{"id":1436186,"date":"2022-04-13T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1436186"},"modified":"2022-04-13T19:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:00:39","slug":"biden-names-ex-congresswoman-accused-of-insulting-cubans-a-summit-of-the-americas-adviser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-names-ex-congresswoman-accused-of-insulting-cubans-a-summit-of-the-americas-adviser\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Names Ex-Congresswoman Accused of Insulting Cubans a Summit of the Americas Adviser"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-names-ex-congresswoman-accused-of-insulting-cubans-a-summit-of-the-americas-adviser%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1436186&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The White House announced this week that President Joe Biden had appointed former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL) and former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) as official advisers for the upcoming Summit of the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>The Summit of the Americas, a regular event bringing together the leaders of countries in the Organization of American States (OAS), is scheduled to take place in Los Angeles in July. The last two iterations of the conference \u2013 in 2015 and 2018 \u2013 were the first to feature the presence of the Communist Party of Cuba.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The OAS requires all its members to be democracies in its official rules, but following President Barack Obama\u2019s decision to erase large parts of the American embargo on the island dictatorship, the OAS invited the country. Cuban officials proceeded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2015\/04\/09\/summit-of-the-americas-castro-supporters-beat-cuban-dissidents-on-streets-of-panama\/\">disrupt<\/a> the conference by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/04\/12\/pro-castro-mob-heckles-shuts-down-americas-summit-event\/\">assaulting<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2015\/04\/09\/cuba-and-venezuela-storm-out-of-summit-of-the-americas-forum\/\">heckling<\/a> human rights leaders and pro-democracy dissidents present at the event on both occasions.<\/p>\n<p>While Cuba\u2019s presence at the summit this year, given that America is hosting, remains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/en-espanol\/noticias\/story\/2022-01-20\/eeuu-baraja-agenda-e-invitados-para-cumbre-de-las-americas\">unconfirmed<\/a>, the communist dictatorship\u2019s violent repression of pro-democracy protests last year will likely be a primary topic of discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Mucarsel-Powell represented the largest Cuban-American community in the country while in Congress. She lost her position in 2020 to Cuban-American Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-FL), then the mayor of Miami-Dade County, in a campaign that featured a controversy in which Cuban-Americans expressed outrage at a video of the Congresswoman boasting of defeating the \u201cRepublican Cuban establishment\u201d of her state through a megaphone.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSenator Dodd and Congresswoman Mucarsel-Powell are confident that President Biden will renew and strengthen the collaboration and respect essential for a bright future for the Americas at the upcoming Summit in Los Angeles this June,\u201d the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/04\/11\/statement-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-on-president-bidens-selection-of-special-advisors-for-the-summit-of-the-americas\/\">announced<\/a> on Monday. \u201cThe Summit of the Americas, the only meeting that brings together the leaders of North, South, and Central America and the Caribbean, will play a central role in shaping the future of the Americas at a critical time in our history.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18739090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joe-Biden-and-Chris-Dodd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18739090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joe-Biden-and-Chris-Dodd.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 02: Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America Chris Dodd (R) and U.S Vice President Joe Biden speak during the 2nd Annual Creativity Conference presented by the Motion Picture Association of America at The Newseum on May 2, 2014 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kris Connor\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then-Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America and former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT), and then-Vice President Joe Biden hug at a conference on May 2, 2014, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kris Connor\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dodd has a history of promoting friendly ties to the Castro regime and has <a href=\"https:\/\/havanatimes.org\/news\/cuba-visited-by-us-senator-dodd\/\">visited<\/a>\u00a0the island, and its tyrants, on multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/fbaum.unc.edu\/lobby\/_107th\/095_Cuba_Sanctions\/Congressional_Statements\/Senate\/Dodd_Statement_Remarks_at_the_National_Summit_on_Cuba_091702.htm\">occasions<\/a>. Mucarsel-Powell \u2013 who is Ecuadorian-American, a country that has faced its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2022\/03\/31\/ecuador-lost-nearly-5-billion-in-china-oil-deal\/\">struggles<\/a> with socialism \u2013 has no such history. While in Congress, she openly <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/debbieforfl\/status\/1231922208433459200?lang=en\">condemned<\/a> Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for his public praise of socialism and Fidel Castro. Mucarsel-Powell has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/florida-democrat-aoc-blaming-cuban\">criticized<\/a> Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for echoing Castro regime talking points on the embargo.<\/p>\n<p>The August 2020 incident in which she appeared to target Cubans as her political rivals nonetheless caused outrage in the Cuban-American community and led to calls for her to apologize. During a campaign stop that month, Mucarsel-Powell praised her own team for defeating her predecessor, former Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), a Cuban-American.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one thought we\u2019d be able to take the Republican Cuban establishment that has taken ahold of Florida politics for more than 20 years,\u201d Mucarsel-Powell proclaimed through a megaphone.