THE USA WILL ALLOW CUBA TO PLAY BASEBALL

 AMAZING!!

    Since January of 1959 Little Cuba has considered itself a sovereign nation. That was the month the Cuban Revolution shocked the world by overthrowing the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship.

    But since January of 1959 Little Cuba has struggled to express its sovereignty because the U. S. colossus just to the north has maintained its own colossal plans for the Caribbean's largest and most beautiful nation.

  But...lo and behold!!...the U. S. Cuban Headlines today -- on December 28th-2022 -- are truly shocking: "United States to allow MLB players to play for Cuba in World Baseball Classic." Incredible; I mean the U. S. IS ALLOWING Cuba to compete with the other 19 nations involved in the World Baseball Classic that starts in March, 2023. FANTASTIC!! Does this mean that someone in Washington actually believes that Cuba is a sovereign nation?????????

     If the headline and sub-headline shown above is true, Cuba is suddenly a favorite to win the 20-nation World Baseball Classic starting in March of 2023!!! On level playing fields, Cuba is capable of winning the 2023 World Baseball Classic starting on March 8th when it plays its first game in Taiwan...just like Cuba won the first three Olympic Baseball Championships when the games were played on level conditions. Per capita Cuba produces the best baseball players in the world and that includes the 600 that have defected to the riches of Major League Baseball because of draconian sanctions against Cuba since 1959.

     Other baseball powers such as the U. S., Japan, and the Dominican Republic {where all 30 U. S. Major League teams have lucrative year-around baseball training facilities}, of course, have recently been allowed to use Major League Players, all nations except Cuba.

    Until this last week of 2022 Cuba believed the USA's worldwide influence, and its excruciating "longtime sanctions" against Cuba, would keep the Caribbean nation from competing in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

    Like families in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and other Caribbean nations, Cuban fathers in Cuba begin early to train their boys to play baseball...knowing that they now can have long careers in the U. S. where star players are now making $40 million dollars A YEAR in salaries -- plus more millions of easy dollars each year from U. S. companies eager to lavish ad money on such athletes. In the Caribbean there are many poor families that have learned that a star baseball player can earn $40 to $60 million dollars A YEAR on outrageous but very legal long-term U. S. contracts!!!!

    But apart from the obscene and easy money that Cuban players can get playing baseball in the United States, Cubans such as the three shown above simply love baseball!!!!

     And, yes, despite the ultra-cruel and ultra-unique sanctions that the U. S. has levied on Cuba for the past six decades, Cuba still produces, per capita, the best baseball players in the world. And, yes, on level playing fields around the world Cuba can still win heralded international baseball tournaments such as the upcoming 20-nation World Baseball Classic in which teams from the Dominican Republic, U. S., Japan, Venezuela...and Cuba...will be among the favorites.

   In the USA's two-Party political system, in the past six decades the Republican President Donald Trump has levied the most harsh sanctions against Cuba. But the current Democrat President Joe Biden has been slower than expected to ease the most draconian Cuban policies he inherited from Trump.

    After sane and decent overtures to Cuba by two-term President Barack Obama, Major League Baseball and the Federation of Cuban Baseball signed an historic agreement in which Cuban baseball players would have the same rights as players from other nations to reach the U. S. and play pro baseball. The MLB leaders direly wanted the agreement because greedy and criminal agents and human traffickers were grossly ripping off and at times brutally treating Cuban defectors who wanted to play baseball in the Major Leagues. Everyone except the sanction benefactors loudly praised the MLB-FCB agreement. But like all other sane and decent agreements between the U. S. and Cuba since 1959, the sane and decent MLB-FCB agreement was quickly doomed by a minority of rich and powerful people in the U. S. who benefit either financially or politically from the vast and unending Cuban diaspora.

    During the Trump presidency, ultra-powerful Cuban-American U. S. Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez weren't about to allow the sane and decent MLB-FCB agreement to last very long.  And therefore it didn't!!

