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The Miami Herald reports:
A roadside billboard in Miami that draws comparisons between Donald Trump and dictators like Fidel Castro is aiming to strike a chord with South Florida Hispanics. For some, it’s touching a nerve. The billboard, which reads “No a los dictadores, no a Trump” – “No to dictators, no to Trump” – was posted Monday along the Palmetto Expressway near Northwest 67th Avenue by an anti-Trump outside group called Mad Dog PAC. It depicts Trump and the late Castro face-to-face on opposite sides of the sign.
The billboard has elicited intense emotions among many voters in a part of the state that has been shaped in large part by exiles who fled Cuba in the years and decades since Castro seized power on the island. A Radio Mambi commentator took to the airwaves Tuesday morning to decry the billboard as “propaganda.” Another called it an “anti-Cuban provocation” against victims of Castro’s government. The station appeared to play bits of Trump’s salsa campaign jingle between conversation and callers.
Miami’s NBC affiliate reports:
Mad Dog PAC, the organization behind the billboard comparing Donald Trump to Fidel Castro that has some South Florida residents in a tizzy, says this is “one of many meant to expose the truth about the former president.”
“Our mission is to beat Donald Trump by exposing the truth about him,” PAC Founder Claude Taylor told NBC6. “We put up hard-hitting billboards in a number of battleground states.”
The billboard was getting everything from laughs to heated response from neighbors near Northwest 67th Avenue and the Palmetto Expressway. One woman told Telemundo 51 in Spanish that it was disrespectful to Cuba, Cubans, Trump and the U.S.
In the TikTok video below, a local woman gleefully narrates the outrage on local Spanish-language outlets where you’ll see vows to blockade the Palmetto Expressway, a major artery, until the billboard is taken down.
‘No to dictators, no to Trump’: Billboard on Palmetto draws outrage, agreement in Miami https://t.co/biWDAdF0lR
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) June 19, 2024
I knew this billboard would make MAGAt Cuban heads explode. And it has. It’s also gotten us a number of donations from other folks in Miami who don’t like the hypocrisy of being anti Dictator but welcome a Trump dictatorship. Chip in https://t.co/tLqBQPT6ep pic.twitter.com/LGqjmDaPr0
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) June 19, 2024
@diva_dee25 #greenscreenvideo I think I never laughed so hard about people becoming so unhinged over a sign. Whatever happened to freedom of speech? #Miami. #Trumper #billboard #Palmettoparkway ♬ original sound – Dee