attain such worldwide unanimity. America's image regarding the embargo is universally and accurately depicted by the Carlos LaTuff image depicted above. But another cowardly and unpatriotic generation of Americans...this one...doesn't seem to give a damn. And that's precisely where we are in July of 2018. Americans can't refute those facts but they can cowardly ignore them.

     Please study the photo above that Dr. Monica Leyva Garcia posted on her Facebook page on April 8th, 2018, to proudly show off her precious baby girl Alexia. On May 18, 2018, like 110 other precious Cuban souls, Dr. Leyva and Alexia were aboard the plane bound for Holguin when it crashed on the edge of Havana. Like Monica, the husband and father was a doctor at the Holguin hospital and he was driving to the airport to reunite with them when the plane crashed. Was the U. S. embargo a prime reason for the crash? Cuba's new President seems to think so. Some 11.24 million people on the island seem to think so. And, based on her latest article this month of July-2018, the fair-minded and superb Reuters journalist Sarah Marsh seems to think so.

     There is reason to believe, I believe, that the only journalist in the United States with the guts to ask Miami's U. S. Congressmen Rubio & Diaz-Balart if the embargo played a role in the May 18th-2018 Cuban plane crash was Cuban-American Emilio Milian. But Emilio is not around in 2018 to ask that question; he was car-bombed in Miami in 1976 for asking probing questions about such things as the Oct. 6-1976 terrorist bombing that killed everyone on board the child-laden Cubana Flight 455.

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Trump Frightens Latin America

July 4th Revelation Is Scary!!
{Updated: Sunday, July 8th, 2018}

     On July 4th, 2018, about 320 million Americans were braving heat waves on Independence Day in the USA. It was then, on the major holdiay, that they and the world learned that U. S. President, Donald Trump, has considered invading Venezuela. The world flinched, especially Cubans and Venezuelans.

    Multiple reports reveal that Trump was so adamant at one particular meeting about invading Venezuela that his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his top National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster had to tone down Trump's dangerous rhetoric and get him on some other topic other than attacking Venezuela.

    Well, since then President Trump has replaced McMaster with John Bolton as his top National Security Adviser and replaced Tillerson with his new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Both Bolton and Pompeo are well known as vicious anti-Cuban advocates and therefore probable anti-Venezuelan war-mongers. Once Bolton and Pompeo emerged as Trump's two main foreign policy advisers, the New York Times immediately said, "Trump has now created the most radically aggressive foreign policy team around the American president in modern times."

     While the mainstream U. S. media is either too afraid or too incompetent to admit it, the revelation above frightens all of Latin America for basic reasons: {1} Latin Americans are aware that Trump's evil designs on Venezuela are at the behest of a handful of Counter Revolutionary Cuban extremists who make up ALL of Trump's top advisers related to Cuba, including #1 Security Adviser John Bolton; his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; and his UN Representative Nikki Haley; and {2} Latin Americans, unlike Americans, are abundantly aware of historic right-wing Republicans in Washington waging wars on Latin Americans and creating renowned anti-American revolutionaries such as Fidel Castro in Cuba, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Danny Ortega in Nicaragua; etc., etc.

    Venezuela has the world's largest known oil reserves. It is a Latin American nation that right-wing Republican administrations in Washington have targeted and coveted. But in July of 2018 as news arrives that President Trump is considering "invading Venezuela," Latin Americans are brave enough and smart enough to realize that Trump is being pressured to attack Venezuela on behalf of extremist Counter Revolutionary anti-Cuban militants who hate Venezuela not because of its oil but because of its close ties to and support of Cuba.

    Venezuela's support of Cuba has become almost nil because, despite its incomparable oil wealth and its leader's continuing love of Cuba, Venezuela's drastically dire economic and political problems have left President Nicolas Madura extremely vulnerable to a domestic coup, supported strongly by rich and powerful forces in Miami and in Washington, or by -- we now learn -- from a direct military invasion ordered by U. S. President and Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump. The pretext, of course, will be to help the Venezuelan people; the real reason will be to satisfy Counter Revolutionary Cuban extremists and their counterparts who have already settled from Venezuela to Miami.

    If Trump, goaded by politically and economically influential Counter Revolutionary Cubans and others, attacks Venezuela, it will spawn massive firestorms across Latin America that billions of U. S. tax dollars and millions of good people will have trouble putting out. HOWEVER, such murderous probabilities have never deterred U. S. war-mongers who feel safely and securely protected in the U. S. while other less fortunate and much younger souls are sent to fight real or proxy foreign wars.

