9.3.21

Anti-Cuba U.S. Media Revs UP

Warning Biden Not to Harm Cuban Piggybank!!

     As far as I am concerned, the photo above explains...epitomizes...why the genocidal U. S. Embargo/Blockade against masses of Cuban families on the island will continue. That is because the Embargo/Blockade, which has existed since 1962, has made and will continue to make rich and politically important Cuban-Americans richer-and-richer and more powerful. That undeniable fact is politically and socially incorrect in America and, also, unhealthy when it is revealed, but it should be admitted bravely, especially by Democracy-loving Americans. So, courageously, permit me to attempt to explain the true meaning of the photo above.
      The ultra-rich journalist, author, and high-priced speaker Andres Oppenheimer remains a prime example of why the genocidal U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuba is heading into a 7th decade. It, of course, doesn't matter that it began in 1962 for the exact purpose, as de-classified U. S. documents prove, "to starve, deprive, and make miserable" the Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government...the rebel government that overthrew the brutal and thieving U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship in 1959 and then in April of 1961 shocked the world again by defeating the U.S/Batistiano/Mafiosi Bay of Pigs air-land-&-sea military attack. Since fleeing the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959, the new Batistiano headquarters in the heart of Miami known as Little Havana has been flush with money -- from Batista's Cuba, the Catholic church, the U. S. government, etc., etc. For sure, the children of Counter Revolutionary Cubans had extreme privileges other U. S. kids didn't have, such as pathways to the best educations -- Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc., or Colombia {Oppenheimer's alma mater}. And, for sure, in the 1950's the Batistianos, the Mafiosi, and rich U. S. businessmen made financial windfalls in Havana, yet since 1959 they have easily amassed even larger windfalls!!! And that, my friends, is why...in the USA's money-crazed two-party political system, even when a Democratic president, Biden, replaces a Republican, Trump, in Washington, the money-crazed EMBARGO/BLOCKADE remains in place. In other words, too many rich Cuban-Americans and their sycophants are making too much money to allow it to end!! I believe that explains the new massive Editorial in the Miami Herald by the prolific journalist, author, and high-priced speaker Andres Oppenheimer:
    Above is the asinine, self-serving headline blaring forth at the front of Andres Oppenheimer's article in the Miami Herald, the prime media source for Little Havana. Oppenheimer was born 69 years ago in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He epitomises the journalists/authors/speakers, politicians, and self-serving business moguls who have benefited enormously from the U.S.-Cuban conundrum. Foremost among the core elements of that quagmire is the lucrative Embargo/Blockade -- you know, the legal means since 1962 that Cubans on the island are "starved, deprised, and made miserable" to appease and benefit a bunch of benefactors. Yes, in the world's most powerful and most famous Democracy, money and muscle can extend cruel insanity into seven decades...and beyond...regardless if the rest of the world opposes it and most Americans and most Cubans oppose it. Of course, since 1959 the opinions that count are in Little Havana and in the U. S. Congress where Little Havana stalwarts reign supreme.
      But, while the likes of Andres Oppenheimer won't admit it, the 11.2 million Cubans on the island have opinions too...including opinions about being gruesomely exploited by ultra-greedy foreigners hiding behind the skirts of a foreign superpower. Well-educated Cubans now make ubiquitous use of Social Media websites to express their opinions. While Oppenheimer and his ilk hog the mainstream media in the U. S., Cubans in Cuba now turn to their own media to refute the pro-Embargo Little Havana crowd, but mostly they use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, What'sUpp, etc., to express their opinions. And each day now millions of on Social Media platforms beg President Biden to end or at least soften the genocide left behind by President Trump:
     In the United States since 1959 the opinions of Cubans in Cuba are never allowed to see the light of day, but the opinions of Cubans in the U. S. such as the aforementioned Andres Oppenheimer and Carlos Aires are loudly broadcast, printed, and massively promoted without any limits or contradictions across America. Carlos Aires was born in 1950 in Havana. At age 11 in 1961 he was among 14,000 Cuban children flown to the U. S. in the famed Operation Peter Pan operation. Massively coddled, their paths often led to gateways such as Yale University where Carlos Aires got his Ph.d in 1979. He lectured at major universities such as St. John's, Virginia, Princeton, etc. In 2003 he published a massively promoted book entitled "WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA" and to this day it is still the #1 Cuban book in the USA. In 2010 he wrote a second huge memoir -- "LEARNING TO DIE IN MIAMI." And for many years Carlos Aires has been the highly paid Professor of History and Religious Studious at Yale University.
