Some friends have expressed disillusionment at the disrespect that the United States has received lately from dictators, terrorist groups, and theocratic mullahs.  Most attribute this malaise to the weak foreign policies and weak presidency of Joe Biden. 

Other friends are outraged at the current state of the economy where most Americans can hardly make ends meet because of inflation.  Despite all the feel-good, make-belief propaganda disseminated by Biden’s acolytes, Americans confront reality when they go to pump gas for their cars, when they buy groceries at the supermarket, when they go out for lunch or dinner at a restaurant that had reasonable prices for their menu entrees in the past, when they purchase airfares for a needed vacation, when they go out to buy or lease a car, when they want to buy a house and the interest rates for a mortgage approach 8% – basically, when they buy any services that were affordable when President Trump occupied the Oval Office.

And Hispanics are the latest group to say that they’ve had enough with the failed policies of Democrats.  But this presents an “inconvenient truth” to the liberal cabal.  To discredit this switchover, they have called conservative Cuban-Americans all kinds of pejoratives – Batista sympathizers, inveterate hardliners, cavemen, reactionaries, Miami Mafia, and unauthentic Hispanics.  I’ve addressed the truth about Cuban-Americans by writing an article in my book.

Moreover, Hispanics realize instantly when politicians are only interested in their vote and not on their issues of concern.  When First Lady Jill Biden gave a speech in San Antonio, Texas and tried to ingratiate herself with Hispanic voters, she called them “breakfast tacos.” When Biden addressed a gathering of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus during the 2023 Hispanic Heritage Month, he mistook it for the Congressional Black Caucus. And some in the Democrat cabal have done the unthinkable when it comes to the Spanish language – they want to make it gender-neutral by using the term “LatinX.” Democrats ignore the basic fact that Latinos and Latinas will vote for politicians who have their backs.

Many are ready to hang up their hats and say that the era of reaching the American Dream and attaining life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is over.

I tell these pessimists to not tread so fast.  Rather than claim defeat, I ask them a simple question: what have you done lately to restore freedom and democracy to the country that we all love?!!! Let the road to recovery begin with you!

It is precisely when answering my own question that I tell others what I have done lately for my country. I spent a year writing the book – and editing it with my wife’s help – “Examining the Past to Understand the Present – The Journey of a Cuba-American Refugee and What Led to His Conversion from Democrat to Republican.”

The book will be helpful to those “legal” immigrants and political refugees who have made the decision to leave their homeland. It will not be an easy transition at first. The younger you are, the better you will be able to adapt to a different culture and language. But if you take my story as an example, the struggles will be well worth it. You will become a better person with a stronger focus on reaching the higher pinnacles of success. I narrate my life story in Cuba and the United States in parts 1-4 of my book.

The book will also be helpful to politicians who wonder how to get a big chunk of the Hispanic vote on their side, as well as those who wonder how they lost it. It will be an eye-opener to those who can’t figure out why it’s so difficult to get Cuban-Americans to vote for Democrats. Past experience living an arduous life under a Communist regime leaves indelible scars about the Left that can never be erased.

Although the book has over sixty of my articles on many subjects ranging from politics, philosophy, civil rights, religion, Hispanics, and Cuban-Americans in part 5 of my book, I do dwell on my transformation from a Democrat to a Republican and what led up to it. I tell past friends who got annoyed with my conversion that life is a journey that cause us to learn new things about the world and that change how we view the world.

But the challenge that I’ve faced is to market the book in conservative and Hispanic networks.  The conservative ones have ignored my interview requests because I’m not a public figure like the ones who publish books regularly on the Fox News network.  The Hispanic ones don’t want to hear from me because they think that my book message is antithetical to their leftist ideology. 

But I have always been a fighter for good causes, and I’m not about to give up the fight now.  Americans who will make a difference by electing Republicans in 2024 are not those belonging to the top-tier financial brackets, or those attending or graduating from Ivy League universities, or TV hosts from conservative, liberal and Hispanic networks. They will not be the ones and they never have been in the past!

I place by bets on God-fearing and life-loving Americans.  I ask you to help me defray the expenses associated with the publication of my book that I wrote because I wanted to circulate the message of our 45^th President to “Save America Again!”

My book will make a great Christmas (not a Holyday) present for you, friends, and relatives — and is available in hardcopy, paperback, and Kindle editions in the Amazon portal. Moreover, after you read it, write a review on the Amazon portal.

Keep the faith and Keep Hope in America Alive!!!