Posted on 03/20/2016 5:18:38 PM PDT by Innovative
Havana (CNN) — President Barack Obama touched down in Cuba on Sunday, definitively ending a half-century of estrangement in a dramatic personal demonstration of his core foreign policy principle of engaging America's enemies.
It's a shift that the change-minded president hopes will nudge the Communist government here to grant more freedoms to its people and open new economic channels for American businesses. The President and his allies also hope a successful détente will offer something bigger: a lasting example of diplomacy's power in dealing with longtime foes.
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Has Mr. Trump made any other statements RE: normalizing relations with the repressive/commie Cuba dictatorship? I haven’t been following his campaign stump speeches close enough,
Well I think the plan is to make Cuba the 58th state.
The locals would be elated to get on the USA welfare plan, and the Dems would permanently lock in 2 senators and a dozen or so congress critters.
The Castros will hand 0bama propaganda to convince us we should submit to his wisdom and kindness, just like in Cuba. It is what the Castros want and it is what 0bama wants. Be not surprised.
I think he is there to get pointers from Castro on how to stage a coup or a take over. If Trump is elected in November, 0bama will try to implement those lessons.
Of course, the freeloading son of a whore had to bring along his wife, kids, and goddamned mother in law.
I'm sure Moochelle and the faggot Raul Catsro's boyfriend will have a lot to say to each other too.
The Cubans must be pissing themselves from laughing so hard.
Yes, exactly the same comment that he made regarding Iran deal: "I would have made a better deal."
I took it to mean that the deals would be essentially the same, with the addition of having Trump-branded Towers and/or Plazas in Havana, Guantanamo and Tehran (of course, with Cubans and Iranians paying for it), to signify the new era of "Trump benevolent fair trade" and "peaceful relationships with peaceful people."
Seen here waiting for their cab.
If there is a god, then Castro should impound Air-force one and throw Imam Zero in a Cuban prison.
Let's not ignore that Cuba is small and irrelevant enough to make it an easy choice - while politicians and others enjoy the occasional Havana Cigar. We do business with the larger and more dangerous nations because it is convenient and there's money to be made by the politicians and their backers - we run a half a trillion trade deficit with China - supporting them under the guise of cheap products (price Nike sneakers lately?) while the People pay for it via the IRS and the companies that use China rake it in by not passing much of their savings along to the consumers. If we were "principled" we wouldn't just shove Cuba out but would actually act principled.
The politicians have done a great job obfuscating and brainwashing.
Castro did not meet obummer at the airport, but instead greeted him at the Palace of the revolution. That sends a powerful message to the world. Even a third rate dictator doesn’t respect the muslim president. Wonder if obummer bowed to him.
What also isn't mentioned is that the areas where the tourists tend to visit are considered "green zones" (for lack of a better word) which are only accessible to Cubans with proper ID who work there.......
Welcome to Cuba, Mr. Obama! We've thrown some more dissidents in jail just for you.
The Catholic Magazine “Ideal” couldn’t better describe the ceremony of raising the American flag at the U.S. embassy in Havana:
“Another unpardonable treason…”
“Absent at the ceremony were:”
“Thousands murdered by Castro’s firing squads.”
“Thousands of political prisoners.”
“Thousands drowned at sea.”
“Millions of Exiles.”
“Millions of divided families.”
“Millions of unborn babies.”
“Three generations living in material And spiritual poverty.”
One of the most used ad nauseam arguments to justify the unconditional surrender of president Obama to the Cuban Stalinist regime is that over 50 years U.S. commercial embargo against the Cuban communist regime did not work and that it damaged the Cuban people and not those in power without producing any political change in Cuba.
The fact is that the embargo did not fail. What failed was the lack of solidarity of the rest of world with the enslaved Cuban people. There was not a worldwide blockade and repudiation of the Cuban Stalinist regime as it was enforced when the world decided to put an end to the apartheid regime in South Africa.
In fact, the Soviet Union was not alone in the spoiling of Cuba. Spain, Canada and Mexico were also main partners and financiers of Castro’s terror network and the genocide of the Cuban people.
Cuba has been under a brutal Stalinist regime frozen in time for over 56 years. The Castro brothers have killed and imprisoned more Cubans than during the worst period of the Stalin terror era in relation to its population.
