Carlos Lazo responds to Senator Marco Rubio
OnCuba is reproducing Lazo’s response to the Florida senator, who in a letter asked the FBI “to determine if Lazo is acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the Cuban government,” according to a report by El Nuevo Herald.
by OnCuba Staff August 4, 2022
Cuban émigrés from the Bridges of Love project deliver a donation to Cuban health authorities to reactivate the liver transplant program for children, at the William Soler Hospital in Havana, on May 22, 2022. Photo: Carlos Lazo’s Facebook profile.
Carlos Lazo, Cuban-American activist and organizer of the anti-embargo group Bridges of Love, replied to Senator Marco Rubio, who on Monday asked the FBI to investigate said movement for its meetings with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the last of which occurred last June.
OnCuba is reproducing Lazo’s response to the Florida senator, who in a letter asked the FBI “to investigate if Lazo is acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the Cuban government,” according to a report by El Nuevo Herald. In this letter, Rubio urges FBI Director Christopher Wray to investigate the members and check the activities of Bridges of Love, stressing that the group has “known associations with the Cuban regime.”
According to this report, the Republican senator’s letter comes after Bridges of Love demonstrated against the embargo last Sunday in Coral Gables, a fact that, according to Rubio, is “part of a coordinated effort by the Cuban regime to sow division, incite conflict, and influence the foreign policy of the United States.
“The Foreign Agents Registration Act imposes disclosure obligations on persons and entities that work as ‘agents,’ acting under the direction of foreign governments or organizations. Activities that require registration include political work intended to influence U.S. foreign policy.”
More:
https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba-usa/carlos-lazo-responds-to-senator-marco-rubio/
(El Heraldo is the Spanish-language newspaper published by the Miami Herald for Spanish-reading people living in Florida. It has been found guilty before of faking photos to confuse readers about conditions in Cuba, oddly, like one which got them in trouble showing Cuban cops standing really closeby as some "prostitutes" appeared to be doing bidness on the street in Havana. They were forced to acknowledge the picture was a fake. The intention was to back up accusations that the government supported prostitution. )
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Miami deserves better than that.