Posted on 05/26/2008 10:40:41 AM PDT by Dawnsblood
Former President Fidel Castro says Sen. Barack Obama's plan to maintain Washington's trade embargo against Cuba will cause hunger and suffering on the island.
In a column published Monday by government-run newspapers, Castro said Obama was "the most-advanced candidate in the presidential race," but noted that he has not dared to call for altering U.S. policy toward Cuba.
"Obama's speech can be translated as a formula for hunger for the country," Castro wrote, referring to Obama's remarks last week to the influential Cuban American National Foundation in Miami.
Obama said he would maintain the nearly fifty-year-old trade sanctions against Cuba as leverage to push for democratic change on the island. But he also vowed to ease restrictions on Cuban Americans traveling to Cuba and sending money to relatives.
He repeated his willingness to meet with Raul Castro, who in February succeeded his elder brother Fidel to become the nation's first new leader in 49 years.
Castro said Obama's proposals for letting well-off Cuban Americans help poorer relatives on the island amounted to "propaganda for consumerism and a way of life that is unsustainable."
He complained that Obama's description of Cuba as "undemocratic" and "lacking in respect for liberty and human rights" was the same argument previous U.S. administrations "have used to justify their crimes against our homeland."
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Where was this séance held?
OMG!!!
Barry said something Fidel didn’t sign off on?!
I never heard Obeyme make those remarks. In fact, he’s probably already sent his advisors to Cuba to discuss our surrender to (In)-Fidel.
Ooops! Looks like Obama just lost a Super Delegate!!
dung.
Obama’s Fault!
I always want to know why no one confronts these commie scumbags with their craving for trade with the eviiillll capitalist USA. Why should they care about the embargo when they can trade with every other country in the world?? They should not want to have any economic relations with this capitalist, imperialist wasteland.
If Castro communism were really such a paradise then they would not have the slightest need for contact with the USA or goods from the USA, now would they? The socialist miracle should be able to take care of itself, with a little help from all their EU and 3rd World friends...... but no, they are in the dumps b/c of the US embargo, and now it’s all Bush’s fault!
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