{"id":260856,"date":"2022-11-24T17:39:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T22:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=260856"},"modified":"2022-11-24T17:39:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T22:39:42","slug":"joe-garcia-cubas-problem-cannot-be-solved-without-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba-usa\/joe-garcia-cubas-problem-cannot-be-solved-without-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Garc\u00eda: \u201cCuba\u2019s problem cannot be solved without Miami\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Cuban-American Democratic Congressman Joe Garc\u00eda<\/strong><\/a> has just returned from a week-long trip to Cuba, where he participated in a meeting of U.S. and Cuban-American businesspeople with island officials. Garc\u00eda met with President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel, a fact that sparked controversy in Miami.<\/p>\n

In a conversation with OnCuba<\/strong>, he defends himself. Everything was done to develop the Cuban economy, an area to which the Cuban-American community in South Florida cannot be oblivious. And, he explained, everything can start with the co-participation in SMEs<\/strong><\/a>, an economic sector that, he reaffirmed, has the avenues open because the embargo does not prohibit it.<\/p>\n

Garc\u00eda, who was born in Miami in 1963, stresses that his love for Cuba comes from his youth. It was fostered by such a controversial exile leader as the late Jorge Mas Canosa. And he concludes: I don\u2019t think he did anything that was not consistent with his thinking.<\/p>\n

You are not a businessman, but you went to Cuba to a meeting of businesspeople. Why?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Because I have been working with SMEs in Cuba for a long time and helping many develop ways to achieve that relationship, despite the embargo and the limitations that exist in Cuban law and the antics in financial issues involving U.S. regulations.<\/p>\n

Apart from the embargo, what are the issues that concern you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I have noticed that SMEs have few restrictions due to the regime established by the embargo. Regulations that apply to the Cuban government and Cuban companies do not apply to small and medium-sized enterprises in Cuba.<\/p>\n

The Cuban government is not very fond of associating Cuban companies, even if they are private, with a dependency on the United States. How did you find Cuba?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On this trip I saw that the situation is extremely difficult and that there are a series of needs, that the situation the Cuban people faces is complex. Just like the one faced by the government.<\/p>\n

Who participated in the meeting?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

First, I found a lot of people who left Cuba. Second, I met others who are planning to leave Cuba and I also saw many who are Cuban officials now entering their senior years. And they are seeing that their children are leaving Cuba.<\/p>\n

While you were in Cuba, photos of you with Cuban President Miguel D\u00edaz-Canel appeared here in Miami. How did that meeting take place?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

They invited the entire group of people who traveled to Cuba to study the subject of SMEs and the forms of investment in Cuba. They welcomed us, we arrived at a room, D\u00edaz-Canel gave a speech and then greeted everyone in that room.<\/p>\n

But did you sit down to talk to him?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I did not sit. I talked to him standing, and several times.<\/p>\n

What did you talk about?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

There are things that I am going to reserve. But I said that the issue of SMEs had to be followed up, that it was an opportunity, and that the decisions that were made had to be implemented. I also advocated for the people who are imprisoned in jails in Cuba after the events of July last year and other events. It seems to me that they do neither the nation nor the Cuban people any good, so the best thing for Cuba is that they be released.<\/p>\n

The reaction?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The President listened to me; we\u2019ll see if he heard me. But he listened to me.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s all?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I am Cuban and we have to see that I have worked on the issue of Cuba since I was 23 years old and for me it was meeting someone who can have an impact on that issue, more than anyone else. I used that opportunity to present a series of questions that I have been thinking about for many years. Thoughts that I have elaborated in a lifetime and shared with friends and allies.<\/p>\n

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Garc\u00eda with Phil Peters, the organizer of the meeting of U.S. businesspeople in Havana. Photo: Courtesy of the interviewee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Your political career in exile was shaped by Jorge Mas Canosa, whom I know you revere. Am I wrong?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

No. I love Jorge very much, his memory and his family. And he is part of my thinking on this Cuban issue.<\/p>\n

When you spoke to D\u00edaz-Canel, did you think of Mas Canosa?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes\u2026.<\/p>\n

Do you think he would understand that you spoke to D\u00edaz-Canel?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t seem to me that he did anything that he thought was inconsistent with the story of Jorge Mas Canosa. Remember that he once debated with Ricardo Alarc\u00f3n.<\/p>\n

Is there a possibility that one day you will do business in Cuba? If so, what businesses?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I am interested in doing business with SMEs in Cuba to develop these initiatives on the island. And SMEs cannot develop without the Cuban community abroad. I may not be, historically, an entrepreneur. But I do have a history of being a leader, and if I can give some leadership to these businesses, it seems to me that I do good for Cuba and the Cubans.<\/p>\n

But there is an embargo that prohibits them, which makes no distinction between SMEs….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

It does. SMEs can do business in the United States. They can buy without restrictions. They are entrepreneurs and the law and regulations that Obama wrote allow doing business with SMEs.<\/p>\n

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Garc\u00eda, on a previous trip, at the Marta farm, with private farmer Fernando Funes. Photo: Courtesy of the interviewee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Joe Biden is not doing much of what Obama advocated for.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

He has done a little and will do more. Look, he reopened the embassy, \u200b\u200bhe reopened the flights, not only to Havana but to the interior, and now they are working to improve remittances. These are substantial things for Cubans, here and there.<\/p>\n

Do you think you owe an explanation to the historical exile? After all, for years they have had a position of resistance to the Cuban government, they fought with arms….<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

What I know is that I have buried many friends, men who fought with weapons in Cuba, and that their memories, their affection, their deep love for the Cuban nation impacted me. I have buried many. Some of them, in important positions, all they want is a dignified reunion with their country. And it seems to me that it is something that the country owes to them as well. No 80-year-old man, which should be the age of the youngest [Bay of Pigs] brigade member, is a threat and something the Cuban government should fear. In many ways they are people who deserve all of our respect.<\/p>\n

How do we explain that there is a new generation that has just arrived in the United States and is positioned much further to the right than those that came before?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The question is: explain how they were formed in Cuba, educated in Cuba. Their families remain in Cuba, and yet some have positions that make the 1960s look soft. That is a question that the Cuban government should ask itself, because these are children of the Cuban Revolution. Here you cannot blame Batista, nor the CIA, nor the U.S. government, nor the Russians. Whose fault is this reality, that people mostly between 35 years of age and younger arrive with perceptions about their own country that I could not inculcate, nor could anyone else? The question is the following: if Cuba cannot speak to its children, who is it speaking to? To those it is going to bury?<\/p>\n

Can this problem be solved in Miami today?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cuba\u2019s problem cannot be solved without Miami.<\/p>\n

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