Taking a page from the David Rivera Tallahassee playbook
Taking a page from the David Rivera Tallahassee playbook
Álvaro Fernández • March 26, 2015
MIAMI – Four hundred thousand Cubans living in the U.S. visit Cuba on a yearly basis. The great majority resides in the Miami area, or somewhere in Florida. Most visit for family reasons.
Recent actions by the Florida legislature, led by Cuban-American political leaders from Miami, prove once again that great numbers of those travelers are not registered to vote. Or if they are, just don’t participate during elections.
Why the correlation?
Legislators, especially the Cuban-Americans in Tallahassee, are pandering to the few who do vote. (Emphasis on PANDERING.) These are voters who participate in almost every election, including local ones. They are Cuban-Americans, most over the age of 60, who arrived in this country way before 1989.
Compare that to the nearing 40 percent of Cubans who now live in Miami and arrived on our shores after 1990. These are the Cubans who travel to Cuba in the greatest numbers. They are also the Cubans who still have the strongest ties to the island – by way of family members, friends, a wife or a husband, or even the little business they have established in the island with the brother, sister, or the guy they grew up with.
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