President Biden and Cuba

 It Begins TODAY {Jan. 20th}!!

     For many years Tim Padgett has been one of the best and fairest journalists reporting on Caribbean and Latin American issues. Today -- January 20th, 2021 -- he is the first journalist that Americans and Cubans should depend on for the best reporting regarding the Presidential transition in the United States -- with the Democrat Biden replacing the Republican Trump in the White House. That is important for Americans and for citizens around the world, especially for Cubans on the island whom Trump's administration for the past four years on behalf of extremist Cubans in Miami and in Congress, has administered sheer genocide to Cubans on the island. Therefore, Cubans on the island had prayed for the Nov. 3rd election to replace Trump, which it did!!!!

 

     Now working from the strategic Cuba-U.S. locale of Miami/South Florida, Tim Padgett reports for WLRN, the PBS affiliate in that area. Tim Padgett is your best source of insightful and fair-minded news regarding President Biden's post-Trump impact on Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

      Above are the opening words written by the great Tim Padgett about today's presidential transition from Donald Trump to Joe Biden in the United States. Because of the genocidal blockade against Cubans on the island that Trump left for Biden to deal with, the best perspective regarding that situation is the one you will get from the best fair-minded expert, Tim Padgett. As you can see above, it appears that Tim Padgett believes that the vast and still-growing economic and political power of the Counter Revolutionary Cubans in South Florida, which dictated Trump's genocide against Cuba, will also dictate much of President Biden's Cuban actions. I, of course, totally agree with the expert journalist Tim Padgett.

The great journalist Tim Padgett.

The new President Joe Biden.

       NOTE: In the Western Hemisphere today, there are few journalists that have both the courage and the integrity to report fairly about U.S.-Cuban relations. Tim Padgett is not only a unique expert on that important issue, but he is also brave enough and honest enough to tell the truth about it.

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Pompeo Uses Final Days Hurting Cuba

 Last Hours Before Trump Exits!!

      Above is the headline and the beginning of the major article this weekend -- Jan. 16-17, 2021 -- in Israel's powerful newspaper -- The Times of Israel.

     In the aforementioned article The Times of Israel used this AP/Ramon Espinosa photo taken in Cuba to honestly report on the USA's Trump administration continuing to savagely target Cubans in Cuba even during the last few days of the Trump presidency in Washington.

    This week The Times of Israel used this photo of U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to report about Pompeo's 4-year effort to use the awesome economic and political power of the United States to continually conduct genocide against Cubans on the island to appease the extremist Counter Revolutionary Cubans from Miami, Newark, and the U. S. Congress. As the USA's top diplomat during the Trump regime in Washington, Pompeo has steadfastly taken his Cuban orders from only the most self-serving and extremist Cuban-Americans -- namely, Marco Rubio, Mauricio Claver-Carone, and Mario Diaz-Balart. Of course, taking advantage of a mostly incompetent or propaganda-obsessed U. S. mainstream media, Pompeo has had the benefit of never considering what decent Cuban-American think and, for sure, the U. S. effort to recapture Cuba during the past 6+ decades never considers what the 11 million Cubans on the island think. If the opinions of Cubans on the island were considered by the U. S. government and by the U. S. mainstream media they would have to admit that the Cubans on the island are not afraid of human rights violations by their Cuban government but THEY ARE DAILY AFRAID of the HUMAN RIGHTS violations against them by the U. S. government or by the dissidents who are supported by the U. S. government and hugely funded by U. S. tax dollars, as minutely documented on his Cuban Money Project blog by the great journalist Tracey Eaton, who is now a beloved Journalism Professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.

      In addition to The Times of Israel article this weekend that told some of the truths about the incessant genocide still aimed at Cuba by Pompeo and the Trump administration, the world's best News Agency -- the London-based Reuters News Agency --has a great bureau in Cuba and writes honestly about Cuban issues. The Reuters headline and first paragraph shown above this weekend fairly reported on the latest last-ditch tactics by the Trump administration to assault innocent Cuban families on the island. The article above was written by Daphne Psaledakis in the Reuters bureau in Washington with contributions from Sara Marsh who is a part of Reuters' excellent 4-person staff of journalists in Havana.

