{"id":406083,"date":"2026-07-21T03:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406083\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:28:10","slug":"trumps-new-cuba-campaign-puts-mayor-karen-bass-back-in-the-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406083\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s New Cuba Campaign Puts Mayor Karen Bass Back In The Crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The report also cites Bass\u2019 participation in a 2016 congressional delegation that traveled to the island with then-President Barack Obama as his administration sought to normalize relations between the U.S. and Cuba.<\/p>\n

After Castro died later that year, Bass issued a statement referring to him by the honorific \u201cComandante en Jefe\u201d and describing his death as \u201ca great loss to the people of Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bass faced similar scrutiny in 2020 when she emerged as a possible running mate for then-presidential candidate Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

At the time, Bass walked back her statement about Castro and said her understanding of Cuba had changed over the years, Politico reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

Bass said Castro\u2019s government \u201cwas a brutal regime\u201d and that she would not issue the same statement again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report also cites Bass\u2019 participation in a 2016 congressional delegation that traveled to the island with then-President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-406083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}