Following up on his ruminations from yesterday, your Eyewitness thinks we gotta further dissect Wednesday’s upcoming visit by Marco Rubio. He’s the US Secretary of State – and as such, the plenipotentiary of the most powerful state on planet earth!! His remit is to advise his President on all matters foreign so when he’s abroad and one has his ear – as Pres Ali will in a one-on-one – then it’s almost like speaking to Trump himself. So as everyone now appreciates after the affaire Zelensky –in relating to Trump you better understand his personality; Pres Ali now has to factor in plenipotentiary Rubio’s personality!!
So if Trump’s a white, narcissistic ex-reality show host billionaire, who’s Rubio?? Well, for one he once (in 2016) ran against Trump in the Republican primaries, and mocked him for his lack of foreign policy knowledge – not to mention his “small hands”!! At a rally during the primaries, Rubio noted that Trump was always calling him “Little Marco” and then pointed out: “Have you seen his hands? And you know what they say about men with small hands — ” The crowd erupted raucously as Rubio paused to let the well-known sexual inadequacy innuendo sink in – then concluded – ” — You can’t trust them”!! A week later, Trump defended his honour (?) at one of the debates: “Look at those hands (holding them up to the audience) “Are they small hands? And he (Rubio) referred to my hands – if they are small, something else must be small. I guarantee you there is no problem. I guarantee you.”
Anyhow, Rubio is the story of a Cuban immigrant family starting from nothing to producing the second most powerful man in the US Cabinet – after the VP. He’s shaped by the Miami-Cuban immigrant community that fled Castro’s communist experiment – and has taken a hard line stance against dictators in general, and Latin American ones in particular. As such – as your Eyewitness has been stressing – on the Cuban Medical Brigades that Trump claims are trafficked and enriching the Cuban state, we should simply show that it ain’t so HERE!! Let some of the medics meet Rubio and explain they’re now immigrants like him, moving up the ladder!!
But more critical for us is that Rubio’s taken the most extreme US position against the dictator Mad Maduro. In 2019, after addressing Mad Maduro dictatorship, he posted a series of photos of slain and imprisoned dictators to social media. One featured a bloody image of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was executed by rebels in 2011.
We suggest that in Rubio we have a Trump rep who’s most sympathetic, ending Maduro’s tyranny and his need to exploit the Border Controversy!!
…home??
In the last few days, the US reached an agreement with Mad Maduro’s government for Venezuelan deportations to resume into Venezuela. Details are sparse but the madman has insisted he’d “welcome” these deportees to their “homeland” – and didn’t want them brought back shackled in US military planes. So does this mean he’ll be chartering commercial jets to bring home the deportees??
In the meantime the Trump government has exponentially augmented ICE’s personnel to round up persons to be deported by pulling government workers from all sorts of jobs. Never mind that those functions will lag! Starting with the 500,000 that had been let in on a Biden program – there’s more than 10 million more to go!! Now while Maduro has relented, we better find out what was the pro quid quo he extracted from the Yanks.
With dictators like Mad Maduro – who’s been around the block– then some! – we gotta assume he got a pound of flesh. Rubio gotta be asked if it’s to be extracted from us!!
…Gaza round number
Israeli forces have killed at least 130 Palestinians in the last 48 hours. The death toll since 7 October 2023 is now 49,747, – including 634 killed since Israel broke the 18 March ceasefire.
Going for a round 50,000?
