Sept. 4, 1997; An Anniversary

 U. S. Terrorism  vs. Cuba Remembered!!

     In the annals of U.S.-Cuba Relations since 1959, when the Cuban Revolution defeated the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in Cuba, vicious terror acts against innocent people perpetrated by Cubans in the U. S. are too many to mention. But today -- September 4th, 2021 -- is an anniversary of one historically heinous act that took place in a Havana hotel lobby. A young Italian tourist named Fabio Di Celmo was killed by an explosion intended to persuade tourists from visiting Revolutionary Cuba, which the U. S. was trying to starve into submission. The most famous U.S.-Cuban terrorist, Luis Posada Carriles, famously told the New York Times that victims like Fabio were "collateral damage."

     Of course, in the U. S. after 1959 Posada could brag about such things because Americans were told that the Cubans who fled the overthrow of Batista were the good guys and the Cubans still on the island were the bad guys. And, of course, the Batista Cubans had more than enough money and firepower to overpower Miami, which was important because it often dictated Florida's hugely vital Electoral Votes that predicated presidential elections in the United States. Fabio Di Celmo was born in Genoa, Italy, on June 1-1965. His father Gustino, as you can see above, spent the rest of his own life living in Havana and trying to let the world that his son was murdered by a famed U.S.-Cuban who could actually brag about it.

     The American people in the 1950s were told not to question that the U. S., which came out of World War II in 1945 as the strongest and richest nation in the world, chose in 1952 to pick the Mafia as its partner in supporting the brutal, thieving Batista dictatorship in Cuba. At the same time the U. S. also supported other brutal, thieving dictators in the Caribbean and Latin America -- such as Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Somoza in Nicaragua, etc., etc. Obviously, the U. S. preferred such dictators to democracies because such dictators supposedly would do something democracies would not do, which was to allow rich American companies to partake in the rape and robbery of smaller countries such as Cuba, the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island. Back in the 1950s, to support their dictators, the U. S. had the secretive Army of the Americans at Fort Benning in Georgia where friendly dictatorships sent their soldiers and policemen to be trained by U. S. taxpayers, and then sent back to those dictatorships to protect those dictators. Today in September of 2021 Americans are not supposed to know the significance of the photo and caption depicted above. It shows and explains that Luis Posada Carilles was typical of dozens of young Cuban men who fled the Batista dictatorship in 1959 who were immediately sent by the U. S. government to Fort Benning in Georgia to become soldiers in Brigade 2506, which was the U.S. army unit that was formed in 1959 to quickly recapture Cuba. As you can see above, Posada, and many other Cubans like him, graduated from Fort Benning as a 2nd Lt. in the U. S. Army's Brigade 2506. Supported by U.S.-friendly dictators Trujillo and Somoza, Brigade 2506 launched an air-land-sea attack on Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in April of 1961, which Revolutionary Cuba quite ceremoniously and completely defeated. Since the Bay of Pigs, Revolutionary Cuba has, incredibly, survived all-out U. S. efforts to recapture the island...with Brigade 2506 veterans such as Luis Posada Carilles playing major roles as terrorists receiving tax-dollar salaries.

     Of course, the terrorist act that Posada is most famously tied to occurred on October 6, 1976. That was when a terrorist bomb blew the civilian Cubana Flight 455 into the ocean, killing all 72 people on board, including two dozen teenage athletes who has just won a Central American Championship and were flying home triumphantly.

     Yes, America...like all victims of senseless terrorism, Cuban sisters and mothers also cry endlessly about the loved ones they have lost. Meanwhile, in the United States, Posada lived a long and protected life as an unabashed and avowed U. S. terrorist against Revolutionary Cuba.

    The USA's most famous terrorist, Posada, was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, in 1928. He died peacefully in his 90s in South Florida in 2018. As you can see above, history as well as de-classified U. S. documents tie Posada to gruesome terrorist acts against innocent Cubans. Of course, on September 4th, 2021 -- the anniversary of Posada's deadly hotel bombing in Havana -- Americans are still being told that all the good Cubans are in the U. S. and all the bad Cubans are in Cuba. Therefore, of course, Americans are supposed to meekly keep all those tax dollars flowing from Washington to Miami while also meekly accepting the USA's Congressional and White House laws that routinely keep expanding legal Blockade genocide against masses of Cubans on the island to appease the good Cubans who control the ultra-powerful Electoral Votes in Florida that often predicate presidential elections in the whole United States!!

