Libertarian for Florida governor Riquet Caballero on guns, weed, the environment and more
Riquet Caballero was born in Cuba, where he says he learned to reject anything that sounded even remotely socialist. He voted for Barack Obama twice before finding a home in the Libertarian Party. Now he's running as the party's candidate for Florida governor.
In this interview, Nicolás A. Jiménez asks Riquet about his youth in Cuba, his libertarian conversion and how he ended up running for governor at 30. The wide ranging interview gets into — among other things — guns, weed, regulation, government's role in protecting the environment, identity politics, and the apparent shortcomings of the Libertarian Party.
Photo: Riquet Caballero
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Nicolás Antonio Jiménez is the founder of DADE. He’s always working through his rotation of writer, podcast host, podcast producer, photographer and editor hats.
A Miami native and graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, Nick’s background includes work in democracy promotion, human rights advocacy, content marketing and magazine journalism (most recently as senior editor of Cigar Snob).