The Havana & Miami Charade!!

What has been and what could be AGAIN!! 

     Back in the 1950s Havana was richer than Miami. That was when the United States and the Mafia both lavishly supported the thievery of the brutal Batista dictatorship. Back in the 1950s the U. S. wildly promoted American companies and American tourists to flock to Havana and partake lavishly in the Gold Mine that Batista's Cuba afforded them. Thus, back in the 1950s the United States loved the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful island nation. Miami back in the 1950s was no more than Havana's little sister, with DC-3 airplanes, ships, and ferries using Miami as a port to fly and sail and ferry tourists to Havana...where uncontrolled lures such as gambling, drugs, and prostitution awaited all those unending tourist dollars!!

There has always been a Miami-Havana Connection.

    But it was in Batista's Cuba in the 1950s when Miami was used to make Havana the GO-TO destination and the RICHEST CITY in the Caribbean!! Back in the 1950s Miami was saturated with ads like the one above: "HAVANA ROUND-TRIP EXURSION $42...THREE ROUND TRIPS FROM MIAMI EVERY WEEK!!!!" Wonderful!! Of course, Batista's Cuba as well as the MAFIA and all those U. S. COMPANIES were WAITING in Havana as all those Dollars sailed FROM Miami into the ever-ALLURING Havana!!!

    And for sure, back in the 1950s in Batista's Cuba the Batistianos, the Mafiosi, and the U. S. businessmen were making vast fortunes by using Havana as a Mafia-fueled Cash Cow. But, as they stashed much of those easy dollars in Miami banks and other Miami entities, they also stupidly failed to toss even a few crumbs to the majority peasants, or non-Batistianos, who were neglected all across the island. Thus, there were no crumbs to fund education, health care, and other necessities for the starving majority. And, beyond that cruel stupidity, Batista's Cuba in the 1950s had a ploy that was even crueler: Their goon-squads murdered children to persuade the parents not to dissent!!

     In Batista's Cuba in the 1950s peasant mothers had no crumbs to properly feed and otherwise care for their children.

     But in Batista's Cuba in the 1950s the last straw for the non-Batistiano-Mafiosi mothers was the "the murders of our children"/"LOS ASESINATOS DE NUESTROS HIJOS." Of course, in August of 2022 Miami still denies the significance of historic photos such as the two above, but nevertheless photos like these two explain why the Batistianos, the Mafiosi, and the American businessmen were booted out of Havana in January of 1959...mostly to nearby Miami by the Cuban Revolution!!

Incredibly the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959.

   Even more incredible is the fact that the Cuban Revolution has existed for over 62 years, and in 2022 that includes six years since the death of Fidel Castro at age 90 in 2016.

    In the last 62+ years many pro-Revolutionary and many anti-Revolutionary journalists and authors have tried mightily to tell us "How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution." But, for sure, T. J. English in his classic and seminal book "Havana Nocturne" has done the greatest job in telling us the pivotal history of Havana...and Little Havana USA.

     Yes, T. J. English best chronicles what happened in Havana in the 1950s and what has happened in Little Havana USA since 1959. Since 1959 ultra-targeted Havana has gone from being the richest city in the Caribbean to the poorest, while since 1959 Little Havana USA in the heart of Miami has emerged from poverty to become one of the richest and most politically powerful entities in the superpower United States.

    To understand the Miami-Havana conundrum, start by reading and studying T. J. English books, especially Havana Nocturne. Then you might understand why today ultra-poor Havana is barely holding on while ultra-rich Miami and ultra-rich Little Havana USA in AUGUST of 2022 totally dictate the USA's lucrative Cuban policies the same as Batista and the Mafia, with the help of the USA, dictated Cuba in the 1950s before the Cuban Revolution intervened in 1959. But what, incredibly, if Miami and the USA loved Havana again? Well, if that happened, Havana would again become as rich as Miami is today!!!

    In August of 2022 poor little Cuba remains the largest nation in the Caribbean and the most beautiful island in the Western Hemisphere...and the region's most intriguing and alluring destination. And if Miami and the USA loved Cuba now as much as they did in the 1950s, Havana would soon be as rich as Miami and Little Havana USA. Cuba's history and its dalliances with Miami and the USA tell us that is so.

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The Lady Determined to Revive Cuba's Economy!!

    And the Lady Trying to Save the Revolution!!

