We all are the nation. Attend

MIAMI — It is not a question of left, right, or center, which are nothing else but the transfer of anatomical positions to political labels. It is a matter of the Cuban nation and its relations with the United States, at a time when their governments have started to walk down a road that’s challenging but also necessary and beneficial for both.

Many voices have spoken out for a change toward a dialogue and the reestablishment of diplomatic relations, understood to be a step prior to the process of normalization. World leaders like Pope Francis, presidents and governments of practically the entire world have welcomed the decision with genuine joy and feel hopeful.

In the United States, powerful economic forces, organizations of producers of various useful goods, telecommunications businessmen, financial agencies, academicians, important press outlets, and politicians from both parties support this effort.

Miami, which was key in the policy of confrontation, has seen its composition and attitudes regarding Cuba change in a clear and eloquent manner. And that’s because we Cuban-Americans — almost 2 million in the U.S. — possess important values capable of overcoming the anatomic-political positions: the nation, which is not an abstract entity but the cradle of our culture, a common history, ways of living, sounds and scents that bind us.

Above all that, the conduits from which those values came: the family, the barrio (which is the homeland in bonsai), our first and latest love. Each one of us constitutes the nation.

We also have interests, though not as powerful as those of the large consortiums that have already made contact with Havana. The first one is to gain greater access of all kinds to our family “on the other side of the stream.” To kiss them, share with them, help them a little or A LOT, to contribute to their small business enterprise, for example, as has been happening under the table.

The relations between both governments will facilitate benefits here, too, in terms of providers and business partners.

Obviously, we’re facing the possibility of bundling together feelings, hearts and economic benefits for all. So, why should we remain silent and allow others to be the only ones who support, push and applaud something that is so intimate and peculiar to us? We all are the nation and the nation is the thick fabric that makes us a community of sentimental, cultural and material interests.

There, Cuban-Americans like us, of different hues and trends, will speak in favor of good relations between the country that gave us life and the country that welcomed us.

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