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The Republican congresswoman María Elvira Salazar posted a powerful message on her X account this Friday, stating that the Cuban-American community is no longer willing to keep waiting and that the time for change in Cuba is now.
" Cuban Americans are fed up with waiting for a FREE Cuba. The message is clear: the time for change in Cuba is NOW, and decisive military action by the U.S. to put an end to the dictatorship has overwhelming support," Salazar wrote.
The congresswoman, representative of South Florida, backed her statements with a survey from the Miami Herald, which reveals that 79% of Cubans and Cuban Americans in that region support U.S. military intervention in Cuba.
The survey, conducted by Bendixen & Amandi International and The Tarrance Group between April 6 and April 10 with 800 people in the counties of Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Monroe, shows that 36% support intervention solely to overthrow the communist government, while 38% support it to combine regime change with addressing the humanitarian crisis.
Salazar went straight to the point, stating that this support is not a surprise: "We have always known it. President Trump knows it. And so does the regime."
The survey also reveals that 78% of those consulted reject any negotiations with Havana that do not lead to a democratic transition, and 73% hold the regime - not U.S. sanctions - directly responsible for the economic and humanitarian crisis in the Island.
Fernand Amandi, president of Bendixen & Amandi, described the moment as if "it were 1961 again" and noted that the community is giving the Trump administration the "green light" to take military action in Cuba and do whatever is necessary to remove the regime.
Salazar left no room for ambiguity regarding those warnings: "Freedom for Cuba is closer than ever, with or without the resistance of dictator Díaz-Canel and the criminal Castro family."
69% of respondents "strongly" oppose any agreement that would allow the Cuban government to remain in power in exchange for economic reforms, and only 2% would invest in Cuba under the current system, data that reinforces Salazar's position.
His message arrives a day after Díaz-Canel urged the Cuban people to prepare for combat in the face of a possible military aggression, recalling the 65th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
"We do not want it, but it is our duty to prepare ourselves to avoid it and, if it is unavoidable, to win it," said the leader.
The Pentagon has discreetly intensified the planning for a possible military intervention in Cuba since January, USA Today revealed this week, citing two anonymous sources, and the Department of Defense confirmed that the armed forces "are ready to act if Trump orders it."
On Thursday, Salazar also presided over the hearing titled "Latin America after Maduro's Fall," where he stated that Cubans have lost their fear of the regime after 65 years of Castroist rule, with over 200 street protests recorded on the Island in the past month.
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