Mexican Weekend for Cuba

In Trump Era Cuba Needs Friends!!
{UPDATED: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018}

     In Havana this first weekend in December, 2018, Cuban doctors continued to return from their assignments in Brazil after that powerful Latin American nation, recently Cuba's dear friend, elected a far-right, militarist President named Jair Bolsonaro. The photo above shows some of the 202 Cuban doctors who returned to Cuba on the 13th flight from Brazil. Some 8,300 Cuban medical personnel have been booted out of Cuba after diligently serving only the poorest Brazilian areas for the past five years, and many of them have been offered asylum in Brazil, the U. S., or U.S.-friendly nations. A right-wing, military-style government in Brazil that aligns with the Trump administration in Washington is the last thing Cuba needs as it adjusts to a post-Castro leader.

     Brazil remains Latin America's dominant country and it's new right-wing, military-style government is a threat to Cuba. In fact, the U. S. journalist most attuned to U.S.-Cuban affairs, Tracey Eaton, opined this past week that he "would not be surprised" if the United States launched an attack on Cuba "from Brazil." The last military assault by the U. S. against Cuba was the April-1961 Bay of Pigs attack that was launched from Nicaragua when the U.S.-backed Somoza dictatorship ruled that nation. So Eaton's prediction is eerily reminiscent of the Bay of Pigs and in 2018 the Trump-Rubio-Bolton faction in Washington apparently believes this generation of proselytized Americans will stomach whatever they plan for the island of Cuba. And Cuba understands that.

    Meanwhile, a ray of sunshine for Cuba burst forth in Mexico City this weekend. On Saturday, Dec. 1-2018, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was inaugurated as Mexico's new President. In an emotional speech the left-leaning Lopez Obrador stressed his allegiance to Mexico's children, youth, seniors, and all indigenous people...and he vowed to assail the corruption that so mightily favors the rich at the expense of the poor.

      And speaking of indigenous Latin American friends, in Mexico Saturday Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel wrapped his arms around the embattled, Cuba-friendly Presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia. Politically, their Western Hemisphere is being reconfigured.

First four photos courtesy: Leticia Martinez Hernandes.

     In the past couple of weeks Cuba's new President Miguel Diaz-Canel has traveled to...France, China, Russia, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, England, and now Mexico. The photo above shows Diaz-Canel's arrival in Mexico City for Saturday's inauguration of Mexico's new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The Trump presidency in the U. S. has convinced Diaz-Canel that Marco Rubio, John Bolton, and Mauricio Claver-Carone have been authorized by Trump to overthrow Cuba's Revolutionary government. Diaz-Canel thus is seeking new friends and trying to "re-polish"...as he says...old friends.

     In Mexico, Cuban President Diaz-Canel and his wife Lis huddled with very friendly Cuban and Mexican diplomats.

    A charmer in Mexico this weekend, President Diaz-Canel will need to be very charming to survive, with help from friends, the Trump era in the nearby United States. 

    To survive the USA's new hegemonic ambitions, Cuba's Diaz-Canel, as in Mexico this weekend, hopes to be honored with many more red carpet-honor guard salutes in important capital cities.

     This Manuel Velaquez/Getty Images photo profiles Mexico's news President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who is also known just by the acronym AMLO. December 1st, 2018 was inauguration day for Lopez Obrador as Mexico's President. He had lost two precious elections, one of whom he says was stolen from him. But this time Lopez Obrador won his election handily and his party even has a strong super-majority...better than two-thirds...in the Chamber of Deputies that is comprised of 32 Mexican Governors. Over the years since 1959, Revolutionary Cuba has depended on the friendships of Canada on the northern U. S. border, and Mexico on the southern U. S. border. When Cuba's Diaz-Canel this week spoke of his need to "re-polish" old friendships he was referring especially to Mexico and Canada.

