Cars to Cuba? It's complicated: In looming showdown, Miami dealers seek freedom in Cuba before auto trade

摘要

Within hours of President Barack Obama's announcement that he would seek to ease the 54-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Communist-ruled Cuba, Florida auto dealer Gus Machado was, as he put it, "knocking on doors." Machado, an automotive icon in the state and a pillar of anti-Castro politics in Miami, was flexing his political muscle quickly among legislators.