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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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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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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"Journalist" Praises Cuba Starvation

Batista Exiles Are The "Good Guys"!!
{Posted: Saturday, July 6th, 2019}

    In the United States major extreme right-wing media sources such as Breitbart are lavishly funded by billionaire families such as the Mercers as they become ubiquitous and even mainstream media stars. Breitbart "journalist" Frances Martel, living large in the world's richest nation, is in charge of celebrating the current all-out effort of the Trump administration to starve 11 millions Cubans on the island to appease a handful of super-rich and ultra-powerful Cuban exiles in Miami, Newark, and the U. S. Congress. This week's Frances Martel article at Breitbart is entitled: "STARVED CUBAN REGIME TAKES OUT TOURISM ADS IN MAJOR CHINESE CITIES." Mocking Cuba for trying to keep its 11 million people from starving as the USA imposes new starvation laws it deems legal because of the Batistiano-written and legalized Helms-Burton Act, is what  right-wing "journalist" specialize in. When a Frances Martel is considered a "journalist" as opposed to a propagandist, and when Breitbart is rated a "legitimate" media source as opposed to an extreme right-wing propaganda machine, the precipitous decline of both the United States media and the United States two-party political system is abundantly apparent.

     Because the United States has the economic and military power to intimidate most nations who seek to do business with Cuba, it is not surprising that Cuba looks to another Superpower like China that is less intimidated. So, trying to get more Chinese tourists to visit the island is a logical step for Cuba to try to survive the Batistiano-dominated Trump administration in Washington. This apparently {above} is one of the Cuban ads in China that Breitbart mocked.

    Actually, the extraordinary resilience of the Cuban people since 1959 to resist the all-out, no-holds-barred, vicious U.S.-backed efforts by the rich and powerful Batistiano exiles to recapture Cuba is astounding, and it's ongoing even as President Trump has given Rubio, the Diaz-Balarts, Claver-Carone, Bolton, and Pompeo full clearance to starve Cuba into submission or otherwise recapture the island "FOR DEMOCRACY," to presumably replicate the GREAT DEMOCRACY the U. S. created in Cuba in 1952 when it sicced the highest echelon of the Mafia -- Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Santo Trafficante Jr., etc. -- on the island. The photo above was taken yesterday -- July 5th, 2019 -- and is used courtesy of Isabel Diaz Gonzalez. It shows Cubans who had been gathered around that table discussing the latest all-out effort by the Trump administration to starve the island by cutting off all imports and exports, including oil, and by severely and successfully invoking huge fines against companies in the U. S. and elsewhere that might do business with Cuba. No other nation, large or small, could survive such tactics from the world's economic and military Superpower, but Cuba has somehow survived it for 6+ decades. The moms and dads in this group yesterday made sure their children were safely at home and were not starving. Then, around this table, they vowed to "Fight to the death to defend our children and our country against U. S. Mafia types in the United States." 

      This Fernando Medina/Reuters photo shows U. S. tourists at Cuba's renowned Varadero Beach. The Batistiano-controlled Trump administration is embarked on a mission to prevent Americans, and others, from having the freedom to visit Cuba. Using the legality of the Batistiano-written Helms-Burton Act, the USA successfully fines U. S. and foreign companies that might, in any manner, assist tourism to Cuba. Such companies, capitulating to the USA's international financial clout, readily send huge checks to the U. S., highlighting the TWO prime Helms-Burton priorities -- which, in this order, are: {1} To increase the extreme wealth of a few already rich Cuban Counter Revolutionaries; and {2} to starve, deprive, and make miserable the lives of Cubans on the island. Anyone who tells you that those are not the two prime priorities of the Batistiano bible known as Helms-Burton are lying to you...and doing so on a 24-hour basis in the United States via such massively financed  right-wing organs as Breitbart "News."

     For most of the past 243 years, America's experimental two-party -- DEMOCRAT & REPUBLICAN -- political system served the USA's democracy very well. That began to change drastically in 1959 after the Cuban Revolution chased the extremely rich leaders of Cuba's U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship to U. S. soil. Riding the conservative/right-wing waves of such allies as the Bush dynasty and the Tea Party, the Batistiano/Mafiosi exiles evolved into major players within the bowels of the Republican Party, and thus the two-party U. S. government. The surprising election of Donald Trump as U. S. President in 2016 has elevated the Batistiano dominance of the Republican Party to 100%. Thus, the Batistiano bible, The Helms-Burton Act, has evolved as the best testament to the weakness of a two-party political system when one of the parties is totally dominated by an extremely biased and greedy Cuban-exile minority.

     All of his waking hours, James Williams works tirelessly to bring sanity and decency to America's Cuban policies. Most Americans support his efforts of "ENGAGEMENT" with Cubans on the island, as opposed to STARVATION. Unfortunately, when it comes to Cuba, majority opinion within the Batistiano-weakened U. S. democracy is overwhelmed by a vicious, intimidating Batistiano minority.

     In America's two-party political system, Republicans seeking national offices are required to genuflect to the tiny Batistiano stronghold of Little Havana in the heart of Miami. But Democrats are generally allowed to make non-Batistiano decisions, and thus almost every Democrat agrees with James Williams about "engagement" with Cuba, not starvation. Study the updated graphic above prepared by James Williams. There are currently 25 Democratic presidential candidates trying to keep Batistiano-controlled Republican Donald Trump from being re-elected to a second term as President. Twenty-four of those 25 Democrats strongly support decent relations with Cuba while only one of the 25 is afraid to even express an opinion on the subject. That lone Democrat -- Corey Booker -- is the only of the 25 Democrats who must bow down to the Miami-based Batistianos, and I'll explain why that is sadly so.

     It is actually no surprise that Cory Booker is the only one of the 25 Democratic presidential candidates unwilling to call for normal relations with Cuba. Born 50-years-ago to wealthy parents in Washington-DC, Booker was blessed with world-class educations -- Stanford, Oxford, and Yale Law School. But his political career is based in New Jersey. When the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 chased the leaders of the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship to the U. S., Miami became the Batistiano-exiles' primary headquarters but Newark-Union City, New Jersey, was the second most prominent U. S. area overwhelmed from 1959 till 2019 by Counter Revolutionary Cuban exiles. Booker, of course, became an integral part of that Batistiano transition in the money-crazed U. S. political system. He was Mayor of Newark from 2006 till 2013 and since 2013 Booker has been a U. S. Senator from New Jersey. As with members of Congress from Florida, members of Congress from New Jersey must capitulate to the Counter Revolutionary Cuban extremists, even if they are Democrats. So, that explains why Cory Booker is the only one of the 25 Democratic candidates for President without the freedom to advocate sane and decent relations with Cuba. As a democracy-loving American, I believe it is important for Democracy-lovers to be concerned with such things as the Batistiano's total dominance of the Republican Party and its intimidating influence even with members of the USA's other political party -- Democrats like Cory Booker.

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