A Half-Century...and counting!!
The photo above was taken this week at an art class in Havana, Cuba. The classmates and close friends are Alexandra and Mariana. These two precious little girls, like their parents and grandparents before them, will be punished the rest of their lives by generational handfuls of Cuban-exiles from the brutal, thieving Batista-Mafia dictatorship that was overthrown by the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959. The United States made a huge undemocratic mistake when it supported that vile dictatorship from 1952 till 1959 just so rich Americans could also partake in the rape and robbery of the plush Caribbean island. But since 1959 two generations of cowardly, undemocratic Americans have made an even bigger mistake, by permitting the most vicious exiles from the Batista-Mafia dictatorship to set up shop on U. S. soil and -- with the assistance of the Bush dynasty and a mere handful of right-wing sycophants in the U. S. Congress and the Republican Party -- they have been able to dictate America's Cuban policy, the policy that to this day severely punishes little girls on the island like Alexandra and Mariana just as it has punished their parents and grandparents. While the rest of the world, with a current 191-to-0 vote in the United Nations, has the guts to oppose that policy, a large and enabling percentage of Americans do not have either the courage or the patriotism to even inject opinions into the maelstrom that...on a daily basis...shames America and Democracy in the eyes of the world. Study the photo above. Anyone who punishes {or cowardly allows others to punish} these two little Cuban girls is a disgraceful human being.
Sometimes the truth hurts. And this truth should hurt every democracy-loving American. Of course, I think it is too much to ask this particular generation of Americans to care one whit about precious little girls in a foreign nation. But at least Americans should care about their own country and their own souls, and have enough intelligence to realize that the daily punishment of little Cuban girls is being done in their name and being carried out, since 1959, by a few vicious remnants of a vile overthrown dictatorship that reaped and reaps vast political and economic rewards from the endless diaspora perpetrated from America's soil, America's Congress, America's Treasury, America's military, and America's White House.
The Carlos LaTuff image depicted above is the definitive international image of the U. S. embargo against Cuba, and it's an image that currently gets the U. S. condemned by a 191-to-0 unanimity in the United Nations. Yet, Americans are not supposed to be embarrassed by it...or by de-classified U. S. documents that reveal the embargo was imposed way back in 1962 for the purpose of starving and depriving Cubans on the island for the purpose of encouraging them to rise up and overthrow their Revolutinary government. That intent has failed to materialize, yet it exists to this day -- still shaming America and Democracy AFTER HALF-A-CENTURY...while still trying to starve and deprive Cuban children like the two sweet little girls shown earlier.
America is regularly mocked around the world because of its anti-American and anti-Democracy embargo that cruelly persists against Cuba. I refer to such mockings as the one illustrated above, which makes fun of America's Homeland Security blocking the U. S. border with Mexico EXCEPT for making an opening for "Anti-Cuba Terrorists Only." There was a time, I believe, when previous patriotic generations of Americans would have been truly embarrassed by such a universal portrayal of America, but not today...not by the uncaring generations of Americans since 1959.
But actual photos, not mocking cartoons, tell a much truer story of the U. S. embargo against Cuba. That reminder returns us to the photo above that was taken on Oct. 2nd, 2017 at an art class in Havana. The intent of the embargo and other assaults on Cuba is to punish...starve and/or deprive...Cuban children like Alexandra and Mariana to {1} Cause their parents to rise up and overthrow Cuba's revolutionary government; or {2} to sate the vile appetites of a few Cuban-Americans who still pine for the Batista-Mafia dictatorship that ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959.
In October of 2017 the chief spokesman for the American Batistianos is Miami's contribution to the U. S. Senate, Marco Rubio. He claims the embargo and other punitive measures against Cuba should be continued and expanded because they hurt "the Castros." With all due respect to the U. S. Senate, I believe Rubio is lying and I believe he knows it. The embargo and other punitive measures against Cuba have primarily, for over a half-century, hurt Cuban children like Alexandra and Mariana. And all the while, and continuing to this day, it is being done in the name of America and Democracy. Of course, neither the U. S. media nor many Americans have the guts or the integrity to challenge Rubio's endless lies.
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