Posted on 12/18/2014 6:48:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Vatican played a significant role in healing relations between arch foes Cuba and the United States, officials said Wednesday.
Pope Francis was personally involved in secret negotiations between the longtime enemies, sources said Wednesday, as the historic announcement was made in Washington D.C. The pontiff sent private letters to President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro over the summer, urging them to turn their swords into ploughshares.
The Pope expressed "warm congratulations for the historic decision" to resume relations, the Vatican said in a statement Wednesday.
The Vatican and an undisclosed Canadian location served as top-secret areas for negotiations between Cuban and American officials.
Florida Sen. Mark Rubio, a Cuban-American and a Catholic, called out the Pope for mixing in politics, but praised his help in gainting freedom for an imprisoned American. Rubio also criticized Obama for reaching an agreement with Castro, saying the President was trying to "appease rogue regimes at all costs."
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“(Not completely decided on the Pope)”
ORLY ? ? ?
I have.
He is.
“The Pope was played for a fool.”
Hardly.
The Pope was, for all intents and purposes, a Liberation theologist before being elected Pope.
Just another South American with their inbred propensities for socialism/authoritarianism.
Here’s the question? What does Castro have to give up?
NADA!
So fun to see FR’s resident Ultramontanist caucus spin their heads and split hairs to defend Bergoglio.
“in time we can make it our 51st state”
CALL YOUR SHRINK - STAT! Get your meds adjusted, ASAP!
Before wishing Cuba to be a state, consider what Puerto Ricans have done to America?
ALso, have you visited Miuba? Note the open presence of “La Mordita” - means ‘the bite’ and really is Spanish for “Baksheesh”.
“Baksheesh” is the Arabic word for the “bribe”. To get a permit in Miuba, AKA Miami-Dade County, one is well advised to hire one of the many companies known for ‘expediting’ your permit application.
A pox on the Latrino societies - they are antithetical to America and are also irreconcilable with America.
Doubters are advised to come to Miuba and see what introduction of Cuban ‘society’ to Florida has accomplished.
Then go to a quiet community called Crescent City and see what level of cultural/societal devolution adding Mexicans to an American community can achieve. Hint, the graduating classes are often 85% ‘Hispanic’.
Second hint, MS-13 grafitti is common, painted on the wsalls of Crescent city buildings since the Mexicans and other Latrino populations were allowed into Crescent City.
Culture is determinative, and Americans must either defend their culture or see it swamped in a flood of illegal aliens from Latrino cultures.
Frank; the False Prophet
The U.S. which is (practically speaking) fast becoming a dictorship will promote pseudo-democracy at most. The Cuban proletariat will remain mired in poverty while the oligarchs line their pockets.
Pope Francis is an anti-capitalist.
Who knows. We probably should have rethought the Cuba thing a long time ago.
I totally agree on Pope Francis.
Maybe your right, I need more Single Malt Scotch.
It was a fantasy I guess.
I sincerely hope you are not a Florida resident, and will not be allowed to subvert our registered citizen voters efforts to toss his lying candy ass out of power at the first opportunity!
I think the Cuban economy was always propped up by non-US players as a way to cock a snook at the USA. And Fidel kept blaming the us embargo foe the evils he created. By removing the embargo he has no excuses and will fall
Obama has truly found religion at last!
Francis is HIS pope. Not mine!
Perhaps, but there is Helms-Burton Act— a law that does not allow executive lifting of the embargo. And it WILL be enforced, by Congress bicameral resolution vote that put in place the power to continue the embargo. Not the prez. He does it—he is impeached for certain because this ain’t a black white issue it is Constitutional.
According to National Review, Allen Gross, the American was exchanged for spies who “helped murder 4 Americans”, what’s up with this??
We need the whole story because this is disappointing from the Vatican on the surface.
I am looking forward to some Catholic commentary on this.
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