      Of course, if Americans want real and honest updates on  Little Havana-inspired Trump-Pompeo genocide against Cubans during their last few hours in the White House everyone must totally ignore the propagandized U. S. media and seek out the two sources I used above -- The Times of Israel in Tel Aviv or Reuters in London. The USA is saturated with Counter Revolutionary propagandists masquerading as journalists such as Nora Gamez Torres, who regularly claims that all the good Cubans are in Little Havana and all the bad Cubans are still in Havana. Thus, with "journalists" like Nora Gamez Torres, the Miami Herald this weekend got in one last Counter Revolutionary propaganda anti-Havana/pro-Little Havana piece, this one entitled: "Florida Republicans Issue Litmus Test On Cuba, Venezuela Policies For Biden." In other words, Nora Gamez Torres seems to be warning Democrat Joe Biden, who replaces the Republican Trump as the U. S. President on Wednesday, that...like Trump...President Biden must take his Cuban orders from Little Havana stalwarts such as Marco Rubio, Mauricio Claver-Carone, and Mario Diaz-Balart. 

      While the U. S. government never wants the opinions of Cubans on the island to be heard, Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel ubiquitously airs his opinions on television and on Social Media forums and at public meetings. Diaz-Canel was born after the Cuban Revolution chased the leaders of the U. S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship from Havana to their luscious sanctuary of Little Havana in nearby Miami. Well known to Cubans even in rural regions where he rode his bicycle or motorcycle to meet them while he was the island's Minister of Education, Diaz-Canel is wildly popular by Cubans on the island. While Little Havana has controlled the Cuban narrative in the United States since 1959, President Miguel Diaz-Canel firmly believes that "the best Cubans are still on the island, not in Miami and Washington. Three generations of Cubans in Cuba have been aware that in Batista's Cuba the leaders and their Mafia and Americans supporters were only concerned with robbing the island blindly. Since 1959 Revolutionary Cuba has promised free and excellent educations through college and free and excellent health care ALL THEIR LIVES. When the U. S. media lies about that fact, they are either afraid of Cubans in Miami or they are simply lying for them."

      When President Diaz-Canel says that the best Cubans are in Cuba, not Miami, he means Cubans like Maite Romero Padron. She is very young, very beautiful, very healthy, very smart, very well educated, and very important!!!

    Despite her tender age, Maite Romero Padron is a Neontologist at a key Cuban hospital and she is very skilled at saving the lives of babies, including newborns who were discovered to have health problems while still in the womb. Above Maite is shown examining a healthy baby boy that she has known since his birth because that was when he needed her the most.

        This is one of Maite's babies. Maite herself took this photo today -- Sunday, January 17th, 2021.

     When she is not at the hospital saving the lives of babies, Maite Romero Padron likes to wade and swim in the Caribbean Sea at sunrise and sunset.

      The Little Havana Counter Revolutionary zealots such as Rubio, Claver-Carone, the Diaz-Balart brothers, etc., have reaped a vast economic and political whirlwind in Washington, and they continue to do so within the money-crazed U. S. two-party political system. But lying about Cubans like the brilliant young Maite Romero Padron, while also legally trying to starve and deprive them so they will rise up and oppose their Revolutionary government, has been tried for seven decades...since 1959. Not even the past genocidal years authorized by President Trump never came close to persuading Maite Romero Padron that Batista, Mafia, and the United States represented a better government than the Revolutionary government has been since 1959. While Little Havana has been supported in its efforts to regain Havana by the world's economic and military Superpower, overcoming that overwhelming advantage has been daunting but not an impossibility by the island of Cuba. And as long as Revolutionary Cuba continues to produce baby-lovers and sea-lovers like Maite Romero Padron, Counter Revolutionary zealots such as Mario, Claver-Carone, and the Diaz-Balarts, despite their extraordinary and overwhelming advantages, will continue to have a hard time recapturing the pugnacious island for Little Havana.

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Clinging To Trump's Presidency

More Last Minute Cuban Actions Legalized!!

     Today -- January 15, 2021 -- the blaring headline depicted above flashed out of Washington and spread around the world. It follows a few days after the Counter Revolutionary Cuban zealots in Miami, Newark, and Congress persuaded President Trump to put Cuba on the State Sponsors of Terrorism List. Now today's headlines is yet another last-ditch effort to add more terror and heartache Cubans on the island have suffered from the latest Republican administration, TRUMPS!!! The headline above shows the Little Havana & Congressional Cubans today are still taking advantage of the last few days, even hours, left before Trump exits the White House. This new headline today is YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE of the genocide aimed at Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government, something all the zealots in Little Havana/Miami and every Republican administration in Washington have been trying to do since 1959.

        Americans who have been programmed to accept their tax dollars going to fund genocide against Cubans on the island since 1959 are not supposed to see or comprehend the photos from Batista's Cuba in the 1950's such as the ones above, photos that spawned the Cuban Revolution. The U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista regime in the 1950's created massive paydays for Batista associates, the Mafia, and rich American businessmen who partook in the debauchery. But as you can see above, the Batista cronies did not have the sense to at least toss some crumbs to the majority peasants -- such as perhaps even providing some educational and health benefits. Instead, feeling vulnerable while being supported by the world's strongest nation and by the world's strongest criminal organization, the Batista rulers decided they would keep the majority peasants in check by terror -- such as murdering peasant children as a warning not to resist what was happening in their nation. That tactic failed because of the brave street marches depicted above by the Cuban mothers, the marches that spawned the Cuban Revolution.