      Being a Counter Revolutionary from Cuba in the United States has made fortunes and created fame for millions of privileged Cuban-Americans who sanitize Batista's/Luciano's Cuba and vilify everything about Revolutionary Cuba. Carlos Eire, since his arrival in Miami from Havana in 1961 at age eleven, fits that paradigm.
  Since the U.S.-backed & Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship was chased out of Cuba by the Castro-led Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959, the Batista-Luciano rule of Cuba has been massively championed and Castro's Revolutionary Cuba has been massively maligned. Of course, Mr. Aire, the renowned History Professor at Yale University, has his own lucrative view of the historic Jan. 1-1959 headline depicted above: "BATISTA FLEES CUBA; CASTRO IN CONTROL." It seems that EVERY view about Cuba in the United States is all about...money, money, money, money, money!!!
     For example, the money trail from Cuba has created the richest person in the history of the world!!! Jeff Bezos was born on U. S. soil to destitute teenage parents in Albuquerque, New Mexico. But his path to becoming the richest person in the history of the world started when he was 4-years-old when he was adopted by the Cuban-born Miguel Bezos. As the richest person in the history of the world, Jeff Bezos can buy any toy in the whole world that he might want. So, he used some of his pocket change...about $250,000...to purchase the Washington Post.
     For decades many Americans, including me, depended on the Washington Post as one of the world's greatest liberal newspapers. But since Jeff Bezos bought it, it has become an extreme left-wing propaganda machine. The Post under the Bezos ownership used extreme and excessive propaganda pieces to derail the Trump presidency and, apparently, to promote a one-party rule...extreme left-wing Democratic rule...in Washington. And, as a left-wing propagandist, Jeff Bezos uses his still-powerful Washington Post to promote the extreme Counter Revolutionary views of extreme Cuba dissidents, allowing them to write powerful anti-Cuba Editorials in the Washington Post, such as the one below:
     The headline shown above blared forth as a major Editorial in Jeff Bezos's Washington Post and, translated to English, it says: "Opinion: The Cuba of the future is that of Homeland and Life." This Editorial in the Washington Post was written by Abraham Jimenez Enoa, one of Jeff Bezos's favorite Counter Revolutionary extremists. Enoa used the Washington Post to mock Fidel Castro's famous proclamation "Homeland or Death" -- which is still referred to by millions of today's Cubans. Anoa instead suggested "Homeland and Life" as a way to support anti-Cuba movements that Enoa and Bezos are obviously powerfully promoting. But, truth be known, Fidel Castro himself coined both phrases -- "Homeland or Death" and "Homeland and Life."
    Truth be known, since 1959 Revolutionary Cuba has provided free education through college for all Cubans, and it results in well-educated journalists who are well-respected by the Cuban people to tell the truth. If not, the well-educated people can vent their dislikes on their now ubiquitous Social Media pages. But Rosy Amaro, an important news anchor, for example, has been known to sharply complain about the government if she feels everyday Cubans might be mistreated. Her newscasts mainly consists of reports on health, sports, and cultural issues. But this week she used a video tape in which Fidel Castro himself coined the "Homeland and LIFE" phrase...as she rebuked the latest Washington Post Editorial totally designed to vilify Revolutionary Cuba and imply that what preceded, the Batista-Mafia regime, had been one of the world's greatest and most decent governments. 
    This, truth be know, is the actual video-taped speech in which Fidel Castro coined the "Homeland and LIFE" phase that the Washington Post used as a new mantra to vilify the Revolution and promote Counter Revolution propaganda. And that segment of the speech was shown on Cuban TV this week.
     Journalist Rosy Amaro Perez, as shown above, quoted Fidel Castro's exact words about "Paria Y Vida" that means "Homeland and Vida."
      The President of Cuba. Miguel Diaz-Canel, was born after the triumph of the Revolution but, like most of the island's 11.2 million people, he staunchly views today's Cuba to be Fidel Castro's Cuba. President Diaz-Canel often speaks to Cubans on the streets, at meetings, on television, and on his Social Media platforms. As you see above, Diaz-Canel states that "Patria y Vida" -- "Homeland and Life" -- was coined by "Fidel" and still remains the "conviction" of "Revolutionary Cuba" today.