    Yet...at least for a few hours on December 28th-2022...the United States {see above} appeared to treat Cuba as a sovereign nation that would be "allowed to" make some sovereign decisions of its own regarding the upcoming 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Incredible!!

Is Miami sleeping on Dec. 28th-2022??

Or can Cuba now win the World Baseball Classic?

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A Rich Nation Starving a poor nation.

 The U. S. vs. Cuba as 2022 ends!!

     The Associated Press is the top News Agency in the United States and its articles literally saturate most U. S. newspapers every day. But since 1962 most Americans in the U. S. have been programmed to dismiss headlines such as the one above --- the AP Headline that blanketed the U. S. while Americans were/are celebrating the joys of Christmas Week in 2022.

     Despite being denounced worldwide by billions of concerned people that are ashamed of this definitive international image of the U. S. {created by famed Brazilian artist Carlos LaTuff}, Americans obviously are the only ones not ashamed about it. But the history and awesome longevity of the U. S. EMBARGO against Cuba has existed since 1962 for the purpose of starving, depriving, and making miserable Cubans on the island to entice them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutionary government, the Revolution that in 1959 overthrew the brutal U.S./Mafia-backed dictator Batista. But that, despite the brutal EMBARGO, has not happened...yet the failed EMBARGO in the past six decades has continued to starve, deprive, and make miserable generations of totally innocent mothers and children in Cuba. All the while Americans are told that those Cuban mothers and children are the bad guys and the Americans who created and continue to maintain  the EMBARGO are the good guys!!! But, for what it's worth, below I show what the aforementioned Associated Press article this Christmas week tells the American people how the EMBARGO at Christmas time in 2022 is starving, depriving, and making life miserable for everyday Cuban mothers.

     As you can see above, the AP starts by quoting a well-to-do Cuban-American named Ricardo Torres as blaming Cuba for its dire economic problems. But at least, this time, the AP mentions a 67-years-old mother and grandmother named Estrella as a totally innocent Cuban being starved, deprived, and made miserable. Of course, the prime cause of Estrella's punishment is the EMBARGO, which Americans have been programmed since 1962 to accept...YOU KNOW, so the good guys in the United States can keep starving, depriving, and making miserable the lives of the bad guys in Cuba, such as Estrella.

   And, of course, Carlos LaTuff and 8 billion other people around the world remain ashamed of this image of the United States. MEANWHILE, 330 million Americans are not ashamed!!!

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Ana Belen Montes in the Headlines Again

 

     In the captivating saga of U.S.-Cuban history from Columbus to Castro and beyond, the name Ana Belen Montes looms large in the most massive pantheon of intrigues and misunderstandings. {The above graphic is from the Washington Post and Andy Potts}.

     Today -- December 23rd-2022, two days before Christmas -- the Top Cuban Headline in the United States comes from the Miami Herald and it is, not surprisingly, another blistering and scathing assault on...Ana Belen Montes.

     This is the scathing denunciation of Ana Belen Montes today -- Dec. 23rd-2022 -- headlined by the Miami Herald. Powerful Cubans in Miami, of course, are alarmed that Ana Belen Montes is about to be freed after spending the last two decades in a U. S. federal prison.

     The above 3 paragraphs show how the Miami Herald today begins to explain the latest news in the Ana Belen Montes saga: "Cuba's top spy in the United States will be freed from prison on Jan. 8 after serving just 20 years in a federal prison in Texas. She is said to be coming to Miami.........!!!!"

     Of course, there have always been many people who believe that Ana Belen Montes should never have served the last 20 years in a United States federal prison.

     A graduate of the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University, Ana Belen Montes quickly zoomed up in the higher echelons of the U. S. Defense Department as the USA's top expert regarding Cuba.

    As the U. S. government's top expert regarding Cuba, Ana Belen Montes won numerous citations and awards from the CIA and the Defense Department.

