For the past few years, the local media - this paper included - has printed a lot of hype about how the old days when Cuban artists could not perform in Miami were over. Concert after concert took place in South Florida without a hitch. But there's been a quiet movement afoot to get cities to put a stop to cultural exchanges with Cuba.">For the past few years, the local media - this paper included - has printed a lot of hype about how the old days when Cuban artists could not perform in Miami were over. Concert after concert took place in South Florida without a hitch. But there's been a quiet movement afoot to get cities to put a stop to cultural exchanges with Cuba.">

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Backlash against Cuba concerts in South Florida

  • Submitted by: manso
  • 05 / 07 / 2011

For the past few years, the local media - this paper included - has printed a lot of hype about how the old days when Cuban artists could not perform in Miami were over. Concert after concert took place in South Florida without a hitch. But there's been a quiet movement afoot to get cities to put a stop to cultural exchanges with Cuba. The city of Miami was the first to pass a more or less meaningless resolution asking Congress to ask Obama to stop letting Cuban artists perform here. Hialeah later did the same and on Thursday, a city of Miami Beach subcommittee did the same.

So while Juanes had to put off his concert because of the Bay of Pigs anniversary and the mega-show in Homestead was put off for good, New York city is inviting more than 150 singers, dancers and painters.
- Frances Robles

Source: ://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/2011/05/

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