    If the perennially targeted nation of Cuba is to survive the newly drastic twin assaults from the U. S. Blockade and the Covid-19 Pandemic, the lady who is now charged with saving the island's depleted economy [and the Revolution] is Ana Teresita. 

   A brilliant expert regarding trade and economic issues, Ana Teresita has enough power in Cuba to now become the orchestrator of a new Revolutionary policy that permits Cuba to allow foreign investments in companies on the island, even allowing foreign companies to own or be the majority entities of companies in Cuba. Somehow Cuba's own vaccines have curtailed the most egregious effects of the Covid pandemic, but the increased tightening of the six-decade-old U. S. embargo/blockage by the Trump-Biden administrations has practically brought the island's economy to unprecedented depths. In recent months and weeks a massive series of terrorist-like explosions and huge fireballs have destroyed prime economic facilities in Cuba, including major tourist hotels and vital oil depots. In this milieu, it is now up to Ana Teresita to revive Cuba's economy...at least enough to allow the Revolutionary rule of Cuba to continue.

     The American people don't know who Ana Teresita is, but the Cubans in Miami as well as the U. S. government in Washington know exactly who she is. Moreover, important people atop many foreign governments know who Ana Teresita is and they deeply admire her!! That includes Prince Charles, the man who will be the next King of England...but also the leaders of important nations such as Spain, Italy, Mexico, South Africa, Vietnam, Argentina, China, etc., etc., are also well acquainted with and deeply admire Ana Teresita.

     Today -- on August 17th, 2022 -- Ana Teresita is largely responsible for the Top Cuban Headlines saturating the U. S. media right now...as shown above.

Above today is the NBC News headline and sub-headline.

    The two images above -- the letter to President Biden begging him to ease or end the U. S. "sanctions" that are devastating Cuban families; and the fireballs from massive explosions now hitting the island -- also are disturbing more-and-more Americans. The above letter to President Biden recently was signed by over two dozen Democrats and Republicans in the United States Congress. Like millions of Cuban citizens, the well-known letter-writers wonder if the fireballs coupled with the increased "sanctions" are designed to finally overthrow the Cuban Revolution. Indeed the U. S. "sanctions" are now targeting specific individuals in Cuba such as...you guessed it...Ana Teresita.

     And indeed, from many corners of the world more and more international leaders are growing more and more ashamed of the endless targeting by the Superpower United States of the island nation of Cuba.

     And, it so happens...that one of the most powerful leaders in the entire world that is "most fed up" with the USA's targeting of Cuba is GREGORY MEEKS. A 68-year-old lawyer, Congressman Meeks has represented New York...as well as targeted Cuban families...in the U. S. Congress since 1998. Now, since 2021, Mr. Meeks is the powerful Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the U. S. House of Representatives. Cuba, of course, is a foreign nation...not a possession nor a piggybank of the United States. Today...in August of 2022...GREGORY MEEKS is one of the most powerful people in the United States and in the world trying mightily to help the long-targeted Cuban families on the island of Cuba. And, yes, GREGORY MEEKS is a good friend of Ana Teresita, the Cuban who is trying so hard to revive the Cuban economy.

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The Cuban Revolution FINALLY Ends!!

 

    History registers the fact that on January 1, 1959 that Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the U.S.-backed Mafia/Batista Dictatorship!! Even more shocking, since January 1, 1959 the Cuban Revolution has survived over six decades of massive efforts from the superpower United States to overthrow the Cuban Revolution as Fidel Castro's island historically weathered high-powered assassination attempts; a massive military attack at the Bay of Pigs in April of 1961; a massive Embargo/Blockade that began in 1962 and exists to this day in August-2022; numerous terror attacks such as the bombing of the civilian airplane Cubana Flight 455 in 1976 that killed everyone aboard; etc., etc., etc.!!!

      And Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution even survived the death of Fidel Castro who died of natural causes in Havana at age 90 in 2016. From 1959 until August of 2022 the U. S. media on a daily basis has predicted the demise of the Cuban Revolution. But, at last, in mid-August of 2022 it finally appears that the U. S. media's prediction might be coming true!!

