UPDATE: Rubén Gallego, Democratic senator: “Marco Rubio is obsessed, but Cuba is not a threat to the United States” | International
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US Senator Rubén Gallego, an emerging profile of the Democratic Party, considers it highly likely that Donald Trump’s Administration will opt for a new military intervention to force a regime change in Cuba. “Cubans in Florida have a lot of power and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has an obsession with the island,” he stated this Friday in a meeting with journalists at the headquarters of the Elcano Royal Institute in Madrid. “But I don’t think Cuba is a threat to the United States, it is a very poor country of nine million inhabitants,” he added. The representative of the State of Arizona has criticized the White House strategy of resorting to weapons to seek political changes in Latin America. “The United States should not start wars to overthrow governments and I believe that practically 99% of Democrats who hold public office are against this war,” Gallego said. Last March, this senator presented a bill in the upper house, where his party does not have a majority, to prevent Trump from launching an operation similar to that in Venezuela without authorization from Congress. Rubén Gallego, at the 2024 Democratic Convention, in Chicago. Kevin Dietsch (Getty Images) Gallego, a former marine and veteran of the Iraq war, has pointed out that, although the operation to capture Nicolás Maduro last January was very effective from a military point of view, the political results were not They have been what was expected. “What have we changed in Venezuela? We went from one dictator to another, so from a geopolitical point of view it has been a failure and will continue to be a failure until Venezuela transitions smoothly to democracy,” he added. “Maduro is a horrible person, corrupt,” he commented, “but that does not give us license to overthrow these governments.” The senator predicts that the mismanagement of the war against Iran, increasingly unpopular among American voters, will take its toll on the Trump Administration and the Republican Party in the midterm elections next November. All seats in the House of Representatives and a third of the Senate will be renewed, and the forecast is that the Republican majority, at least in the former, is in danger. Gallego is optimistic and has assured that it is very likely that his party could even have control of the Upper House. “War is a problem for voters,” he said about the majority rejection of a conflict that has choked the White House and the economic impact of the military campaign. “It is distracting the Government from the things that matter to Americans, everything costs a lot right now in the United States,” he added. Reconquering the Latino vote Although historically Latinos have leaned towards Democrats, the 2024 presidential elections reversed that trend and Trump obtained support from the majority of men of Hispanic origin. Now, a survey by the UnidosUS organization presented this week indicates that one in four Latinos regrets having voted for the Republican. Born to a Mexican father and a Colombian mother, Gallego has acknowledged that his political training fell short two years ago when trying to convince Latino voters. In 2024, the senator obtained a 22-point advantage among Hispanic voters in Arizona over his Republican rival, a support greater than that obtained by the Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, in the State among members of that community. “We talked about what mattered to people, which were two things: economy and migration,” he stressed about his campaign. “We must stop seeing Latinos as we would like them to be and see them for what they are,” he noted. “Many people on the left in the Democratic Party would like them to be more liberal on issues such as migration as they are children of migrants,” he stated. “But my own family told me that the border was out of control and that the president had to do something to change that. Those who understood it did well. Those who didn’t ended up losing.” Although many candidates have raised their hands two years before the presidential elections, it is still not clear who will step forward among the Democrats after the failure in the last elections. Gallego, who has been considered in the immense deck of potential candidates, has declared that there are many good profiles in the party, although he did not want to reveal who would be, in his opinion, the ideal one in the race to reach the White House. He also did not want to say if he is interested in the candidacy or what his plans are for 2028. “We have to think first about 2026 and then we will see, I also have three children,” he commented with a laugh.
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