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Trump promised new action to ensure that U.S. sanctions prevent Cuba from expanding its military and forces capable of repressing the domestic population.

“We will very strongly restrict American dollars flowing to the military, security and intelligence services that are the core of the Castro regime … we will enforce the ban on tourism, we will enforce the embargo, we will take concrete steps to ensure that investments flow directly to the people so they can open private businesses and begin to build their country’s great, great future, a country of great potential,” Trump said. “My action today bypasses the military and the government to help the Cuban people themselves form businesses and pursue much better lives.”

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Not everyone gathered outside the theater was Cuban-American. A young man in a red Make America Great Again hat stood with his mother, who came to the United States from Nicaragua as a child — fleeing communism, like the Cubans. Her grandfather had been the president of the congress in Nicaragua in 1979 when he was seized by the Sandinistas and killed. Her parents sent her and her siblings to live with extended family members in the United States until they could also come.

The man, a graduate of Miami Senior High School, says he was inspired to come to come to see Trump because he remembers his mother telling him what his great-grandfather had said.

“He said, ‘No, I’m going to stand my ground. They’re not going to take away my country from me.'”

Carvajal, the founder of Miami-Dade Citizens 4 Trump, described leaving Cuba in 1980 when she was 9 years old. “They left everything,” she said of her parents. “We came with the clothes on our backs.”

They came on a boat, in a flotilla of boats, but some of the boats capsized in a storm during the night.

“We heard the people screaming when they were drowning and being eaten by sharks,” she says.

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She says she remembers her mother telling her and her sister that they would have to say goodbye to their grandmother and would never see her again.

“My sister started crying, and saying, ‘I don’t want to leave grandma.’ And she said, “You gotta choose, because if you stay with her you’ll never see us again.'”

“And when we were leaving I remember the sun was setting, and my mom said, ‘Look back and say goodbye to your homeland because this is the last time you will ever, ever see it.’ And we’ve never returned, even after the policy change, because we’re not going to give money to a tyrant.”