Congressman born in Cuba recounts an emotional return to Homeland with a codel in Gitmo
EXCLUSIVE: Tail. Carlos Gimenez He returned to his homeland in Cuba over the weekend for the first time in 64 years, saying that he was now “more determined than ever” to see the island freed from dictatorship.
Gimenez, R-Fla., The only member of the Congress, born in Cubanci, joined the Congress delegation (Codel) in the Guantánamo Bay with the management of the US military base There, and noticed that the rest of the nation is still led by the communist government with an iron fist that took over the power when the President of Fulgencio Batista overthrew Fidel Castro in 1959.
The Gimenez-Carlos Sr., Mitzi, Carlos and Mitzi Ann-Ann-Angi family, when the future head of the Miami fire department, the mayor and the Miami-Dade County Congressman was only 6 years old.
“Now that I have visited the only free part of Cuba, I want to make sure that the rest of the island is free from this communist tyranny,” ” Said Gimenez In an exclusive interview for Fox News Digital.
Future envoy Carlos A. Gimenez, his mother Mitzi and sister Mitzi Ann were seen in Cuba before the family fled to Miami in 1960. (Kindness: Rev. Carlos Gimenez)
“I’ve already stepped up. I’m really enhanced now. I always wanted it (to see Cuba released), but now I somehow advocated I won’t come back until the whole island is free.”
Congressman said that his memories of Cuba in his memory remained in “20-Sekundi” and that his feelings for Cuba began to rebel when he first caught the outline of the island from the plane by taking the legislators to the Guantánamo Bay.
“It was meant that it was the first time I had seen it in almost 65 years – how beautiful it is – it is just a place that is so special; and that, indeed, a group of robbers and dictator and oppressor ruined – I was a little emotional, but then it turned to anger.”
Gimenez said he could imagine his grandparents who live in the province of Orient – bordering Guantánamo Province.
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Future Ambassador Carlos A. Gimenez was seen in a photo of a passport taken some time after arriving in the United States (Kindness: Rev. Carlos Gimenez)
The MP was born in Havana, but said that he lived on a ranch in Manzanill every year, Orienti – only a few dozen miles west of the Guantánamo Bay, and at the opposite end of the island from the capital.
“There are certain memories that just pull my head and have a long time, and so everyone came back again – I was grateful to be back. And that was emotional. But, I suppose, it encouraged me more.”
However, a visit to his hometown was left without a codel issue – while Gimenez described a potentially deadly safety barrier between the Guantánamo Bay and the rest of Cuba.
While the East Berlin had the Charlie control point, and North and South Korea has a DMZ that limits the movement, the border between the Guantánamo bay and the cubes from the mainland is secured by hundreds of thousands of mounds of corroded regimes.
Representatives of the Cuban government usually meet on a monthly basis with their American colleagues in the bunker near the Guantánamo Bay, but only for the purpose of managing bases, not diplomacy, Gimenz said.
The MP has learned that there have been no such meetings in the last few months.
Tail. Carlos Gimenez. (Rep. Gimenez)
Codel, led by an envoy of Mike Rogers from Alabama, chairman of the Home Armed Forces Committee, followed the executive order of President Donald Trump, which managed illegal immigrant criminals who would be detained in Gitmo under Ice Supervision.
Rogers said in a statement that Codel met with members of the US service awarded, as well as officials for the implementation of laws in charge of “facilitating the removal of some of the worst criminals”.
“Border security is national security and I am proud of the role that the defense department played in the protection of our nation and the end of the invasion on our southern border,” Rogers said.
Just over a dozen of 780 detainees who have not been immigrants since 2002 remain at GITMO.
In 1966, the Cuban base workers were given a choice, Gimenez said: Either you return to Cuba, or remain working on a life -based. About 40 of these workers are still alive in Gitm, unable to return to his homes on the rest of Cuba. Many are in their 80s, and there is an auxiliary life object for those at an advanced age that remains at the base, he said.
Gimenez has long advocated a quiet but decisive end of a dictatorship of seven decades led by Miguel Díaz-Canel, a handwritten successor to the late Raul Castro, who has previously taken over from his brother.
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Cuban dictator Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez. (AP)
Democratic Cuba could be the best friend of the US -in the Caribbean region, Gimenez said. Having a Cuba under their current constitution sitting only 90 miles from the famous southernmost float on Key West is also a care of national security, many in Florida believe.
With Trump on the forehead and renewed, renewed Foreign policy and focus of national securityIn an interview, Gimenez said that “all pieces are in place” to move even faster to the introduction of a democratic cubet once more.
“It’s a matter of will. I must have a will – this is time. Now is the time,” he said on Monday.
“I just want to be sure that everything I can do to happen.”
