The trade embargo President Dwight Eisenhower put in place and President John F. Kennedy strengthened – after laying in a huge shipment of Cuban cigars for his own humidors, by the way – seemed like a good idea at the time.
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U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford doesn’t agree with President Barack Obama on most things.
It is time to lift the “embargo”, he insisted, referring to the economic, commercial and financial blockade that still persists, and assessed that this siege as an “obsolete burden on the Cuban nation”.
Fontova talked to OneNewsNow about Cuba earlier this week, when Obama visited the country in a historic trip. The President opened his remarks by vowing to do “whatever is necessary” to support Belgium.
President Obama said he never thought of not going. “Pastor Mario Felix Lleonart Barroso’s story is also in the news as his home and church were surrounded and he was arrested just hours before President Obama’s arrival”, he added. On Monday he made his way to Cuba – the first USA president to do so since 1928 – where he was greeted by whitewashed crowds of pro-regime supporters and met with notorious dictator Raul Castro.
Some conservative Republicans oppose both of these moves.
And because the United States can’t import products from Cuba, the ships delivering soybeans or other products to Cuba have to return empty – “essentially we’re paying twice” the shipping cost, Albertson said. “Castro denied Cuba holds political prisoners, but then told another reporter, “…give me a list of the political prisoners and I will release them immediately”. It will not help the Cuban people or the Cuban culture.
The Obamas landed in Cuba on Sunday, kicking off the first leg of their landmark trip to the island nation. Or perhaps Mr. Obama knows, and just doesn’t think it’s as important as “warming up” relations between Cuba and America. Rapping up his Cuba trip by joining Raul Castro as Tampa Bay challenged Cuba’s national team.
Since arriving in Havana Sunday, Obama has blended his official events in Cuba with opportunities to soak in the country’s culture, including a tour of the old city.
I’m not defending the Castro dictatorship anymore than I would defend Mao and the Chinese communist government; I’m merely pointing out the hypocrisy and reminding people they should have paid more attention is history class.
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So, imprisonment, interrogation using torture, sometimes lethal, and complete confiscation of property were the weapons used by the communist government against those who even raised an eyebrow of doubt about the Castros’ government.
