cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45181616

[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

Cuban-American politicians have long been a driving force behind the U.S. government’s economic war on the island. But many people of Cuban origin living in the United States reject the hard-line policies that have ravaged the island’s economy and caused widespread scarcities and hardship.

Danny Valdes, a Cuban American born in Miami, recently visited Cuba with the Nuestra América Convoy to help bring humanitarian aid to the island.

“There is a very well organized and powerful right wing Cuban lobby, that even is in the halls of the Congress that gets to determine what U.S. policy is toward Cuba,” said Valdés. “But we feel like it’s a very important time now to say, not in our name.”