    Of course, FOR SURE, Americans are not supposed to be ashamed of this image of the United States of America, but the rest of the world is ashamed of it. The great Brazilian editorial cartoonist Carlos LaTuff correctly hereby depicts the United States EMBARGO imposed on Cuba in 1962 right after the 1961 Bay of Pigs military attack failed to recapture Cuba!!

    Carlos LaTuff and billions around the world are especially ashamed of this image of the United States, which explains that the Trump & Biden administrations have both expanded the EMBARGO in the past two years while the COVID-19 pandemic is also ravaging the island.

     And Carlos LaTuff along with billions around the world are especially ashamed of the stated purpose of the EMBARGO, which was imposed in 1962 after the Bay of Pigs military attacked failed to recapture Cuba. De-classified documents reveal the purpose: starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. After all these decades, it has surely starved, deprived, and made miserable generations of Cuban on the island, but the world and Carlos LaTuff...as illustrated above...admire the fact that Little Cuba continues to survive history's all-time longest and cruelest EMBARGO ever imposed by a much-larger nation against the people in a much-smaller nation. But...tuh...Americans are surely not supposed to admire LaTuff's pugnacious little Cuban girl shown above. And, for sure, Americans in September of 2021 are supposed to keep supporting the EMBARGO that Carlos LaTuff and the world have been ashamed of since 1962!!

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COVID Continues Devastation of Cuba

 

   This beloved film and television actor, Enrique Molina, today became the latest prominent Cuban to die from Covid-19 in Havana.

    Today -- September 3rd, 2021-- Cuba's renowned doctor Francisco Duran reported that, in the past 24 hours, the island has had 6,927 new cases of COVID-19 and 74 more deaths. Those numbers are actually much lower than the COVID-19 statistics in August, but still devastating.

     President Biden has kept in place the 243 genocidal sanctions placed on Cuban families by the Trump administration. And, to America's everlasting shame, President Biden "promises more to come." For a nearby nation of 240 million people to permit Trump's and Biden's genocide to continue and to expand is unconscionable, or as decent people such as the President of Mexico, Lopez Obrador, emphatically proclaim, "inhumane." There was a time, of course, when better, more intelligent, and more decent generations of democratically-loving Americans {and better mainstream U. S. media outlets} would agree with the billions of people worldwide who have the courage to correctly label genocide by a powerful nation against vulnerable families in a much-smaller nation what it is, inhumane GENOCIDE!!

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US Media's Anti-Cuba Propaganda

 Enriches Some, Shames America!!

     Above is a compendium of the TOP headlines in the propaganda-obsessed U. S. media pertaining to Cuba today -- on September 1, 2021. As usual, Americans today are being fed bushels of anti-Cuba propaganda, which makes a few people richer and more politically powerful but also shames the once-respected mainstream media in the Land of the Free and the Home of the brave. The headline on the left is pure propaganda by a Miami television station; in the middle the headline is by the USA's most-read newspaper, which has sadly joined the corporate giants that now promote pure propaganda; and on the right the headline by the Miami Herald merely reflects the daily pure propaganda against Cuba that has long become the staple fare of that once-respected Miami newspaper. Of course, the world's most successful propagandists believe that repetitious lies saturating masses of people day-after-day have seismic effects, and...of course...regarding Miami's and the USA's propaganda regarding Cuba, repetitious lies about Cuba...decade after decade since 1959...have been and continue to be converted into extreme financial and political rewards for a select few.

      In this new month of September-2021, ON Cuba News...as far as I can tell...is just about the only media source in the United States that actually reports real news related to Cuba. It actually has reporters in both Miami and Havana, and it reports good news, bad news, and anything in between.

