"It's not accomplished anything. It's hurt the Cuban people..."
Posted on 01/03/2015 1:51:31 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
President Barack Obama’s move to normalize relations with Cuba has Kentucky’s lone Democratic representative at the federal level both “excited and pleased” with his actions — even if some of his GOP counterparts don’t share his enthusiasm.
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“It’s not accomplished anything. It’s hurt the Cuban people,” Yarmuth said.
While it would take full Congressional approval to lift the embargo Yarmuth said the old policy put in place in the 1960’s.
“Our policy makes absolutely no sense. We’re the only ones in the world treating them like this,” Yarmuth said. “If you’re in Cuba you understand that countries from all over the world and companies are…we’re the only ones being shut out of the game.”
“I don’t know whom we’re hurting by this embargo policy and by cutting ourselves off from all this activity.”
Yarmuth visited Cuba in 2011 and he said his experiences there have shaped his view of the country and the effect of the U.S. embargo on the country.
Prominent Republicans in Congress have split on the issue with Kentucky U.S. Sen. Rand Paul in favor of the move by Obama, while U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, vehemently opposing the move and vowing to block the nomination of an ambassador.
Paul and Rubio are both considering bids for the White House in 2016.
Yarmuth said the opposition could turn ugly in Congress but the transition should be an easy one.
“We don’t need to fund an embassy there. We already have a building there all we have to do is change the name. We have somebody there we could call the acting ambassador,” Yarmuth said. “They could play games with it in the Senate, but ultimately the president should get his way, and he should.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mycn2.com ...
Will Cuban Cigars be legal again?
Rep. Yarmuth’s measurement is that the embargo injured the Cuban People. I am hoping that he will be willing to follow the situation and measure how much the ‘recognition’ of a tyrannical, oligarchic Communist Dictatorship ‘improves’ the status of the same! Like hie party’s leader, President Obama, he seems to believe that intentions speak louder than actions.
Personally, I have grave doubts that anything changes for the better as the Cuban Castro brothers get more room for maneuver and repression!
Dude Cuba is a Communist regime. The govt controls everything. If the Cuban people are hurting, its their govt doing the hurting.
What an idiot this democrat is .
Yeah but where ya gonna smoke ‘em?
There’s no place to hide.
Smoking nazis will find you even in your own little house.
People like this congress-critter say that our policy toward Cuba has not worked.
But it is just true that the policy of relations (diplomatic, trade, and who knows what else) has been followed by many other countries, and that certainly has not worked, either.
So the Castro regime has not changed. They do not wish to, and so they don’t.
We should long ago have invaded Cuba. We should have done this when the Castro regime in effect invaded other countries by subversion, and by propping up communist police state elsewhere in the world.
For now, we should do nothing, and turn to securing our own southern border. We need to cut out all immigration by Muslims, because each one is a time bomb.
Then maybe we can worry about Cuba.
Tell it to the Freepers that attacked anyone that rejected this Cuba fiasco when it was announced. they need to hear it before the Dems do,
In the middle of my private farm land fenced and with signs that say “NO Trespassing!! High Voltage Electric Fence”.
The bad news is that he came back. He should move to his utopian Stalinist gulag.
Really?
Very few nations in the Western Hemisphere went Communist during the embargo. That is NOT a coincidence.
The embargo against South Africa’s apartheid was heralded by the left.
"It's not accomplished anything. It's hurt the Cuban people..."
Most likely they will and who in the govt. will cash in on this new bonanza?
FDA and/or CDC will find a way to tax the heck out of it.
It made Obama feel good.He is the consummate government bureaucratic busy-worker.
Their product is mostly motion and processs, not results.Lots of smoke, sparks, banging, clanging, and grinding noises.
But when it all clears up things are pretty much the way they were only a little worse.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4469365/john-yarmuth-amnesty
In fact, all the money is on the other side.
Yarmuth represents the most liberal area in Kentucky: Louisville. I don’t recall him ever saying anything negative about the Cuban embargo prior to the executive normalization of relations by his idol oboma. Yarmuth is just an oboma lapdog.
Comrades Yarmuth, Obama and the Castro brothers are birth of a feather.
THE HOUSE OF GOD
The Pact on hell, Francis/Castro/Obama
By Obie Usategui December 31, 2014 |
As you all may be well aware, as recently as December 17th, 2014, Marxist president Barack Obama, announced the U.S. would restore full relations with the communist island-nation of Cuba, including the opening of an embassy in that country.
Furthermore, we also learned that Pope Francis was much a part of this repulsive accord and, in fact, he [the Pope] had played a crucial role in brokering the landmark deal between the United States and Cuba.
