John Bolton’s call to arms against socialism abroad — particularly Cuba through a series of crackdowns announced today — is a message designed to resonate in 2020
MIAMI — On the 58th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, President Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton addressed a group of Cuban American veterans of the failed effort to topple Fidel Castro's regime and announced a series of crackdowns on Cuba and its allies.
The centerpiece of Bolton’s announcement of sanctions was the decision to activate a portion of the 1996 Libertad Act and allow U.S. citizens who had property seized in Cuba after Castro’s 1959 revolution to sue businesses who have profited off the “trafficking” on stolen land. The industries that could be affected include port construction firms, cruise ship companies, hotels, banks, agricultural interests and rum producers.
“This is for us. This is a very strong sign of friendship,” said Lincoln Díaz-Balart, a former Republican congressman from Miami who helped write and pass the Libertad Act — also known as the Helms-Burton Act — which helped enshrine the Cuban embargo in statute. All administrations had waived a provision of the act allowing U.S. citizens to sue the Cuban government over their seized property until Trump.
The voter rolls don’t break down Hispanic voters by country of origin, but experts and consultants estimate that about a third of Hispanic voters are Cuban American and are clustered in Miami-Dade County, acting as a Republican bulwark that has checked the increasingly Democratic electorate in the area.
Bolton greets Ernesto Fernandez Travieso after speaking during the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association luncheon. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images Curbelo cautioned that any electoral benefit Trump could gain in Florida from the sanctions could be offset by “his anti-immigrant rhetoric and needless confrontations with Mexico and with our Central American allies.”
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