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Latin America

highmindedhavi

(355 posts)

9. Non-Hispanics don't know everything

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Nov 25, 2020, 06:04 PM

Nov 2020

As a Hispanic with parents from Mexico, they hated Guatemalans, my in-laws from El Salvador hated people from Mexico, so I can understand Floridians hating Cuba, those people lived through events that most of us did not

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Biden wants to re-thaw relations with Cuba. He'll have to navigate Florida politics. [View all] Judi Lynn Nov 2020 OP

Gee snowybirdie Nov 2020 #1

I don't understand why a bunch of people who left that country PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #2

I would agree. I don't understand why the Cuban "Americans" insist avebury Nov 2020 #6

Not to mention, if they actually had the courage of their convictions PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2020 #10

They think if the Cuban government is overthrown DBoon Nov 2020 #11

FL is already a red state. caring what repubs think is just dumb nt msongs Nov 2020 #3

Go ahead. Cede Florida in 2024. Do what's best for the country. Laelth Nov 2020 #4

the time of carrying about Cubans in the US is over, the US foreign policy towards Cuba about as beachbumbob Nov 2020 #5

fuck the florida cubans lapfog_1 Nov 2020 #7

AND even if Biden was hard on Cuba, he still wouldn't get the Cuban OnDoutside Nov 2020 #8

Non-Hispanics don't know everything highmindedhavi Nov 2020 #9

Do you mean the "exiles" who approved Batista's death squads Judi Lynn Nov 2020 #12

I should add that Jorge Mas Canosa, who believed he would be Cuba's next President, after the US Judi Lynn Nov 2020 #13