Florida senator files resolution condemning Tampa officials for dining with Cuban communist representatives
https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1728/?Tab=BillText
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On Monday, Tampa resident and State Senator Jay Collins filed a resolution in the Florida Senate condemning local Tampa elected officials for wining and dining Cuban communist party officials. Earlier this month, local Tampa leaders had dinner with the Cuban ambassador, who is the face of the murderous Castro dictatorship here in the U.S. The ambassador was recognized by Cuban exiles that night, who mounted an impromptu protest there in the restaurant and took video of the encounter. The meeting drew sharp criticism from both Cuban Americans and those who stand against the tyranny in Cuba, including Sen. Jay Collins.
Via MyNews13:
The resolution condemns the local gathering as “unconscionable” and “inexcusable.”
It further affirms Florida’s solidarity with the Cuban community, both stateside and abroad, and reiterates the federal government’s classification of Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism.”
“It is inexcusable that these officials would break bread with members of an oppressive and tyrannical government…” says the resolution.
The resolution names several local leaders including Tampa councilman Guido Maniscalco, Hillsborough County school board member Karen Perez and Hillsborough County Clerk of Court Cindy Stuart.
They, among others, joined the Cuban delegates at an upscale restaurant, Mise en Place, in Tampa on March 3.
Protesters later disrupted the dinner meeting, according to the resolution, and confronted the delegation about human rights violations in Cuba.
Speaking Monday to reporters, Collins described the meeting as a “slap in the face” to the millions of Cuban exiles in Florida.
Although Tampa has strong ties to Cuba as one of the first cities of refuge for Cubans fleeing the oppression of Spanish colonialism in the 19th century, the city has become a home for Castro dictatorship sympathizers. The once proud city that stood against oppression and tyranny in Cuba is now happy to wine and dine the representatives of oppression and tyranny.
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The Cuban representatives included the Cuban ambassador to the U.S. The event happened March 4 and where was DeSantis? In California. He wasn’t in Florida. Incidents such as this are why it is a RINO mirage to believe that DeSantis has strong support in the Cuban/Hispanic communities in Florida. DeSantis needs to be in Tallahassee doing what he was elected to do, govern Florida.
S/B March 3 not March 4
Kiki Camarena Case Reopened Because of False FBI Evidence
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The trial that took place 34 years ago for the murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique Kiki Camarena will have to be reopened after a federal judge determined that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) presented false evidence that affected the process, which would imply a new gathering of evidence and witnesses.
MILENIO obtained a judicial document dated March 23, 2023, which reveals that federal judge John A. Kronstadt ordered to reopen the trial for the murder of the anti-drug agency agent, after one of the last two people sentenced for the crime -Raúl López Álvarez, former judicial police officer of Guadalajara, the city where Camarena was tortured and murdered-, demonstrated that his trial was not conducted in accordance with the law, due to a series of irregularities committed by FBI technical personnel.
The federal judge emphasized that even though the charges have been quashed, López Álvarez will not be able to obtain bail and will have to conduct this new trial from a prison cell. And he affirmed that the process must begin within 180 days after the publication of this sentence.
The sentences handed down in the United States against the defendants for the murder of Kiki Camarena, committed on February 9, 1985, were based on evidence that is now known to be flawed, presented by an unscrupulous, inaccurate and corrupt FBI agent, Michael Malone, then head of the FBI’s Hair and Fiber Laboratory Unit.