Generally though the city has had an intolerant spirit regarding artists and musicians based in Cuba. It should be noted that during the so-called thaw of relations between Cuba and the United States in the Obama era, these people in Miami did not pay attention to the “history of Gente de Zona as regards the Cuban regime.” In fact in those years, the now censored duo was even awarded the keys to the city of Miami.
In a memorandum signed by the President and sent to the State Department at the beginning of November, it was announced that “the United States will not provide non-humanitarian or trade-related assistance, nor will it allow officials or employees of the governments of Cuba, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Syria and Russia to participate in educational and cultural exchange programs during the fiscal year 2020”. In reality, the reasons given by the mayor to censor the artists are nothing more than a means to follow the policy of blockade against Cuba extended by the Trump administration.
Suarez told the newspaper El Nuevo Herald, he had asked the organizers to “analyse the participation of these artists and the history of Gente de Zona as regards the Cuban regime …”. Gente de Zona received the key to the city in Miami in 2016.Ī week ago, the mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, asked that Cuban musicians be excluded from the list of participants in the traditional end-of-year concert organized by the reggaeton artist Pitbull in Miami.
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