Amanda Suarez Rafter

USF Alumna | Policy Enthusiast | Cuban Coffee Expert | views are my own

[Amanda Suarez Rafter @Amanda_Rafter]

A new chapter begins!

After incredible years serving in the Florida Senate and Executive Office of the Governor, I’m excited to continue my journey as the Public Information Officer at Pasco-Hernando State College!

Grateful for the journey and excited to be a Bobcat!

[Amanda Suarez Rafter @Amanda_Rafter]

Communists don’t like being confronted with the truth.

When faced with the atrocities of their own regime, Cuba’s representatives didn’t defend their record - they walked out.

It’s easier to run from the truth than answer for it.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 WOW! President Trump just started RIPPING Cuba at the UN, and the Cuban delegation got up and WALKED OUT 😆

"We'll NOT allow a haven for foreign adversaries to threaten America on our own doorsteps."

"The Cuban regime has also spent DECADES coordinating with the left-wing radicals and communist networks here in the United States, as our State Department has detailed."

"They've cultivated ties to subversive and radical groups such as the Communist Party USA, Antifa, and the Democrat Socialists of America."

"Communism will NEVER be coming to America, but freedom WILL be coming to Cuba"

Bye Cuba! 🤣👋🏻

[University of South Florida @USouthFlorida]

#USF has been named the No. 23 Top Public University in America by @NicheSocial!🤘

We're proud to earn this Top 25 designation, which is based on millions of reviews from students and alumni as well as academic, admissions, financial, and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

For decades, Cuba has been the world capital for radical left-wing terrorism. The regime in Havana has recruited, trained and backed violent Marxist and third-worldist movements across our hemisphere and beyond. Today, we are targeting the network that enables and funds Cuba's subversive and radical operations.

Pursuant to sanctions authorities created by President Trump’s groundbreaking Cuba Executive Order, I am designating the following entities:

1. Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba (MINFAR)
2. Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)
3. Amistur Cuba S.A.
4. Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR)
5. Minera La Victoria S.A.

Anyone providing services to these sanctioned actors is at risk of sanctions themselves. Foreign banks and other companies that provide services to these entities should freeze those activities.

The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate radical Marxist regimes in our hemisphere seeking to threaten U.S. national security and engage in influence operations to export their poisonous and evil “revolution” to our country and around the world.

[Department of State @StateDept]

PRESIDENT TRUMP: We have a lot of people in Cuba. We have the CIA there. @SecRubio is from there, so we have a lot of expertise.

We’re going to help the Cuban people out. We’re freeing up Cuba.

[Amanda Suarez Rafter @Amanda_Rafter]

@andytaylor6 Pretty sure this is the corner of my house - 52 and 41!

[Amanda Suarez Rafter @Amanda_Rafter]

Gov. DeSantis 🤝 USF Bulls

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

USF on the rise!

[Department of State @StateDept]

SECRETARY RUBIO: The only thing worse than a communist is an incompetent communist.

🎯

[Amanda Suarez Rafter @Amanda_Rafter]

Highly suggest a nice NY Strip for dinner tonight to celebrate!

Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner!

[Attorney General James Uthmeier @AGJamesUthmeier]

In 2024, @GovRonDeSantis signed legislation to keep lab-grown meat out of Florida.

Today, 11th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a Berkeley, CA-based corporation’s challenge to our law. Thank you, Chief Deputy SG Jason Muehlhoff, for arguing this case on behalf of Florida!

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

You mean the communist party apparatchiks who benefitted from the confiscation? They can be housed in a prison in post-communist Cuba.

[Amanda Suarez Rafter @Amanda_Rafter]

Our family farm and pasteurization plant were stolen by a dictatorship. We look forward to the day they’re returned - rightfully ours.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

At a minimum this needs to happen.

[Anastasios Kamoutsas @StasiKamoutsas]

I encourage all students to celebrate America’s founding.

The Department will be offering 250th anniversary opportunities throughout the year.

All K-12 students will be able to participate in the @America250FL art and essay contests, which will run from today through March 16th, to explore Florida’s role in shaping and strengthening our nation! Learn more at https://t.co/TkxGizcGxk

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

The only action that would increase suffering for the Cuban people is continuing communism. Communism must end by any means necessary.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

🚨NEVER BEFORE SEEN VIDEO of Maria Machado’s rescue from Venezuela before Maduro was captured.

She was secretly smuggled through guarded checkpoints by a Tampa-based nonprofit group of Special Operations Veterans called @greybullrescue in Operation Golden Dynamite.

If Maduro’s guards spotted her, she could’ve been killed.

She was then brought to Oslo to receive her Nobel Peace Prize in person, which she’s now given to President Trump.

What an INCREDIBLE story of American skill, strength, and purpose.

God bless the Veteran heroes at @greybullrescue and I hope y’all support them (QR code at end of video).

These Veterans absolutely deserve public praise for what they accomplished!!

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

I’ve always hated communism, but it wasn’t until I visited Miami and spoke with Cuban Americans who fled Castro’s terror that I learned what real communist hatred looks like.

Entire families would disappear overnight b/c their father criticized the regime.

Now, Cubans in Florida are the most vicious anti-communists in America.

Once you understand this, then you understand Rubio.

[Anastasios Kamoutsas @StasiKamoutsas]

This is the beginning of the end. I’m excited to update our History of Communism standards detailing the fall of the Maduro regime.

[Amanda Suarez Rafter @Amanda_Rafter]

Go Bulls indeed! 🐂🤘🏼

[Casey DeSantis @CaseyDeSantis]

Madison and I were excited to be honorary captains at the @CureBowl — apprecaite all they do in the fight against cancer!

Go Bulls!

[ESPN @espn]

1 of 1 🏆

[Rob Higgins @RHiggins_USF]

Gritty. Loyal. Relentless. Obsessed. And beyond ready. Our leader to take @usffootball to the championship level has arrived! 🤘🏻😤📈

[Jay Collins @JayCollinsFL]

In my first 100 days as Lieutenant Governor, I’ve already outperformed the guy in Congress still trying to convince people he’s ready to lead Florida.