Rubio’s Call to Impose Travel and Remittance Restrictions Draws More Ire from Cuban Exiles

[Mika]

Rubio’s Call to Impose Travel and Remittance Restrictions Draws More Ire from Cuban Exiles
[div class="excerpt" style="margin-left: 2em; border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius: 0.4615em; box-shadow: 3px 3px 3px #999999;"]
When Senator [Rubio] calls for the return of [travel and remittance] restrictions, he lays hold to the most simplistic, inefficient and cruel formula. Would your proposal affect the Castro family, the military and the elites of the dictatorship? Not at all. First it would weaken the self-employed, the independents and even the dissidents. And, despite the suffocating economic situation, the totalitarian state will resist.

It is time for Cuban-Americans politicians to be more ingenious in their proposals. Suggesting to Obama to call on the Security Council of the UN is a step in the right direction, due to the international political impact it would entail, but the star claim in Cuba matters is always the same.

….

Said representatives and senators have won elections fair and square, have consistently defended the interests of their constituents and represent the triumph of Cuban talent in the U.S., unlike any other ethnic minority. Nobody wants to play down their merits. But when it comes to Cuba, they – and their constituents – seem content with the mediocrity of tormenting the weak.

The poll at the end of the article shows that 69% of 898 respondents are against Obama imposing travel and remittance restrictions in response to the Cuba-North Korea contraband controversy.


http://ontwoshores.com/?p=2333

[Judi Lynn]

1. If Florida Cuban-Americans don't like his policies, they need to quit electing him.

He never had his finger on the pulse of "his" people, never.

[Mika]

2. Not sure they do, Judi. You know how the vote fraud goes in Miami.

The various campaigns hire absentee vote gatherers/wranglers and they "help" fill out the absentee ballots by the thousands.

It's all too easy to lay all of the blame at the feet of exiles, but that, imo, is blame shifting distraction from the bigger picture.

[flamingdem]

4. Speaking of questionable elections, it's time to check up on

David Riviera and his buddy in Nicaragua!

I wonder how that's going.

[Judi Lynn]

5. No doubt she's going to work her way back to Miami,

having been totally addicted to the attention she generates there, unable to live without it!

If she does, she'll probably be asked to testify, or at least she should!

I'd love to see her surface back in Florida. I don't think she feels empowered enough with only a small town around her.

And, she did get accustomed to working far less in Miami to live from day to day.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. I suspect it's for the GOP primaries

I suspect Rubio's latest bad idea is to appeal to the hard-line émigrés and cosmic Commie-killers in Florida's state GOP. I suspect it's becoming apparent that the rest of Florida's Cuban emigre community has fallen out of love with punishing travel and financial restrictions.

[Judi Lynn]

6. As someone already mentioned, the extremists are far fewer now,

proportionately, as the original "exiles" fade away.

It would be wonderful to see them deciding to join the 21st century before it passes, and let that old Cold War go, and take people like Rubio with it.