      Since 1959 in Revolutionary Cuba, three generations of Cuban mothers have done their best to care for their children, especially when it comes to protecting them physically but also with state-financed free educations through college and free health care for life. That includes the five little girls depicted above that today are wearing COVID-19 masks on a Havana playground as their parents try to protect them from COVID-19 and from Counter Revolutionary Cubans and their sycophants in the  nearby United States of America.

    This photo was taken tonight -- January 15, 2021. It shows Rosy Amaro Perez anchoring tonight's Newscast on Cubavision International Television. On this newscast the reports to Cubans, and to others -- because the station is carried via satellite and the internet to other nations -- included excellent updates on things such as COVID-19, the Caribbean weather, etc. But Rosy, of course, reported on US-Cuban relations...including a report from Washington on the latest {Jan. 15-2021} genocidal decision against Cuban families by the Trump White House five days before he leaves office!!! And in this newscast to the Cuban people tonight, Rosy used a photo showing the very day that Trump began his genocidal attacks on the Cuban people on behalf of Cubans in Miami's Little Havana.

     This was the photo news anchor Rosy Amaro Perez used on her broadcast tonight, telling the Cuban people the day in 2017 when new President Donald Trump went to Little Havana in Miami to sign and boast about his legal genocide against Cubans on the island as documented by the signed document he is displaying. Of course, the crowd in Little Havana around him that day -- including Little Havana-disciples from the U. S. Congress Mario Diaz-Balart, Rick Scott, and Marco Rubio -- supported Trump's assault on Cuba's population. In the past four years neither the American people nor even the anti-Trump zealots in the mainstream U. S. media have had the guts to describe or to oppose Trump's self-serving genocide against Cubans on the island. But, using that photo shown above, anchor Rosy Amaro Perez explained it correctly tonight to the Cuban people.

      The U. S. Embassy in Havana, as shown above, was reopened by Trump's predecessor, President Barack Obama, and because of the brave Obama the Cubans on the island were beginning to enjoy normal relations with the United States. But from the Trump regime's beginning in 2017 the Little Havana extremists have dictated Trump's every genocidal decision regarding Cuba.

     Trump's predecessor President Obama also reopened Cuba's Embassy in Washington, but, of course, Little Havana-obsessed President Trump discarded it the way other Republican administrations have discarded every decent policy regarding Cuba. In fact, one Trump supporter took a high-powered rifle and fired 32 bullets at the Cuban Embassy while 12 Cubans were inside and had to duck for cover. Of course, neither the mainstream U. S. media nor the American people had the guts to say much against such terrorism...as long as it was against Cubans.

     The recent tumultuous U. S. presidential election means that in just four days -- on Jan. 20th, 2021 -- President Trump will  be replaced by President-elect Joe Biden. That means a Democrat will replace a Republican in the White House. Every Republican president since the 1950s has been tightly tied to the Cubans who led Batista's Cuba from 1952 to 1959 and to the Batistianos who have led Little Havana's anti-Revolutionary crusade since 1959. But except for Obama, every Democratic president since the 1950s has also been too afraid of Little Havana to act decency regarding innocent Cubans on the island. But the elderly Joe Biden, the incoming Democrat President, was the Cuba-friendly Obama's Vice President for eight years. So Cubans on the island, who loved Obama's decency, hope Biden as President starting on January 20th will also treat them decently, not genocidally as the Trump presidency treated them.

     In America's deeply divided Two-Party political system, at least about half of America's 340 million people are worried by the belief that the Democratic Party has tilted too far to the left. The Cuban leaders in Little Havana, of course, will pine for another Republican administration in the White House. But the Cubans in Cuba, tired of decades of genocide from self-serving Republican administrations, are among the first people in the world to extend hearty "CONGRATULATIONS to Joe and Kamala" simply because Joe and Kamala are Democrats, not REPUBLICANS!!!!

Trump Exits With More Cuban Genocide

 Naming Cuba a "Terror Sponsor"!!!