   Just as an example, the article above by ON Cuba News actually contains actual news and insight about Cuba and the genocidal U. S. embargo/blockade that has existed since 1962 to "starve" Cubans on the island to appease and benefit a handful of politically connected Cubans in Miami/Little Havana, Newark/Union City, and Washington. Of course, to support that genocidal propaganda since 1962, Americans have been told that the benefactors...a few Cubans and their sycophants...are "the GOOD GUYS" and the masses of Cuban victims on the island are "the BAD GUYS!!" In other words, the basic premise for prolonging the genocide against generations of Cubans in Cuba is a vast propaganda lie that maintains that the effects of the genocidal embargo/blockade hurts only the "bad" leaders of Cuba but doesn't harm the masses of everyday Cubans on the island. For generations of supposedly intelligent and brave Americans to blindly accept that blatant and pernicious propaganda lie actually says a lot more America than it SAYS about Cuba!!! In the United States of America...the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave...only On Cuba News seems to have both the guts and the integrity to report an undeniable fact: "....it {the blockade} is an act of cruelty not against the government, but towards those of us who live in Cuba." THOSE WORDS ARE THE LAST WORDS IN THE ARTICLE DEPICTED ABOVE; and they are totally, 100% simple and true. Yet, when 340 million U. S. citizens are programmed to disregard them, it reflects, I think, that even the world's strongest Democracy can fall victim to a mainstream media that replaces real news with extreme, self-serving PROPAGANDA!!

     The four photos directly above have been posted on Social Media in the last few days by everyday Cubans on the island. They, and many others like them, proclaim that they will fight to the death to prevent a foreign power...the United States...from recapturing the island. In other words, these four Cubans on the island HAVE OPINIONS TOO!! But in the United States media, such opinions are not allowed!!! And that is because in the U. S. media ONLY anti-Cuba voices are allowed!!

     Now...go back to the top three U. S. headlines related to Cuba today -- September 1, 2021. Sandwiched between the two headlines from the two Miami sources, is the headline today in by far the most-read newspaper in the United States -- USA Today: "I'M A CUBAN DISSIDENT. WE NEED AMERICA TO STAND WITH US AGAINST THIS COMMUNIST REGIME." Even USA Today is obligated to be a prime anti-Cuba propaganda source in the United States. Thus, if you are a virulent anti-Cuba dissident in Cuba or in the United States, you are routinely provided the mainstream media in the United States to saturate your extreme and unchallenged views to America's already programmed citizenry that has been showered with self-serving Counter Revolutionary narratives, propaganda, lies, and other unlimited and lucrative Batistiano idolatry. And thus, I believe that today's USA Today headline about Cuba says a lot more about what has happened in the U. S. since 1959 than it says about Cuba, the pugnacious island that defeated the "nice" U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship way back in 1959.

WOW!!!

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US Relations With Cuba Enrich A Few

The Rest Condone It or Afraid of It!!

     It can honestly be said that US-Cuba Relations began in 1492, the year that Columbus discovered both Cuba and the United States. By 1776, as the U. S. was becoming an independent nation, even Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, was advocating that it was imperative that the U. S. "Take permanent hold of Cuba," the nearby Caribbean's largest, most beautiful, and most strategically located island. But Spain, for many decades, was strong enough to keep the USA's hands off Cuba...until 1898 when the U. S. warship Maine conveniently blew up in Havana Harbor, killing 261 U. S. sailors and providing the pretext for the Spanish-American War, which the U. S. easily won. After becoming the imperative power dominating Cuba, the U. S. had the wonderful chance, starting in 1898, to make Cuba a heralded Democracy. But that never happened. WHY? At the dawn of the 20th Century, the U. S. had written decrees that legalized U. S. troops in Cuba whenever the U. S. chose; it legalized such dastardly deals such as making the luscious Guantanamo Bay U. S. territory, and in August of 2021 the U. S. still has Guantanamo Bay where a famous U. S. military base resides as does a famous U. S. prison. Thus from 1898 until the 1950s the U. S. used Cuba as a luscious financial and political pawn. Then in 1952 the U. S., the world's most famed Democracy, teamed with the Mafia to support the thieving and brutal Batista dictatorship in Cuba. Again you ask, WHY? By 1952, as the U. S. burnished its role as an imperialist power, the powers-that-be in Washington decided that they wanted to support dictators such as Batista in Cuba, Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, Somoza in Nicaragua, etc., as opposed to building, demanding, and supporting Democracies. AGAIN WHY? It was assumed that Democracies in these much-smaller nations would make sure that most of their national resources would accrue to their own people, not to a foreign power. So, in the 1950s the U. S. supported "friends" like Batista, Trujillo, Somoza, etc., who were eager to accept kick-backs from the U. S. in the form of money, training their soldiers and police, and other U. S. support that included the acceptance of brutal methods being used by such dictators to keep their people in check. Of course, by 1953 one little nation...Cuba...began a Revolution to overthrow its U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed dictator, Batista. It was, at best, considered a billion-to-one chance of succeeding because, after all, Batista was a powerful dictator and he was supported by the most powerful nation in the world, the U. S., and by the most powerful criminal organization in the world, the Mafia. Yet, the billion-to-one odds little nation shocked the whole world on Jan. 1-1959 when the Cuban Revolution chased the Batistianos and the Mafiosi off the island...all the way to nearby Miami!! Thus, since January of 1959 the important city of Miami and the important state of Florida have been controlled financially and politically by Little Havana, the section of Miami that was spawned by the victory of the very determined and pugnacious Cuban Revolution.

