The Cuban-American hard-line bravado banishes into thin air

[Judi Lynn]

The Cuban-American hard-line bravado banishes into thin air

Max J. Castro • April 11, 2016

“Left out of the conversation,” read the Miami Herald headline.

Gloating is a base emotion but one entirely called for in this instance. They ignored us, our Cuban-American members of Congress. For decades, those of us in the Cuban community who traveled to Washington to try to get them to have a conscience, see reason, understand what they were doing to the Cuban people ran into a stone wall.

They humiliated us by sending the most junior staff to meet with us. They called press conferences to vilify us, to red-bait us. Back home they tried to intimidate us. They retaliated. Not openly but effectively. Some pressured our employers, made us lose jobs, careers. They were fanatical and ferocious.

In my case I ended up having to leave Miami to get a job. Lucrative but lonely, and not what I wanted to do either. I fell into a profound and prolonged disabling depression. Stage 4+, if depression were measured like cancer. My family, medicines, Miami, the sun and the water, eventually healed me. I feel stronger than ever.

If I am happy with the Herald headlines, it’s not out bitterness. I have a hard time holding on to grudges. The main reason is that that sorry bunch, the Cuban Mafia, Havana calls them, the Cuban Con Artists, I call them, because everything they sold as solid, their vaunted power especially, suddenly vanished into thin air. Happy because they no longer can automatically veto change. Happy because they can no longer dictate a policy based on allowing the Cuban people to go blind in order to try to poke out the eye of Fidel or Raul.

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[Fuddnik]

1. Finally.

I could never understand how that group ever came to wield so much power. Probably blackmail over some very dirty CIA Black Ops.

I was in Miami Beach, at Flamingo Park in 1972, during the protests at the Democratic and Republican Conventions. Nixon sent a mob of them in there to intimidate and rough us up. But, it never got past some shoving, and a few fist fights. But, they were some very scary people.

[Mika]

2. Pretty much validates what many have been saying all along.

And that is that the US standoff against Cuba had very little to do with Cuba's regime. It had everything to do with domestic politicking and campaign fundraising for both sides of the issue in US politics. The Cuban people be damned, they have been abused like pawns in the hand of infants.

[Paladin]

3. Good riddance to an ugly, toxic political movement.

The Castro Bros. never had better enablers than Miami's Cuban Mafia. I will never forget all those American flags, aflame in Miami streets, during the Elian Gonzalez incident. That movement's offspring---Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, et al---will taint U.S. politics for years to come. Again, good riddance.