I'll put you down as a "no."
How do Cuban Americans feel about Obama's plans to begin normalization of relations with Cuba? It
depends on who you ask.
Some Cuban exiles rejoiced at the prospect of easier access to their relatives. Some swelled with guarded optimism over the prospect of thawing relations between the United States and the communist island. And some were simply "ecstatic." [...]
"It's amazing," said Hugo Cancio, who came to Miami in the 1980 Mariel boatlift and runs a magazine with offices in Miami and Havana. "This is a new beginning, a dream come true for the 11.2 million Cubans in Cuba, and I think it will provoke a change of mentality here too in this community."
But those sentiments
are not universal.
Miami, the heart of the Cuban exile community, reacted with a collective shock. Hardline opponents of the Castro regime lambasted the president for what they called a betrayal.
Miami-Dade County Commissioner Esteban “Steve” Bovo, a Republican whose father was a pilot in the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue mission, called the Democratic president a sellout.
“The Cuban exile community that has made a foundation out of standing firm against the Castro government has been, in essence, sold out,” he told the Miami Herald.
The split is largely a generational one, with younger Cuban Americans favoring better relations by a much greater margin than their older counterparts. As Markos noted, the only Cuban-American age group that does
not give majority support to the normalizing of relations are those
over 70 years old.