SLP, Mexico.- The Cuban-American congressman Mario Diaz-Balart expressed in an interview with Martí News published this Thursday, that the Government of donald trump will bring “significant changes” in United States policy towards Cuba and Venezuela.
“There will be a dramatic change. It will not be accepted that this regime uses all the means at its disposal to harm the United States and oppress its own people,” Díaz-Balart declared about the Cuban regime.
He also pointed out that Trump will not tolerate the support of allies international relations to the Cuban regime, nor the threats to national security coming from the Island.
In turn, he referred to the visas granted during the Biden administration to figures linked to the Cuban regime, a fact that he described as “a rape of American laws.”
“Those people must be packing their bags, because they will not be able to keep the visas obtained illegally,” he emphasized.
Regarding Venezuela, Díaz-Balart explained that the government of trump It will intensify sanctions against the regime of Nicolás Maduro and support the opposition, guaranteeing consequences for countries or entities that support the Venezuelan dictator or Díaz-Canel.
In this regard, he alleged that Trump was the first world leader to recognize the Venezuelan opposition at the time, while the Biden administration “delayed” “in recognizing the results of the last elections in Venezuela, in which the opposition triumphed.”
When addressing the immigration issuesDíaz-Balart argued that Trump will prioritize the deportation “of people with criminal records and figures linked to repressive regimes,” among them would be those individuals who arrived in the United States and were identified as repressors of their fellow Cuban citizens.
“The law is clear: they cannot be given a visa or allowed to enter the United States,” he stated.
In his opinion, the enemies of the United States should be “worried.” “If they are nervous, it is because they should be. “This administration will enforce the law and will not allow further violations of immigration regulations,” he said.
Before his electoral victory against the Democratic candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, the campaign donald trump announced that the Republican would have three demands for the Cuban regime.
As Jaime Florez, Communications Director of the Trump campaign, told the journalist in mid-July Mario J. Pentonof Martí News, The Republican would ask the leadership of the Cuban Government to release the political prisoners, in the first instance.
“All political prisoners must be released immediately without any type of reluctance or condition,” Florez told Pentón, within the framework of the Republican National Convention, in Milwaukee.
The candidate’s spokesperson referred, secondly, to a call for free elections, with the participation of different political parties and with international observation.
Third, he added that Trump would demand that the regime stop “continuing to export its failed revolution to other Latin American countries.”
To the extent that these measures are met, he noted, relations between Cuba and the United States.