    But in Cuba..."Homeland or Death" thus remains the mantra of the Revolution...more than four years since Fidel Castro died at age 90 in 2016.
    It has been said that Fidel Castro coined the declaration "Patria 0 Muerte" during the 1953-1959 Revolutionary War. But he first proclaimed the promise more a year after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution -- on March 4th, 1960, as the newspaper depicted above recorded. Terrorist bombs had destroyed the French ship La Coubre that was docked in Havana Harbor unloading supplies. Fidel's reaction, among other things, was the speech photographed above that also included an audio recording in which he said: "Now Freedom means something more. Freedom now means Homeland, and our choice will be Homeland or Death!!" To this day...in March of 2021...Cubans on the island repeat "Patria 0 Muerte" in Spanish or "Home or Death" often on their ubiquitous Internet Social Media platforms. And daily in such forums Cubans in Cuba send the same message to U. S. President Joe Biden: 

   Of course, America's new President Joe Biden could end most of the genocide now legally assaulting Cuban families on the island, but billions and billions & dollars in the form of endless and ludicrous donations rule both U. S. political parties -- Republicans and Democrats. So, things such as DONATION MONEY and which Party controls CONGRESS will predicate whether President Biden will respect Cuban families on the island, even a little bit!! And Thus, the six+decades of the egregious genocide against Cuban families on the nearby island nation is not likely to end anytime soon. You see...there are simply too many people making too much money and amassing too much political power off the status quo from the genocidal Embargo/Blockade against masses of Cubans on the island. And they don't want their lucrative piggybank to close.

        While journalists/authors/speakers like Andres Oppenheimer will clamor for keeping the Embargo in place for decades to come, there are media sources more powerful than the Miami Herald when it comes to emphasizing anti-Cuban propaganda in the United States. That includes the WASHINGON POST, for example. In other words, now the richest person in the history of the world seems to be adding to the U. S. genocide aimed at Cubans in Cuba.      The richest person in the history of the world is Jeff Bezos and that worries the already worried Cubans on the island. They think Jeff Bezos is using some of his billions to target them.
       Of course, Cuban-born Miguel Bezos is the step-father of the richest person in the history of the world, Jeff Bezos.
    Meanwhile, somehow since 1962 the U. S. Embargo/Blockade hasn't kept Cuban families on the island from doing their very best to take care of generations of children like these two sisters in Havana, Ambar & Gema HernandezThis photo was taken Monday, March 8th, 2021, which was International Women's Day. Ambar & Gema are shown as they surprised their mother Adriana with some beautiful flowers to celebrate International Women's Day. It was an appropriate gesture, I think, because mothers in Cuba are obviously much more decent people than the people in a foreign country who benefit from a legal Embargo/Blockade that aims to harm little girls like Ambar &  Gema...for the nefarious purpose of trying to induce their parents to rise up and overthrow the Revolutionary Cuban government.
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4.3.21

Biden Urged to End "Cruel" Cuba Policy

 But Powerful People Profit From It!!