     Unlike the U. S. media, much of the foreign media actually reports on real Cuban news, such as the real Cuban news shown above by the Paris-based AFP News Agency. That shows the AFP reporting on the August-2022 explosion and fire that destroyed the most vital and most important oil depot in Matanzas 65 miles east of Havana. Earlier a glaring series of other massive explosions and fires had destroyed vital economic venues in Mariel 30 miles southwest of Havana and even in the heart of Havana itself, including the iconic Saratoga Hotel that was completely demolished by an explosion and fire that killed dozens of workers who were refurbishing the Saratoga Hotel to get it ready for the tourist season.

    Meanwhile...while all these things have been happening to Cuba since January of 1959 to August of 2022...the mainstream media in the U. S. has continually told the American people that Batista's Cuba in the 1950s was a wonderful government while Castro's Cuba since 1959 has been a hellhole government that must be eliminated. Mary O'Grady, for example, has been the powerful Opinions Editor/Columnist since 2005 for the powerful Wall Street Journal. Her continuous anti-Cuba propaganda is believed by many people.

    Above is Mary O'Grady's newest anti-Cuba propaganda piece in the powerful Wall Street Journal. The headline and sub-headline says: "Cuba Faces a Power Vacuum. The revolution is dead, and so are its leaders." Wonderful. But, of course, Mary O'Grady has been writing such things in the powerful Wall Street Journal since 2005...and Americans are supposed to believe every word she writes about Cuba.

    As you can see above, in her August 14th-2022 article in the powerful Wall Street Journal, Mary O'Grady wrote: "One way to think about the inferno that tore through a critically important fuel-storage terminal in the Cuban port of Matanzas last week is a funeral pyre for the 1959 revolution." And again wonderful!! And again remember that Mary O'Grady's anti-Cuba/pro-Miami propaganda has typically saturated the mainstream media in the United States since 2005.

         With the likes of the powerful Mary Anastasia O'Grady of the powerful Wall Street Journal typically dominating the mainstream media in the United States, it totally skewers the very important U. S. relationship with the nearby island nation of Cuba. Additionally...it also skewers the trust Americans now have of the mainstream media in the United States, with one recent poll revealing that only 11% of Americans "trust" what their mainstream media is telling them.

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US Media Coverage of Terror in Cuba!!

     The two photos above show the latest in a dire series of explosions and the resulting fires that have practically brought Cuba to its knees...as key economic energy and tourist areas are being wiped out either because of a plethora of coincidental accidents or intentional SABOTAGE. The photos above show the incineration last week of Cuba's main oil depot in Matanzas 65 miles east of Havana; recently the main hotel in the heart of Havana, The Saratoga, was destroyed causing dozens of deaths to workers that were refurbishing the iconic hotel for the tourist season. Accidents? Or SABOTAGE?

    And, of course, the coverage of the disasters -- often starting with the extreme Counter Revolutionary Miami Herald -- always portray problems in Cuba as the fault of the Revolutionary government while, of course, always portraying Miami Cubans and the Cubans who led Cuba during the Mafia-saturated Batista Dictatorship prior to 1959 as a wonderful and prosperous regime.

    As "Flames go out in Matanzas but the Drama Continues in Cuba," the fallouts from the massive explosions and fires in Cuba mostly impact the long-targeted everyday Cuban families that have already suffered drastically from the U. S. Embargo/Blockade and other U. S. Counter Revolution efforts for six decades.

    While Cubans in poor little Cuba suffer power shortages, various degrees of starvation and deprivation, and now renewed migrations of Cuban youth exiting Cuba,  a handful of Cubans in the United States continue to blame the island's problems solely on Cuba's Revolutionary government. That, of course, is the continuation of a six-decade-old lie that is still designed to enrich and empower U. S. Cubans while devastating Cuba's Cubans.

     Please take note of this Cuban helicopter pilot. For five straight days he flew over the ocean to get buckets of water to drop over the massive fire in Matanzas. After five days there was still a lot of smoke but the fire was out. After his last flight, as shown above, his wife and baby girl celebrated the fact that the fire was finally out...and that he was still alive. All the good Cubans are not in Miami. This young Cuban family in Cuba -- father, wife, and little girl -- are good people. They do not deserve to be continually assaulted from Miami and the USA.

Meanwhile,

Don't blame the U. S. Cubans!!

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Terror Strikes In Cuba & Venezuela!!

 Accidents? Sabotage?