    But on 09-21-2001, as shown above, Ana Belen Montes was arrested by the FBI and charged with being the most notorious Cuban spy in the history of the United States. She, of course, was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in a federal U. S. prison. On the day she was sentenced Ana Belen Montes famously stated that she would never regret having done what she did to help innocent Cubans in Cuba from being brutalized by the United States. Twenty years later...as she is about to be released from prison...Ana Belen Montes will say the same thing.

    At her trial it is still important to know exactly what Ana Belen Montes told the judge right after she was sentenced. That aspect of her life is not often reported but, as quoted below by Elio Delgado Legon, you can read correctly every word of her statement. As you see below, she started by saying: "Your honor, I engaged in the activity that brought me before you because I obeyed my conscience rather than the law. I believe our government's policy toward Cuba is cruel and unfair, profoundly unneighborly, and I felt morally obligated to help the island defend itself from our efforts to impose our values and our political system on it." That was the first paragraph of her statement and the other six paragraphs of what she read and said to the judge is also correctly listed below.

     "I hope for a U. S. policy that is based instead on neighborly love, a policy that recognizes that Cuba, like any nation, wants to be treated with dignity and not with contempt." As you can see in the third paragraph from the bottom above, the above quotation and sentence in pink was included in the long speech Ana Belen Montes made before the judge right after he sentenced her to 25 years in a federal U. S. prison.

    Born on February 28th, 1957, Ana Belen Montes rose to become the top U. S. Cuban expert for the Defense Intelligence Agency and at the job for 17 years she was convicted in 2001 as being a Cuban spy. But even her accusers acknowledge she didn't do it for money {Cuba did not pay her} but to assuage her "conscious" for what she considered to be an egregious Cuban policy by the United States that she told the judge is "cruel and unfair." And for that belief, she has spent the past twenty years in a federal prison in Texas. It remains to be seen what she will do after she is released on January 8th, 2023.

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All Neighbors LOVE Cuba, Except for US

 

    All maps reveal that Cuba is the largest nation in the Caribbean and most tourists reveal that Cuba is also the most beautiful nation in the Caribbean. All of Cuba's neighbors, except for the northern colossus known as the United States, love and respect Cuba. That includes the U. S. Territory of Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands...and it also includes Cuba's close neighbors such as Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic...all of which are blessed with tons of U. S. dollars thanks to close economic ties with the United States...including massive tourism as well as major U. S. golf tournaments, football bowl games, etc., not to mention such things as the Dominican Republic raking in billions of dollars from all 30 of the U. S. Major League Baseball Teams having year-around training facilities/stadiums/coaches to facilitate Dominican players reaching the money-crazed U. S. teams. All of this is happening while the superpower U. S. has maintained, for over six decades, massive rules to totally starve the economy of one Caribbean nation -- Cuba!!!!

    Among the Caribbean nations raking in tons of U. S. tourists and sports dollars, of course, is the Bahamas. Today -- December 21st-2022 -- the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Philip Davis, is in Havana meeting with Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

      The leader of the Bahamas, both publicly and privately, told the leader of Cuba that his country loves Cuba and hates the "unique"  U. S. economic stranglehold on Cuba.

          The leader of the Bahamas today brought along a huge delegation of Bahamian leaders with him to Havana to tell Cuba's leader, "Please let the Cuban people know that the Bahamian people love them and wish them happiness and safety." 

        Of course, regardless of what the Bahamian people wish for, the Cuban people in the Caribbean's largest nation are not "safe and happy" on December 21st, 2022...four days before Christmas.

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Who GETS RICH On U.S. Cuban Policies????

The Six+decades of the U. S. Blockade of Cuba has starved Generations of Cubans but made Generations of Americans VERY rich!!!  Today -- December 20th-2022 -- the largest newspaper in the United States explained this ongoing lucrative and cruel situation but, of course, Americans are programmed not to care.

     But just for the record, by far the largest newspaper/media source in the United States is The Wall Street Journal. As you can see above, the WSJ has a daily circulation more than double that of sources such as the NY Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post. Today -- December 20th-2022 -- the WSJ featured a blazing headline and article that told the American people about the cretins who continue to make tons of money from the USA's lucrative but disastrous Cuban policies but, of course, Americans again are not supposed to give a damn...and that is why it will continue endlessly.

