Cuban singer La Diosa responded to comments made by Republican lawyer María Herrera Mellado when she debated the legality of humanitarian parole on the show Virtual Encounter with Gloria Ordaz, on Telemundo 51.

“What does my surgery have to do with humanitarian parole?” La Diosa said in a Facebook post.

The artist responded to the comment by political analyst and lawyer Herrera Mellado, who told journalist Gloria Ordaz: “Let’s talk about the Cuban goddess who came here and two weeks later she was already having cosmetic surgery. The Cubans who have come here are looking for him”.

“The problem is that the people who are really being persecuted are not being helped,” the lawyer added later on the show.

“If what you’re worried about is that I got the surgery, negative,” the Goddess replied.

“I didn’t ask for any help because I don’t need it, because I have a work permit and I want to work,” he said.

“My operation has nothing to do with humanitarian parole… I was operated on because I was an obese woman, because I was a woman who lived in Cuba with the desire not to work and she didn’t was just eating. And I came here and had the opportunity to change my image… What’s wrong with that?” he said.

“Are you saying I don’t deserve parole, in a word? I don’t deserve parole?

“Who are you to tell me I don’t deserve parole?” Who are you to talk about Cuba and Cubans if you’re not Cuban? Who are you to know anything about Cuba if you don’t know what a dictatorship is, you don’t know what it is to eat stale bread in the morning, you don’t know what it is to have nothing to give a child to send him to school, to school… You don’t know what it’s like to see someone close to you die because there is no medicine “.

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