Posted on 07/05/2014 9:48:32 AM PDT by PoloSec
When Charlie Crist went to Miami's Little Havana recently, the Democratic candidate for governor of Florida stood before a crowd and said what few politicians have in decades of scrounging for votes in the Cuban-American neighborhood: End the trade embargo against Cuba.
"If you really care about people on the island, we need to get rid of the embargo and let freedom reign," he said, shouting above a small band of protesters who responded with chants of "Shame on you!"
Crist's supporters cheered louder.
It was a scene inconceivable just a few years ago, when politicians were careful about what they said on the issue, for fear of alienating Cuban-American voters, many of whom fled Fidel Castro's Cuba in the 1960s.
But Democrats now sense an opening with newer Cuban arrivals and second-generation Cuban-Americans who favor resuming diplomatic relations with the communist island.
In a sign of just how much the climate has shifted, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, who backed trade limits when she ran for president in 2008, is now calling for the embargo to be lifted. She described it as "Castro's best friend" and said it hampers "our broader agenda across Latin America."
Her words mark the first time a leading presidential contender from either political party has suggested reversing the 52-year-old policy.
The efforts represent the largest challenge to Cuban-American orthodoxy in decades and could help reshape American foreign policy.
It also could alter the political landscape in the largest swing-voting state, where Republicans long have dominated the Cuban vote by taking a hard line on the embargo.
Crist's campaign will be the first statewide test of whether the trade restrictions are still a live wire for politicians in Florida, home to 70 percent of the nation's Cubans.
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Ya, it's worked so well in China, which has stolen our manufacturing, still destroys churches and talks about destroying us.
Memo to lowbridge, the Cuban voters in Florida are increasingly people who never experienced Cuba. That generation is passing on and a new one taking its place. Without knowledge of government tyranny, they want that gubmint check as much as any other minority group.
Young Cubans, I can tell you, are WOEFULLY ignorant of the dangers of communism.
Some Cuban “celebrities” like Gloria Estefan have even held fundraisers with Obama and have declared their support for sodomy.
There is a need in the Cuban community for education.
American Public School has made all the Cubanos KIDS.. socialists.. (while they weren’t looking)
Don’t see Fidel as a threat but as a victim..
Young Cubans even though as Caucasian as I am see themselves as oppressed latinos not commie refugees appreciative to be here
PC America has accomplished this
Wife is Cuban, while she and her family vote “R”, they see nothing wrong with the current illegal alien influx. I told them that if we as a nation don’t stop it, our two American sons will be fighting a war against the invaders within 15-20 years. I’m a “hater” of course ;)
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