20.7.19

Tiny Step for Cuba's Survival

Surviving Trump Prioritized!!
     With the Trump administration using the USA's incomparable economic and military power to strangle and starve Cubans on the island by blocking imports and exports, the island's attempt to survive Trump was highlighted this weekend by the popular Cigar Aficionada website. A new version of an old Cuban jewel -- cigars -- is now showing up in venues across the island. It's a fresh edition of Punch Cigars, as shown above, in "slide-lid, wooden boxes that contain 10 cigars each." The neat little boxes represent a tiny step as the island nation tries to prevent the Trump presidency from turning Cuba back over to the Little Havana extremists in Miami who have been longing for an extreme Republican president like Trump EVERY DAY SINCE JANUARY, 1959. But as tiny as this box is, at least is shows that the pugnacious island doesn't intend to surrender. The idea is to find brave nations that will resist U. S. pressure and perhaps import these little cigar boxes.
     When America's most renowned right-wing war-monger is allowed to go to Little Havana and declare war on 11 million innocent and supposedly helpless Cubans, it begs a simple question: Does the photo above represent more harm to Cuba or more harm to the United States of America?? It's a pertinent question in July of 2019, I believe, because neither 325 million Americans nor the mainstream U. S. media have the guts to challenge the above photo...or to even discuss it.
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19.7.19

Little Havana's WAR on Havana

Bullies Punishing Cubans!!
     Interestingly, one of the best ways to keep tabs on what's happening in Cuba is to depend on Hatzel Vela's regular updates from the island that are regularly sent back to WPLG-TV 10, the ABC affiliate in Miami, OF ALL PLACES. And, yes, his reports are fair and balanced, which is quite unusual and brave in the USA even outside of Miami when the topic is Cuba.
      Unrestricted in covering Cuba for the best television station in Miami, Hatzel Vela is an important American journalist in the Era of Trump in Washington. Trump is perfectly willing to commit genocide against Cubans on the island in exchange for placating, appeasing, and enriching a handful of rich zealots in Miami who promise to deliver him Florida's massive 29 electoral votes heading into his 2020 re-election effort. Therefore Trump...even more than the 3 Bush dynasty administrations...has provided a handful of Little Havana's most extremists Counter Revolutionaries all the tools necessary to recapture Cuba, beginning with new USA sanctions designed to starve Cubans on the island and destroy their electricity grid to create massive blackouts. Of course, Trump is fully aware that the extremist Cubans in Little Havana, first and foremost, seek massive amounts of tax dollars from their unholy alliance with the Republican Party. So, to reap massive new avenues to rake in incredible amounts of U. S. tax dollars for Little Havana, Trump has allowed increased U. S. Treasury, USAID, and State Department rules to enrich Cuban extremists, a Trump policy readily backed by Cuban-dominated venues such the powerful U. S. Southern District Court system, Radio-TV Marti {now lavishing in tax dollars with Marco Rubio's old mentor Tomas Regalado the new leader}, etc., etc. In that milieu, Hatzel Vela's excellent reports from Cuba are especially topical and important.
     Shown above, Hatzel Vela reported back to TV-10 in Miami when Hurricane Irma devastated Cuba. He is now reporting honestly back to Miami on how the Trump administration's recent activation of Title 3 of the Helms-Burton Act is tormenting everyday Cubans. Even the George W. Bush two-term presidency considered Title 3 too extremely cruel and outrageous to activate, but Little Havana's Little Marco Rubio persuaded Trump to activate it. Thus, while Rubio's pals in Little Havana rake in every additional tax dollar Cuban-American lawyers can think of, Cubans on the island are facing both a food shortage and electricity blackouts thanks to Title 3's extreme and unchecked cruelty.
      Americans and Cuban-Americans are not supposed to know about or care about the pain Helms-Burton Title 3 creates for totally innocent Cuban children on the island, but at least Hatzel Vela has both the guts and the journalistic integrity to inform the Miami viewers who watch the ABC-TV 10 WPLG television station. Having reported on the starvation-intended Title 3 food shortages, Vela this week described the electricity blackouts courtesy of Title 3. He reported: "Power shortages in the towns of Cienfuegos, Mariel and Nuevitas had problems in their systems. The western province of Pinar del Rio lost power between 1:25 A. M. and 6:30 A. M. in the heat of the day. Matanzas, Villa Clara, and Camaguey also lost power..." Most Cuban-Americans in Miami who watch such reports on their best television station are ashamed, but the few Cuban-Americans in Miami who revel in such reports still hold the upperhand, and that is especially true anytime there is a Republican U. S. President. But congratulations to Hatzel Vela for being a brave and decent journalist reporting back to Miami from the targeted island.