{So...Biden Can't Do Much About It!!}

      The Reuters News Agency is the best News Agency in the world and Sarah Marsh is one of four world-class journalists that Reuters has in its bureau in Havana. Reuters is based in London, which means that Sarah Marsh, unlike U.S.-based journalists, has the freedom and courage to write truthful, unbiased articles about Cuba. This was the last headline and opening words about Sarah Marsh's last Reuters article about Cuba this week:
       Note, if you will, that the headline starts by explaining that it is: "Exclusive: U. S. House Democrats urge Biden to revert to Obama-era Cuba detente." Yes, it is exclusive because, apparently, Sarah Marsh is aware that such news from Washington that might be considered a positive related to Cuba is something that the mainstream U. S. media simply normally does not have the integrity nor courage to report. But then, on behalf of Reuters, Sarah Marsh starts her article with these truthful and newsworthy words: Eighty U. S. House of Representatives Democrats urged President Joe Biden on Tuesday to repeal Donald Trump's 'cruel' sanctions on Cuba and renew engagement, an early sign of support in Congress for easing the clamp-down..."
     Another unbiased and newsworthy article from Reuters from Havana, written by Nelson Acosta and Sarah Marsh, was published on November 4th, 2021...so it is still circulating around the world today. The headline as shown above is: "Cuba starts late Stage Trials of COVID-19 vaccine candidate in Havana." The first paragraph, as shown above, is a useful and truthful update of information that Americans, along with the rest of the world, might find interesting: "Cuba has begun late stage trials of its most advanced experimental COVID-19 vaccine, edging closer to a potential home-grown inoculation that could help the Caribbean island nation contain infections and ease its economic crisis."
    Cuba's most exciting of the five COVID-19 vaccines it is producing is Soberana 02, which is considered almost ready to be massively produced and has excited many countries, not just Cubans in Cuba.
    Writing from Havana for the great London-based REUTERS NEWS AGENCY, Sarah Marsh has the freedom to write the truth about Cuban issues...whether or not they are negative or positive news items about Cuba or something in between. Unfortunately, that is generally not allowed in the United States of America. And as a Democracy-loving American, I am ashamed that obvious fact doesn't shame more Americans.
     In other words, if and when there is BREAKING NEWS related to Cuba, the mainstream U. S. news media is the last place Americans can depend on for the honest truth. So please, rely on the London-based Reuters News Agency if, by chance, you are interested in Cuba or U.S.-Cuban relations.
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1.3.21

Cuba In the NEW Biden Era

 Better Than The Trump Era????

