Our daily McCarthyism
By Varela
Out of 11 million registered voters in Florida, only a few more than 5 million vote. An apathetic vote.
First of all, it is a mid-term election and the image of the party in power has eroded.
Then, the governorship is fought by a guy accused of fraud and one of the biggest contests is between Cubans (García and Rivera) who, can you beat this, debate on a Radio Martí program beamed to Cuba, with questions that apparently affect the island and its population.
Picture two Italian-origin politicians campaigning in New York State who debate, on a broadcast to Rome, whether Italians should travel home and whether their visas this and their tickets that.
It’s natural that the U.S. will interpret this to mean that it’s a problem permeated by the Cuban theme at its highest level.
It really was that; nothing else.
The mistake perhaps is to believe that Miami and its environs are not politicized with the Cuban theme. That the concerts by Cuban artists in the area are due to a level of tolerance and acceptance, not to a brave achievement by the promoters, sheltered by American law and its freedoms, to please a sector that asks for the concerts but still doesn’t vote, doesn’t decide, doesn’t make its presence felt, but only consumes and travels to the island.
This community may have changed, another generation may have emerged or be emerging but basically the major information media are in the hands of the anti-Castro industry, which constantly manipulates the slightest or most trivial details, overlooking nothing.
The victories of David Rivera and Marco Rubio are examples. The anti-Castro industry refuses to relinquish its seats in the U.S. Congress and the state legislature. It decides and defines them.
The sad thing is to see piddling public servants – evidently usurpers of the taxpayer and practically puppets of the anti-Castro industry – rising to positions that represent a whole state, a whole gamut of totally different social values.
But, well, Florida is complex. This was the state where a Republican presidency was decided in 2000 after a 45-day vote recount.