    Since January of 1959 when the triumph of the Cuban Revolution changed the world so drastically, the yearly highlights have been chronicled endlessly. Of course, all predictions were the same -- that the U. S. and Little Havana would recapture Cuba within a few weeks...or a few months at the most. Yet, at the end of August in the year of 2021 it remains an ongoing process, meaning that recapturing Cuba hasn't happened yet!!

    As you study the two graphics above, contemplate how in the hell the little island nation of Cuba has been able for all these decades to keep from being recaptured by  the United States at the vicious and determined behest of Little Havana. In other words, the billion-to-one odds that said the Cuban Revolution couldn't succeed in the 1950s have been eclipsed by the two billion-to-one odds that said it couldn't survive from 1959 until at least the end of AUGUST of 2021. After all, since 1959 until August-2021 both Little Havana and the United States have used their vast economic and military arsenals in the all-out and no-holds-barred efforts to recapture Cuba...including the Bay of Pigs military attack in April-1961, unchecked terrorist attacks, historic assassinations and assassination attempts, the longest and cruelest Embargo/Blockade {1962 till August-2021} ever imposed by any powerful nation against a much-smaller nation, etc., etc., etc.

    Since 1492, since 1898, since 1952, since 1959, since 1961, since 1962, since 2016 {When Obama visited Cuba and shook Raul Castro's hand and in 2016 when Fidel Castro died at age 90}, etc., till the end of August in 2021, many people have tried to "EXPLAIN US-CUBA RELATIONS." Yet, few have succeeded in "explaining" the essence of US-Cuba Releations. For one thing, those relations have coursed through the darkest stages of U. S. history, certainly not befitting the basic tenets of what a great Democracy should embrace. Therefore, with Little Havana dictating the USA's Cuban policies and the Cuban narratives since 1959, Americans have been programmed to believe that Batista's Mafiosi-riddled regime in the 1950s was a great government and, conversely, that the Revolution's government since 1959 has been the worst regime in history. Of course, those two premises, riddled with self-serving propaganda, have successfully persuaded several generations of Americans to not only accept U. S. genocide against masses of Cubans on the island but to even fund it!!

     And thus, unlike propagandized Americans, almost the rest of the entire world believes that the image above connotes and constitutes U. S. genocide against masses of Cubans on the island, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    The United States once had perhaps the best and most respected news media in the world, but now the United States perhaps has one of the worst medias in the world, especially among the so-called Western Nations. Thus, now when the world's best media, such as the London-based BBC, report on U.S.-Cuba Relations they depend on un-propagandized experts such as Helen Yaffe. In the United States, on the other hand, the media is obliged to provide only the opinions of the most self-serving Counter Revolutionary zealots...and the American citizens are programmed not to object or question anything that Little Havana stalwarts such as Rubio, Diaz-Balart, Salazar, Jimenez, etc., say about Cuba although their self-serving and one-sided opinions are the antithesis of what great and unbiased Cuban experts such as Helen Yaffe reveal on forums such as the BBC.

      As a great journalist and author, Helen Yaffe has been to Cuba many times and knows the island and its people extremely well. A Professor in Economics and Social History at the University of Glasgow, Helen Yaffe is one of the world's greatest experts on Latin America, especially Cuba.

    Above you can see a Helen Yaffe post today on Facebook in which she says, "The U. S. has, in the most disgraceful, criminal way, used the pandemic to create double pressure on Cuba." I do not know of any unbiased expert or leader in Latin America that disagrees with her sentence above, or disagree with Helen Yaffe's words this week:

    The updated views shown above by Helen Yaffe, a brilliant and internationally respected expert on Latin America and Cuba, should be a part of the U. S. media's reporting on the U. S. relations with Cuba, but it is APPARENTLY not allowed in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. Instead, the U. S. media seems only obliged to saturate Americans with the views of Rubio, Menendez, the 

Diaz-Balart brothers, Salazar, Jimenez, etc.

