Florida Dem Hammers Ocasio-Cortez After She Tried to Blame US for Communist Cuba's Struggles

Democratic Rep. 👤Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York was scolded by a fellow Democrat Thursday after she blamed the United States for the hardships stalking 🇨🇺Cuba under its Communist regime.

After days in which the self-described Democratic socialist kept mum about the protests that swept through 🇨🇺Cuba, Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at the United States over the embargo the U.S. has had in place since 1962.

“We also must name the U.S contribution to Cuban suffering: our sixty-year-old embargo,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement.

“I outright reject the Biden administration’s defense of the embargo. It is never acceptable for us to use cruelty as a point of leverage against every day people.”

In an accompanying tweet, she also criticized “additional Trump-era restrictions that are profoundly contributing to the suffering of Cubans.”

Former Democratic Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell of Florida said Ocasio-Cortez had it all wrong.

“No. This is not correct. It’s the failed policies of a communist regime that has violated human rights, imprisoned & killed dissidents. Cuban ppl -young & old- are risking their lives to rise up, we must listen to them. This is a matter of national security. The US must act,” she tweeted.

Mucarsel-Powell elaborated upon her position.

“As we meet this historic moment of hope for a free 🇨🇺Cuba, we do so with a clear recognition that the suffering endured by the Cuban people happened as as a result of a failed communist doctrine and regime propped up by oppression & authoritarianism. This truth is key. #SOSCuba,” she tweeted.

Ocasio-Cortez’s shot at the United States put her in the same company with Black Lives Matter — which tweeted its support for 🇨🇺Cuba and its opposition to the U.S. embargo — and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who also tweeted to trash the United States.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas pushed back against them.

In an Op-Ed in National Review, Cruz — whose father fled 🇨🇺Cuba in the 1950s — wrote that in the wake of 🇨🇺Cuba’s protests, “America must respond. Over the past few days, the world has seen that the American people stand squarely with the men and women of 🇨🇺Cuba and their noble fight for liberty.

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“Worryingly, however, the Biden administration has stopped short of strong support for those marching in the streets of 🇨🇺Cuba. In statement after statement, as protesters swept into the streets, administration officials have failed to unequivocally support the protesters and failed to condemn the regime,” he wrote.

“Unfortunately, it’s not difficult to imagine why this administration is reticent to support the crowds waving American flags protesting the Cuban regime,” he continued. “The Obama administration spent enormous time, resources, and diplomatic capital blaming American foreign policy for the plight of Cubans and working to dismantle international pressure on the Cuban regime. The Democrat Party remains indebted to, and committed to, that approach.”

“America must be clear: We support the protesters against the crackdown, and anyone who participates in suppressing the Cuban people will be held accountable by us — and by them.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.