     Of course, the best American journalist reporting on Cuban issues remains Tracey Eaton, the most knowledgeable American regarding U.S.-Cuban issues. Now a journalism professor in Florida, Tracey still regularly pens the most definitive articles about Cuba based on two insightful methods: {1} Regular visits to the island to observe the pulses and rhythms of everyday Cubans; and {2} frequent and penetrating usage of the Freedom of Information Act to emphatically report down to the last penny the incredible numbers of programs and the startling amount of tax dollars now being used by the Trump administration to both enrich Miami Cubans but to also support starvation-blackout genocidal assaults on the Cuban people. Americans who do not know Tracey Eaton also have no idea about how their tax dollars as well as their reputations are being used by a Batistiano-infused U. S. government to enrich certain Cuban-Americans while, secondarily, also severely punishing innocent Cubans on the island.
      America's biggest news organizations -- such as NBC-TV News, USA Today, etc. -- regularly utilize Tracey Eaton's unique expertise related to Cuba but the easiest way to make sure you get his vital information is to dial up his blog CUBA MONEY PROJECT.com. There you will find his Freedom of Information statistics along with his unsurpassed knowledge of U.S.-Cuba relations. And, yes, you will be astounded about this blog's unbiased and unassailable down-to-the-penny updates on U. S. tax dollars courtesy of Rubio & Trump being poured into the pockets and bank accounts of already rich Miami Cubans while also being used to lavishly fund genocidal targeting of totally innocent Cubans on the island. If you care about America and Democracy, you should at least be brave enough and concerned enough to dial up CUBA MONEY PROJECT.com.
       In a long and brilliant journalist career on his way to becoming America's greatest expert on U.S.-Cuban relations, as far as I know no one has ever accused Tracey Eaton of being biased. This week on his Facebook page, he refers to some of his updated articles that delineate the astounding amount of tax dollars being used by the Trump administration to enrich politically powerful U. S. Cubans and to, SECONDARILY, support genocidal programs against Cubans on the island. On his Facebook page this week, Tracey Eaton wrote these words: "The U. S. government spends millions of dollars to try to destroy the Cuban economy, then more money to say the place is all screwed up. It's just a peculiar, circular kind of self-fulfilling policy." EVERY AMERICAN should care enough about their country and their democracy to actually MEMORIZE those two Tracey Eaton sentences written just this week. Yes, to memorize them may take some courage and a little time...but for America's sake it would be worth it, I believe.
      The photo below, courtesy of Wikipedia, shows another influential expert on U.S.-Cuban relations. Carlos LaTuff is a brilliant Editorial Cartoonist with a worldwide forum.
     Below is how Carlos Latuff views the USA's blaming of Cuba for keeping Venezuela's embattled President Nicolas Maduro in power while the USA has fought since January to replace him with its presidential choice, Juan Guaido. To spite Cuba by pulling the rug out from under Maduro, Carlos Latuff seems to believe that the USA's imperial designs covet both Venezuelan oil and the recapture of Cuba.
     The USA's influence throughout Latin America got a HUGE BOOST when pro-Trump, extreme right-winger Jair Bolsonaro became President of Brazil, which is by far the largest and richest Latin American nation. Prior to the right-wing tilt in Brazil, that nation had four consecutive extremely pro-Cuban Presidential elections of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, but now the right-wingers have imprisoned Lula and impeached Rousseff to make way for pro-Trump right-winger Bolsonaro who is fiercely anti-Cuba. Below is how the brilliant Carlos Latuff depicts what has happened in Brazil...with President Trump savoring the aroma ignited by the work of his famed right-winger Steve Bannon in that most important Latin American nation, now fiercely anti-Cuba like Trump.
 
      Of course, while Tracey Eaton writes the most definitive  and most respected words about U.S.-Cuban relations, the most definitive and most respected worldwide image of the USA's designs on Cuba has been crafted by Brazil's renowned Editorial Cartoonist Carlos LaTuff. And, I believe, it is a sad commentary on the U. S. democracy that Americans are not supposed to be embarrassed by Mr. LaTuff's searingly accurate portrait of America's incessant greed concerning the island that has actually somehow remained an independent nation since January of 1959. The internationally famed Carlos LaTuff image of the U. S. embargo of Cuba is below.
     In October of 2016, a decent United States President named Barack Obama and the rest of the entire world voted 191-to-0 in the United Nations to condemn the U. S. embargo of Cuba that has existed since 1962 as by far history's longest and cruelest economic embargo ever imposed by a powerful nation against a much-weaker nation. But still, this latest generation of Americans has neither the courage nor the intelligence...nor the patriotism...to even openly express embarrassment about President Obama's and the world's unanimous condemnation of the embargo against Cuba, and thus it has been allowed for six decades to shame America and Democracy in the eyes of the world. At least, to his everlasting credit, President Obama tried his best to correct this ongoing abomination that America's renowned Democracy seems incapable of correcting.
