Jon Lee Anderson

The repressors, the repressor list.

The repressors.

As part of that exodus and whom they believe, you know, or in some cases, it's true that these people, it's one point or another work for the regime.

And therefore, they don't feel that they should

have the benefit of a life in the United States.

And in a couple of cases, people have been arrested and deported, including a judge not not long ago and a guy from the Ministry of Interior, that is to say their secret police and so on.

So what's happening is that people who at various times worked for the regime and has to be said to that, you know,

over over the course of decades that that would eventually include a lot of the cuban people because it was after all a command economy and a socialist regime therefore you know to go to college you might have to join one of the revolutionary groups or you might have to join the party communist party all of that according to people like marco rubio and his friends who are behind this push to expel

cubans who participated with the regime that's somehow a bridge too far including sort of representative jimenez there in miami you know that that means that you made a choice at one point and you've got to live with your choice well i'm not sure who gets to throw the first stone here you know in the course of these these past 60 years i mean my god there were people that were revolutionaries who participated in putting fidel castro into power who also um you know fled years ago sure what what makes

What makes someone who fled, you know, 40 years ago and someone who fled, you know, last year?

Well, Miami kind of makes the list, right?

Because if you were tied to Samosa or or Batista or, you know, or the Contras or, you know, anybody else, you were fine in Miami all these years.

And by the way, so were a bunch of cocaine cowboys.

So Miami is not exactly, you know, a place of moral rectitude.

It's kind of a an American Casablanca.

where where conspirers or exiles mostly from the on the right can come and do whatever they want and plot coups, assassinations and rebellions from there.

You know, the Contra War.

I remember going down to Miami in the in the 1980s and talking with Frank Sturgis, who was a former CIA asset and a Watergate burglar

who was then involved with the CIA's program to overthrow the then Sandinista government.

You know, it's always been a place where where, you know, one man's one man's freedom fighters and other man's terror.