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Mika

(17,751 posts)
Thu Jul 25, 2013, 05:04 PM Jul 2013

What Cuban-American Lawmakers Don't Understand About Cuba


What Cuban-American Lawmakers Don't Understand About Cuba

On July 17th, 2013 the House Appropriations Committee passed the Fiscal Year 2014 Financial Services bill that included language proposed by Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-25) that would negatively impact two key points in President Obama’s plan to promote engagement and people-to-people contact with the Cuban people.

As Cuban Americans for Engagement (CAFE) explained in their press release, “Section 124 would effectively dismantle the "people-to-people" licensing program, allowing American citizens to travel to Cuba for educational purposes, by defunding the program. These licenses have allowed U.S. citizens to legally visit Cuba and experience the island first-hand, ending their reliance on the skewed portrayals of Cuban reality by either the U.S. government or the corporate-controlled media.”


See more at: http://lawg.org/action-center/lawg-blog/69-general/1235-what-cuban-american-lawmakers-cant-seem-to-understand


Better to read this @ link because of embedded links.

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What Cuban-American Lawmakers Don't Understand About Cuba (Original Post) Mika Jul 2013 OP
What I find interesting atreides1 Jul 2013 #1
Batista ran on the communist ticket. eom Mika Jul 2013 #2
I think Cuban Americans understand very well what goes on Socialistlemur Jul 2013 #3
Your criticism is "pretty lame." What do you know about this matter? nt Peace Patriot Jul 2013 #4
Good to see the author remark that the Cuban "exile" politicians Judi Lynn Jul 2013 #5

atreides1

(16,082 posts)
1. What I find interesting
Thu Jul 25, 2013, 05:26 PM
Jul 2013

Is the forgotten fact that the United States was kind of instrumental in Batista's defeat! It was the US that imposed an arms embargo which resulted in the Cuban miltary failing to be able to train its troops and to keep the Cuban airforce flying.

But you never hear Cuban Americans making any comments about this, I wonder why?


Socialistlemur

(770 posts)
3. I think Cuban Americans understand very well what goes on
Thu Jul 25, 2013, 06:25 PM
Jul 2013

The claim by this CAFE is pretty lame. The Cubans in Miami know exactly what's going on. They happen not to like it.

Judi Lynn

(160,555 posts)
5. Good to see the author remark that the Cuban "exile" politicians
Sat Jul 27, 2013, 03:19 PM
Jul 2013

are in a rush to do their worst against Cuba due to the fact their time in power is actually winding down now.

Their extreme Cold War attitudes, the hatred, racism, will all be bleeding out as the original political "exiles" succumb to old age and illness, as younger, more integrated people take their places, and as South Florida becomes far more diversified as more and more people of other nationalities continue to diffuse the population, bringing more well-balanced attitudes, more informed perspectives into play.

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