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The organization Facts About Cuban Exiles (FACE) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolasamericas.com\/florida\/organizacion-exiliados-cubanos-reclama-una-disculpa-debbie-mucarsel-powell-n4205021\">published<\/a> a letter to Mucarsel-Powell demanding an apology, lamenting that the then-congresswoman appeared to define members of a specific ethnicity as adversaries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf she had simply referred to the Republican establishment, FACE \u2026 would not have written this letter. But she expanded [it] to ensure that people would know that she was talking about not only the Republican establishment but the Republican Cuban establishment in a pejorative tone,\u201d the letter read in part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that many Cubans are Republicans is their right, just as it is for Democrats. The \u2018Establishment\u2019 means that voters have established in power those they wish to represent them, and Cubans and non-Cubans have voted just the same in Florida elections,\u201d the group continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough this means we ask Congresswoman Mucarsel-Powell of District 26 to immediately retract and apologize for her comment of contempt towards the Cuban-American community,\u201d the group demanded.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Gimenez, then a candidate for Congress, condemned Mucarsel-Powell for being \u201cone of the most partisan lawmakers in the United States Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell insults our community with her divisive words,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolasamericas.com\/florida\/organizacion-exiliados-cubanos-reclama-una-disculpa-debbie-mucarsel-powell-n4205021\">said<\/a> in a video in response to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Babal\u00fa Blog, a Miami-based site covering Cuban affairs, linked her comments to the general disdain for the Cuban-Americans that the exile community has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/2020-election\/2020\/12\/03\/gutierrez-boronat-why-cubans-voted-how-they-did\/\">experienced<\/a> for decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Cuban American community has heard you, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell,\u201d writer Alberto de la Cruz said. \u201cMany of us live in your congressional district and we have always known you harbor nothing but disdain for us. Shouting it through a megaphone really wasn\u2019t necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mucarsel-Powell\u2019s spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americateve.com\/carlos-gimenez\/congresista-democrata-mucarsel-powell-arremete-video-contra-liderazgo-politico-republicano-cubano-americano-n1069876\">responded<\/a> to a request for comment on the matter at the time from Miami-based Am\u00e9ricaTeve, highlighting that the congresswoman was \u201cthe first South American woman elected to Congress and the only Latina representing Florida\u201d and arguing that her policies benefit Cuban-Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Congresswoman represents the most diverse district in the country, including the Cuban community \u2013 who support her because they know that she is working for them and to reopen the Cuban Family Reunification Program (CFRP) that was shut down by the Republican President Donald Trump,\u201d the spokeswoman said, dismissing the controversy as \u201can absurd attempt to distract voters from realizing that the Republican leadership has not managed to control coronavirus, continues its intents to annul medical attention, and has taken us to the worst economic recession since the Great Depression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mucarsel-Powell lost against Gimenez and has since focused on combatting alleged Spanish-language \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DebbieforFL\/status\/1382683318706130947\">misinformation<\/a>\u201d from conservative journalists and media, which she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/debbieforfl\/status\/1329091118319865858\">blamed<\/a> for her defeat.<\/p>\n<p>The former lawmaker\u2019s appointment comes amid a catastrophic fall of support for Democrats in the Hispanic-American community. Multiple recent polls have found that, nationwide, Hispanic voters are leaving the party and supporting Republicans in growing numbers.\u00a0A national survey published in March by Democrat firm Impact Research and GOP firm Fabrizio, Lee &#038; Associates found that Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/11\/poll-republicans-take-9-point-lead-hispanics-more-than-double-black-support-27-percent\/\">led<\/a> Democrats among Hispanic voters by nine percent after polls found the parties essentially tied as recently as November.<\/p>\n<p>Another poll published in March by RMG research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/latin-america\/2022\/03\/15\/psaki-says-no-venezuelan-oil-this-time-hispanic-support-democrats-collapses\/\">found<\/a> that 48 percent of Hispanics nationally supported Republicans, two more percentage points than those supporting Democrats \u2013 a 42-percent swing towards Republicans in four years.<\/p>\n<p>Among the top concerns about Democrats among Hispanics, polls have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/one-4-latino-voters-worried-socialism-pollsters-find-rcna8594\">revealed<\/a>, are support for socialist policies and the inability to contain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/latino-democrats-inflation-poll-0d60e3ac-738d-4233-a3b8-8fecdfce4ba1.html\">inflation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have further alienated Hispanic voters through a variety of bizarre moves in the past two years, including calling for a boycott of beloved Hispanic food company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/economy\/2020\/07\/11\/goya-ceo-bob-unanue-boycott-is-sign-of-division-protesters-killing-our-nation\/\">Goya<\/a>, the imposition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/23\/poll-only-1-7-percent-of-hispanic-americans-use-woke-latinx-term\/\">unpopular<\/a> and phonetically vexing term \u201cLatinx,\u201d and, more recently, reports that President Joe Biden is considering buying crude oil from socialist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/18\/florida-democrats-defense-bidens-move-get-oil-venezuela-deeply-skeptical-deeply-concerned\/\">Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1649767167560000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3rbnC08FjOcPT_hOd2u8h5\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1649767167560000&#038;usg=AOvVaw29eMJmL6xeLuvpNTZcl2Q_\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House announced this week that President Joe Biden had appointed former Rep. 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