     Every presidential transition in the United States since the 1950's has probably been more important to Cubans on the island than they have been to Cuban-Americans and other Americans in the United States. That is simply because Cubans on the island consider such transitions in Washington to be LIFE-or-DEATH matters to them. A Republican president, they have come to believe, will try to starve or kill them. A Democratic president, they believe, might not starve or kill them but even they will not allow them to thrive unless they surrender their sovereignty to a foreign superpower. Take, for example, the transition depicted above on January 20th-2017 that had the Republican President Donald Trump replacing the Democratic President Barack Obama. The decent Obama presidency once from 2009 till 2017 even visited Cuba to tell the Cubans they "had nothing more to fear from the United States." And Obama wasn't lying; he actually tried his best to normalize relations with Cuba. That all ended on Jan. 20-2017 when Trump, totally dictated to by Little Havana extremists named Rubio, Claver-Carone, Ros-Lehtinen, Diaz-Balart, etc. -- with no concern whatsoever with what 11 million Cubans on the island or the other 330 million Americans thought about U.S.-Cuban relations. And thus, to put it correctly if succinctly, during its entire four years of the Trump presidency it tried its damnest to starve the 11 million Cubans on the island so they would meekly turn Havana back over to Little Havana for the first time in over six decades. But, somehow for Trump's four years, the stubborn and pugnacious Cubans on the island still resisted that demand from the strongest and richest nation in the world, its superpower neighbor, probably because of generational memories and recollections in Cuba of the sheer brutality of the U.S.-backed Batista-MAFIA dictatorship in the 1950's, which ended only with the monumental victory of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959.
     And that preamble brings us up to the January 20th-2021 transition that saw the Democrat Joe Biden replace the Republican Donald Trump as the President of the United States. I can attest, judging from their ubiquitous Social Media internet opinions, that just about every Cuban on the island prayed that Biden would beat Trump, which happened in a heated, money-mired, and controversial election that was probably decided by extreme amounts of left-wing money from ultra-billionaire individuals and corporations. But Cubans on the island believed that any Democratic president would be better for them than any Republican president, and their prayers for Biden were answered!!! While Cubans on the island knew Trump had been 100% guided only by the few very extremist Cuban-Americans as opposed to the majority of more decent Cuban-Americans, they knew that four more years of TRUMP might have spelled another Little Havana-inspired Batistiano-like rule on their island. Yet, in the first few weeks of the Biden administration, as I predicted in this forum before and after January 20th-2021, have not much changed America's long-standing monopolistic and imperialist aspirations to control and dominate Cuba. I'll explain.
     Above are the first three paragraphs of a major article this week by Politico, a prime political journalistic source in Washington. It shows that, even with a Democratic U. S. president in office, the incomparable influence of the USA, the world's top financial and military power, can force even Cuba's best democratic friends to cease their efforts to denounce the ageless and genocidal U. S. blockade of Cuba. The words above shows that the 27 EU nations that normally oppose genocide don't apply that principle to Cuba because the EU must bow to the USA's incomparable economic and military international influence. Politico pointed out that the EU has rudely summoned its Ambassador to Cuba, Alberto Navarro, to return to Brussels and explain why he signed off on a letter to President Biden that begged Biden to end or at least soften the ageless Embargo/Blockade that mostly assaults totally innocent Cuban families on the island to appease a handful of mean-minded Cubans in Little Havana/Miami and in CONGRESS. As you can see in the last sentence above from the Politico article, the letter that Ambassador Navarro signed that went to President Biden urged him to "stop being a hostile neighbor to Cuba and stop interfering in our {the EU's} domestic affairs." In other words, according to the letter, the EU's Ambassador to Cuba, Mr. Navarro, not only wanted the U. S. to stop its genocide against innocent Cuban families but it also didn't want to have to capitulate to the U.S.'s usurpation of the EU's freedom to make its own judgments, such as those concerning Cuba.
