Posted on 08/23/2007 3:48:51 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
BRASILIA - Cuba's foreign minister on Wednesday said he welcomed a call by U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to ease restrictions on travel and remittances to the communist-ruled island.
In an opinion piece in The Miami Herald newspaper on Tuesday, the Illinois senator and a chief rival of Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination proposed easing tighter limits imposed by the Bush administration on Cuban exiles traveling or sending money home.
"These declarations appear to express the sentiment of the majority of the United States," Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said when asked to comment on Obama's proposal.
Measures by the Bush administration to tighten the decades-old blockade were barbaric and an effort to "try to force our people to surrender through hunger and illness," Roque told reporters at a conference in Brazil's capital.
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“Obama’s naivete got him a campaign endorsement from the Cuban foreign minister, who couldn’t be happier.”
satan is pretty happy with him too. evilcrats all!
LLS
Oh God! Are we left with Hillary?
Obama needs to read up on Castro
http://jednet207.tripod.com/PoliticalLinks.html#Castro/Chavez
...second thoughts... maybe he just likes that style of government
Has Osama sent in a tape yet?
Osama...Obama.
Obama...Osama.
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