Marco Rubio wants Joe Biden to call in the U.N. to stabilize Cuba
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Rubio wants Biden to engage the Organization of American States also.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio continued his strong messaging about Cuban protests Wednesday morning, blasting the White House response to the Cuban crackdown as “lame” and insufficient.

Rubio, appearing on “Fox and Friends,” spoke after a tweet lambasting President Joe Biden‘s “weak” messaging on Cuban dissidence, now in its fourth day on the communist island.

Rubio called for Biden to use his “diplomatic heft” to engage the international community toward a solution, including a move to convene the U.N. Security Council and Organization of American States.

“Use your diplomatic heft and the fact that ‘America is back’ and say, ‘okay, guys, we have a massacre about to happen 90 miles from our shores. We want the international community to condemn it, isolate it, and take action.'”

“I want to know what Joe Biden is going to do when a thousand special forces from Russia arrive on Cuban territory to help the Cuban regime,” Rubio added. “Because that’s what’s coming next. That’s what’s coming next.”

Rubio responded to comments by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urging Cubans and Haitians not to come to the U.S.

“I don’t want there to be a mass migration either,” Rubio said, contending Mayorkas’ position could be stronger.

“I’ve already asked the Biden administration to be very clear with the Cuban government. If you trigger a mass migration we will consider it a hostility, an act of war, and we will act accordingly,” Rubio said.

The Senator’s frustration seeped through, despite saying he was trying to be bipartisan.

“This administration’s response has been lame, it’s been lame on this whole issue,” he said.

During the appearance, Rubio noted both the unprecedented nature of the protests and the reality of the information veil lowered by the communist regime in Havana.

“We don’t know how many people are out there. By the way, we don’t know (how many) have died, we don’t know how many people have been seriously injured, we don’t know how many people have been arrested. We know there are reports of hundreds of people that have vanished,” Rubio said, noting the internet has been shut down.

The government’s “repressive forces” are cracking down, Rubio noted.

“What’s happening there is horrifying. It’s hard for people to believe it because it’s the kind of stuff you’d read about that happened a hundred years ago,” Rubio said, describing the government arresting journalists and conscripting minors into joining pro-government armed mobs.

Rubio’s latest dire warning continues urgent messaging on the Cuban crisis by Florida’s leading Republicans. U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is also frustrated with the detached approach to the crackdown in Cuba from the Biden White House.

“Joe Biden needs to be today, on TV, calling world leaders, saying this has got to end,” Scott urged Tuesday on the Brian Mudd Show. “You’ve got this pulpit, you’ve got this opportunity, Joe Biden. Go do it.”

Gov. Ron DeSantis urged Florida telecom companies to look into extending Wi-Fi to Cuba to overcome the information blockade.

“One of the things I think we should be able to do with our private companies or with the United States is to provide some of that internet service via satellite,” DeSantis said Tuesday.

“We have companies on the Space Coast that launch these things. So that’s going to be some calls I’m going to make to see what are the options for companies to be able to do it,” DeSantis added.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


4 comments

  • DR LARRY MYERS

    July 14, 2021 at 12:33 pm

    cuba IS BEING SORELY NEGLECTED IN nEW yORK tIMES COVERAGE!
    i M glad you news people are covering, examining & sharing the real facts. Epiphany Theater in Wilton Manors may preview the new stage work
    “Santeria Street Theater,”
    The dramatist Dr. Larry Myers has been a playwright in residence working with the aids museum & Epiphany. His play is dedicated to Maria Irene Fornes. Myers is also friends with Eduardo Machado, another Cuban playwright, who worked side by side with Myers at Theater for the New City. Recently Myers assisted Epiphany Executive, Artistic Director Ed Sparan, signing up Fort Lauderdale homeless for Covid shots.

  • Matthew Lusk

    July 14, 2021 at 3:27 pm

    One should not rely on, fund, or engage the corrupt United Nations to do anything.The globalist are not about to overturn a Marxist country, not after they have invested billions in them. The U.S. could easily mop up Cuba,. But the U.S. is now driven by the global banking elite crime syndicate.

    • PeterH

      July 15, 2021 at 3:03 pm

      Today’s Republican Party can be equated to the depraved “QAnon are us” nonsense! Turn your back on crazy talk.

      Join authentic conservatives at the Lincoln Project.

      • alex

        July 17, 2021 at 7:55 pm

        Castro,s dictatorship and its corrupt generals should be very proud of you and your so called Lincoln Project.. Viva la Libertad, Abajo el Comunimo. Long Live, Freedom, Down with Communism!

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