Latin America

I also don’t doubt that many of the 1st generation emigres are getting long in the tooth.

I would have been creeping up on my fourth birthday when the Castros overthrew the Batista dictatorship in 1959. Sixty years later, most of the people who left in the early 1960’s are getting geriatric. They’re out of touch.

I have made no secret of the fact that I have no great love for the Havana regime. I also believe that most Cubans see the Havana government as the legitimate Cuban state, no matter what Cuban emigres living in Florida, New Jersey, and elsewhere might wish they believe.

I do not believe that Cuba has free and fair elections. But having said that, I suspect that the only way the emigre Cubans could overthrow the Havana government through force with massive US military assistance, and neither the island Cubans and nor the rest of the US electorate would stand for such an action.

I would go one step further. I suspect that if there were free and fair elections in Cuba and. US emigres were allowed to participate, the island Cubans would look at the emigres’ lockstep support of people like Trump and DeSantis and their right-wing policies and give them the political drubbings of their lives.