      This is Josep Borrell, the Foreign Policy Chief of the EU nations. Borrell is the man who ordered the EU's Ambassador to Cuba, Alberto Navarro, to Brussels to rebuke him for having the audacity to sign a letter that was sent to U. S. President Joe Biden requesting that the U. S. at least soften the U. S. genocide against innocent Cuban families that has been in place since 1962.
     Interestingly enough, study the photo above and you will see that the EU's Foreign Minister Josep Borrell a few days ago was in Moscow meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is shown on the left giving Borrell some advice. Lavrov, in front of photographers and videographers, told Borrell, "The European Union needs to try to stop or at least soften the U. S. blockade against the people of Cuba." And Borrell replied, We will. We surely will." But that was the very same Borrell, a few days later, who sharply reprimanded the EU's Ambassador to Cuba, Alberto Navarro, for signing a letter that begged for the new U. S. President, Biden, to soften the U. S. genocide against Cuban families. In other words, Little Havana's iron-grip on the USA's Cuban policies is strong enough, even with a Democrat as the President in Washington, to blunt the 27-nation EU's tendencies to oppose the U. S. Embargo/Blockade of Cuban families.
  Since 1962 generations of timid and propagandized Americans have been warned to not feel ashamed of this internationally ubiquitous Carlos LaTuff image of the indecent U. S. Embargo of Cuba. And, incredibly, Americans have been educated within the bowels of their Democracy to believe that the worldwide image of the United States depicted above is to be accepted and supported. Of course, such propaganda always depends on the lies that the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia rule in Cuba in the 1950's was a great Democracy while everything about Revolutionary rule of Cuba since 1959 has been wrong and despicable.
           Of course, since 1959 Little Havana-dictated propaganda in the U. S. has preached that: "THE MOB DID NOT 'RUN' PRE-CASTRO CUBA!" Of course, ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!
     Surely in 1952 the Dulles brothers -- the ultra-powerful Secretary of State & CIA Director in the Eisenhower administration -- well knew that the top echelon of the Mafia, Lucky Luciano & Meyer Lansky, dominated Batista's brutal and thieving dictatorship in the 1950's, but Americans are still not supposed to admit that. America today is simply not the great Democracy it was prior to 1952, the year American citizens meekly permitted the U.S. to team with the Mafia to support the brutal Batista dictatorship in Cuba so rich Americans could partake in the wholesale robbery of the lush island nation.
     Since January of 1959 when the Cuban Revolution chased the Batista mob to U. S. soil, Miami in Florida and Newark in New Jersey have produced the politicians that have dictated the USA's Cuban policies. On the first day of March-2021 U. S. Senator Bob Menendez, a controversial Democrat from Newark, and U. S. Senator Marco Rubio, a controversial Republican from Miami, effectively dictate America's Cuban policies. And that is true whether a Democrat or a Republican is the President of the United States.
    Every well-known Counter Revolutionary Cuban in Cuba or in the U. S. well knows -- just as Yoani Sanchez in Cuba knows -- knows that a trip to the U. S. Senate to meet with Rubio and Menendez {as shown above} is the way to acquire the wherewithal to vastly enlarge their Counter Revolutionary work once they return to Cuba.
     The truly extraordinary amount of U. S. dollars that are showered on dissidents such as Yoani Sanchez are staggering.
     But, of course, the incredibly weakened mainstream U. S. media is not courageous enough to report on the staggering amount of U. S. tax-dollars devoted to dissidents who work powerfully to derail Cuba's revolutionary government. So, just about the only source reporting on the astronomical U. S. dollars devoted to Cuban dissident projects is the great unbiased journalist and Florida professor Tracey Eaton. His must-read blog CUBA MONEY PROJECT regularly reports such detailed facts, based on Freedom of Information laws. Thus, that blog is the way to see details, names, and charts revealing the extreme piggybank of exact U. S. tax-dollars regularly doled out to Cuban dissidents.
    And I repeat...to this very day on March1st, 2021, the USA's lucrative Cuban policies designed to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba is based on the lie that "The mob didn't rule Cuba prior to the Cuban Revolution's triumph on January 1, 1959!!!" So, of course, Americans today are not supposed to read superb books like the one above nor are Americans today supposed to read Tracey Eaton's CUBA MONEY PROJECT blog. In other words, ignorant Americans are not supposed to know how many of their tax-dollars go to dissidents who are supposed to help undermine & overthrow Cuba!!
