Cuban newspaper calls Florida Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar a 'hyena'

During Ileana Ros Lehtinen’s decades in Congress, Cuban government officials and state media journalists referred to the Cuban-American politician as "la loba feroz"— the big bad she-wolf — an attack on her tough Cuba policies as well as a display of the common sexism at the top of the island’s hierarchy. Now, the communist government has identified a new female foe. And she, too, is being called names. A story in the Communist Party newspaper Granma on Friday lashed out at Miami congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar, a former journalist who now chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on We...