Hialeah Cracks Down on Cuba-Linked Businesses

Bryan Calvo, the new mayor of Hialeah, a city in the Miami area with the highest proportion of Cuban and Cuban-American residents in the U.S., has threatened to revoke the business licenses for companies that are exporting to Cuba. Calvo said nearly 300 businesses had already been flagged. Miami politicians have a history of trying to grab headlines and score points with the hardliners that dominate local and state politics at the expense of their own constituents. In a 2024 Florida International University poll, Cuba policies ranked behind issues like the economy, healthcare and immigration in order of importance for Cuban Americans in South Florida. Policies toward Cuba mattered even less to them than policies toward Russia and China.