Cuban Immigrant Praised for Speech About Fleeing Communism at Republican National Convention

Brendan Cole for Newsweek reports that a “Cuban immigrant businessman whose family fled Fidel Castro’s regime has been widely praised for a speech in which he told the Republican party faithful how his family’s story was an example of the American dream which can only be protected by the GOP.”

Maximo Alvarez, the founder of Sunshine Gasoline, spoke at the Republican National Convention (RNC) about how his father had fled totalitarianism from Spain and later Cuba, before making a life for his family in the United States.

I don’t buy the idea that a vote for the Biden/Harris ticket is a vote for communism in disguise (a la Fidel Castro) or that President Trump offers the choice of “freedom” over “oppression.”  Still, Alvarez offered a heart-felt speech that some observers viewed as one of the better ones of the convention’s first day.

KJ