Driena Sixto's family ran from big government twice. Her grandparents left Franco's Spain for Cuba, built businesses, bought property, and then Fidel Castro took all of it and left them with one house. Her grandfather died young of a heart attack, which her father blames on losing everything he worked for. Her father went to prison on the island as a political dissident. Her parents married in Cuba and stayed married ten years without having a child, because they would not raise one there. When her father got out, he walked into the United States embassy, said he was an actual political refugee, obtained a visa, came here legally, and never went back.
Sixto and her sister were born here because of that. She grew up in Hialeah, the city with the largest Cuban population outside Cuba, which she describes as Cuba but with freedom, going to remembrance events where children learned about boats full of women and children shot down by the Castro dictatorship.
Jenny Beth Martin takes her through all of it, and what she built since. Six years at Turning Point USA starting in 2016, then the ballot chasing operation at Turning Point Action, and now Spanish-language media, where her argument is blunt. Our side left that field to Univision and Telemundo for decades, nature abhors a vacuum, and the left filled it. Also in this hour: taking a camera to Doral and the Versailles restaurant so Cubans and Venezuelans could speak for themselves, the Cuban Americans already organizing capital to rebuild the island the day it is free, her case for abolishing the Department of Education, and the Chinese student at Florida Atlantic University who would only speak about the Chinese Communist Party with his face blurred.
Guest: Driena Sixto, Spanish Media Director at the Lincoln Media Foundation, who hosts a weekly Spanish-language news program on Claro y Directo América.
Freedom can be lost in just one generation, she says, which is why every single generation has to do its part to preserve it. The Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121.
More at jennybethshow.com and teapartypatriots.org.
00:00 — Cold Open: A Family That Escaped Two Dictatorships
00:57 — Meet Driena Sixto
01:27 — From Franco's Spain to Cuba, and What Castro Took
02:32 — Her Father, Arrested as a Political Dissident
02:49 — Ten Years Married, and No Children in Cuba
04:20 — Finding Turning Point in Her Last Year of College
06:25 — Hialeah: Cuba With Freedom
07:29 — Freedom Can Be Lost in One Generation
08:22 — Spanish Media Director at the Lincoln Media Foundation
11:11 — Nature Abhors a Vacuum
13:53 — Claro y Directo América
18:47 — Let Them Say It in Their Own Language
22:10 — Doral and Versailles: Out in the Street With a Camera
24:31 — The Cubans Organizing Capital to Rebuild the Island
26:25 — Reaching Young People Who Think Socialism Sounds Good
29:46 — Abolish the Department of Education
33:45 — Indoctrination and Degrees That Lead Nowhere
36:16 — Why Academia Was Left to the Left
38:09 — The Professor Who Said Not to Trust the Parents
39:12 — Why She Plans to Homeschool
41:11 — The Chinese Student Who Would Not Show His Face
46:57 — The Era of Information
47:21 — What She Watched Happen in Ceuta, Spain
53:38 — What the Border Sheriffs Told Her
55:15 — Like, Subscribe, and Stay Vigilant
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