On the Café Habana restaurant controversy and Cuban Miami's reaction

When a Miami social media personality went South-Florida-viral for posts about New York-based Café Habana’s plans to open a Miami location, the news of that brand’s story — namely, its having taken inspiration from Fidel Castro’s revolution and its using images of figures like Che Guevara — felt like a punch to the guts of many Cuban exiles and their descendants. How did Cuban Miami respond? How should it have reacted? Are efforts to keep the restaurant from opening actually productive? Can anything good come from engaging owner Sean Meenan and others involved with the business rather than seeking to stop their efforts to open? In this mini-episode that turned into a full-length thing, Michael Beltrán, Nick Jiménez and Martha Bueno (with whom we'd just recorded another episode) talk through — and sometimes butt heads over — these and other questions. It's an open, honest conversation that we at Pan Con Podcast hope you'll find useful. More importantly, we hope the people at Café Habana will take us up on our invitation to participate. The issue isn't going away and the conversation isn't ending any time soon.

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