A U. S. Journalist With Guts to Tell Cuban Truths??

Wow!!!!!!

    Today -- on Thursday, April 21, 2022 -- Biden administration officials actually held |"HIGH-LEVEL" talks with Cuban officials regarding "MIGRATION!!" Normally the United States never discusses anything with Cuban officials or everyday Cubans because the Superpower U. S. is obsessed with either regaining control of Cuba for Miami Cubans or continuing to expand the 6-decade-old Embargo against the island that many Cubans and many people around the world consider to be genocidal treatment of everyday Cubans families on the island.

    In the United States, only Miami speaks for Washington when it comes to Cuba. But the Miami article above article at least sort of explains why the U. S. on April 22-2022 wanted to hold discussions in Washington with Cuba's top U. S. experts regarding the USA's glaring migration problems along its southern border with Mexico.

    The U. S. media, which is basically obligated to report only Miami's side of the two-sided U.S.-Cuban conundrum, just before today's U.S.-Cuba talks in Washington actually a couple the U. S.  media asked for a sit-down in Havana, as shown above, with Cuba's greatest U. S. expert, Josefina Vidal. The two interviewers, incredibly, were from CNN and the Associated Press. Incredible...uh, yes, incredible!! For the U. S. media to listen to what a powerful Cuban diplomat says is truly amazing. There is no American on the planet that knows as much as the 61-year-old Vidal knows about U.S.-Cuban relations. When President Obama tried to normalize relations with Cuba, it was Vidal, both publicly and behind closed doors, who represented Cuba. With both the Trump and Biden administrations wiping out the Obana-Vidal agreements and sanity, Vidal has since had a enjoyable time in Ottawa as Cuba's Ambassador to Canada but she returned to Havana because of what she feels is the new Trump-Biden genocide against Cuban families. "At least Obama listened to us and amazingly, in April of 2022, Biden is listening to us, at least because of Biden's problems on the U.S.-Mexican border. Then, I presume, the Miami stranglehold on dictating self-serving Cuban policies will resume Miami's glee and profits from U. S. cruelty to Cuban families."

   For many decades the Associated Press has been the largest and most respected News Agency in the United States. Such trust is considered to be essential to the world's strongest Democracy. For 230 years or so the U. S. Democracy enjoyed and benefited from a news media that was trusted by most Americans. But now the Gallup Poll and other polls reveal that "most Americans no longer trust the mainstream U. S.  media." That, I believe, is particularly so regarding the USA's ageless and contentious relationship with the island of Cuba. While supposedly Cuba rates near the bottom of the USA's priority concerns, both history and topicality says that is untrue. Thomas Jefferson and other notable Founding Fathers in the 1770s were obsessed with owning/controlling Cuba...not so unlike the U. S. leaders in 2022 in Miami, Newark, and Washington are obsessed with owning/controlling Cuba. Historical and topical events in U.S.-Cuban relations attest to that abiding obsession with the island...from the Spanish-American War, the Cuban Revolution, the Bay of Pigs attack, the Mafia, the Embargo, Batista, the Blockade, etc., etc., etc. In that Milieu, from the 1770s till 2022, the island nation of Cuba probably says in totality more about the United States than any other event or relationship says about the USA. Not trusting the U. S. media to tell the truth perhaps had its origin decades or even centuries ago when Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and others rated gaining control of Cuba as a top U. S. priority, such as in the 19th century when the USA's two top newspaper publishers used "Yellow Journalism" to promote the desperate need to concoct and win the Spanish-American War in Cuba, etc. Now in April of 2022 anyone who trusts the mainstream U. S. media to write or speak a truthful word about U.S.-Cuban relations is either a certified idiot or a massive political/economic benefactor of gruesome policies such as the U. S. Embargo/Blockade that, for over six decades, has been designed to starve and deprive families on the island of Cuba to benefit a few rich people in the nearby United States. Yet, incredibly, one mainstream U. S. journalist who dispenses truthful information about Cuban issues happens to be...Andrea Rodriguez. For years she has been stationed in Havana for the Associated Press...and, incredibly, she reports the truth -- good or bad or in between.

    Although she works for the Associated Press, Andrea Rodriguez lives with or beside Cuban families and, uniquely among the U. S. media journalists, Andrea has the integrity and courage to write about the struggles Cuban families face while "struggling to get by."