 Dwight Eisenhower -- after being the top General in the must-win World War II and then the U. S. President for eight years -- left the White House in 1961 with a dire televised warning -- his famed but unheeded Military Industrial Speech -- in which he said those profiting in the USA from wars and the threat of wars were the biggest threat to the United States, not foreign military powers. Generations of Americans have failed to heed that warning...thus, for example, powerful right-wing thugs in Eisenhower's White House in 1952 sicced the Mafia on Cuba and used the U. S. military and U. S. tax dollars as well as the ignorance and cowardice of the American people to back it up. Now in July of 2018 right-wing thugs in Trump's White House, among other self-serving enterprises, are urging an "invasion" of massively troubled but oil-rich Venezuela. And once again we can expect this generation of Americans not to give a damn, and my seldom-used vulgarity was merely used to emphasize the point.

    Bold headlines in 1961 told Americans all about out-going President Dwight Eisenhower's sincere and accurate warning. Yet, from that day till this day, three of America's all-time most cowardly and unpatriotic generations have ignored it. That plays directly into the hands of war-mongering, right-wing thugs, such as those who goaded the U. S. to attack Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in April of 1961 and who are now goading the U. S. to attack..."invade"...Venezuela in July of 2018.

     For decades anti-Cuban propagandists-lobbyists, such as Frank Calzon, have grown very powerful and very rich behind-the-scenes influencing Republican presidents and Republicans in Congress to attack, starve, embargo, blockade, and otherwise assault Cuba...and, of course, assail people and nations friendly to Cuba or people and nations merely seeking decency for totally innocent Cubans. Calzon and two dozen others like him a couple of weeks ago fired off a long letter demanding that President Trump follow their ten stated demands-orders to finish destroying post-Castro Cuba, which now has a new President -- former Education Minister Miguel Diaz-Canel. Venezuela too was very implicitly mentioned  in that long, ANTI-CUBAN letter to Trump. The intimidated mainstream U. S. media was too scared to publish or even mention that very scary letter, but you can Google-search online to read it and I believe democracy-lovers should do so if they care about America.

    But far beyond the anti-Cuba/anti-Venezuela influences on Trump...such as Calzon, Bolton, Pompeo, Noriega, and U. S. Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart of Miami, who along with his 3 brothers are the sons of a former key Batista Minister...are the two foxes in Trump's hen-house. The foxes I'm referencing are Nikki Haley and her beloved Senator Marco Rubio from Miami. Haley is Trump's high-profile Ambassador to the United Nations; Rubio, as all in Washington political circles well know, is Trump's newly designated Cuban dictator. Haley & Rubio both hate Trump and are determined to replace him in the White House and as the leader of the Republican Party.

    Back in 2016 during the Republican presidential campaign, when Nikki Haley was the Governor of South Carolina and wildly campaigning for Rubio against Trump, Trump fired off massive slams against Haley such as the Tweet above, along with massive denunciations of Rubio, such as calling Rubio "Little Marco" and worse. But, needing Rubio's congressional support and to placate anti-Cuban extremists in Miami, Trump designated Rubio his Cuban dictator and, to appease right-wing Republicans, Trump appointed Nikki Haley as his high-profile United Nations Representative.

     At the UN, as feared, it appears to many that Nikki Haley is "Israel's Ambassador to the UN" -- not America's. That reflects Nikki Haley's massive...some say unholy...alliance with Marco Rubio, not with her upfront boss, President Donald Trump.

    Trump himself has famously accused Senator Marco Rubio of being under the "total control" of controversial Israeli-Jewish billionaires. In fact, so has Fabiola Santiago, the Cuban-born top columnist and Editorial Chief at Rubio's hometown newspaper, the Miami Herald that has called Rubio "a hypocrite."

   Meanwhile, it is easy for Trump, Santiago, and others to label Senator Rubio politically and economically more aligned with Israel than he is to America, including Cuban-Americans in his hometown of Miami. Yet, flush with massive financial-support, Rubio was a presidential contender in 2016 and will be again in 2020...or earlier if Trump is impeached by the left-wing U. S. media and, I believe, by Trump's two dangerous foxes -- Rubio and Haley -- in Trump's own hen-house.

     It is clear...to some...that Trump doesn't know a fox when she is standing right beside him. And he thus unwisely put her in his own hen-house and if Trump thinks the fox is not hoping to push him aside to make way for Rubio and herself, than Trump is even more politically naive than we imagined.

    All of which plays directly into the new revelation in this first week of July-2018 that President Trump, the omnipotent Commander-in-Chief, wants "to invade Venezuela." If he does so, it will be because of pressure from Counter Revolutionary anti-Cuban  zealots. Your mainstream U. S. media probably doesn't have the guts to tell you that, but nevertheless it is true.

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