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15.7.19

Cuba Plans to Survive Trump

And China Wants to Help!!
{Updated: Wednesday, July 17th, 2019}
     In mid-July of 2019 the Trump administration, to appease a handful of vicious Counter Revolutionary extremists in Miami and in the U. S. Congress, is using tons of tax dollars on a myriad of programs aimed at starving a third generation of Cubans on the island. That leaves openings for a few U. S. competitors strong enough not to be afraid of America's economic and military might, such as China, to make inroads into the Caribbean and Latin America by trying to keep Cubans on the island from starving...and even allow them to experience a luxury or two. Tap the video below to see China's ongoing Cuban contribution in July, 2019:
      The extreme Counter-Revolutionary zealots that President Trump has put in charge of recapturing Cuban -- Rubio, the Diaz-Balarts, Claver-Carone, Bolton, and Pompeo -- will be dismayed at this photo taken over this past weekend --  on Saturday, July 13th, 2019. Young Cubans like this should not be HAPPILY SMILING. After all, the same day this photo was taken U. S. News & World Report published about the 100th recent USA headline predicting the imminent "Fall" of Revolutionary Cuba because the Trump administration allowed the above-named anti-Cuban extremists to activate Title 3 of Helms-Burton, something that even the Batistiano-directed George W. Bush presidency refused to activate because of its genocidal cruelty and because it severely punished anyone and everyone that remotely had positive dealings with Cuba. The young Cubans above, well-educated and well-informed via Social Media, know all about Title 3's extreme cruelty but they are still smiling because they think, somehow, their government will survive Trump and the Batistianos...and they believe their lives will improve, as happened this past weekend. These young Cubans are riding very cheaply and luxuriously on the island's newly revamped and modernized railway system. Saturday the 500-mile journey from Havana on the island's western tip to Santiago on the eastern tip was traversed in air-conditioned luxury on ultra-modern and brand-new railway coaches.
      The massive improvements to Cuba's entire railway system has been made possible thanks to China's assistance. Below is a 2 minute, 15 second report that includes comments about how Cubans feel about this new gift. Tap the image below to view this important Cuban update posted on July 14th, 2019:
      Regardless of what the Counter Revolutionary zealots in the Trump administration say and think, young Cuban families like the one below deserve two things: {1} A few luxuries like the new railway system that China is providing them all across the island and not just along the 500 miles between the two major cities of Havana and Santiago; and {2} Cubans on the island -- not Counter Revolutionary zealots in Miami, Newark, and Washington -- deserve the right to decide whether they prefer their Revolutionary government or a return of the Batistiano government that was chased to U. S. soil way back in January of 1960. While this past week U. S. News & World Report joined the chorus predicting the long-awaited "Fall" of Revolutionary Cuba, both the Reuters News Agency and the New York Times had major articles discussing the sudden mass interaction by Cubans on the Internet's Social Media platforms. And both of those deeply researched articles made the same conclusion, which is: A strong majority of Cubans on the island want to keep their Revolutionary Government and improve it from within as opposed to a return of the U.S.-backed and U.S.-imposed Batista-Mafia rule from 1952 till 1959, and this time Cubans on the island won't be fooled by the Rubio-fueled propaganda about "returning democracy to Cuba." In 1952 when U. S. right-wingers sicced Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Santo Trafficante Jr., and the other top Mafia leaders on Cuba, those right-wingers also called it "democracy." Today Cubans like the family below enjoying their new luxurious train believe that Trump and Rubio are their two prime enemies and if China or some other faraway nation wants to be their friend, so be it.
     The Miami-based, Alfaro Fernandez-led Progreso Weekly is a powerful voice in Marco Rubio's hometown and it calls the "TRUMPIFIED MARCO RUBIO" a Pinocchio-nosed liar when he says he wants to help ordinary Cubans on the island. And Progreso Weekly, a hometown expert on Rubio, unabashedly accuses Rubio of "USING LANGUAGE OF DEMOCRACY TO SUBVERT DEMOCRACY." {See below}.
     The Miami-based Progreso Weekly and Alfaro Fernandez are to be commended for having both the courage and the insight to publish accurate accounts of the insatiable and insidious grip that Rubio and his Little Havana cohorts in Miami have on the Republican Party in America's two-party political system. "SUBVERTING DEMOCRACY" via self-serving Cuban lies following by genocidal policies is something every American and Cuban-American should be concerned about.