     While Cuba's superpower neighbor, the U. S., is engaged in its decades-long efforts to starve the Cuban economy and therefore also starve Cuban families, the largest and most beautiful island in the Caribbean island nation would also likely be the Caribbean's most prosperous nation if it was allowed to not be dominated BY ITS SUPERPOWER NEIGHBOR. For example, this past weekend the world's largest travel company, Tripadvisor, again listed Cuba's beaches among the greatest beaches in the WORLD even though the U. S. uses its incomparable power to keep Americans from visiting them and also trying to keep non-Americans from visiting them.
    On this last weekend of February of 2021 both Cuba and its northern superpower neighbor the United States are still battling the COVID-19 pandemic. With winter still roiling much of the U. S., many Americans crave beautiful beaches and Cuba is blessed with some of the most enticing beaches in the world, although the six-decade+ U. S. Embargo/Blockade against Cuba, of course, restricts Americans from going to Cuba because it might interfere with the U. S. policy of trying to starve Cuba's economy. The U. S., of course, also uses its incomparable power and influence to try to restrict all international tourism to Cuba. That, of course, was interesting this week when the world's largest travel website, Tripadvisor, listed Cuba's Cayo Santa Maria Beach {shown above} as the SECOND BEST BEACH IN THE ENTIRE WORLD.
      The image above is from the lobby of the 5-star Royalton Hotel on Cayo Santa Maria, which Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel website, listed as ONE OF THE WORLD'S SECOND BEST BEACH IN THE WHOLE WORLD.
     As we start into March of 2021, even with the Democratic Joe Biden having replaced the Republican Donald Trump as the President of the United States, a handful of rich and powerful Cuban Americans in Miami, Newark, and in Congress keep restricting Americans from visiting Cayo Santa Maria's world-class beach. In fact, the last time the U. S. government urged Americans to visit Cuba was during the 1950's when the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship ruled the Caribbean's largest island brutally but lucratively as it craved tourists from the U.S., especially to gamble and to indulge in drugs and prostitution.
  After the Cuban Revolution chased the Batistianos to the U. S. in January of 1959, drastic U.S.-Batistiano efforts to recapture Cuba, including the Bay of Pigs military attack in April of 1961, proved unsuccessful and drastically increased the pugnacious island's prestige in the world. So, as shown above, since 1962 the U. S. has cruelly encircled the island of Cuba with a drastic economic Embargo designed to "starve, deprive, and make miserable" Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government. As the world enters into the month of March of 2021, the cruel and shameless Embargo remains in place to appease a handful of unchecked and shameless Counter Revolutionaries in Miami, Newark, and Congress.
   Two vicious Counter Revolutionary Cuban-Americans in the U. S. Senate -- Marco Rubio, a Republican from Miami; and Bob Menendez, a Democrat from Newark -- will make sure the cruel, six-decade old Embargo endures. And unfortunately, in the two-party U. S. political system, when it comes to Cuba, the opinions of 11 million Cubans in Cuba and 330 million Americans in the U. S. don't matter...just the opinions of a handful of Cuban-American benefactors aligned with their political and economic sycophants. It, perhaps, could be admitted that the demise of the U. S. democracy began its downward spiral in 1952 when the United States of America teamed with the Mafia to support the brutal Batista dictatorship.
     It was 1952 when the United States, the world's most powerful and most beloved Democracy, teamed with the top echelon of the Mafia to support the brutal and thieving Batista dictatorship. That occurred when the U. S. decided that rich U. S. businessmen and companies needed to partake in the rape and robbery of the lush island, which they did from 1952 until the wee hours of January 1-1959 when Batista fled the island in his getaway airplane {landing first in the Dominican Republic, was led by another brutal U.S.-backed dictator, Rafael Trujillo. But, of course, many of the getaway money-stuffed planes, boats, and ships exiting Cuba starting at 3:00 A. M. on January 1-1959 ended up in nearby U. S. cities -- notably Miami and Newark. But, of course, it was Miami where Little Havana evolved as the capital of Batistiano USA...from 1959 till to this day.
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26.2.21

