WHO ARE THE CUBANS?
[REFERENCE:
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
AFTER ACTION REPORT
(Metro-Dade Police/Public Safety Department, Dade County, Florida)
ANNEX "G"
INTELLIGENCE SUMMARIES, REPORTS, AND INFORMATION
page 1-0425 (8/19/72 - 8/24/72)]
WHO ARE THE CUBANS?
Too much hysteria and too little reason has been injected into the
discussion about the Cubans of Miami and Miami Beach. The largest
Cuban community resides in Miami City, across from the Beach
itself. About two hundred thousand Cubans live in Dade County;
half of them do not speak English. Soon, the county will be
designated as bi-lingual by the County authorities. Although a
good portion of the Cuban community in Dade County is affluent, there
are persistent number of Cubans who earn an income which is below the
poverty line and who live in substandard housing.
The vast majority of the Cubans living in the Miami are anti-Castro and
are supportive of the ousted fascistic Batista regime. Most
Cubans, however, are fairly indifferent, who fight and struggle to
survive every day. They have no burning desire to "liberate"
Cuba. Those who still dream of the BIG DAY are slowly falling
into disfavor with the majority of the Cuban community. And,
still more important, there is a small number of young Cubans who are
considered leftist and who quietly support the Cuban Revolution.
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