Ada Ferrer

And you got a sense from talking to Miami, people in Miami,

political leaders, activists, and I heard it, that he was going too far, that they thought he didn't mean them, that he thought he was going to go after criminals, but he was just going after people who were working and so on and so forth.

But I haven't heard that so much since the attack on Venezuela.

I was there when Obama visited.

And in all my visits there, I have never seen the sense of excitement and hope that I saw when Obama was there.

People were on the street.

People were, you know, eager to see him, eager to watch everything he said on television.

I ran into people who said things to me like, you know, I remember talking to this older woman who said she watched his speech on television and she referred to him as my president.

And yeah, there was a sense that, you know, the relationship between the two countries has been so hostile for, you know, 60, 67 years that that moment just seemed like the possibility of something new and something different.

The anxiety isn't just about Trump, and it isn't just about Marco Rubio.

The anxiety is about the fact that they haven't had electricity maybe in 36 hours.

Whatever little food they had is gone.

Hospitals are sending people home because they can't do surgeries, right?

So in some sense, the sense of hopelessness about that, about the current situation, is

means that more people are willing to take a change no matter where it comes from.

And I think that is new.

So if you think about the Cuban population now, and maybe, I forget the numbers, maybe a third are born after the fall of the Soviet Union, they've never known a Cuba before.

in which you could achieve well-being, not luxury, but well-being, without access to hard currency, without access to remittances from abroad, without some kind of reliance on an underground market and shady deals, right?

So the crisis now is happening after 30 years.

I don't know that a majority is eager for Marco Rubio to invade.