While Fake News almost always dictates Cuban-related news in the United States, there is an exception -- the AP's Andrea Rodriguez. She keenly knows what is happening in Cuba and she astutely & honestly observes how such things as the Blockade, the Pandemic, Migration, etc., impact the lives of the most important people on the embattled island, the families who are..."struggling to get by."

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April 20-2022: A Big Cuban Birthday

    On April 20th of 1960 Miguel Diaz-Canel was born in Placetas, Cuba. So today -- April 20th of 2022 -- is the 62nd birthday for the President of Cuba.

     So, the current President of Cuba was born after the triumph of Fidel Castro's Revolution.

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Cuba Gets a U.S. Invite. WOW!!

 The meeting is Thursday, April 21-2022

     This map shows a long migrant route that thousands of desperate Cubans are making to reach their goal of crossing the Mexican border to get into the United States.

     For almost three years now Cuba has loudly proclaimed that both the Trump & Biden administrations in Washington have been trying to take advantage of the COVID Pandemic to further tighten the 6-decade-old EMBARGO against the current generation of Cuban families on the island. Of course, Cuba doesn't expect the U. S. government nor the U. S. media nor the U. S. people to give a damn. Yet...incredibly...Cuba is stunned that this Thursday -- on April 21st, 2022 -- that the embargoed-blockaded island nation has been invited to discuss U.S.-Cuban issues in the United States.

    And thus...today -- on April 19th-2022 -- the Cuban headlines inform the world that the U. S. wants to talk with Cuba about MIGRATION. The Miami Herald, of course, can be dismissed as anti-Cuba Fake News, but the London-based Reuters News Agency is worth reading.

    The Reuters article above, unlike most of the Fake News U. S. media, reports fairly on how Cubans are now affecting the USA's southern border, which is being overwhelmed with massive immigrants, especially since Biden became President on January 20th, 2021. As shown above, 16,531 Cubans in one month were stopped at the border...but many came into the U. S. across the sieve that is now the U.S.-Mexican border. The Trump-Biden expansion of the Embargo has direly impoverished Cubans on the island and many are trying to migrate...illegally or legally...to the U. S., particularly trying to make it to the Cuban-mecca of Miami. While the Biden White House is being accused of purposely opening the border because it anticipates that most of the migrants will soon become Democratic, not Republican, voters in the USA's money-crazed two-party political system. But Cuba believes Biden believes Cubans tend to vote as Republicans so Biden is trying to send most of them back to Cuba...but Cuba is saying...you got 'em, you keep 'em!! Three times, in fact, Fidel Castro himself made it easy for Cubans who didn't like the Revolution to debark to the United States...including 125,000 during the Mariel Boatlift, many of them being what movies like Scarface claim were criminals and drug-kingpins that Castro purposely sent to Miami so he wouldn't have to deal with them in Cuba. In any case, apparently on April 21st-2022 the Biden White House wants to ask Cuba why it won't accept the return of the Cubans who have recently bolted the island for the freedom and riches of America!!

    Cuba's highly respected Diplomat in charge of Affairs with the United States is Carlos Fernandez de Cossio. On April 18th-2022 he was surprised that the Biden White House called and actually invited Cuba to a meeting on Thursday --April 21st-2022 -- that actually will supposedly include input from Cuba. Incredible!! For more than five years during the administrations of Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden Cuban officials have never been consulted as 43 devastating U. S. sanctions have been added to the U. S. Embargo against Cuba that began in 1962 when the devastating Embargo began for the purpose of starving, depriving, and making miserable the Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government, which back in January of 1959 had overthrown the brutal U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship. Cossio, as he is known in Washington by that one-word name, has said, "In the last five years both Trump and Biden have severely increased the original 1962 goals of starving, depriving, and making miserable Cuban families to appease the ongoing goals of Cuban-Americans such as Rubio and Menendez whose wealth and power derives from unmercifully punishing totally innocent Cuban families, generation after generation. After six decades, perhaps it is time for the U. S. government to stop lying to the American people and the world about why it is profitable to starve and deprive Cuban families so their misery will please a few rich U. S. Cubans."

