Thursday, December 17, 2015
Obama Is Blind to Castro Tyranny in Cuba -- Listen to Marco Rubio
A year ago, US President Obama and Cuba President Raoul Castro re-opened diplomatic relations after a 50-year hiatus. Yesterday, one year on, they agreed to resume commercial air travel. The State Department said : "This arrangement will continue to allow charter operations and establish scheduled air service, which will facilitate an increase in authorized travel, enhance traveler choices and promote people-to-people links between the two countries." But, US law still bars travel to Cuba for tourism. No one knows when flights will actually start, but members of the airline industry praised the deal. ~~~~~ Before cheering Obama's latest gift to Communist Cuba, consider how Obama's one-man show with Cuba has worked out so far. A year ago Obama said : “Today, America chooses to cut loose the shackles of the past so as to reach for a better future - for the Cuban people, for the American people, for our entire hemisphere, and for the world." ~~~~~ Here are the shackles today. **Thursday wasn't a good day for the 53 Cuban dissidents whose “releases” were announced a year ago as part of the Obama-Castro normalization deal, some of whom have been rearrested and arbitrarily detained again, some several times. **On December 11, 2015, over 150 Cuban dissidents were arrested on International Human Rights Day. Castro regime Attorney General Dario Delgado said Cuba has no political prisoners, only jailed common criminals who "call themselves dissidents," the official Communist Party daily Granma reported. **Castro has not returned to the US any of the more than 70 fugitives harbored by Castro in Havana, some of whom the FBI has described as “domestic terrorists." **Between December 17, 2014, and October 2015, political arrests in Cuba increased by 500%, from 178 arrests to 1,093. According to the internationally recognized Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN), the number of political arrests during the first ten months of 2015 was 6,239, more than the total arrests in 2010 (2,074 political arrests) and 2011 (4,123 political arrests). **At the August 15, 2015 flag-raising ceremony for the newly re-opened US Embassy in Havana, Secretary of State John Kerry, State Department officials, Castro regime thugs, American business interest leaders and anti-embargo lobbyists were present, but not a single Cuban dissident, pro-democracy leader or activist. Apparently, they were accidentally left off the invitation list. But, for 34 Sundays in a row, Cuban dissidents, including the Ladies in White, have tried to peacefully demonstrate after Catholic Mass under the slogan #TodosMarchamos (#WeAllMarch). And every Sunday, regime thugs violently beat and often arrest them. One Cuban dissident leader, Antonio Rodiles, had an emergency operation to repair his nose after a beating by state security agents during one of those peaceful Sunday marches. ~~~~~ US Senator Marco Rubio said Thursday : “The first year of President Obama’s Cuba policy has been like the rest of his foreign policy: a disaster that prioritizes legacy-shaping headlines over freedom and results, treats our enemies far better than our allies, and negotiates deals from a position of weakness - as if we are ashamed of our moral obligations as the world’s most powerful nation....President Obama's Cuba policy, the US has never been closer to the tyrants that rule the island or more alienated from the Cuban people working tirelessly to build a free and democratic future....cop killers, terrorists and other fugitives from US justice...enjoy greater freedoms in Cuba than average Cubans who are experiencing a historically relentless wave of repression and political arrests this year. American businesses have placed a risky bet to enrich themselves and...the Cuban military that controls the economy. The next US President should...send a clear message that betting against the Cuban people’s free and democratic future is a losing bet." ~~~~~ Dear readers, ignore Obama. Castro tyranny is endless. Listen to Marco Rubio. He is America's Cuba conscience.
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The 1996 Helms-Burton Act states that the embargo may not be lifted until Cuba holds free and fair elections and transitions to a democratic government that excludes the Castro brothers. (Raul has said he will leave office in 2018.)
ReplyDeleteRecently (under Obama) some adjustments have been made to the trade embargo to allow for the export of some U.S. medical supplies and agricultural products to the island. But the Cuban government estimates that more than fifty years of stringent trade restrictions has amounted to a loss of $1.126 trillion. And now Raoul Castro is saying that this sum must be paid back before normal relations can be established.
Call this what you wish – but blackmail is blackmail and Cuban Cigars are not worth an upfront payment of $1,126 TRILLION USD.
In relationships on any subject matter you look at the common threads, the commonality between the 2 parties or countries.
ReplyDeleteThe stark, gawking commonality between Obama and the Castro brothers is as obvious as night and day … they both in the face of undeniable truth, surrounded by facts that lead to a conclusion that anyone who can walk and chew gum at the same time would reach, will (and do constantly) stand up and lie.
Their lies are not little white likes they are whoppers. They are also so dangerous that it’s scary. They lie in support of their envisioned egotistical, self-regarding goals.
What does Cuba have to offer the United States except a much needed foreign affairs victory for Obama ego and legacy? That is the question that needs to be asked and answered. Not any humanitarian mumbo gumbo language.
I think we all need to accept the fact that Obama's actions are all planned out and not accidental or simply the act of a Court Jester.
ReplyDeleteYou must take your enemy seriously no matter what you factually know about him.