      For sure, any CLOSER LOOK at Marco Rubio would confirm, I believe, that he is the last person President Trump should be allowed to designate as the USA's Cuban dictator. It is a shame that much of the mainstream U. S. media is too afraid to take that "closer look" because the U. S. democracy could be as endangered as the Cubans on the island who Rubio has in his gun-sights, and when America has a Republican Commander-in-Chief the danger, I believe, is multiplied many times over.
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13.7.19

SEE Cuba TO KNOW Cuba

Otherwise Meekly Accept The Lies!!
      Since January of 1959, when the Cuban Revolution kicked the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia leaders off their island all the way to Miami, Americans have gone through six decades of being lied to by the Little Havana exiles in Miami who have been allowed to dictate America's Cuban narratives and Cuban policies. One of those policies largely takes away the freedom of Americans to visit Cuba, lest they judge it and its people for themselves. Thus, to circumvent the ebullient lies, if you can't make it to the island yourself, learn to trust great photo-journalists such as Kevin Spear of the Orlando Sentinel. He is just back from Cuba and his article this week is entitled: "Return to Cuba: Everything and Nothing Has Changed." What Kevin Spear means is...despite the ongoing Batistiano-fueled effort of the Batistiano-controlled Trump administration to starve Cubans on the island...they are nothing if not resilient. And, uh...YES!! They know all about the brutal, thieving Batista-Mafia rule from 1952 till 1959 and they do not want it to return. They simply want to be able to correct their own mistakes...and especially correct the harm the Little Havana/Washington-based Batistianos have and are causing to their everyday lives. Below are some of the photos and explanations Kevin Spear makes this weekend in his insightful Orlando Sentinel article.
       This magnificent Kevin Spear photo shows two Cuban schoolchildren. His caption: "Along Havana's famed Malecon seawall at twilight."
    This Kevin Spear photo of a street in Havana features this caption: "Cubans continue to wait for change that Obama promised and President Trump has clamped down on." That caption reminds me of the prime reason neither Trump nor any Republican should be elected U. S. President as long as they are totally beholden to Batistiano extremists.
      This Kevin Spear photo has this caption: "Cell phones have arrived in Cuba in an enormous way." The New York Times also had a huge article this week about the explosion of cell phones and the internet in Cuba. It explained that social media is now widely used to praise or criticize the government, which the government now encourages, but the New York Times stated that CUBANS DO NOT WANT A CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT, just to work with their government to bring out changes they desire.
     This Kevin Spear photo has this caption: "Along Havana's famed Malecon seawall at twilight." As darkness settles in over Havana, the tropical heat of the day is replaced by soothing Caribbean breezes over the beloved Malecon seawall that looks out over 90 miles of the Florida Strait towards Key West.
      This Kevin Spear photo was captioned this way: "Cubans are resilient, inventive, and practical at pushing through disappointment." Yes, any American who slips through the Batistiano restrictions and gets to meet everyday Cubans knows Kevin Spear's observations are true. Cubans are "disappointed" that the decent Obama administration in Washington has been replaced by the indecent Batistiano-dictated Trump administration, but their plan is to survive  both Trump's presidency and the USA's Batistianos, as difficult as that seems.
    Since 1962 the U. S. embargo against Cuba has intended, according to DE-classified U. S. documents, to STARVE, DEPRIVE, and MAKE MISERABLE the lives of Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. Indeed, the embargo by the world's most influential economic Superpower has deprived the island of being self-sufficient in food because of denials involving trade, fertilizer, equipment, etc., but the Kevin Spear photo-caption above shows a food-stand depicting how Cubans are trying to cope. With each blow from the unchecked and extremely vicious Batistianos in the U. S., Cubans like these try to survive "till democracy and decency in the United States also pertains to Cuban."
      This Kevin Spear photo taken at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana includes this caption: "Tensions at Havana's airport have lessened significantly in recent years." The decency of the Obama presidency in curbing much of the most vicious abuse from the Batistiano extremists in Miami and Washington ended, of course, when another Republican {Trump} became the USA's President in 2017. But Obama's lessening of "tensions" on the island still gives hope that, if the Batistanos cannot get Trump RE-elected, relations with the U. S. may improve as they were improving before Trump replaced Obama.
      Cubans on the island today consider Marco Rubio, Little Havana's lightweight U. S. Senator, their "#1 Batistiano-Mafiosi Miami ENEMY." He was the embarrassing presidential contender back in 2016 that Donald Trump easily brushed aside with derogatory comments such as "Little Marco."
