Participants in a rally organized by the Bridges of Love Project in
the United States in favor of respect of the Cuban family's rights and against the blockade.

Havana, November 5 (RHC)-- The United States is not Miami, nor does the ultra-right-wing Cuban-American mob in that city control the diversity of criteria as they pretend, Cuba's former ambassador to Washington José Ramón Cabañas says.

In statements to Prensa Latina news agency, the current director of the Havana-based Center for International Policy Research emphasized that many in Miami have a public discourse and another at home, a distortion to be socially accepted in an opportunistic environment.

In the diplomat's opinion, the ultra-right uses algorithms and communication strategies in social media networks and digital platforms with repeated hate messages to convey the idea that there is a Cuban community with a uniform way of thinking.

According to Cabañas, this is a reaction of this sector to that 2015-2017 period of bilateral rapprochement in which almost five million people traveled in both directions, and there was a reversal of the reactionary agenda.

"What we have seen especially from 2018-2019 to here is a distortion that is mainly due to the political polarization within the United States. It is not surprising then that the leaders of these trends are admirers of former President Donald Trump," he said.

But the United States is not Miami -he reiterated-, the coercion to which many Cuban artists are subjected so that they take a position against the island's government does not happen at all in New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles, which are indeed capitals of culture.

Cabañas recalled that in 2017 Cuba was the chief guest of the largest jazz festival in the United States, and in 2018 more than 400 artists performed at the renowned Kennedy Center in Washington.