Now, as far as I was concerned, this was more than I could handle. For Barack Obama, a renowned left-wing radical and/or career communist, your pick, the Cuban pact was sort of par-for-the course, ‘to-be-expected’, if you will. Vis-a-vis for Pope Francis, the head the largest Christian church in the world, with 1.2 billion followers, I thought, was simply appalling. I was infuriated to the point I was willing to break my historical vows of religious silence, albeit my running the ad nauseam risk of being chastised by the fanatical wing of my church for doing just that. But, honestly, I could not care less.
Cuban Pact: I could not, for the life of me, understand His Holiness key-man role in making it all possible.
In lieu of my upbringing, my teachings and my religious background, then, in the matter of the Cuban pact, I could not, for the life of me, understand His Holiness key-man role in making it all possible, since, as far as I was concerned, a pact with the devil himself, would probably have been less distasteful - more palatable perhaps. Maybe someone can explain.
Just please, spare me if you will, the tirades and diatribes designed to making all us belief that the Cuban pact and the lifting of the embargo, are meaningful strides in the improvement of Human Rights and religious freedom. Just, please spare me this inconsequential conclusion, if you will.
Unbeknownst to many Catholic brethren, back in the day, in 1998, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, and then soon-to-be Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina, did accompany Pope John Paul II on his Cuban visit with communist dictator Fidel Castro. As a result of his trip, Bergoglio compiled a book named “Dialogues between John Paul II and Fidel Castro” and, while he, on the one hand, harshly criticized socialism and Castro’s atheist revolution for denying individuals their “transcendent dignity” and putting them solely at the service of the state, on the other hand, he did fervently denounce the U.S. embargo and the U.S.‘s isolationist policies towards Cuba, bellowing for the need of a dialogue with the Cuban dictator.
... I cannot understand, for the life of me, any mitigating circumstances, bar none, to back-up the surrealistic nature of this impractical objective, especially so, in consideration to the fact that the Castro scoundrels, have spent a lifetime, 55 years to be exact, promoting the precise opposite of what is being proposed by the church’s leadership.
Last but certainly not least, I started it all by preaching to you all, the canons of faith based on the church’s teachings regarding the righteous expectations as set forth by our mentor Jesus Christ, to wit, a path of virtuosity - ironically, one diametrically opposed to the Communist postulates implanted on the impoverished Communist Island of Cuba, by two of the world’s most renown assassins.
Again, in lieu of an irrefutable history of fifty-five years oppression, subjugation or otherwise utter disregard for the most basic freedoms deserved by all peoples of the world, I am left with no alternative but to respectfully ask the church leaders:
Why has not the church demanded from the Castro brothers in the last 55 years to stop the torturing, the killings, the raids on Human Rights, which paved the way for the U.S. embargo and the isolationist policy?
Why has not the church taken a leadership position, as well they should have, in defending the Cuban people from one of the cruelest dictatorships, ever?
Why has not the church, clamored with the same passion as they have in lifting the embargo and renewing relations with Cuba for the end of the continued “flagrant violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms” to Cubans?
Why has the church, and its leaders, remained silent during the past 55 years over the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cubans fleeing the island who perished in the Florida Straits as their only alternative to living under the same Communist regime with whom the church has so avidly been proposing to renew relations with?
Why has not the church condemned the Castro brothers for their promoting atheism and their disdainful treatment of anyone of the Catholic faith over the past fifty-five years?
Why? Why? Why?
The whole article
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/68651
After more than 55 years of violations of their human rights, is inconceivable that once again the Cuban people is betrayed by those most called to defend and demand their right to freedom and the respect for their human dignity.
“During those years, with the purpose of forcing us to abandon our religious beliefs and to demoralize us, the Cuban Communist indoctrinators repeatedly used the statements made by some representatives of the American Christian churches. Every time a pamphlet was published in U.S., every time a clergyman would write an article in support of Castro’s dictatorship, a translation would be given to us, and that was far worse for the Christian political prisoners than the beatings or the hunger. Incomprehensible to us, while we waited for the embrace of solidarity from our brothers in Christ, those who were embraced were our tormentors.” Armando Valladares
Pope Francis negotiated and blessed a Faustian accord in which an apprentice of tyrant came to the rescue of the regimen of a genocide tyrant throwing under bus and condemning the Cuban people to eternal damnation. By this accord, the American taxpayers will keep afloat the Cuban government assuming the financing the Stalinist regime.
Real nice, ain’t it ? We’ve got the Reagan/JPII anti-Christs in Zero & Frankie.
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