Posted on 01/07/2015 1:58:52 PM PST by Nachum
Washington - A White House official on Wednesday denied that the Cuban government was resisting freeing some of the 53 people listed for release as part of a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations on the grounds they had been linked to violence. The denial followed a report on Wednesday by Reuters citing a congressional aide who said that "we´ve been told that the Cuban government has agreed to release all but several of the political prisoners on the list." "This is not true, we have not heard any such thing from the Cubans, we fully expect all 53 to be released," the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said.
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Since Stinky’s bunch is out denying it, you can bet your bottom dollar that is precisely what is happening.
We expect all 53 to be released means.....we don’t know what they’re going to do.
Business as usual in Cuber.
The pact in hell, Obama, Francis, Castro is as spurious as it was the Pact JF Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. It is disgraceful to use as a fig leaf the alleged freedom of 53 Cuban political prisoners to justify the obscene betrayal to the 11 million Cubans that the pact condemned to remain enslaved in the gigantic prison Island, and Island that once was known as the “pearl of the Antilles”.
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