Nikki Fried calls for Cuban ‘liberation’

Nikki Fried
'Everyone who supports freedom should join in helping spread their message through our nation and across the globe.'

As protests continue in Cuba, Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried took a position Tuesday firmly with those seeking “liberation” from “communist oppression.”

“The Cuban people are exhausted from a lack of food, medicine, and other resources that don’t allow basic needs to be met. As they ask for our solidarity in their call for liberation from Cuba’s communist regime — we must answer that call and stand with them. It’s crucial that the world is aware of their struggle, everyone who supports freedom should join in helping spread their message through our nation and across the globe. Those of us fighting for democracy share the same goal, a democratic Cuba free from 62 years of communist oppression,” Fried asserted.

Fried’s statement came via her gubernatorial campaign, not her official Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services office.

The statement puts Fried firmly on record against the communist regime.

Yet her rhetoric didn’t go as far as that of the chair of the Florida Democratic Party itself.

Florida Democratic Party Chair Manny A. Diaz, a Cuban American, condemned the Cuban government’s response as “a call for bloodshed.”

“As I write this, the Cuban government is showing the world that it is nothing more than a repressive tyranny, holding on to a failed and cruel economic and political model,” Diaz said in a written statement Sunday.

Miguel Diaz Canel’s orders to beat and arrest peaceful protesters, and his calls for confrontation between his supporters and the protesters are basically a call for a civil war within the island. Make no mistake, this is call for bloodshed, while the country suffers one of its worst humanitarian crises in decades,” Diaz added.

Fried’s statement was much closer to that of U.S. Rep. Val Demings, the frontrunner for the Democratic Senate nomination next year.

“The voices of the Cuban people must be paramount. It is their nation’s future being decided. It is my hope that Cuba’s path will be one of democracy and unalienable human rights,” she said in a written statement. “I strongly support the peaceful protesters in Cuba as they struggle for their right to create their own future. I condemn all violent repression of the Cuban people by the current regime. Violence against protesters is unacceptable. The suppression of the free press is unacceptable. The Cuban people, like all people, deserve democracy, liberty, health, security, and prosperity. U.S. policy must support the protesters, their safety, and their right to self-determination.”

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. He is based in Northeast Florida. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


4 comments

  • Dr. larry myers

    July 13, 2021 at 9:59 am

    in MANHATTAN THEATERGOERS LOOK FORWARD TO PLAYWRIGHT DR. LARRY MYERS
    RESPONSE TO POWERFUL CUBAN PROTESTS
    “SANTERIA STREET THEATER’
    MYERS IS DRAMATHERAPIST/30 YEAE PROFESSOR AT ST JOHN S U WHO DRECTS PLAYWRIGHTS SANCTUARY

    HE INVENTED SERVICE/LEARNING THEATER AND RECENTLY WAS AT SURFSIDE MIAMI FOR THE CRISES THERE AT CONDO COLLAPSE HIS “TOWERS FALL” IS A TRIBUTE TO LOST MISSING FAMILIES VOLUNTEERS WORKERS
    THERE IS NO DEATH THERE IS A CONTINUITY TO LIFE
    ALL ARE HERE NOW PAST FUTURE BUT WE CANT NECESSARILY SEE THEM

    MYERS ECXAMINED AFRICAN CATHOLICISM AND CUBAN RAP AS SENSOR6 ENTRIES FOR HIS SANTERIA PLAY

  • DIANNA DAVIS

    July 13, 2021 at 1:58 pm

    Z I O N is not a name
    Busch Gardens Tampa
    Home of Kliedsdale Horses
    Offered Free Beer to take
    Tuberculosis vaccination
    Beer ( yeast added Iodized Salt and Tabasco Sauce )
    In one line
    Then in the other line
    Tuberculosis vaccination
    Zinc Iodine Salt SUGAR Sulfuric acid Bromanine
    EGGS
    Ducks Chickens Goose
    Vaccinations made from
    Zinc Iodine Salt SUGAR Sulfuric acid Bromanine
    Z I O N
    Medical Fraud
    Premeditated Murder against
    Legal offering Lethal
    AND as Oath Keepers
    Have Termites SARS DISEASE

  • Matthew Lusk

    July 14, 2021 at 3:40 pm

    Sorry Val and Nik, we don’t believe y’all are sincere.

  • Janis Lentz

    July 15, 2021 at 8:25 am

    And you think creepy Rick Scott and Lil Marco Rubio the Liar ARE truthful??? Two worthless senators who have done ZERO to represent Floridians in D.C.???

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