{"id":431841,"date":"2021-04-16T20:06:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T00:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=431841"},"modified":"2021-04-16T20:06:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T00:06:20","slug":"democrats-want-feds-to-block-miami-latinos-from-hearing-conservative-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-want-feds-to-block-miami-latinos-from-hearing-conservative-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Want Feds To Block Miami Latinos From Hearing Conservative Radio"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdemocrats-want-feds-to-block-miami-latinos-from-hearing-conservative-radio%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=431841&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2567.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After Republicans increased their share of the Hispanic vote in 2020, Congressional Democrats are clamoring to use the force of government to prevent Latinos from hearing conservative ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), including Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), the chair of its political arm, want the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to block the sale of a Miami Spanish-language radio station to a company they believe will move its programming from a left-wing to a right-wing slant.<\/p>\n<p>America CV, a Spanish-language media company, announced that it was buying Caracol 1260 AM this month. Soon after, it said it would change the station\u2019s name to America Radio and replaced Raul Martinez, a liberal talk show host and former government official, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/florida-democrats-sound-alarm-after-spanish-language-oan-buys-miami-radio-station-fires-liberal-1583297\">Newsweek<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Marcell Felipe, cofounder of the company, told The Daily Wire, \u201cAmerica Teve is being accused of being conservative because it is anti-Castro. We will not apologize for promoting democracy and opposing the Castro regime because we represent a community who are victims of that regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gallego lamented that Hispanics might vote Republican since those who preferred to consume media in the Spanish language did not watch CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor a lot of these communities this is the only source they watch, a lot of them aren\u2019t crossing over and watching other media like CNN, so they end up being siloed in terms of the information they get. They only go to the trusted source so when that source gets corrupted, you essentially have a population getting one point of view,\u201d he told Newsweek.<\/p>\n<p>The two best-known sources of Spanish-language news, Univision and Telemundo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/videos\/propagandists-latino-nets-cheer-court-packing-bill\">already<\/a> provide a notoriously leftist viewpoint. Univision this month described moves towards Democrats\u2019 scorched-earth plan to pack the supreme court as Joe Biden \u201ckeeping his campaign promise to unite a divided nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gallego asked the broader CHC to support his bid to ask the FCC to block the transfer. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) told Newsweek it would be \u201cwise\u201d for the FCC to look at the sale.<\/p>\n<p>But Jorge Bonilla, director of MRC Latino, a watchdog group that focuses on Hispanic media, said the use of government powers to silence dissenting voices would likely backfire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat better way to reassure Hispanics in South Florida that Democrats are totally not like the regimes they fled than to summon the full power of the federal government against a privately-held opposition media outlet? Hugo Ch\u00e1vez would be proud,\u201d he told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Darren Soto, a Florida Democrat, implied that Hispanics voted Republican because they had been tricked by Spanish-language media, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/hispanic-caucus-members-pressure-fcc-scrutinize-miami-radio-station-sale-1583890\">Newsweek<\/a> the sale \u201ccould further make South Florida vulnerable to the sophisticated Spanish-language misinformation campaigns perpetrated during the 2020 election. The \u2018Big Lie\u2019 about the 2020 elections, which was amplified on similar stations, has damaged this country severely already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FCC should scrutinize this sale,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Florida is a swing state with an electorate that is approximately 19% Hispanic. Cuban-Americans, many of whom saw the effects of far-left politics first-hand under the Fidel Castro regime, have long been a strong conservative presence.<\/p>\n<p>Many voters from Latin American countries beyond Cuba increasingly appear to agree with conservative policies. NBC exit polls found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/did-trump-draw-out-new-latino-republican-voter-bloc-florida-n1248577\">about half<\/a> of Hispanics who were not Cuban or Puerto Rican voted for Trump in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Those include Americans with heritage in Nicaragua, which was the site of the Sandanista revolution; Venezuela, whose economy has cratered under socialism; and Colombia, which is a conservative-leaning country that endured Marxist guerrillas for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-Dade County, which is 69% Hispanic, voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton by 30 points in 2016, but went for Democrat Joe Biden by a margin of only 7 points in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez, the talk show host who was a reliable voice for progressive messages and who was fired, had a trail of allegations that might feel familiar to those fleeing corrupt countries.<\/p>\n<p>As mayor of the city of Hialeah, a heavily Hispanic blue-collar municipality outside of Miami, in the 1980s and 1990s, Martinez\u2019s campaign workers \u201crecruited mentally incapacitated people to cast absentee ballots,\u201d the Sun-Sentinel reported. He was convicted of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/archive\/1996\/05\/14\/federal-prosecutors-can-t-shackle-hialeah-mayor\/\">racketeering and extortion<\/a> in 1991, but the convictions were later overturned.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, television cameras captured Martinez \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/fl-xpm-1999-10-15-9910150109-story.html\">pummeling<\/a>\u201d a demonstrator who was advocating for Cuban exiles \u201cwith boxer-like blows to the body\u201d as a police officer restrained the mayor, the Sun-Sentinel reported. Prosecutors dropped charges.<\/p>\n<p>Though Hispanics are America\u2019s largest minority group and come from countries with a wide variety of cultures and beliefs, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), a nominally nonpartisan group for lawmakers of that ethnic background, consists of only Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the CHC refused to allow Rep. Carlos Curbelo, a Miami-area lawmaker who was the son of Cuban exiles and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/361248-hispanic-caucus-rejects-unity-civility-when-it-it-rejected-gop-congressman\">advocated on behalf of undocumented immigrant youth<\/a>,\u201d to join. Cubelo is a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>The CHC said at the time that it \u201cisn\u2019t just an organization for Hispanics; it is a caucus that represents certain values. This vote reflects the position of many of our members that Rep. Curbelo and his record are not consistent with those values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Curbelo replied, \u201cI will not allow their bigotry and discrimination and penchant for segregation to hurt the young people they claim they want to help and I certainly want to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CHC spokesperson Alex Sarabia did not immediately return questions from The Daily Wire on its current criteria for membership, and how an all-Democrat Hispanic Caucus can faithfully represent Hispanic-Americans with diverse beliefs. She also did not reply to a question about whether the group will press the FCC to block the sale.<\/p>\n<p>A mismatch between ethnic groups and the megaphones that purport to speak for them has increasingly been on display.<\/p>\n<p>In California in 2020, prominent nonprofits purporting to speak on behalf of Hispanics backed Proposition 16, a ballot initiative that would legalize affirmative action, even as polling showed that most individual Hispanics did not support it. All of California\u2019s majority-Hispanic counties ultimately voted against it at the ballot box, and the measure failed.<\/p>\n<p>The same tension has been evidenced with Asians. A group called Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) aggressively promoted Proposition 16 even though Asians could be the primary losers of such a measure, with their admission to prestigious universities being sharply curtailed.<\/p>\n<p>Polling showed that Asian voters helped defeat the proposition. An anti-Prop 16 activist, Wenyuan Wu, likened CAA to an astroturf group that \u201cadvances the ideological agenda of the groups behind the initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/narrative-that-asians-are-victims-of-white-supremacy-comes-from-activists-pushing-policies-rejected-by-many-asians\">\u2018Asians Are Victims Of White Supremacy\u2019 Narrative Comes From Activists Pushing Policies Rejected By Many Asians\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Republicans increased their share of the Hispanic vote in 2020, Congressional Democrats are clamoring to use the force of government to prevent Latinos from hearing conservative ideas.Multiple members of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312363,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2567.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats Want Feds To Block Miami Latinos From Hearing Conservative Radio","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-2567.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats Want Feds To Block Miami Latinos From Hearing Conservative Radio","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}