     Cuba's Minister of Health Jose Angel Portal Miranda released this photo today -- Friday, 08-12-2022 -- showing his rescue team still sifting through the remains of Cuba's vital oil depot in Matanzas. He said: "bone remains belonging to four different people were found." This was after, during the previous five days, Cuba had battled a massive explosion and roaring fire at this site.

   In Cuba last week and in Venezuela this week there have been massive explosions and fires that have destroyed vital energy concerns vital to the governments and people in those two countries. A key oil pipeline has been hit in Venezuela, Cuba's prime ally. And last week Cuba's most vital oil depot located in Matanzas, 65 miles east of Havana, was virtually destroyed. Prior to that in Cuba there have been explosions and fires at Mariel, a key economic zone 30 miles southwest of Havana. And then an iconic tourist hotel in the heart of Havana -- The Saratoga -- had a huge explosion and fire that killed dozens of workers who were getting the famous hotel ready to welcome tourists. Accidents? Sabotage? Terror?

Note:

    On this forum -- Cubaninsider -- I quickly posted an article in which I wondered aloud if the series of huge explosions in Cuba involved sabotage, not mere conincidental accidents. Since then, finally, there are others who wonder the same!!

    As you can see from the headlines above, even the Miami Herald is now reporting: "Cuba oil fire likely sabotage." Of course, since 1959 the Miami Herald is abundantly aware that Miami has been the heartthrob of vast sabotage attacks designed to overthrow the Cuban Revolutionary rule of Cuba. And finally in August of 2022 -- after 60 years of the U. S. Embargo and two years of the Covid Pandemic -- there certainly are people in Miami who believe that Revolutionary Cuba is more vulnerable than ever before to be overthrown by dissidents and foreign sources. Therefore, are the alarming series of recent explosions in Cuba and in Venezuela in August of 2022 coincidental accidents or SABOTAGE????

     Today -- on August 12th, 2022 -- the powerful London-based Reuters News Agency, which is a keen and unbiased observer of Cuba -- uses the word "sabotage" in reporting about the new "Venezuela gasoline pipeline damaged in explosion." Of course, Reuters and all unbiased news sources are well aware that, especially since the four years of the Trump presidency, sources in the United States have tried mighty to overturn the Venezuelan government as well as the Cuban government...because oil-rich but U.S.-sanctioned Venezuela is Cuba's most important ally.

      Heading into this second week of AUGUST-2022, Cuba had spent five days fighting the massive fires in Matanzas at the island's most important oil facility. Normally Cuba never begs for international help regardless of the tragedies it faces, but this time Cuba did ask for international HELP. Very quickly two nations -- Mexico and Venezuela -- responded with massive help!! BUT WHY DID NEARBY MIAMI AND THE UNITED STATES NOT SEND HELP?? Perhaps the Miami Herald, for once, should answer that question...and do so in a journalistic manner and not as a propagandist for the rich and powerful Counter Revolutionary forces in Miami.

"CUBA in MIAMI!!"

OR

"MIAMI in CUBA!!"

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WHY Is U. S. NOT Helping In Cuba's Fiery Disaster?

 

     For the most part, neither the U. S. government nor the U. S. media has adequately acknowledged or helped Cuba fight what has been the latest vast explosion and fire that direly concerns the island's people. For five days the raging inferno largely destroyed the vital oil depot in Matanzas 65 miles east of Havana. Already -- on the heels of the COVID pandemic and the everlasting U. S. Embargo -- cities in Havana and across the island were facing dreadful energy blackouts. But thanks and congratulations to NBC News for the blazing headline above that today -- on August 10th, 2022 -- tried to remind the American people what they are ignoring across the Florida Straits.

   Yamil Lage, the great Cuban photojournalist for the vast Paris-based AFP News Agency, has saturated many newspapers and other venues around the world with photos for the last five days that are chronicling the devastating fires in Matanzas. Both the Paris-based AFP and London-based BBC News Agencies have reported that, unlike the United States, that Mexico quickly dispatched help to fight the Matanzas inferno.

NEIGHBORS: US & Cuba.

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More FIRE, More Blackouts in Cuba!!!!

 

    Today -- on August 9th, 2022 -- the photos and reporting shown above is from the London-based The Guardian website. It tells the world that on the 5th day since the tragic explosions and fires that all of Cuba is reeling, including more electric blackouts. The massive and ongoing fires are destroying the prime thermoelectric plant in the city of Matanzas, which is 65 miles east of Havana.

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