    The Desmond Boylan/Associated Press photo above shows the Canadian embassy in Havana. This week another Canadian diplomat suffered from ailments similar to those that have affected other U. S. and Canadian personnel working in Cuba's capital. The two-year-old "mysterious attacks" have been tied to sonic, microwave, etc., assaults but, after endless and massive investigations, remain "mysterious." Yet, of course, the Trump administration continues to use the illnesses to further hurt Cuba while also urging Canada to do the same. The U. S. has used the attacks, for example, to warn tourists not to visit the island, knowing tourism is vital to the Cuban economy. Canadians dominate tourism to Cuba and the Trump administration is urging Canada to also warn its citizens to stop visiting Cuba. Meanwhile, Cuban President Diaz-Canel...now a force on Twitter like Trump...makes this rather salient point: "The last thing we would want to do is hurt tourism. The last thing we would want to do is harm our friendships with nations like Canada. The last thing we would want to do is to give the United States, the world superpower, an excuse to attack our island. With all that in mind, anyone concerned with the mystery of the sonic...or whatever...attacks should first have the integrity to ask...who are they hurting and who are they helping? I say they are hurting Cuba and helping Cuba's enemies in Miami and Washington. And those who will not ask that question are playing directly into the hands of the culprits."

     And, oh, YES!! Cuban President Diaz-Canel uses his Twitter account to rebuke the Trump-Rubio-Bolton assaults on Cuba but, as above, Diaz-Canel also often Tweets about other aspects of his job as the island's new leader. In the above Tweet, Diaz-Canel announced his appointment of Miriam Nicado as the first female head of the University of Havana in its 290 years of existence {not counting, of course, the time when Dictator Batista closed the University while his goons were gunning down all the student leaders, such as Jose Echeverria, who were believed to be supporting the Revolution that Batista kept assuring his friends in Washington was "no threat" to his...and their...rule of the island}. Also, Diaz-Canel was born after the triumph of the Revolution on January 1, 1959, and he is Cuba's former Education Minister, not a former guerrilla fighting rebel.

    This is Miriam Nicado, President Diaz-Canel's choice as the new leader at the University of Havana.

     And this, by the way, was Jose Antonio Echeverria. I give you his whole name just in case you want to Google his role in the Cuban Revolution. Jose was one of the many student leaders at the University of Havana that Dictator Batista gruesomely murdered but there were still so many anti-Batista students that Batista closed the University of Havana entirely.

    The historic photo above is a part of the Jose Antonio Echeverria legend as documented by famed Cuban historian Pedro Alvarez Tabio. On January 4th, 1959, two tired but victorious rebels -- Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez -- stopped off in the city of Cienfuegos on their way to Havana to take charge of the Cuban government. Celia told Fidel, "We are so tired but we must take time to go by and see Jose's Mother."

    And so, though extremely tired and very anxious to get to Havana, Fidel Castro and Celia Sanchez on Jan. 4-1959 were driven to the home of Jose Antonio Echeverria's mother. They discussed her martyred son, actually got some sleep, and had breakfast the next morning with Mrs. Echeverria. According to Tabio, Celia's last words to Jose's mother were, "I sent word to you that we would avenge Jose's murder or we would all die trying. We kept that promise but I am not happy that Batista and those around him have fled, with their loot, to safe havens."

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U.S.-Brazil War on Cuba

Nearing A Reality!!
{Saturday, December 1st, 2018}

    The highly definitive graphic above is courtesy of Plablo Moreira Leita/Brazil 247. It depicts probably the most important news item currently affecting the USA but, typically, the mainstream U. S. news media will ignore it because the topic is Cuba. But, yes, it is resonating across Latin America this last week of November, 2018. The image...the man...holding the BOMB Hammer is John Bolton, President Donald Trump's and the USA's Top Security Adviser. Cuba and much of Latin America believe that Bolton has successfully advised Trump to overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government and also to make contaminant regime changes in Venezuela and Nicaragua. Therefore, Americans -- who will pay for the impending and perhaps very bloody and expensive chaos in Latin America and the Caribbean -- should study the graphic above.

       And as you study the graphic, please note that John Bolton met with Brazil's new President Jair Bolsonaro this week -- Nov. 29th, 2018 -- to obviously discuss regime changes in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. Bolton for many years as a product of the Bush dynasty wanted a regime change in Cuba and his reputation as an extreme right-wing war-monger is well known. Bolton's meeting with Bolsonaro appears to be an effort to secure Brazil's help in reshaping the political dynamic in the Caribbean and Latin America to suit extreme right-wingers and their rich supporters. Brazil's new President, Bolsonaro, is a well-known extreme right-winger and now the decision-maker in Latin America's largest, richest, and most powerful nation. And so...Bolton's meeting with Bolsonaro was anticipated by top Cuban experts in the United States and in Latin America.