The Journalist That Brands US Cuban Policy Criminal

 From 1952 Till 2021!!!!

     Born in 1968 in Rio de Janeiro, a Brazilian named Carlos LaTuff is the world's top Superstar when it comes to Editorial Cartoons. He also is courageous enough to ubiquitously tell the world that America's Cuban policies are criminal and immoral...and that has been so at least since 1952. That was the year that the United States, the world's most respected democracy, joined the top echelon of the Mafia to support the brutal and thieving Batista dictatorSHIP in Cuba. LaTuff's rationale concludes that the USA's logic was that, in such a dictatorSHIP, many already rich U. S. businessmen and companies could partake in the wholesale rape and robbery of the vulnerable and helpless nation, which was/is the largest and arguably the most beautiful island in the Caribbean. LaTuff is among the unbiased and brave journalists who also believes that Batista, the Mafiosi, and the USA were so confident, as well as so enthralled with their largess, that they stupidly failed to at least toss some crumbs to the majority Cuban peasants. And beyond that, LaTuff seems aware that, as historically documented by countless photos that many of us have published, the mass street marches by outraged Cuban mothers highlighted posters that stated that Batista routinely murdered their children as warnings to the non-Batistiano Cubans not to dissent or even ask for any educational or health help from the dictatorSHIP. Those Mother Marches inspired what history calls the Cuban Revolution, which shocked the world on January 1, 1959, by overthrowing the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorSHIP. But starting in January of 1959 Little Havana in the heart of Miami-USA became a Cuban-powered sanctuary that has, incredibly, surpassed the Batista dictatorSHIP's own lucrative rewards on the island. Moreover, for going on seven decades now, Little Havana and the U. S. government have been engaged an out-out effort to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba, recapture the island, and...uh, you know, uh, "return" DEMOCRACY TO CUBA!!!! Well, uh...LaTuff to this day is even more astounded by Revolutionary Cuba's longevity than its astounding victory back on January 1, 1959. And he sincerely seems to believe that from at least 1952 till 2021 the United States policies regarding Cuba have been both criminal and immoral. In his brilliant international Editorial Cartoons, such as the four I depict below, the great Carlos Latuff has perhaps chronicled the best true portraits and the best documentations of America's shameless conduct regarding the Caribbean's largest island nation.
     Since 2009 when Carlos LaTuff first had this image published worldwide, billions of eyes have seen and studied it. It still shames democracy lovers around the world, but apparently still doesn't shame enough Americans. Therefore, this image best chronicles the world's view of the U. S. economic Embargo against Cuba. In 1962...after three years of assassination attempts, vicious terrorist attacks, and the April-1961 Bay of Pigs military attack HAD ALL FAILED to recapture Cuba...the U. S. began the Embargo that has lasted to this day in this year of 2021. The purpose of the Embargo, according to de-classified U. S. documents, was to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government.
     As Carlos LaTuff understands, President Obama from 2009 till 2016 has been the only U. S. President to have the intelligence, the guts, and the decency to sincerely try to NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH CUBA or to try to treat the masses of totally Cubans decently.
     But for sure Carlos LaTuff, as he showed with the gem shown above, realized that all of Obama's decency and sanity towards the Cuban people on the island ended the day Donald Trump, who was totally dictated to by Little Havana extremists, became the U. S. President in January of 2017. With the Editorial above, LaTuff was showing that the Trump presidency even took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to try to finally starve and wipe-out the Cubans on the island. But note...that LaTuff in the above Editorial shows the Cuban doctor in the white clothes to be the true hero as he tried to stand off the vicious genocidal intentions of the United States of America. And so, the great image above by LaTuff, shows that Cuba in 2021 is forced to battle both the USA & COVID-19 as Cubans are left to wonder if Trump's successor, President Biden, will ever end or even lesson the Embargo. LaTuff apparently believes that too many people in Little Havana and elsewhere are making too much money during the Embargo for any U. S. government to end it.
     Of all the Carlos LaTuff Editorial images, this one is said to be the one that has reached into the TOP TWO for worldwide views. It is LaTuff's way of reminding the world that a genocidal economic Embargo-Blockade by a powerful nation against a much-weaker nation impacts children the hardest. Thus this brilliant image by LaTuff of the little Cuban schoolgirl, gleefully and proudly carrying a Cuban flag while gleefully and proudly pounding on the head of the United States, sums up the USA's Embargo against Cuba since 1962. And folks, Carlos LaTuff will be the first to tell you that six+ decades is a LONG, LONG time. And I am brave enough to admit that I'm happy for LaTuff's little Cuban schoolgirl, and I also must admit that I'm very proud of her.

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