They are two small Caribbean states, and their unruly problems have plagued the President of the United States for decades. Haiti and Cuba are now presenting a sudden increase in challenges to President Joe Biden, who could have a political impact on him in Florida’s fierce battlefield.
Cuban demonstrators have recently blamed the Communist government and went out to the streets of the country to protest food shortages and high prices in a coronavirus pandemic. In Haitian, authorities said last week after President Jovenel Moise was assassinated in a country where military and humanitarian intervention by the U.S. President from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama proved politically disastrous. We are calling on the United States to intervene in a severe political crisis.
Biden is facing increasing pressure from Republican lawmakers on his administration to step up support for Cuban demonstrators. And his aides took decisive attention in response to a request for more US involvement in Haiti.
The administration was attacked from both sides of the political spectrum in response to each of the crises that unfolded in less than two hours of flight time from Miami. The troubled history of the United States has solidified its position, making virtually all policy decisions politically unspeakable for the president as he crosses the midline.
Susan McManus, a Florida political analyst and emeritus professor at the University of South Florida, said Republicans improved their performance while paying special attention to courting a large number of Cuban Americans and other immigrant voters in the state. As a result, Biden lost the state to Donald Trump in 2016.
“The attention Biden shows reflects the poor display of 2020 and the desire not to repeat it,” said Haitian Americans as they become a growing political force in South Florida. MacManus added that there is. “In 2020, the Democrats learned that their country of origin was a much stronger voting clue than their historic voting affiliation, and Trump’s blow to socialism proved to be an effective message. . “
Indeed, as the situation unfolded in Cuba and Haiti, Biden administration officials have responded cautiously.
The White House sent representatives from the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, and the White House Department of Homeland Security to meet with Haiti’s interim Prime Ministers Claude Joseph, Ariel Henry, and dismantled Senator Joseph Lambert on Sunday. .. A person nominated by supporters as interim president in the challenge of Joseph.
Whitehouse officials said Haiti’s request to deploy troops to the United States is under consideration. State Department spokesman Ned Price said Tuesday that he was unaware that the government had rejected a request from Haitian authorities, but that the focus was on supporting assassination investigations rather than military aid. ..
US officials also revealed that the administration remains concerned about the dispute over who will be the successor to Moise in Haiti.
The White House is coordinating with Joseph in his position as acting prime minister, but is urging Haitian officials to work together to hold legislation and presidential elections as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, the White House said a review of Cuban policy is underway.
Indeed, US efforts to change the regime have spanned many years, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961, an attempted assassination of CIA support for Cuban leader Fidel Castro, and sanctions that hurt but did not produce the ultimate. It has been a significant part of the failure. The goal of ending communist rule.
“We’ll take a closer look at what worked and what didn’t work in the past. Unfortunately, in Cuba, there may be more things that didn’t work than what worked,” Price said.
This week, Cuban police came into force after President Miguel Diaz Cannell accused Cuban Americans of using social media to stimulate a rare flood of weekend protests. Demonstrations in some cities and towns are the largest of the anti-government sentiment seen in years in tightly controlled Cuba facing a surge in coronavirus suffering from the worst economic crisis in decades. It was some of the exhibits.
Biden deals with both situations, so there is a political diversion.
In Cuba, U.S. political rights do not fully support Cuba’s dissidents, saying Biden, as presidential candidate, will return to Obama-era policies that eased decades of immigration restrictions on Havana. Blame.
Meanwhile, Democrats are dissatisfied with Biden’s unreversed approach to Trump’s hard-line approach to the island’s Communist government as the Biden administration is reviewing Cuban policy.
Trump in the statement criticized Biden’s past promise to ease restrictions on Cuba.
“Remember that Biden and Democrats have campaigned to reverse my very tough stance on Cuba,” Trump said.
Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Carlos Guimenez, a freshman on behalf of the Miami district who wants the Democrats to turn around in next year’s midterm elections, are among the officials elected this week for Trump’s Cuban policy. Called on the administration to maintain.
They also support protesters, including making free satellite Internet access available on the island to overturn the Cuban government’s efforts to prevent activists from broadcasting messages to the world on social media. I called on Biden.
In an interview, Guimenez said maintaining the status quo is not enough, as the island has been in the most violent protests for over 60 years. This is what Biden himself called the “Declaration for Freedom.”
Biden lost Florida by about twice the margin that Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Trump was partially helped by narrowing the Democratic victory margin by about 13 percent points in the populous Miami-Dade County. Another Cuban freshman, Maria Elvira Salazar, won the Democratic seat as Trump and the Republicans focused on the courtship of Cuban-Americans, an important voting block in the state.
According to AP’s VoteCast, the majority of Cubans in Florida supported Trump against Biden by 58% to 41%. Margins were nearly reversed among other Hispanic voters in the state who were more likely to favor Biden than Trump, ranging from 59% to 40%.
“Biden is not a fool,” Guimenez said. “It’s not just the Cuban issue, it’s the whole issue of socialism, communism and censorship that has shifted the Miami-Dade people to the right. The president’s issue is on the agenda at the extreme of his own party. Seems to be pushing, and he can’t escape now. “
White House spokesman Chris Maher said Biden, dating back to his time in the Senate, was a fierce critic of the Castro administration and was working on human rights in Cuba.
“He is most important to stand up for democracy and human rights, and he is against Cuba on the basis of two principles: Americans, especially Cuban Americans, are the best ambassadors for Cuban freedom and prosperity. We promise to form a policy, “Meger said.
Carlos Diaz-Rosillo, director of policy and inter-ministerial coordination at the Trump White House, said the situation in Cuba and Haiti is his frequent recurring that democracy can better serve their people than dictatorship. As his preference for multilateral efforts to tackle the big global issue that he said would provide Biden with the opportunity to dictate.
“This is a regime that says they believe in international organizations and believe in these multilateral institutions. If so, gather our allies in the hemisphere … and they are others. See how we can bring people together, “said Diaz Rossillo.
