MARILYS LLANOS: Any Democratic candidate that emerges is associated with socialist policy
MARÍA CELESTE ARRARÁS: Yes- that is so unfortunate.
LLANOS: with left-wing politics
ARRARÁS: That is so- that is so unfortunate and is such an erroneous concept. Because I, on a personal level, have always been a Democrat. I don´t talk about this when I talk to journalists, but I´ve always been. I´ll say again – I´m very particular and very discreet with regard to that. But for someone to come up to me and say – Hey, you´re a Democrat, a socialist, a communist, I tell them: “Listen to me. How little you know me.” In other words, I´ve been married to a Cuban. I grew up with Cubans. I perfectly understand the Cuban idiosyncrasy. For years, I sat down at the table of my best friends´ homes so they could make for me the rice and beans with vaca frita, talking about what those people suffered in Cuba. I´ve got that ingrained into my DNA.