She represents a Florida district of Cuban-Americans who watched JFK cancel his CIA-run invasion that would have restored a free Cuba, and NOT HAVE brought the US and USSR to the brink of nuclear war.
JFK didn’t cancel it. He told the CIA clearly and directly that we would not intervene with US forces. They thought they could force his hand by putting him in a bind. He did the right thing to not get played. He stuck to his word against the trashy CIA.