Prof: Cuban Voters Losing Clout

Columbia University Professor Rudy de la Garza didn’t mince words Thursday at Miami’s City Club when talking about Miami’s Cuban community. He said the Cuban community would become “less important” in the national political scene because of their deep Republican bent. He explained that Cubans rose in importance as Democrats and Republicans slugged it out for their support. “As Republicans dominate the state, Cubans are much less important. It’s very easy to carry forward the myth of that power.” He said Miami Cubans are having trouble sharing control of Miami with other ethnic groups. “Cubans are very powerful,” said the Mexican-American adademic. “Why would you give up what you fought to build?…There’s got to be some compromise.” Lisa Garcia Bedolla, 36, (pictured here) a professor at University of California Irvine who just released a poll about Miami's Cuban community with another researcher (not de la Garza), says studies still need to be done to see if all these theories about Cuban Americans hold water.

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[Amaury Betancourt]

Just as Jews do not compromise on the matter of the Holocaust, and rightly so, Cubans cannot compromise on issues that run deep in their collective experience. As it happens, exiles and Cuban Americans are handicapped by the inability of jailing or executing anyone that opposes them as Castro does.

[Eric]

Yah, Latin America has moved left, Europe is left, and now America is moving left. When the Democrats get back in power, the cuban exile community will be crushed. The world will never forget that it was the Cubans who inflicted Bush upon the world. I hope the racist right wing Miami Cubans got everything that they expected from Bush. Because they will only get the middle finger from the Democrats.