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Michael Ann Ochs's avatar

I am so sick of the Miami Cubans having an outsized amount influence on our government for decades. Just because they have the money to buy influence. Don't just look at AIPAC, look at the Miami cuban lobbying also.

Porter's avatar

Good point. Miami Cubans have been solid and reliable voters for the Republicans and in a number of elections have swung the vote to the GOP goons.

Get the truth's avatar

narco Marco has an ax to grind for the bourgeoise who were kicked out for selling out their country. the mass of poor Cubans suffered while his parents and their friends were partying on the people misery

Johan's avatar

I’d like to comment on his appearance but then realized….The man sold his identity, his integrity, and any claim to coherence for a cabinet position.

His words are disgusting enough. I don’t need to comment on his face when his entire career is a performance of cowardice wrapped in authoritarian rhetoric.

Susan S.'s avatar

Thank-you, Juan David, appreciate the info. What is the opposite of humanitarianism? Oh yeah, cheeto and his flying monkeys for one. Why are we so terrible to our fellow human beings?

javahut's avatar

U.S. "humanitarianism" has been fully outed to the world as complete bullshit. With the current Trump criminals flat out murdering people on boats in international or even other countries' waters, abusing and murdering its own residents and citizens under the guise of "border security", and the previous Biden administration's flat out lies about and unconditional support and funding of Israel's perpetual human rights abuses, land theft, murder, and genocide inflicted on Palestinians, it's readily apparent to every unbiased person on the planet that U.S. "humanitarianism" is now propaganda and a ruse, and more than likely always has been to varying degrees.

B J Sutherland's avatar

Absolutely spot on.

Slth's avatar

Now it makes sense why Rubio bent the knee to Trump, it was always about pushing his vendetta against Cuba, just like Stephen Miller and his obsession with hurting immigrants. Anyone who wants to make people suffer for no good reason will find the tools and resources to do it in the Trump administration.

No's avatar

NOT dt but marco rubio! The rich and powerful want to go back and continue to steal as much as they can. Restore pre castro status quo.

Just my opinion.

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Cheeto’s Nazi Regime: 4 Years Of Laying The Foundation Of An Authoritarian State

In the early years of the Reagan administrations the Nazi Republicans first articulated the Unitary Executive Theory that would establish sweeping powers to the presidency Over the last 40y this nondemocratic agenda has percolated through the Nazi ranks with 17 iterations of Project 2025 beginning in 1990’s culminating in its latest version that Cheeto said he knew nothing about it Cheeto has been on record in 2016 asking, “what’s the big deal about democracy?”

So electorate believed Cheeto’s 2024 campaign lies to stay out of jail and now the stage is set with all three branches of the government on board, Cheeto is recreating the government with loyalists who will partisanly do his bidding regardless of what Congress does or says In 2020 Cheeto and his fringe Nazi allies tried to get rid of the rights of civil employees by getting rid of Schedule F but when losing the 2020 election, Biden put the kabash on that attempt

But now with Voight at OMB and a malignant narcissist as executive, Schedule F is being restructured so as to guarantee that the Nazis will have full partisan control of a partisan federal civil service after getting rid of the rif raff(https://bit.ly/3MK6mVG) And they’re working fast because they only have 3 more years to reshape the country into a Nazi authoritarian state

Literally democratic freedoms as we know them will die if the electorate fails in 2026

Amaranta Viera's avatar

@karen193419: Cubans (among which are many members of my family) have been paying the price for years. It was only when Obama opened up relations that the situation began to improve. But even this was fraught -- the hotels and resorts that began popping up didn't exactly benefit ordinary citizens.

I'm not entirely sure what the road ahead should look like. The physical and social infrastructure has been decimated, food is being hoarded/rationed, and those who run the black market (you can pay with only USD) are powerful and corrupt. What Castro, combined with US sanctions, did to Cuba is going to take at the very least a generation to clean up, and a whole lot of muscle to keep the South Florida neocon Cubans from taking advantage of the situation. It's all absolutely f-ing awful.

Karen's avatar

What the current administration is doing to Cuba is exactly what Nixon did to Chile after Allende was elected. tRump clearly wants to install a US puppet to run Cuba. In the meantime, the Cuban people are paying the price. Infuriating.

Chip Pitfield's avatar

Trump and Rubio are strangling Cuba because they are assholes and they can.

A stands for privacy's avatar

For how long have cubans to suffer because of the US main character syndrom

Porter's avatar

Because he can. It a ready-made opportunity for the Ruler of Darkness to cause pain and make it clear to the island of Cuba and all Hispanics that he is superior, powerful, and not to be messed with. After all, this is what psychopaths like to do.

Wizarat Rizvi's avatar

Do they need another Island, because he couldn't get Greenland?

He is a bully, and this is what bullies do. He wasn't able to bully Canada, as the Banker already called his bluff, and he, being TACO, is looking for an easier prey.

Nina's avatar

We're in deep trouble when people think its ok to starve their own blood…in the name of “freedom”, how many times do we have to see this movie to believe how its going to end?

B J Sutherland's avatar

I visited Cuba twice during the Castro regime and got the sense that conditions like education, healthcare and racial bigotry were being addressed and improving after the rule of Batista.

GlennK's avatar

curious as to why the author so readily refers to Maduro as dictator and not president, yet refers to Trump as president and not dictator. Clearly a writer bias which unfortunately diminishes some very valid perspectives in the article.

Anna Katharina Pondelik's avatar

We should embargo the US and travel to Cuba, by ship if necessary (no kerosene for flights). You could tank on the waters between Cuba and the islands. I know that the US is present in those waters, but if more than one country blocks the blockade and embargoes Trump's embargo, it could work. If more than one government has the balls to do it, that is.

Not buying US American stuff is the start. Try it. It won't hurt AT ALL.