     Yet, incredibly, President Trump has anointed Marco Rubio as America's Cuban dictator on U. S. soil. That's because Trump believes that Rubio, strictly a product of the Little Havana extremists in Miami, will deliver Florida's massive haul of 29 Electoral Votes that will be needed for Trump's 2020 RE-election. With that assumption, Trump is perfectly willing for Rubio to do precisely what he is currently doing, which is: Trying to starve and bludgeon Cubans on the island into submission while, of course, directing even more pipelines of tax dollars from Washington to selective friends in Miami. Meanwhile, as he dictates Trump's extremely cruel Cuban policies, Rubio also is in charge of dictating the Cuban narrative in the United States...YOU KNOW, All the Batista-Mafia leaders in Havana were saints and in Little Havana are still saints while everyone that opposes them is a racist and a criminal. In other words, if you believe ANY word that Rubio says about Cuba, ask him how much he'll take for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and then negotiate the deal with him. After all, if 325 million Americans allow "Little Marco" to become the Cuban dictator on U. S. soil, why not permit him to become America's dictator too.
    Yes, America, you've allowed President Trump to anoint Little Marco from Little Havana as Cuba's Batista-like dictator on U. S. soil. BUT WHO CARES...as long he just starves, deprives, and makes miserable Cubans on the island while merely enriching his Little Havana pals with bundles of our tax dollars. {Note: The best and most respected journalist in America who uses Freedom of Information laws to obtain precise figures on the insane amount of tax dollars Rubio is directing to Miami is Tracey Eaton. If you are a democracy-loving American and if you're interested in the startling Washington-to-Miami money scans, I suggest you dial up Tracey Eaton's two primary blogs: Cuba Money Project and Along the Malecon. His irrefutable money statistics just since Rubio took charge are listed right now to the penny and will astound you}. Yes, Rubio...Trump's "Little Marco"...is now America's Cuban dictator ala Batista and if Americans continue to keep their eyes shut he might be America's Batista-like dictator one day.
     I remind you: If Rubio will not allow you to go to Cuba to judge it for yourself, depend on great journalists who have been there as recently as this month of July, 2019...such as Tracey Eaton and, as mentioned, Kevin Spear at the Orlando Sentinel. Kevin Spear's aforementioned article this weekend will give you a true visual and verbal look at everyday life, reality, and hope on the island. Skip Rubio's self-serving propaganda and see Cuba for yourself, at least through the unbiased prisms of great, unbiased photo-journalists like Kevin Spear at the Orlando Sentinel.
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10.7.19

The Miami-Cubans GOLD MINE

FAR More Than In Batista's Cuba!
{UPDATED: Friday, July 12th, 2019}
     This week -- July 10th, 2019 -- London-based Reuters and other news agencies spread photos like this around the world illustrating two basis facts of American life since the 1950s: {1} In the 1950's during the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship, the Batistianos, the Mafiosi, and rich American businessmen literally feasted on the wholesale robbery of Cuba; {2} BUT after the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959 chased those greedy exploiters back to U. S. soil, ever since the gross exploitation of Cuba has been AN EVEN LARGER GOLD MINE for two generations of the very same people -- namely, the Batistiano and Mafiosi exiles and their rich American economic and political sycophants. While it is considered far too dangerous in the USA for the mainstream news media to report those two truths, I will explain why the photo above of the French bank Societe Generale once again revealed that using Cuba as a piggy-bank TODAY is far more lucrative than it was back when the U.S. supported the thievery and the brutality of the Batista-Mafia dictatorship on the island from 1952 till 1959. The French bank Societe Generale a few months ago paid the U. S. $1.34 billion to settle accusations that it had violated U. S. Sanctions involving Cuba and other nations. Then this week -- July 10th, 2019 -- Societe Generale was sued for $792 million by a Cuban-American family because the French bank supposedly violated...the word was "circumvented"...U. S. sanctions against Cuba newly installed by the Batistiano-directed Trump administration. The Miami-Cubans, of course, have every reason to believe this will be another EASY VICTORY for them and their lawyers because of where such lawsuits are filed. This new case, shamefully, is: "Don Carlos Nunez and Dona Pura Galvey Inc. vs. Societe Generale SA in the U. S. District Court of Southern Florida." Carefully selected Cuban-Americans dominate that court system and after Societe Generale loses this case, it will pay up because the USA's economic clout must be appeased if such banks are to continue to do international business. The Cuban-American lawyer for the Cuban-Americans suing the French bank is Jose Lopez and this week he told Reuters this very obvious sentence: "We have other financial institutions we're looking to target." NO KIDDING. There is in the USA a vast panorama of Cuban-American lawyers who have almost overnight moved from being millionaires to billionaires thanks to the Bastistiano-driven Helms-Burton Act beginning in 1996...and that insult to Democracy has been greatly exacerbated since President Trump this year enacted Title 3 of Helms-Burton, something even the Batistiano-controlled George W. Bush presidency deemed too cruel and too extreme to activate.
