Miami Mayor: Bombing Cuba In Light Of Street Protests Is Option That ‘Has To Be Explored’
Cubans take to the streets this week in unprecedented show of dissatisfaction
Cubans began taking to the streets of Havana, and other cities in Cuba, this week in what have been an unparalleled popular movement in dissatisfaction with government policies.
Such demonstrations have been essentially unheard of since Fidel Castro first rose to power on the island nation some six decades ago. Cubans have been protesting limited electricity availability in the sweltering heat, food shortages, and ongoing threat of coronavirus infection.
Of course, US politicians across the political spectrum have been weighing in.
That includes Francis Suarez, mayor of Miami, which is both home to the largest community of Cuban Americans in the country as well as the site to what have amounted to large demonstrations in solidarity with those going on in the island nation 90 off the coast of Florida.
While the protests in Miami have been peaceful, the alternatives which Suarez suggested as possible US responses have been anything but.
Suarez, a registered Republican although the mayor's office is nonpartisan, appeared on Fox News to cheer on the potential for US military intervention in Cuba, in the wake of the Cuban protests — up to, and including, deadly airstrikes.
“What I’m suggesting is that that option is one that has to be explored and cannot be just simply discarded as an option that is not on the table,” Suarez said of bombing Cuba. “And there’s a variety of ways the military can do it. But that’s something that needs to be discussed and needs to looked as a potential option in addition to a variety of other options that can be discussed.”
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