Editorial from El Progreso Weekly, published in Miami for many years:
Time to make them pay for their hatred
By Álvaro Fernández Last updated Aug 7, 2019
Marco Rubio. Mario Diaz-Balart. Bob Menendez. Albio Sires. Ted Cruz. Alex Mooney. Anthony E. Gonzalez. These are the seven members of the U.S. Congress right now who have Cuban ties. Of the seven, only New Jersey’s Albio Sires was born in Cuba. All the others were born in the United States, or in the case of Ted Cruz, Canada.
I do not know enough about Mooney, who represents a district in West Virginia, and Gonzalez, from Ohio, to say for sure, but in one way or another the ones we’ve known (especially the usual suspects: Rubio, Diaz-Balart, Menendez, Sires and Cruz) use Cuba simply as a wedge issue. It is employed at election time and for raising funds in places like Miami and New Jersey. They use it to milk the government for funds they supposedly employ “to instill democracy in Cuba.” They wrap the Cuban flag around themselves as a demagogic act. In the end they couldn’t care less about the island and its 11 million people.
They are all Republicans except for two Democrats, Menendez (who we know too well) and Sires.
As for not caring… case in point is the Trump policy on Cuba directed by the likes of Marco Rubio and John Bolton. Renouncing anything Obama, Trump took apart a number of the steps taken by the former president when it came to Cuba policy. A policy, that if truth be told, was working in a critical sense. The flow of families, both back and forth from the Island nation, was becoming as natural as it should be. People came and went, back and forth, with few problems.
This in return created what we saw happening. Families working together, some creating businesses in Cuba, and also in Miami for that matter, which resulted in people’s economic livelihood improving on both sides of this centuries-old argument.
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