    The photo above is courtesy of The Independent.co.uk and, I think, it should scare and appall democracy lovers. It was taken Thursday in Rio and it shows Brazil's new President Jair Bolsonaro warmly greeting U. S. President Donald Trump's top National Security Adviser John Bolton. Bolsonaro is an extreme right-winger now in charge of Brazil, the Latin American superpower. Bolton is the most extreme high-profile right-wing war-monger in the United States, the world superpower, and Bolton has long advocated the overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba. Now it seems President Trump has finally given Bolton that opportunity. And, moreover, Bolton apparently believes that his prime ally in that endeavor is Bolsonaro.

    Many keen observers consider Tracey Eaton to be America's best and fairest journalist related to the intricacies of the U.S.-Cuban conundrum. Almost every major media source in the U. S. -- from the USA Today to NBC News -- has featured Eaton's reporting on Cuban issues. Now a journalism professor in Florida, he remains the best source for reports concerning Cuba...including eight insightful articles this month. His latest update -- on Nov. 28th, 2018 -- is entitled: "New U.S.-Brazil Alliance Will Likely Target Cuba." Eaton was the first to reveal that John Bolton was meeting with Jair Bolsonaro in Rio on Nov. 29th, and he revealed why: "I would not be surprised to see the U. S. government launch some sort of operation targeting Cuba from Brazil." Eaton then explained it was obvious that America's top right-wing/war-monger, John Bolton, would solicit the anti-Cuban, right-wing/war-monger who is now the leader of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro. Eaton directly mentioned some of Bolsonaro's far-right comments: "I wouldn't rape her because she doesn't deserve it;" "She doesn't deserve to be raped because she's so ugly;" "I would be incapable of loving a homosexual son;" and "We're going to execute the Workers Party members here." The Workers Party in Brazil, led by recent former Brazilian Presidents Lula de Silva and Dilma Rousseff, powerfully supported Brazil's poor people and powerfully supported Revolutionary Cuba!!

   This month, John Bolton, as shown above, went to Miami and essentially and very publicly declared war on Cuba and it was clear he had clearance to do so from his boss, America's Commander-in-Chief President Trump. It is also apparent that the ultra-right winger Bolton was mightily impressed by the anti-Cuban comments and actions of Brazil's new ultra-right wing President Jair Bolsonaro.

 Thus, this handshake featuring Bolsonaro and Bolton on Nov. 29th, 2018, was easily predictable and it has prompted America's best appraiser of U.S.-Cuban issues, Tracey Eaton, to write this sentence: "I would not be surprised to see the U. S. government launch some sort of operation targeting Cuba from Brazil." For American citizens and the mainstream U. S. media to sit back and allow a right-wing/war mongering thug like John Bolton to orchestrate what might well be a bloody conflagration in the Caribbean and Latin America is, of course, unthinkable and unconscionable. Yet, the cowardly ambivalence and the darkening atmosphere that currently pervades both Washington and the mainstream U. S. media makes what Tracey Eaton and many other decent observers fear has become a distinct probability.

     The Cuban official in charge of day-to-day...and sometimes hourly...monitoring of U. S. designs on Cuba is Carlos Fernandez de Cossio. He said, "I believe when the primary U. S. news media failed to report fairly what Bolton said in Miami, which to me was a war declaration, it emboldened Bolton to go forward with enticing Brazil's Bolsonaro into his scheme for executing regime changes in Cuba as well as Venezuela and Nicaragua. Brazil, the Latin American power, now has a Bolton-like extremist as its leader...and the U.S. is the world power. We know those regime changes can be executed but the people who allow it to happen should know that it would only be another beginning and not be the end of the matter."

     An influential Cuban highly respected for closely staying in touch with the rhythms and pulses of everyday Cubans on the island is Rosa Miriam Elizalde. She said, "We have known since Bolton's speech in Miami and Bolsonaro's inflammatory words and deeds against Cuba that it could evolve into a nexus against us-- mighty Brazil and ultra-mighty America warring against us much like the Mafia and ultra-mighty America warred against us in the 1950s. The Cuban media, which I represent, respects Cubans on this island more than the American media respects Americans, so both the Cuban journalists and the everyday Cuban people constantly interact with each other, and we know what to expect from Trump and Bolsonaro. But for us, we have two options -- surrender to foreigners or revert to do-or-die revolutionary ideals. That seems, again, to be our two choices now. Even with their combined arsenals, Trump and Bolsonaro will never get us to surrender. If that means we perish...well, you know...! A sovereign and independent Cuba has always been worth a do-or-die fight, and that has been especially so since January one of 1959."