         But for the record, above is the article today -- Dec. 20th-2022 -- in the Wall Street Journal that Americans are programmed to ignore. The two opening paragraphs, for what it's worth, are: "Ferrying Cubans to the U. S. in the past year has become a billion-dollar business involving airlines, charter operations and travel agents working from strip malls in Florida to airports across Central America and the Caribbean. Immigration figures show a quarter of a million Cubans have arrived in the U. S. in the past year. Many of them paid thousands dollars each...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

     Of course, on December 20th of 2022 America's largest newspaper -- The Wall Street Journal -- tells us cowardly and uncaring Americans that unchecked elements today are making "BILLIONS OF DOLLARS" from U. S. government policies that have pertained to Cuba since 1959, the year that the Cuban Revolution overthrew the US/Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship that famously allowed U. S. businessmen and the Mafiosi to also make BILLIONS OF DOLLARS from 1952 till 1959. In the 1950s that generation of Americans thought the lucrative but cruel rape of Cuba was fine as long as it enriched a few people in a much larger country. And in December of 2022 another generation of Americans feel the same way. Meanwhile...there must be a few Americans who are ashamed about the seminal image of America depicted above, but where are they? Too AFRAID to admit shame?

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Those That LOVE the Cuban Blockade

 While Others Consider It Genocidal!!

      In 1962 the United States imposed an economic EMBARGO-BLOCKADE against the nearby island nation of Cuba that was designed to starve, deprive, and make miserable Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. This was after a record number of assassination attempts against rebel leader Fidel Castro had failed and after the massive U. S. Bay of Pigs military attack against Cuba had failed to overthrow the Cuban Revolution that had overthrown the U.S./Mafia-backed Batista dictatorship in 1959. And since 1962 the EMBARGO-BLOCKADE, amazingly, has also failed to overthrow Cuba's revolution.

     That brings us to today, which happens to be December 19th-2022. Above are today's top Cuban Headlines in the United States...none of which, as usual, speaks to the truth about the unending EMBARGO-BLOCKADE that almost all of the world's 8 billion people and almost all of America's 340 million people oppose, with many of them considering the EMBARGO-BLOCKADE to be legalizing genocide against masses of people in a small nation by a handful of benefactors in a large nation. So peruse the Cuban Headlines on December 19th-2022 but understand that, as usual, that they primarily are designed to continue the lucrative U. S. myth that all the key Cubans in the U. S. deserve to be rich and powerful while the masses of Cubans in Cuba deserve to be...starved, deprived, and made miserable.

    And please understand...since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and since the U. S. Blockade of Cuba in 1962, the mainstream U. S. media has not been the place to get the truth about U.S.-Cuban Relations. But sources such as WOLA, a prime Civil and Human Rights group for the Americas based in Washington does report truthfully about U.S.-Cuban Relations -- including the Blockade. WOLA means Washington Office on Latin America and it is the leading research and advocacy organization for advancing Human Rights in the Americas. So...WOLA is a truthful source for updates regarding U.S.-Cuba Relations, such as shown today in late December of 2022:

  As highlighted above, in the closing days of 2022 the Washington Office on Latin America offers sane suggestions for the Biden administration to apply to the dreadful Trump-Biden policies regarding Cuba, which have greatly exacerbated the dreadful dictates that created the EMBARGO-BLOCKADE way back in 1962. For sure, while failing to overthrow Revolutionary Cuba, those policies have surely tormented...starved, etc...generations of innocent Cubans on the island...while also surely enriching and empowering a handful of Cubans in the United States. Are those two ongoing and divergent facts the two reasons the Blockade has existed since 1962...and the reason it is tighter than ever????

     Is the U. S. blockade of Cuba the longest and most genocidal embargo in history by any huge country against any much smaller country??? I am not a historian, so I don't know. But I believe the question is a legitimate one.

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