The Cuban community, which voted massively for the president in the November elections, is confronting a longstanding tradition of supporting conservative policies

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the agency in charge of processing immigration applications, goes around asking coworkers and neighbors whether someone is eligible for U.S. citizenship or not, in the style of the Cuban Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR).

The American government attacks the LGBTQ+ community… just like the Cuban government did in the 1960s.

Donald Trump has flirted with staying longer in the White House, in the same way in which Fidel Castro — having tasted so much power during his lifetime — decided to lead Cuba for nearly half a century. The former has already devoted efforts toward attacking opposing ideologies and freedom of expression, concepts that the latter completely nullified.

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    6 hours ago

    The key feature of Cuban-Americans, as distinct from other Latinos, is that they’re here in the first place because they were the sorts of people to flee communism – i.e. right-wing bourgeoisie. We can make a lot of assumptions about their bigotry even without considering religion.