“We always return anything in excess of what the law allows,” Salazar said during a brief Florida Bulldog phone interview. 3 win was a huge upset victory for the former Spanish-language television journalist whose biggest claim to fame may have been her one-on-one interview with Fidel Castro in 1991. Salazar, running on a predominantly pro-Donald Trump, anti-socialism platform, beat Democratic incumbent Donna Shalala by two percentage points to claim Florida’s 27th Congressional District, which includes large swathes of Coral Gables, Miami Beach and Miami.
So far, Salazar for Congress has refunded only $8,145 in donations while building up a $1.1 million war chest, according to the Political Action Committee’s most recent finance reports. government for allegedly cutting shady government deals with the stepsons of Socialist strongman Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Both amounts are above the $2,900 federal cap each individual is allowed to give per election.Īccording to previous media reports, de la Espriella quit representing Alex Saab when the Colombian businessman was sanctioned and indicted by the U.S.
The FEC also flagged $5,700 which de la Espriella’s wife, Ana Lucia Pineda, donated to Salazar for Congress’s primary election. permanent resident who up until two years ago was the criminal defense attorney for a fellow countryman targeted in a Colombian money-laundering probe involving ill-gotten government contracts in Venezuela. The over-the-legal-limit donations include $5,700 from Abelardo de la Espriella, a Colombian lawyer and U.S. Miami Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar’s re-election committee has amassed $147,400 in illegal excessive campaign contributions for her primary, according to a pair of recent warning letters from the Federal Elections Commission. Not because they dominate or have any real influence on US policy towards Cuba, since it is clear that they do not shape it, but they know that the master who pays them watches, appreciates, and rewards their efforts in this sordid competition.By Francisco Alvarado, It is a competition to see who can outdo the evil proposed by the other, who has the most vicious idea, the one who can do the most damage. The congresswoman who is also a member of the US Congressional Foreign Relations Committee is determined to challenge Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Bob Menéndez and, of course, the “behind the scenes eminence,” Claver-Carone, president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), for the position of “the worst of all politicians of Cuban origin”, a position that Rubio and Ted Cruz are currently vying for. This smear campaign is just one more of the many in which she has played a leading role. On February 2, she launched, via Twitter, a slander campaign blaming the Cuban government of poisoning pets. RELATED CONTENT: Vice President of Venezuela Presents Anti-Blockade Law During her Visit to Cuba She recently supported the so-called anti-communist caravan in Miami and described as “ignorant” a group of Democrats who advocate the lifting of sanctions against the Cuban people. María Elvira Salazar, a long-time anti-Cuban, participated for years through her position in the reactionary media, in every campaign against the island.Ī simple glance at her profiles on social networks allows us to gain a picture of her “activism.” Her tweets abound with calls for more blockade against Cuba, the total closure of travel, preventing the arrival of family remittances, etc. The proposal seeks to prevent Joe Biden’s Democratic administration from removing Cuba from the spurious list of countries that promote and finance terrorism, from which it had been excluded by then-President Barack Obama in 2015. RELATED CONTENT: Chicago City Council Passes Resolution To End US Blockade on CubaĪs a newcomer, she began right away with work on a bill, co-sponsored by other politicians of Cuban descent, that seeks to prevent a normalization of relations between the US and Cuba. Together with Carlos Giménez, Nicole Malliotakis, Albio Sires, Mario Díaz-Balart, Alex Mooney, Anthony González and Senators Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Bob Menéndez, the congresswoman is now a member of the group of ten Cuban-Americans in the US Congress. She ran “to prevent socialism from establishing itself and ruining the United States,” she declared in her campaign, something truly absurd, but which is part of the discourse of the US ultra-right. It is the recently elected congresswoman María Elvira Salazar, who occupies the 27th district seat in Miami. The anti-Cuban lobby in the United States has a new contender in its frantic race to make its case to the imperial power and climb the political ladder in that country. She is one of the most enthusiastic anti-Cubans, calling for a more severe blockade, the total closure of travel and the prevention of remittances.
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