    Among other things on the island, Rosa Miriam Elizalde is in charge of Dominio Cuba, an influential television channel that, indeed, interacts with the Cuban people. And Rosa via television has shared with her fellow Cubans the image of John Bolton wielding the BOMB Hammer. 

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Rubio Set for Cuban Overthrow

Rubio Finalizes Cuban War Panel!!

{Updated: Thursday, November 29th, 2018}

      The Joe Raedle/Getty Images photo above was used to illustrate an important Politico article entitled: "Trump Packs Foreign Policy Team With Cuba Hardliners From Florida." The photo itself shows Little Havana's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio making nice with President Donald Trump, the two bitter enemies during the 2016 Republican primaries. But Trump as President buys Rubio's Miami connections with a pay-off that is probably the most egregious act Trump will execute as President of the United States. The left-wing mainstream U. S. media that is trying so hard to impeach Trump doesn't have the courage or insight to report that fact but Politico, now the best media source for political news in Washington, does have that courage and insight. The aforementioned Politico article was written by Marc Caputo, who also happens to be the best journalist in Washington.

     This is Marc Caputo. Certainly no journalist in America today knows as much about Florida's weird political apparatuses than Caputo. He grew up in Key West fascinated with the Sunshine State's political shenanigans and then became an award-winning journalist for the Miami Herald where his investigative reporting resulted in multiple federal convictions. In 2015 Caputo was hired by Politico and, in addition to the vital article mentioned here, he writes Politico's must-read Florida Notebook section. In his aforementioned article that all Americans should Google and heed, Caputo explains that Trump has allowed Rubio to staff the U. S. State Department, the U. S. National Security arena, and the Western Hemisphere Affairs department ONLY WITH ANTI-CUBAN COUNTER REVOLUTIONARY EXTREMISTS. To allow that to happen, and not be reported by the mainstream U. S. media, shows a blatant lack of respect by Trump and Rubio for both America and Democracy. Caputo points out that Rubio has lined the three U. S. government agencies most able to overthrow the Cuban government with ONLY career Counter Revolutionary extremists -- Otto Reich, Tomas Regalado, Eliot Pedrosa, Carlos Truillo, etc., etc. But first Rubio maneuvered three vicious and long-time anti-Cuban zealots -- Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and Mauricio Claver-Carone -- as the leaders of the State Department, National Security, and Western Hemisphere departments...well knowing that those three would quickly approve all of the anti-Cuban extremists that Rubio, to quote Caputo, "packs" with nothing but anti-Cuban extremists. While Cuba is generally off the day-to-day radar of the U. S. media, it should, to a crucial extent, be at the forefront for this reason: Rubio and Claver-Carone are fully capable of turning their extremism against Cuba into a regional war that Americans and their Democracy would pay for. Marc Caputo, the best Washington journalist, has explained the groundwork currently setting the stage for potentially bloody regional fireworks and long-lasting repercussions.

     When a Mauricio Claver-Carone is put in charge of America's Western Hemisphere Affairs, Americans should be informed that such an appointment is likely to result in two things: {1} An overthrow of Cuba's revolutionary government; and {2} harsh treatment for Caribbean and Latin American nations that are friendly to Cuba and lush financial rewards to Western Hemisphere nations that are persuaded to support or condone Claver-Carone's extreme hatred and extreme exploitations of Revolutionary Cuba. If those two points strike you as hyperbolic exaggerations, it's only because you are unfamiliar with Claver-Carone's very profitable anti-Cuban obsessions all his adult life. Except for great investigative journalists such as Marc Caputo, Tracey Eaton, don't expect the mainstream media to enlighten you about Claver-Carone's Cuban extremism. So, if you are unfamiliar with recent articles by the likes of Caputo and Eaton, for example, I would advise democracy-loving and tax-paying Americans to at least Google Claver-Carone's totally consistent and dubious background.

   When extremist one-trick-ponys like Mauricio Claver-Carone are put in charge of key U. S. government agencies capable of fomenting everlasting calamities in America's backyard, Americans at least should be somewhat prepared via forewarnings.

