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13 Jul, 3 tweets, 3 min read
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Many are asking what they can do to help the Cuban people.

A BIG help would be to make sure the world sees what the Cuban regime is doing. People are disappearing and being murdered.

Below are videos from the island. Please share and use #SOSCuba and #PatriaYVida.
A Florida man confirms that his brother was murdered by Cuban state security forces after protesting for freedom this weekend.

"They plucked his eyes and teeth out," he says.

#SOSCuba #PatriaYVida
🚨#SOSCuba🚨

In this video we see state security forces beating and arresting unarmed protestors in Havana.

#PatriaYVida #AbajoLaDictadura

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14 Jul
The idea that the Cuban regime is going to voluntarily transfer power is a fantasy. Regime topplings in Cuba have happened in the following ways:

1) Outside forces (1898, US help)
2) Military / Coup (1933 & 52, Machado & Batista)
3) Mass Uprising (1933 & 1959, Machado & Castro)
2021 Cuba is very different than 1959 & 1933 Cuba.

The biggest diff is that the Cuban people are unarmed. In 1933, the student groups that led uprisings resulting in Machado's ousting by the military had guns.

Castro had both guns and international $$$ (thx to the NYTimes).
There is strong support on the island now for toppling the Castro regime. Cubans are tired of living in misery and the only thing they thought (bc of propaganda) they had going for them (health care) has collapsed.

But an unarmed popular uprising faces serious hurdles.
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14 Jul
The images that are coming out of Cuba are, in fact, being amplified by Cuban Americans — but they're coming from Cubans who live on the island. None of us do this for money.

Also, at this point, disillusionment with the regime is widespread.
It's difficult to gauge public opinion on the island. Polling is strictly banned. It's been done clandestinely before, and even in 2015 (when econ was better), Raul Castro was divisive and a plurality of Cubans had a negative view of Fidel Castro.

That's only gotten worse.
There are good people on both sides of the Cuba policy debate in South Florida.

The notion that exiles' interests in Cuba are driven by $ is just silly. If anything, the economic interests that support normalization far exceed the traditional Cuban exile community's.
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14 Jul
I'm often asked about "Wet Foot Dry Foot," and in discussing it, I find misconceptions, so here's a quick recap:

WFDF was a policy of the Clinton Administration in the 1990s to address the Cuban rafter crisis of 1994. It was supposed to be temporary but lasted until 2017. Image
Here's how it worked: If a Cuban stepped foot on US soil, regardless of how they entered, they could stay.

Pres. Obama ended this policy in his final days in office in 2017; Pres. Trump did not reinstate it.

Cuban Americans are divided on it. This is from FIU's 2020 poll: Image
The law provided relief to many Cubans fleeing Castro, but it had unintended consequences. It incentivized human trafficking, thousands died at sea, and it inadvertently relieved internal pressure on the Cuban regime. How? Bc those most likely to flee are most likely to dissent.
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28 Jun
Huh? Latinos are not “under represented” in country music.

The genre just isn’t native to our cultures. Latin Americans have their own types of “country” music. Cubans have punto guajiro, for instance. Colombians have vallenato and Mexicans have rancheras.

This is absurd.
This is one of the most absurd entries into the "equity" cannon that I've read.

Hispanics don't top the country music charts for reasons that are similar to why Blacks and Whites don't generally listen to mariachi and cumbia: different cultural preferences — and that's fine!
I didn't get into country music until I lived in rural Virginia for 6 months.

Why? Because, like most Hispanic Americans, I grew up in a big city (Miami) where country music really isn't that popular and my parents didn't listen to it either.

It has nothing to do with "racism."
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29 Mar
The framing here is incredibly dishonest.

Under current FL law, you can't hand voters *anything* within 100 ft. of a polling station. But you can give them brochures, water, and paella (this is a thing in Miami) outside of that.

Hours-long lines to vote are well over 150 feet.
These laws exist to protect voters from harassment while they're waiting in line to vote.

This is a picture of a popular Miami voting site. In practical terms, it means that campaign workers can't go beyond the cross-walk. But they can hand you water and snacks before that.
This is a Miami voting site where I've volunteered.

Florida law doesn't allow campaign workers to go beyond that white car and chase voters into the station.

That's not an issue because you can hand them water on the way in from the parking lot. This is a fake controversy.
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9 Jan
While I agree that broadcasters should be more responsible in their programming, the outrage over disinformation in Spanish media is selective, at best. I don't see any calls for "accountability" when Univision Network acts as the DNC's de facto stenographer.
The bad reporting and bias at Univision (by some in its national desk; the local affiliates are generally more professional) shouldn't be overlooked merely because they're more elegant about it or flatter liberal political biases.
Let's be absolutely clear: The people pushing these narratives about "Spanish disinformation" are censorious, left-wing political operatives who are unsatisfied with their current control over the vast majority of Spanish media. They insist on total and absolute hegemony.
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