   Washington journalists who are allowed to have unbiased thoughts about Cuba consider Cossio to be a pleasant, mild-mannered, and skilled diplomat...but in the past five years Trump and Biden have unleashed his fire. After President Obama visited Cuba and then had the guts to be the first U. S. leader to try to normalize relations with Cuba, and even re-opened the embassies in Havana and Washington, Cossio and 11 of his aides had to duck for cover when a Trump supporter fired 30 high-powered rifle bullets at and in the Cuban embassy building in Washington. Needless to mention, Cossio knows first-hand how much Trump, Rubio, Biden, and Menendez have drastically increased the USA's starvation-goals against Cuban families on the island to appease U. S. Cubans and their acolytes. Cossio, before becoming Cuba's top diplomat regarding U. S. Affairs, had carefully studied U.S.-Cuban Affairs: "From 1952 till 1959 the U. S. and the Mafia had raped and robbed Cuba, spawning the Cuban Revolution. Since 1959, to greedily regain that ability, the U. S. has tried to attack, assault, starve, deprive, and make miserable everyday Cuban families. Since the 1950s, it seems, the American people have been successfully told that is what a strong Democracy is supposed to do to the people in a much smaller neighboring nation."

    Both the United States and Cuba know that the United States has tried to starve Cuba into submission ever since 1962 -- or since the Bay of Pigs military attack in April of 1961 failed to recapture Cuba for the Miami Cubans. And now in April of 2022 both the United States and Cuba know that one of the offshoots of the Embargo's starvation tactics against Cubans on the island is so many of them will try desperately to come to America!!!!

    This Thursday -- on April 21st, 2022 -- the United States will hold a meeting to "discuss migration." Just speaking to Cuba is something the U. S. has failed to do since 1959, so it will be interesting to see if Carlos Fernandez de Sossio, or one of his top aides, will be allowed to actually express Cuba's position regarding the Embargo. Carlos, more than once, has repeated what he thinks: "We learn everyday that if you are the world's richest and most powerful nation you can do what ever the hell you want to do, especially against littler nations. But that doesn't make it right. The United States knows full well that using the Embargo and other means to starve, demean, and try to destroy everyday Cubans in Cuba epitomizes greed and genocide. Lying about those two facts to the world is wrong, but lying about it...decade after decade...to generations of Americans is, perhaps, the worse thing the United States democracy has done."

   A powerful international Cuban diplomat named Johana Tablada is Cuba's Deputy Minister related to United States Affairs. If her boss Carlos de Cossio doesn't speak on April 21st-2022 with the U. S. officials, Johana is fully and forcefully capable of doing so.

  This photo shows Cuba's U. S. expert Johana Tablada, 4th from the left in the polka-dot dress, with some of her colleagues. If afforded the chance, these Cubans would like to express their opinions about America...to Americans.

And so would non-government Cubans!

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Giron Beach vs. Bay of Pigs

 April 1961 vs. April 2022

    Exactly 61 years ago -- on April 17-18-19 of 1961 -- the Bay of Pigs Invasion against Cuba took place as the United States launched an air-land-and-sea attack at Cuba's Giron Beach to recapture the coveted island. The sea invasion above followed the devastating destructions of Cuban airports by U. S. bombers. Revolutionary Cuba shocked the world by defeating the assault, just as the Cuban Revolution had shocked the world back on January 1st of 1959 by overthrowing the U.S.-backed and Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship that had robbed and brutalized the island unmercifully from 1952 till 1959.

   After incredibly warding off the Bay of Pigs military attack in April of 1961, Revolutionary Cuba was subjected to the USA's continued and massive efforts to regain control of Cuba, including terror acts, assassination attempts, and various other methods that failed to subdue the island. And then...the U. S. in 1962 started an economic Embargo against Cuba that, according to de-classified U. S. documents, was meant to starve, deprive, and make miserable the Cuban people to induce them to rise up and overthrow their own Revolutionary government. But that too has not worked. Yet, since 1962 the Embargo indeed has starved, deprived, and made miserable the Cubans on the island...while rich Cubans in the U. S. keep getting richer and richer. And that is why...as shown above...the billboard says that the 6-decade-old Blockade constitutes "the longest/largest genocidal assault in history."