     Daily headlines now remind Democracy-loving Americans that the Batistiano bible Helms-Burton is the most genocidal and the most nefarious law ever legalized in the United States, and every one of the 535 members of the U. S. Congress knows that to be true. Yet, it is as legal today as it was in 1996 when it was muscled through Congress by Miami's all-time two most Cuban-born Counter Revolutionaries in the USA, Jorge Mas Canosa and Lincoln Diaz-Balart.
     This is the Cuban-American Miami lawyer, Jose Javier, who bragged to Reuters this week as he awaits his latest anti-Cuban lawsuit windfall, this time from the French bank Societe Generale. The Cuban and Mafiosi exiles who fled the Cuban Revolution in the wee hours of January 1, 1959, easily had enough money and muscle to quickly overwhelm Miami...and enough money and muscle, plus other special privileges not available to others from churches and from original Batista-Mafia supporters in Washington, to send their children to America's best colleges and largest law firms or other powerful business operations. Javier's law firm bio says, "With the help of scholarship and financial aid, Jose Javier received an education from the top schools in the country." Then, of course, every Republican administration in the USA, from Reagan to Trump, has lavished unending and often unspeakable advantages to Cubans such as Jose Javier in an unholy nexus of greed and politics that has both shamed and reshaped America.
      Cuban lawyers such as Jose Javier have created a United States of America far different from what it was prior to 1959 and prior to what the Founding Fathers in 1776 envisioned for their bold experiment in Democracy. Yes, since 1959 the reconstituted Batista-Mafia dictatorship headquartered in what is called Little Havana in Miami has had a fierce desire to recapture Cuba. But the article by Reuters this week concerning Jose Javier's lawsuit against the French bank Societe Generale reconfirms what has always been the TOP GOAL of both Batistiano Cubans in Cuba and Batistiano Cubans in America -- and that is, first and foremost, MONEY, and tons of it. And now that the Batistiano-controlled Trump administration has activated Helms-Burton Title 3, easy financial windfalls from easy lawsuits against U. S. companies and foreign companies who might have had the audacity to do at least a little business with Revolutionary Cuba are becoming regular occurrences that could only happen with a Republican in the White House.
U.S.-backed shame in Cuba: 1952-1959.
U.S.-backed shame in the USA: 1959-2019.
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8.7.19

The USA's Cuban Government

 How Did It Happen?
How Has It Changed America?
Is It Still Evolving?
Can Democracy Survive Two Governments?
Let's Examine The Parameters!!
{Updated: Wednesday, July 10th, 2019}
     On a daily basis since January of 1959, when the Cuban Revolution chased the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship off the island...all the way to its new headquarters in Miami...a plethora of damaging, anti-American, and anti-democracy headlines related to that transition have flooded the United States, reflecting a drastically changed America. The image above, for example, is courtesy of the Miami Herald and relates to the arrest of Hedge Fund billionaire Jeffrey Epstein on multiple charges of sex trafficking including sex involving underage girls. His latest arrest refreshes the 2008 memory when a Cuban-American empowered by the Bush dynasty gifted Mr. Epstein with a highly charged and controversial plea deal that no ordinary American could have remotely hoped for. But it also is a microcosm of how the emergence of a Cuban government within the bowels of the United States government has altered and reshaped the United States, in perpetuity. It began almost immediately in January-1959 when Cuban-based Batistiano-Mafiosi money and intimidation easily and quickly overwhelmed all economic, criminal, and political aspects of nearby Miami, which then became famous for its Little Havana designation that, in reality, replicated...and replicates...what Havana was in the 1950's prior to the Revolution. The Jeffrey Epstein headlines now reflect that reshaping of America, and also chronicles how in the 1980's Little Havana's alliance with the Bush dynasty spawned essentially a two-government U. S. system, an American system headquartered in Washington and a Cuban system headquartered in Miami. It is today the goal...not unreasonable...of Little Havana to overwhelm Washington in the near future in the manner it took control of Miami beginning in 1959.
     This photo shows President George W. Bush's Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appointing Cuban Alexander Acosta {far right} as a powerful attorney for the U. S. Southern District.
     Soon Jeffrey Epstein's sweet plea deal provided by Alexander Acosta had to stand but was widely criticized by the Miami Herald and, without fail, everyone else.
     But the extreme nexus of the Bush dynasty and the Little Havana Cubans was and IS such that no controversy related to Cuba fazed them or, moreover, hurt them because both the mainstream media and the U. S. citizenry have been, for decades, too afraid to question it. In fact, the George W. Bush presidency named Alexander Acosta to no less than four positions.
      Then, as is now the rule for all Republican administrations, President Trump has bent over backwards appointing Bush-anointed Cubans to key political/financial positions...including, as indicated above, Trump apparently being obligated to point to Alexander Acosta.