     A President Trump that can get away with installing a John Bolton as America's top National Security official is a President that should be held accountable for predictable repercussions -- namely, vicious assaults, not on Big Boys like China or Russia, but on smaller nations, like Cuba, that Bolton's long-standing war-mongering has targeted.

    And now with Trump as President and Commander-in-Chief, Bolton finally has a chance to actually make war on small nations.

    In Miami recently, Bolton essentially declared war on Cuba...something he almost got his former boss, President Bush, to do.

    With John Bolton in charge of National Security and Mike Pompeo the Secretary of State, Senator Marco Rubio has been blessed with full authority to do what Marc Caputo confirms that Rubio has done, which is to "pack" the crucial National Security department, the State Department, and the Western Hemisphere Affairs arena, which is a part of the State Department, with only anti-Cuban zealots.

     A Bolton, a Trump, and a Pompeo as America's three most important officials involved in foreign affairs leaves the United States primed for some more bloody, expensive, and very predictable involvements, I believe, and I believe the great journalist Marc Caputo also believes!!

 In Marc Caputo's aforementioned Politico article, he reveals that Trump is allowing two Little Havana members of the U. S. Congress -- Mario Diaz-Balart and Marco Rubio -- to saturate the highest elements of the U. S. government with career anti-Cuban zealots. Mario is a one-trick-pony from Miami whose father was a key Minster in Cuba's ousted Batista dictatorship and, after 1959, one of the all-time richest and most vicious anti-Cuban extremists in Miami. And Marco, also a one-trick-pony from Miami, is, according to the great investigative journalist Ken Silverstein, "head and shoulders above" EVERYONE ELSE IN WASHINGTON "when it comes to corruption and chicanery." And if Mario & Marco are allowed to saturate the highest echelons of the U. S. government with anti-Cuban extremists, why not allow Mario & Marco to succeed Trump & Pence as America's next President and Vice President??

     During the Trump presidency, Cuba being off the radar of most Americans is a huge advantage that permits the likes of Rubio and Diaz-Balart to have the cover for guiding the United States into a Western Hemisphere catastrophe that is likely to absorb a lot of innocent blood and tons of tax dollars.

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BULLETIN: It's Still Fidel's Cuba:

A Known Fact on the Island;

Despite the USA Narrative!!
{Tuesday, November 27th, 2018}

     Yesterday was November 26th, 2018. It marked the second anniversary of the death of Fidel Castro at age 90. It was a special day on the island of Cuba...a sad day of mourning but also a celebratory day concerning the revolutionary life that he led. Although Fidel's younger brother and fellow revolutionary Raul is still alive and Cuba now has a non-Castro as its new President, it is still Fidel's Cuba and that will remain so, and even grow in the realm of reality...at least until and if some foreign-based coup changes the political dynamic on the island. While the Cuban narrative in the United States of America will disagree with that assessment, it should be remembered that the U. S. assessments of Fidel Castro have been faulty since 1952 and, particularly, since 1959. If that were not so, there would never have been a Cuban Revolution that overthrew the U.S.-backed Batista dictatorship and, after that momentous event, faulty U.S.-Batistiano-Mafiosi assessments of Fidel Castro have accounted for another momentous event -- the amazing longevity of Revolutionary Cuba. The photo above attests to those basic facts as well as the continued faulty appraisals of Fidel Castro and his legacy. The young Cuban woman paying homage at Fidel Castro's tomb is Rosy Amaro Perez. Well-educated, extremely smart, and a brilliant broadcast journalist, Rosy put this photo on her Facebook page with a caption: "Vives dentro de mi y te guardo a mi manera." {"You live inside me and I keep you my way."}. If a coup or some other factor overthrows Cuba's revolutionary government, a second Fidel Castro-inspired REVOLUTION would commence immediately...and fight to the death to restore it. Yes, faulty USA assessments...sprinkled with self-serving lies...are one thing but the photo above speaks volumes of truths on the island itself. Rosy is not alone in her feeling. She is, in fact, among a strong majority on the island who worship Fidel Castro.

