Lincoln Diaz-Balart on Los Van Van
The Congressman weighs in on the controversy:
Diaz-Balart Denounces Obama Administration’s Authorization for Castro Representatives “Van Van” to Perform in the United States
Washington, DC - Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL) issued the following statement today regarding the authorization by the Obama Administration for the Castro regime representatives “Van Van” to perform in the United States:
“At a time when the moribund totalitarian dictatorship of Fidel Castro is increasing it’s repression of human rights activists inside Cuba and has even gone so far at to arrest a U.S. citizen for delivering assistance to Cuban Jewish groups, the Obama Administration has authorized the performance in the U.S. of the dictatorship’s emblematic “musical ambassador,” Juan Formell and his group of musicians known as “Van Van.” This is an uncalled-for act of appeasement of a terrorist, anti-American dictatorship by President Obama.
Instead of focusing on highlighting the Cuban regime’s oppression and on effectively delivering aid to Cuba’s pro-democracy movement, the Obama Administration continues to appease the enemies of the United States. Inviting “Van Van” at this time is as though the U.S. would have authorized spokesmen for the South African apartheid regime to come to the United States to perform during the final stages of apartheid’s grotesque existence in South Africa”
I was interviewed on this subject by the AP last week, will post a link as soon as story is up.
And in Miami, just sucks....
The regime does this in order to demoralize the exile community. It's psychological warfare. Can you imagine if ambassadors of South Africa's Apartheid regime had come to HARLEM of all places? Or ambassadors of the Third Reich had come to Miami Beach? It's the same thing and the regime knows it.
The worst part is that I'm sure that there will be a full house when they perform as countless recent arrivals will scurry to the show. You know, the type that come to the USA in order to send money back to Cuba and one year after they're here, they're on a plane back to Cuba so that they can go to Varadero.
Rayarena,
You nailed it, as the behavior of the new arrivals is quite disappointing. I witness this kind of behavior on a regular basis in Hialeah and truly saddens me.
Unfortunately the new arrivals are the product of the Castro "Robolution", born and indoctrinated into the system and don't have the principles that us the earlier arrivals possess.