They fled Fidel for the US and lost everything they owned in Cuba.
The Bay of Pigs created their hatred for the Dems.
That’s a story I’ve heard. But Dems continued to win Florida through Obama.
Seems like a lot of the Cuban Exile energy came out of their 80s era gray market role in drugs and arms dealing through the Caribbean. And that put them at the forefront of the crypto ponzi schemes under Obama, Trump, and Biden.
Now they’re just bog standard libertarian fascists.
It’s not entirely inaccurate. My great-grandfather was known as The Sugar King. On the other side of the family, my other great granddad worked for PepsiCo LatAm. They made inside deals.
My family were insanely wealthy back in Cuba until they fled here. I can trace my heritage back to the 1300s and before on that side of the family. My maternal namesake ancestor was the first mayor/alcalde of Habana and received his name “Sotolongo” from King Ferdinand & Isabella. There is a town named after him north of the Portuguese border.
The 70s and 80s produced the Peter Pan and the Mariel boat lifts where Castro released his worst criminals and people from insane asylums to flee here and elsewhere. It was all fucked.
That’s a story I’ve heard. But Dems continued to win Florida through Obama.
Seems like a lot of the Cuban Exile energy came out of their 80s era gray market role in drugs and arms dealing through the Caribbean. And that put them at the forefront of the crypto ponzi schemes under Obama, Trump, and Biden.
Now they’re just bog standard libertarian fascists.
It’s not entirely inaccurate. My great-grandfather was known as The Sugar King. On the other side of the family, my other great granddad worked for PepsiCo LatAm. They made inside deals.
My family were insanely wealthy back in Cuba until they fled here. I can trace my heritage back to the 1300s and before on that side of the family. My maternal namesake ancestor was the first mayor/alcalde of Habana and received his name “Sotolongo” from King Ferdinand & Isabella. There is a town named after him north of the Portuguese border.
The 70s and 80s produced the Peter Pan and the Mariel boat lifts where Castro released his worst criminals and people from insane asylums to flee here and elsewhere. It was all fucked.