    And, yes, as a Democracy-loving American I believe Americans should be allowed to admit that "GENOCIDIO" is being committed in their names against precious little girls in Cuba. I further believe that Americans should be permitted to be ashamed about the Carlos LaTuff editorial graphic above that is telling the world about U. S. genocide against Cuba during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Time To Recapture Cuba: August-2021!!!

 Perfect Storm: COVID & AFGHAN Turmoil!!

     Today -- Saturday, August 21-2021 -- above is the blaring headline in the Miami Herald, which has been hoping for the Little Havana Cubans in Miami to recapture Cuba since 1959, the year the Cuban Revolution overthrew the Mafia-riddled Batista dictatorship on the island. In today's Miami Herald prediction, it foresees the currently deadly upsurge of the COVID-19 pandemic on the island is perfect time to recapture Cuba. And it becomes a Perfect Storm situation when President Biden's debacle created by the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan means that Biden can make up for his bungling the Afghan loss by finally recapturing Cuba and also overthrowing Cuban friends such as Venezuela. WOW!!! A Perfect Storm to justify Little Havana's recapture of Cuba!!! Brilliant!!

    The above article in the Miami Herald today -- August 21, 2021 -- was written by Andres Oppenheimer. He is one of the plethora of rich and powerful journalists-authors-speakers who have been famed for vilifying Revolutionary Cuba while glorifying Batista's Cuba, promoting for many decades the urgent need for the United States to recapture Havana for Little Havana Cubans in the USA. Oppenheimer was born 69 years ago in Buenos Aires, graduated from Colombia University, is an ultra-powerful columnist for the Miami Herald, anchors "Oppenheimer Presenta" on CNN En Espanol, etc.

    Of course, as Oppenheimer formulated his August 21-2021 prediction about the Perfect Storm to recapture Cuba, he interviewed John Bolton, the prolific right-wing war-monger. While he was President Trump's chief National Security Adviser, Bolton seemed totally sure that he finally had the money and the power to recapture Cuba while also overthrowing Cuba's prime Latin American allies in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Bolivia. Actually, a coup left a U.S.-friendly lady as the President of Bolivia but she this week was charged with coup murders by the restored Cuba-friendly government in Bolivia. So, Bolton left his position in the Trump administration, got a multi-million-dollar book deal for lambasting Trump, and now remains just one of the many rich war-mongers awaiting the recapture of Cuba while also eliminating Cuba's Latin American friends.

  Above are three paragraphs of Andres Oppenheimer's blaring prediction about Cuba's demise on August 21-2021 in the Miami Herald. As you see above, Oppenheimer believes that President Biden, after being humiliated with his Afghan withdrawal, will now try to recoup his war-mongering "strength" by being the first U. S. president to recapture Cuba while also, of course, taking care of Cuba's close allies like Venezuela!! As you can see, Oppenheimer talked about the new Perfect Storm with famed war-monger John Bolton.

     The quotes above that Oppenheimer got from Bolton are actually hilarious, but you can read them for your own amusement if you so desire.

      When Trump named John Bolton as the USA's National Security Adviser, Cubans on the island were abundantly aware of the "DANGERS" that the appointment posed. Bolton had long advocated the overthrow of Revolutionary Cuba and his reputation as a war-monger was well known.

   Little Havana's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio dictated Cuban policies during the Trump presidency and, naturally, Rubio wanted John Bolton in charge of the overthrow of Cuba.

     Thus, no one was surprised that John Bolton went to Little Havana in Miami to laughingly announce that he had the authority from Trump & Rubio to finally avenge Little Havana's greatest defeat -- Brigade 2506's humiliating loss during the Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba in April of 1961!!!

     Incredibly, since the April-1961 Bay of Pigs attack on Cuba, a lot of Cubans in Little Havana USA have grown rich and powerful but they have not yet recaptured Havana. In August of 2021 the rich and powerful Andres Oppenheimer in Miami/Little Havana loudly predicts the Perfect Storm -- meaning COVID-19 & the Afghan debacle -- will provoke President Biden to finally recapture Cuba for Little Havana USA!!! WOW!!

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