      Yes, indeed!! From his huge basket of Bush-anointed Cubans, President Trump nominated Alexander Acosta as Secretary of Labor.
      The U. S. Senate approved Alexander Acosta as Labor Secretary by a vote of 60-to-38. As an only son of Cuban exiles, the now 50-year-old Acosta had huge financial, educational, and political benefits not available to others...expediting his entries to Harvard College, Harvard University, and Harvard Law. Of course, as the son of Cuban exiles, Acosta's other great asset was his nexus to the Bush dynasty.
      Getting controversial Cubans like Acosta approved by the Senate is no problem because Little Havana Cubans like Marco Rubio in the Senate and the Diaz-Balart brothers in the House gravitate quickly to such committees, often as Chairman. Once Trump anointed Rubio as the USA's Cuban dictator, Rubio has been able to essentially dictate the success of all key Trump appointments and nominations, such as Trump's early Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. But in that ultra-powerful role, Tillerson turned out not to be 100% agreeable to Rubio's extreme harshness against Cubans on the island or Rubio's extreme economic and political favors to Little Havana Cubans...such as Rubio naming his old mentor Tomas Regalado, the former Miami mayor, to the extremely lucrative job as head of Miami's tax-draining Radio-TV propaganda machine...and Rubio without blinking an eye has also anointed a controversial female Cuban as head of the U. S. Southern District Court system that is so vital to successful lawsuits against Cuba for...well, for whatever anybody wants to sue Cuba for. Along the way, of course, Rubio has been unchallenged in replacing people like Rex Tillerson with a Secretary of State like Mike Pompeo who is 100% agreeable to all of Rubio's self-serving and even genocidal Cuban policies, as are National Security adviser John Bolton, Western Hemisphere Chief Mauricio Claver-Carone, etc., etc., etc., etc.
      A firm handshake...between Rubio & Trump...sealed "Little Marco's" anointment as the USA's Cuban dictator answerable only to Little Havana extremists, as opposed to most Cuban-Americans or most non-Cuban Americans.
     An older generation of ultra-powerful Cuban mentors in Little Havana/Miami like Tomas Regalado gave birth to the second generation of well-trained puppets like Marco Rubio. Once Little Havana's nexus in the 1980's with the Bush dynasty extended Little Havana's economic and political clout to Washington, it has {since the first Reagan-Bush administration} created a two-government situation in the United States -- namely, Little Havana and Washington. In America's two-party political system where currently top Democrats are extremely left-wing and top Republicans extremely right-wing, Little Havana's government now has a chance to supersede both the Democratic Party and the U. S. government to create a one-party Little Havana-dictated system not so unlike Cuba had in the 1950's with the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia rule. You, uh...think that is NOT POSSIBLE?
     Although I am abundantly aware that it is poignantly not politically or socially correct to say so, I believe this photo chronicles the start, in the early 1980's during the Reagan-Bush administration, of America's current two-government situation -- one that is American out of Washington and one that is Cuban out of Miami. That's Vice President George H. W. Bush listening intently to the then most powerful anti-Castro Counter Revolutionary Cuban in Miami -- Jorge Mas Canosa. For sure, VP Bush bought everything Canosa was selling...and, I believe, both Democracy and the U. S. Treasury have paid for it ever since.
    The Cuban-born Miami Batistianos got a huge break when George H. W. Bush became President Reagan's two-term Vice President. But they also had gotten fantastic benefits prior to that when Bush was CIA Director for one extremely bloody year -- 1976. Then, as you can see above, the Miami Batistianos fully began extending their control of Miami northward into Washington when Bush became President. Study the gleeful photo above. Standing directly over the sitting President Bush and about to be fantastically rewarded is...Jorge Mas Canosa. This photo portended two things for Canosa, and they were: {1} He would soon be a BILLIONAIRE IN MIAMI; and {2} he would be in a position to dominate the Republican Party; and to have his highly paid lawyers literally write legislation such as the infamous Helms-Burton Act strictly designed to grossly punish Cubans on the island while also grossly enriching selected Cubans in Miami with pipelines of tax dollars from Washington-to-Little Havana via such legal means as the unending, tax-chewing Radio-TV Marti propaganda machine.
     The best documentations of how the Bush dynasty enabled Jorge Mas Canosa to establish a second government within the United States Government is from Julia Sweig, the government insider and undeniably America's best all-around Foreign Relations expert, Latin American expert, and surely the best expert on U.S.-Cuban relations.