      A brilliant broadcast journalist, Rosy Amaro Perez has visited the great capitals of Europe and she has close relatives living in Florida, Virginia, Arizona, etc. But she is a Cuban-Cuban, not an American-Cuban. If there were not millions more like her on the island, the Cuban-American anti-Castro extremists headquartered in the Little Havana section of Miami since 1959 would have regained control of Cuba many decades ago. After all, being in almost total control of both America's Cuban policies and America's Cuban narratives gives Little Havana what, on the surface, is seemingly overwhelming advantages over Havana...and that's been the case for over six decades. Therefore, there must be some explanation for Revolutionary Cuba's longevity...and the Cuban narrative in the U. S. dictated by anti-Cuban extremists is built on lies regarding that phenomenon. But, I believe, Rosy Amaro Perez explained it with her sentence that described her visit to Fidel Castro's tomb: "You live inside me and I keep you my way." From 1952 till 1959 Americans were urged to flock to Cuba to partake in the rampant gambling, illegal drugs, prostitution, and other Mafia-like vices that permeated the island. From 1959 till today Americans have been the only people in the world discouraged from visiting Cuba, with Batistiano-based congressional laws actually making such visits illegal except under special circumstances. But those of us who have been to the island are not surprised that Rosy Amaro Perez worships Fidel Castro and would fight a revolutionary death to defend his legacy.

    Significantly, Rosy Amaro Perez has a precocious and beautiful lookalike daughter. Rosy has the wherewithal to permanently take her beloved child to any capital city in Europe or America but she believes her Mariana is best loved, best protected, and by far the safest and happiest living in Havana. I am well aware that Americans do not understand that reasoning, and I fully know that most Americans believe Rosy is misguided or brain-washed; but she is neither of those things. A brilliant journalist and a devoted mother, she knows all about Revolutionary Cuba and she knows all about what preceded Revolutionary Cuba -- relentless Mafia-style theft and brutality.

       From 1952-1959 the top leaders of the U.S.-based Mafia ruled Cuba with brutal force and extreme greed, a process supported by the United States because rich U. S. individuals and companies were allowed to also partake in the extreme thievery while pretending to ignore the extreme brutality heaped upon the majority peasants. Since 1959, with the retreat of the top leaders to U. S. soil, Americans have been propagandized to believe the basic truth depicted above is a lie. It is not. AND, BELIEVE ME, if it were a lie the longevity of Revolutionary Cuba would have ended...internally and externally...MANY DECADES AGO!!

    The first mistake Batista, the Mafia, and the United States made in Cuba in the 1950s was to not at least throw some crubs to the majority peasants on the island. While the wholesale rape and robbery of Cuba proceeded with unabated brutality and thievery, the photo above illustrates how the majority peasants were left with nothing -- no education, no health benefits, and...no nothing. That was a stupid mistake by the thieves in charge of Cuba in the 1950s.

    But the biggest mistake BY FAR made in Cuba in the 1950s by Batista, the Mafia, and the United States of America is, undeniably, depicted by the photo above. When the majority peasants and their supporters complained about the treatment they were receiving, the answer by Batista was to send out goons to murder peasant children as a warning for the peasant mothers and fathers not to resist. Instead, brave mothers marched in the streets in numbers far too large and far too brave to be mowed down by Batista's machine-gunners. Thus, a Revolution was born, one that would do the impossible -- which was to overthrow a powerful dictator backed by the Mafia, the strongest criminal organization in the world, and by the USA, the strongest nation in the world. The woman second from the left in the white blouse and sunglasses was the mother of little Willie Soler. With three other boys, Willie was murdered by Batista's goons and their bodies left in an abandoned warehouse as a warning to their parents to stop resisting. Willie's mother and thousands of others across the island didn't heed those warnings, and their marches created the Revolution. Americans, of course, are not supposed to comprehend all that...and Americans even today are not supposed to Google to ascertain why there is an important hospital in Cuba today that is named the William Soler Children's Hospital. Of course, if the well-funded Counter Revolutionaries in the USA today can deny either the authenticity or the significance of the two black-and-white photos directly above, I will be the first to admit that they have at least one legitimate point, but I simply don't believe they can deny the absolute and well-documented truth.

