Miami, a combat-aircraft carrier
By Lorenzo Gonzalo
The Miami we have been analyzing through multiple articles is not just the city in Dade County inhabited by more than 2 million people. In our term of reference, it is the political-counterrevolutionary complex determined in many ways by the Cuban community in particular and the Hispanic community in general.
By Lorenzo Gonzalo
The Miami we have been analyzing through multiple articles is not just the city in Dade County inhabited by more than 2 million people. In our term of reference, it is the political-counterrevolutionary complex determined in many ways by the Cuban community in particular and the Hispanic community in general.
It is the Miami of which we have spoken and to which we refer as something pernicious and the source of danger for the Latin American countries and the entire Caribbean area.
If we generalize when we say "Miami," it's because we always think that we see is the truth and what we don't see is politics. The whole world knows Miami as the Sun Capital of the World, an attractive place for harmless party-going, inhabited mostly by Cubans.
This is due to the fact that the most influential political power, and the people with the most privileged businesses and access to the administrative advantages of the County consists of Cubans or those who have established partnership with them. They benefit from their influence, gained only by repeating slogans about an alleged patriotism whose goal is to replace Cuba's Revolutionary Power.
These are the people the world sees, because that's the picture they themselves have projected. The image of the city has been wrapped in the legend that its growth is due to the Cubans who came to live in it.
As the American elite has consolidated and developed its power on the basis of a perfectly shaped mosaic, this group has become part of that mosaic. The government feeds the Cubans' ego (and fills their pockets) by spreading that legend worldwide and using it to destabilize the government of Cuba. No news about Miami fails to include mention of the Cubans.
At first glance, Cubans and Miami seem to be one and the same, but if we take away from the Cubans the aid they received from the U.S. administrations during the Cold War, and the manipulation and use they made of their frustration over their departure from their island, thinking that the Revolution would not last long 90 miles from U.S. coasts, we see that the city grew because of the injections of aid received from those administrations that conceived the idea of turning Miami-Dade County into a surveillance aircraft carrier to find out everything that's happening in the South and to direct the destiny of that region.
Miami-Dade grew circumstantially, as all other U.S. cities have grown. If it didn't grow sooner it was because, although the U.S. never owned the territory of Cuba except during the occupation in the early 20th Century (the first decade of that century), it was able to utilize Cuba for his purposes. Because of the infrastructure available on the island, Washington's self-appointed duties as regional policeman did not need to be based in Florida at that time.
Today, that infrastructure has been established and improved in South Florida by those Cubans, many of them born in the U.S. Because their prosperity and power grew under the umbrella of that reality, they have joined the legend and continue to serve the same interests. In other words, the project continues to develop.
At a time when the progressive forces in Latin America open paths by imposing their criteria, the project that turned Miami-Dade County into an aircraft carrier sailing the southern coast constitutes a danger of enormous consequences for the natural development of those progressive processes. Those who lead those processes can do without Miami for a long while, but it would be a big mistake to ignore the danger emanating from that county.
Lorenzo Gonzalo is deputy director of Radio Miami.