    Yet, as the international Cuban headlines today  -- on April 18-2022 -- blatantly herald as shown above confirm, the world is consistently told that rich people in a Superpower nation are justified in trying to starve people in a much-Smaller nation for six decades...and counting!! And, incredibly, when nations in Europe, South Africa, Mexico, India, etc., try to help those starving souls in Cuba such nations are criticized and accused of vile deeds...apparently so as not to displease the very influential rich and powerful nation that is starving the poor people in the weak nation.

    Perhaps the most asinine article that started circulating around the globe on April 17-2022 was the one above that "shamed" the European Union for trying to help Cubans starving because of the infamous and endless Embargo/Blockade. The article above was written by a "journalist" named Michael Curzon.

"Michael Curzon, Author"

WONDERFUL!!

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U. S. Fake News Mocks Starving Cubans

Cuba's First Lady Reacts! 

     This is Lis Cuesta and her husband Miguel Diaz-Canel...the First Lady and President of Cuba.

     As First Lady, Lis Cuesta is well-liked by Cubans on the island and she takes her role in the limelight seriously. Above she was hosting a First Lady from a friendly foreign country, Spain's Queen Letizia.

  For sure, Lis Cuesta deeply loves her husband, Miguel Diaz-Canel. Very active on social media, Lis posted this photo on Facebook with the reminder to everyone that Miguel is the "dictator of my heart." She, as she has done before, was mocking what she calls the "Fake News Cuban journalists in Miami who mock Cubans on island about their getting the U. S. government to starve Cuban families in Cuba while making Cubans in Miami very rich, much like Cubans in Havana and U. S. businessmen got rich when the U. S. and the Mafia supported the Batista dictatorship till the Cuban Revolution in 1959 chased them back to Miami." Of course, such words...and social media photos like the one above...by Cuba's feisty First Lady taunt the so-called fake news Cuban journalists in Miami.

   Very quickly, Miami responded to Lis Cuesta's bait, or taunt. Fabiola Santiago was born in Cuba but for decades she has worked for the Miami Herald as a reporter and as a longtime Opinion/Editorial superstar specializing in demeaning the Bad Cubans in Cuba while loudly championing the Good Cubans in Miami. In Cuba the island's First Lady, Lis Cuesta, has grown a bit tired of reading the constant diatribes from the likes of Fabiola Santiago. Therefore, Lis grinned when she read Fabiola's article about Lis calling Miguel "the dictator of my heart." Lis was actually mocking the low approval ratings of "the last two U. S. presidents {Trump and Biden} that compare so weakly against the high approval rating Miguel has with most Cubans on this island, not just me. Maybe one day the U. S. can elect a President with such a high approval rating, but I'm not holding my breath for that to happen!!"

  And...this was the massive headline/article/editorial in the Miami Herald that Cuban-born Fabiola Santiago was provoked into writing after she read Lis Cuesta's photo/comment about "the dictator of my heart." Needless to say, Fabiola took the opportunity to write some more mean things about the love of Lis's life that Lis says most of the other Cubans on the island also love deeply. After reading Fabiola's editorial about President Diaz-Canel's "swooning wife," Lis fired off another jab at Miami's fake news Cuban "'journalists' whose lies might make for big bank accounts in Miami but I believe that I sleep better and more truthfully at night than Fabiola does. You see, Fabiola is supported by the money and the force of a superpower nation, but I am supported by a great man who happens to be my husband."

Journalist Fabiola Santiago in Miami.

First Lady Lis Cuesta in Havana.

Lis Cuesta and her beloved Dictator.

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Embargo Tightens but Pandemic Eases for Cuba

As Biden Continues Trump's Cuban Extremes

    Mexico's tourist airline MAGNI has contracted for major new flights to Cuba starting in May-2022. And other key airlines are also Cuba-bound.

     As Cuba's own successful COVID-19 vaccines successfully ease the island's pandemic woes, the Biden administration, now deep into its second year, continues to follow the extremes of  the Trump presidency that many observers consider to have been a genocidal tightening of the 6-decade-old U. S. Embargo against Cuba. But in April of 2022, as Cuba ends its COVID vaccinations for tourists, there are many more foreign airplanes scheduling more flights to the island...including Turkish, Argentinian, Canadian, etc., airlines.