    It has been known for at least the past three weeks that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump had drawn up plans to put one last genocidal blow against the Cubans on the island to solidify their Republican Party's extreme ties to only the most extreme Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Little Havana and in the U. S. Congress. Many thought that, with Pompeo and Trump now having just a few days left in The White House, that they would not bother with this last-ditch insane diatribe against innocent Cubans on the island. But, of course, today the POMPEO-TRUMP White House put Cuba on the USA's list that designates the island as an INTERNATIONAL SPONSOR OF TERROR. Meanwhile, Cuba has never been a sponsor of terrorism and right now is just trying to survive the terror inflicted on the island by the latest Little Havana-aligned Republican regime.

       But for what it is worth, here is what NBC News today said about Cuba being designated as a Sponsor of Terrorism:

     The above Tweet from Cuba's Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said: "We condemn the hypocritical and cynical designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, as announced by the US. The political opportunism of this action is recognized by all who have an honest concern about the scourge of terrorism and its victims."

      Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez also said: "Prior to Trump and Pompeo designating Cuba as a sponsor of terrorism, they have already spent four years applying their other criminal tirades against Cuban families. Even the Bush administration from 2001 to 2009 refused to activate Title 3 of Helms-Burton because even Bush believed it to be a criminal and genocidal assault on masses of innocent Cuban people on the island, but Pompeo and Trump activated Title 3 of Helms-Burton knowing it was intended to legalize criminal genocide against Cuban families. And now today the hypocrisy of the U. S., meaning Pompeo and Trump, designating Cuba as a sponsor of terrorism is not lost on decent governments in the region and around the world, and that is even well known to governments and dissidents whereby U. S. money is buying off countries and dissidents so they will oppose Cuba. The shame of Republican politicians in the United States trying to terrify, starve, and kill innocent Cubans on the island is an infamy that appears to be endless."

     Of course, the United States -- since being booted off the island all to the way to Little Havana in Miami by the Cuban Revolution way back on Jan. 1-1959 -- has never allowed everyday Cubans on the island themselves to say anything about what their thoughts are about the extreme brutality and thievery of the U. S.-backed and Mafia-backed FULGENCIO BATISTA dictatorship that preceded the Cuban Revolution's startling victory. But guess what??? Now Cubans on the island repeatedly use Social Media forums to voice their opinions about such things as Fulgencio Batista's terror in Cuba...Revolutionary Cuba that overthrew Fulgencio Batista but that spawned the subsequent U. S. Embargo, the U. S. Blockade, and the gutlessness of consecutive generations of Americans who permit self-serving Little Havana and Republican Party miscreants who make vast economic and political gains by punishing and terrifying totally innocent Cuban families on the island.

      Now Cubans young & old on the island ubiquitously use their Smart Phones and Tablets to search the Internet. Thus, they  confirm what they already knew about things such as...the Embargo, the Blockade, and Terrorism. FOR EXAMPLE, Cubans on the island can now go on the Internet to see images/photos such as the four PHOTOS below that show Cubans on the island who have been victims of vicious Terrorism carried out BY Cubans trained and PAID BY the U. S. GOVERNMENT.

    Yes, Cubans on the island cry too when U. S. Terrorism inflicts pain on them or their loved ones. The four photos above are testaments to real and true history that Americans are programmed to ignore, and that is WRONG!!

    Today -- January 11, 2021 -- the Pompeo-Trump administration in the White House made a last-ditch effort to commit more Terrorism against Cubans on the island even as Cubans on the island are also struggling against the COVID-19 Pandemic!!!

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Cuba Has a COVID Setback

 As It Battles Pandemic & Little Havana!!!

       Cuba this past weekend used the above January 9-2021's statistics to explain to the Cuban people via television newscasts why it was posting a new curfew and virtually locking down the capital city of Havana. The key "365" number was the key, denoting the positive new COVID-19 cases within a 24-hour period.

     Cubans have depended on the brilliance of Dr. Francisco Duran to advise them during the Pandemic and tell them what to do to survive it.

      Appearing daily on state television, Dr. Francisco Duran on Jan. 9-2021 cogently explained why he was advising the new curfew restrictions such as closing cinemas, bars, and other popular spots in Havana: "Legal measures will be taken because we cannot jettison the sacrifice of a whole country, a whole people."

     The article depicted above was written this past weekend by Nelson Acosta, one of the great journalists at the London-based Reuters bureau in Cuba. No U. S. source comes close to the Reuters News Agency when it comes to covering Cuban events in a fair, unbiased and professional manner.

     The people in a small island that are fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic should not have to also have to try to fight back the cruel and bald-FACED insanity of the unending EMBARGO from a neighboring nation that happens to be the richest and strongest country in the world. When over 300 million Americans continue to allow that to happen decade-AFTER-decade, images like the famous one shown above by the great Brazilian Carlos LaTuff will continue to spread an egregious image of America and Democracy. 

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