      In countless forums Julia E. Sweig has minutely documented how the U. S. has ended up with two governments -- one still mostly resembling the Democracy the Founding Fathers envisioned almost 250 years ago and the other closely resembling what the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia DICTATORSHIP was in Cuba from 1952 till it was chased by the Cuban Revolution to its new headquarters in Miami in January of 1959. Of course, in her book "CUBA: WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW" the great Julia E. Sweig acutely explains how the Bush dynasty provided Jorge Mas Canosa the political and financial wherewithal to create a Cuban government on U. S. soil. Canosa, Ms. Sweig documents, was first advised to "study AIPAC and then construct a super-powerful Cuban lobby just like it." Of course, Canosa did that. AIPAC is the ultra-powerful Israeli lobby that no politician in Washington will dare challenge. Canosa studied it and created CANF, the omnipotent CUBAN AMERICAN NATIONAL FOUNDATION, which also remains too powerful to challenge.
      Now that Cuba is a government unto itself in the USA, it doesn't really need Canosa's CANF lobby to bully politicians but it still intimidates them. The photo above showing Donald Trump addressing a CANF affair as Canosa's sons look on illustrates that point.
     This image of Jorge Mas Canosa illustrates how Miami...and soon all of America...changed drastically after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959. That month anti-Castro zealots like Canosa began plotting their revenge and their recapture of the island.
     Totally unknown to Americans, in 1959 the U. S. government had a secret unit at Fort Benning in Georgia known as The Army School of the Americas. That was where it trained soldiers and police from friendly U. S. dictatorships and sent them back to those countries to make sure those dictators survived...ruthless but U.S.-friendly dictators like Batista in Cuba, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Somoso in Nicaragua, etc., etc. So after Batista was ousted in Cuba by the Cuban Revolution, the U. S. immediately sent anti-Castro zealots like Jorge Mas Canosa, future infamous terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, etc., etc., to Fort Benning to train for the infamous Brigade 2506 that was directed by the CIA and designed to quickly recapture Cuba. As you can see above, Mas Canosa...like Posada, etc...graduated as a 2nd Lt. from Fort Benning's Army School of the Americas. By the way, it wasn't until the 1990s that knowledge of the Army School became known and then President Clinton held one news conference to apologize for it...after which, at least, the nefarious and infamous name was changed. So, how did a lowly anti-Castro zealot, Mas Canosa, evolve into a U. S. soldier; then a Miami billionaire; and then the head of a Cuban government in the United States that could so easily construct legal laws grossly assaulting Cubans on the island while also grossly enriching selected Cubans in Miami?? The answer was already stated above, which is the Bush dynasty anointment of Mas Canosa as the head of the Cuban government in exile. Gradually, as the Miami Cubans got richer and more powerful even as Revolutionary Cuba somehow survived, Mas Canosa can be credited with not only founding things such as CANF, Helms-Burton, Radio-TV Marti, etc., he also founded a second government within the bowels of the U. S. government.
      Born in Santiago de Cuba in 1939, Jorge Mas Canosa died young at age 58 in Miami/Coral Gables in 1997. But riding the enormous power of the Bush dynasty -- A CIA directorship, a two-term Vice President, a one-term President, a two-term President by a Bush son, a two-term Governor of Florida by another Bush son, etc. -- Mas Canosa never realized his dream of recapturing Cuba but he did become a Miami billionaire and the head of the Cuban government in the United States. Today throughout South Florida...despite his close ties to famed anti-Cuban terrorist Posada and other controversies...there are schools, buildings, roads, and many other edificies named for Mas Canosa. In other words, today's Cuban Government in the United States is still Mas Canosa's.
        But, amazingly, Cuba to this day is still Fidel Castro's Cuba...although the Revolutionary icon died at age 90 on Nov. 25-2016. Most Americans today don't realize that fact because: {1} Mas Canosa's Cuban government in the U.S. mostly deprives Americans from the freedom to visit the island to judge it for themselves; and {2} Mas Canosa's Cuban government in the U. S. still dictates America's Cuban narratives as well as Congressional laws and all major Republican politicians.
        Thus, in stark tribute to Mas Canosa's continuing power, the genocidal Helms-Burton Act to this very day still dictates unconscionable assaults on Cubans in Cuba while also dictating unconscionable riches for selected Cubans in the USA.
     And as further indelible proof that Mas Canosa's Cuban government still reigns as one of the two U. S. governments -- one in Washington and the other in Miami -- every major Republican politician, as shown above, must go to Little Havana in Miami and bow down to the infamous BRIGADO ASALTO 2506, the Battle Flag of America's humiliating Bay of Pigs attack way back in April of 1961. Of course, when Americans see images like the one above, they are not supposed to be embarrassed for America.
    And, of course, when Americans today see this most definitive worldwide image of America's insatiable Cuban greed and insanity, they are also NOT SUPPOSED TO BE EMBARRASSED FOR AMERICA. And why is that so? It dates back to the Bush dynasty empowering Jorge Mas Canosa's creation of the Cuban Government in the United States of America.
For America's sake.
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