       Also, the giant Southwest Airlines in the United States has succumbed to Miami's "high demand for flights to Cuba on its first day of opening to international tourism." But, as noted in the first paragraph above, "the limitations imposed by the Trump administration remain in force, which prevent these {U.S.} companies to make flights to other Cuban provinces." In other words, U. S. airlines -- thanks to Biden's following/mimicking of Trump's Cuban extremes -- would love to fly to at least nine other major Cuban airports but are restricted to just one, the one in Havana.

     In the USA's two-party political system, many believed that the Democrat Biden presidency would ease the Republican Trump's extreme cruelty against Cuban families on the island. In other words, the Biden administration -- like the Trump administration -- is bowing directly to the rich and politically powerful minority of Cuban-Americans who dominate Miami, Newark, and the U. S. Congress. It simply doesn't matter what the rest of the U. S. and the rest of the world thinks about the endless U. S. embargo/blockade of Cuba that devastates Cuban families on the island but drastically enriches and empowers the  Cuban-Americans in Miami, Newark, and Congress.

   In other words, it doesn't matter if the worldwide image depicted above shames the United States and Democracy for another 6+ decades. What does matter...is how much money and how much power it means for already rich and powerful people who simply don't want to lose the easy piggybank in which extreme political donations dictate far too much of the U. S. laws and policies.

    Alvaro Fernandez, the editor of Miami's Progreso Weekly, tells us that the "TRUMPIFIED MARCO RUBIO uses language of Democracy to subvert Democracy" but it seems that the money-obsessed Miami Herald, NY Times, Washington Post, etc., and most of the rest of the mainstream U. S. media, saturates anti-Cuban tirades to appease Miami, Newark, and the 10 Cubans in Congress.

   So...during the Republican Trump presidency from January-2017 till January-2020, Marco Rubio -- the darling of the most extremists Cubans in Little Havana/Miami -- dictated the USA's Cuban policies. When the mainstream U. S. media denies that fact, it is lying to the American people, I think. Above, in the "POLICY SHIFT" mention, it refers to the fact that -- starting in January-2017 -- immediately Rubio was allowed to dismantle all of the inroads the Democratic Obama presidency had made to normalize relations with Cuba; plus Trump allowed Rubio to add drastic anti-Cuba measures to the already drastic Embargo. Of course, as with most of the USA's Cuban policies since the wonderful Spanish-American War in 1898, greed and not Democracy has dictated the treatment that Cuba has gotten from its ultra-powerful, and salivating northern neighbor.

  In the 2020 U. S. Presidential Election the Republican Trump was pitted against the Democrat Biden. For 8 years Biden had been Obama's Vice-President, so when Biden won the 2020 election many believed that Trump's anti-Cuban extremes would be lessened. But in the USA's two-party political system, Biden as president has proven that the Democrats, like the Republicans, have also now totally capitulated to the wealth and power of the Cubans who control the U. S. Cuban policies in Little Havana/Miami, Newark, Congress, and now even a Democratic White House.

    Thus, during Trump's 4-year presidency the Republican from Miami, Marco Rubio, dictated the USA's Cuban policies. But in the year+ of the Biden presidency, the Democrat from Newark, Bob Menendez, has been allowed to dictate the USA's Cuban policies. Since 1959, Miami & Newark have been the two prime U. S. cities powered by Counter Revolutionary Cubans. And folks, that is not the way the Founding Fathers back in 1776 envisioned their Democracy to behave.

  In April of 2022 the Democrat Bob Menendez from Newark has replaced Republican Marco Rubio of Miami as the prime dictator of the USA's Cuban policies, with fellow Senator and sidekick Rubio now relegated to being the USA's #2 prime dictator of the USA's Cuban policies. Prior to the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1 of 1959, Fulgencio Batista and Meyer Lansky -- the two close pals and neighbors in Southern Florida -- had returned to Cuba as dictators from 1952 till January 1, 1959.

   And, in other words, permit me to repeat: The victory of the Cuban Revolution in 1959 says a lot more about the mighty United States of America than it says about the island of Cuba. Of course, the Miami Herald, the NY Times, the Washington Post, NBC, Telemundo, and the rest of the mainstream U. S. media will deny that fact, but nevertheless it is still a fact in April of 2022.

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