In Miami, Trump Applauds Cuban Victims of Communism: ‘Now We Hold the Cards’

Breitbart ^ | 16 Jun 2017 | Frances Martel

[detective]

In Miami, the heart of America’s Cuban exile community, President Donald Trump sounded the death knell of predecessor Barack Obama’s “normalization” policy towards Cuba, vowing,” we will not be silent in the face of communist oppression any longer.”

Opening with a recognition of recent victims of leftist violence – U.S. citizen Otto Warmbier, recently released by Cuba ally North Korea, and Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA) – Trump called for the audience to pray for them and all the American and Cuban people. He then listed some of the Cuban dissidents present for his speech in Florida, including Jorge Luis García Pérez (Antúnez), who suffered 17 years in prison for objecting to communism, and Cary Roque, a dissident who Trump allowed to deliver a few short words.

[detective]

"Cuban anti-communist dissident leaders praised the changes to American policy, calling them a “positive step” for the democratization of the island. The White House invited a number of prominent Cuban dissidents to the announcement, including the head of the Ladies in White movement, Berta Soler, who was banned from leaving Cuba to attend.

President Trump made reforms to benefit the Cuban people and limit the power of the communist regime a staple of his presidential campaign, earning him the first endorsement from the Bay of Pigs Veterans’ Association in the history of that group."

[livius]

This is definitely a good thing - certainly better than Obama’s actions (or even those of the Pope, who gushed over Castro and refused to meet with the Ladies in White).

[Pollard]

MY President!