    The most important person in Batista's Cuba who reacted to the Mother's Marches was a doctor's daughter named Celia Sanchez. Many experts on the Cuban Revolution, including Fidel Castro, considered/consider Celia the most important anti-Batista rebel -- as a guerrilla fighter for sure but most importantly as the key recruiter of rebels and supplies that could take on Batista's powerful Mafia-backed and USA-backed forces. After her revolution triumphed on January 1, 1959, Celia, with the full support of Fidel Castro, was the prime decision-maker on the island right up till the day -- Jan. 11, 1980 -- she died at age 59 of cancer. In the early days of Revolutionary Cuba, therefore, it was Celia who famously issued the two quotations that best summed up her Revolution: {1} "The Batistianos will never regain control of Cuba as long as I live or as long as Fidel lives;" and, {2} "We rebels get far too much credit for winning the revolution...our enemies deserve most of the credit, for being greedy cowards and idiots." I've been to Cuba {legally} to research Celia Sanchez and, of her two most famous and definitive quotations, I tend to favor the first one depicted above. But others, including The Woman Project.org, favor the second one.

   It was the Mother's Marches that inspired Celia Sanchez to become the greatest female revolutionary in all of history.

    And it was, in fact, Celia Sanchez who inspired the famous revolutionary men whose fame tied to the Cuban Revolution will be indelible forever. Take for example the photo in the lower-left of the above montage; the London-based BBC, which actually has the freedom to report fairly about the Cuban Revolution, says this photo reflects the very first telescopic rifle Celia Sanchez gave Fidel Castro the day he joined her revolution in the foothills of the Sierra Maestra Mountains on the far southeastern tip of Cuba in late November, 1956.

    But Celia Sanchez long before she ever laid eyes on Fidel, or Che, or Raul, or Camilo, etc., was the incomparable guerrilla fighter and the vital recruiter of rebels and supplies that sustained and fueled her Revolution. So Cuba's renowned historian Pedro Alvarez Tabio summed up the Cuban Revolution best with these words: "If Batista had manged to kill Celia Sanchez anytime between 1953 and 1957, there would have been no viable Cuban Revolution...and no revolution for Fidel and Che to join." And so...while the Mother's Marches inspired Celia Sanchez and Celia Sanchez inspired Fidel Castro, the longevity of Revolutionary Cuba today, after both Celia and Fidel have died, depends...I believe...on a strong cadre of young-adult Cuban women inspired by both Celia and Fidel. And that Cuban cadre today...I believe...is epitomized by Rosy Amaro Perez.

       Above is a photo of Rosy Amaro Perez that was taken this week -- on November 26, 2018 -- in Havana. She is abundantly aware that day was the second anniversary of the death of Fidel Castro at age 90. All this week, if Cuba is mentioned at all in the United States, Americans will be reminded that everything about Revolutionary Cuba is bad and everything about the Batista-Mafia dictatorship that preceded it was good and that the Batistiano dictating of America's Cuban policies and narratives since 1959 is the absolute truth. As a democracy loving American, I believe that lie shames America far more than it shames Cuba. I believe that any American who loves America should have the guts and the patriotism to ask...or at least consider if you are not in a position to ask... WHY Rosy Amaro Perez thinks as she does. After all, Rosy has lived all of her life in Revolutionary Cuba and so have her mother Carmen and her daughter Mariana.

     Americans are programmed not to believe it, but young Cuban females in Cuba...like Rosy Amaro Perez and like the young women above...are the most ardent worshippers of Fidel Castro, a man who did not want a cult following and insisted that no statues of him should ever be built in Cuba and no roads or other edifices ever named for him. But these young women are writing on their faces "Yo soy Fidel" -- "I am Fidel." And, no...there are no Cuban soldiers holding guns on them and they don't need outside influence to express their worship of Fidel Castro on their faces.

      Two years after Fidel Castro's death at age 90, "YO SOY FIDEL" on the island means "I AM FIDEL." I don't know what it means in Little Havana, Florida, but I do know what it means in Big Havana, Cuba. It means that...if Fidel's revolution is overturned, another revolution will immediately start to reinstall it.

     Yes, Rosy Amaro Perez...has a right to pay homage to Fidel on the second anniversary of his death at age 90. That's because the extremely smart and well-educated Rosy knows a helluva lot more about Revolutionary Cuba and Batista's Cuba than Americans who have been propagandized about both issues for all the decades since the 1950s.

Is this U. S. truth or is it U. S. propaganda?

This photo was taken in Havana on....

November 26th, 2018!!

Rosy Amaro Perez, journalist.

And, yes, she has some opinions too!!!

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