This sense of nationalism encompassed heated denouncements of internal opposition, the United States, and Cuban exiles, who were now insultingly titled "the Miami Mafia".
On February 24, 1996, the Concilio Cubano planned to have a general meeting, but were interrupted by state security, who arrested members, and accused them of being funded by the CIA and the "Miami Mafia".
[6] Historian Rafael Rojas contents that after the 1996 shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue aircraft, and the Communist Party congress a year later, nationalist rhetoric became a mainstay in political speeches; often condemning the United States and the "Miami Mafia".
[11] Scholars Ted Henken, Miriam Celaya, Dimas Castellanos have written that the labeling of Cuban exiles as the "Miami Mafia" is completely done opportunistically.
[12] Historian Lillian Guerra has stated that the idea of a "Miami Mafia" implies a sort of secretive political and organizational unity, which by no accounts exists amongst Cuban exiles.