It is a fact that the Castro brothers have sent more than 20,000 Cubans to death at the “paredón” (firing squads) and that they are responsible for the death at sea of more than 40,000 men, women and children who fled the Cuban hell in fragile makeshift rafts preferring certain death at the Florida Straits rather than continue living in slavery. Castro is also responsible for the imprisonment and torture of over 500,000 Cubans (including children) during his 56 years of tyranny.
According to the best world authority in Cuba’s History, English scholar Hugh Thomas, referring to the Cuban tragedy, (The Spectator, 7/12/1986) he affirmed that: “The comparison must be with the account of Nazi concentration camps. Although there are yet no gas chambers in Cuba, there have been experiments of a criminal biological type designed to see how far an individual can survive starvation, beating, solitary confinement, and many various kinds of ill treatment. Valladares’ account of working in a stone quarry is not dissimilar to, and no more humane than, the many accounts extant of ‘life’ in Manthausen. Nor should one forget that the brutalities in Nazi Germany lasted at most 12 years and the gross cruelties in the Auschwitz camp continue for four years.”
During the last 56 years Cuba traded freely with the rest of world, including the U.S. since food and medicine were not included in the embargo, nor were the over billions of dollars sent to the Island prison by their family exiled in U.S. Cuba could buy anything from any other country, including American products. The problem for those who traded with Cuba is that they were not paid back for their delivered products and did not want to continue selling to Cuba on credit. One great success of the embargo is that American business and entrepreneurs were not defrauded again by the Castro regime because by law any of the trade allowed with Cuba must be paid for in advance.
Cuba, a country that before the Communism was self sustained, with a solid economy and a currency that was accepted internationally on par to the dollar, a country that received immigrants while Cubans didn’t need to emigrate. After Castro's communist regime, Cuba became a hell hole where even the youth born indoctrinated after the revolution preferred to die at sea in quest of freedom than to continue living “in opprobrium and afrenta sumidos” (in opprobrium and affront sunk) in words of the Cuban national anthem.
Many of the over 130 countries that trade with Cuba are prosperous without depending of trading with U.S. Cuba also traded freely before Castro with over 100 countries (including the Soviet Union). The Cubans enjoyed the highest standard of living in Latin America, and also higher than many Western European countries in the 1950’s. Cuba also enjoyed a top international credit rate. Now Cuba’s credit rate is at the level of Somalia while its standard of living is not much better than Haiti’s.
The misery and oppression in Cuba are not due to the U.S. embargo, but to the legacy of communism with its sequel of destruction of the economic infrastructure of the country and of the work ethics and the moral that had previously characterized the Cuban people, traits of their ethos proved in any country where the Cuban exiles landed in their quest for freedom.
The billions of dollars received annually from the Soviet Union were not used for the development of Cuba or in rising the meager lives of the Cubans, but to sustain Castro’s terror network all around the world, especially in Latin America, including the imperialist wars in Africa at the service of the Soviet Union’s ambitions in that continent. Castro’s worldwide terror network culminated with the Tricontinental Conference, where terrorists coordinated their worldwide war plans in Havana in 1966 under the leadership of Fidel Castro. (Claire Sterling “The Terror Network).
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CUBAN ‘EMBARGO’
Posted By Humberto Fontova On January 29, 2015 @ 12:44 am In Daily Mailer,FrontPage |
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/humberto-fontova/the-truth-about-the-cuban-embargo/print/
By the embargo U.S. was trying to contain Soviet-Cuban sponsored international terrorism:
Every terror group from the American Weathermen to Puerto Rico’s Macheteros, from Argentina’s Montoneros, to Colombia’s FARC, from the Black Panthers to the IRA, and from the PLO to AL Fatah received training and funding from Castro.
Granted, while most were not immediately defeated they were certainly contained. Then for three decades the Soviet Union was forced to pump the equivalent of almost ten Marshall Plans into Cuba. This drain on her resources certainly helped bankrupt the Evil Empire. ”
“Those who ignore history is damned to repeat it” George Santayana
Comrade Obama is consciously and shamefully following on the steps of the Soviet Union and Venezuela when he decided to keep afloat the Cuban Stalinist regime making the American taxpayers the sugar daddy of the Castro brothers, an stigma in American history
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