Cuban President Raul Castro raises the arm of U.S. President Barack Obama after a news conference as part of Obama’s three-day visit to Cuba, in Havana on March 21, 2016.
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Steve Rogers, a former member of the FBI National Joint Terrorism Task Force, said on television that “while the President is doing the wave at the baseball game tonight he should be anxious about the wave of bombings coming here”.
We followed with great interest President Obama’s trip this week to Cuba, scrutinizing closely his reception not only by the Cuban people, but by that nation’s leaders.
This is a big event, as Obama is the first US president to visit the country in 90 years.
As far as we can tell, the only drawback to the President’s Cuban initiatives is that it will not be long before the unspoiled Cuba – both in terms of its natural beauty and its architectural historicity – will be overwhelmed by the false promises and rapaciousness of American capitalism.
Even as Obama urged change, he pledged to Cubans that they had no reason to fear US attempts to strong-arm them.
Because of Cuba’s centralized, communist government, Stewart told Christian Today, overseas donations must go through the Partido Comunista de Cuba, the only legal political party in the country.
Congresswoman Cheri Bustos was also there and said there’s a large amount of people in the agriculture industry here in the Quad Cities that could benefit from trade with Cuba. “I believe they are the rights of the American people, the Cuban people and people around the world”.
One of the trip’s objectives was to renew trade relations with Cuba and remove a 54-year-old boycott that was imposed by President John F. Kennedy.
Was the president’s trip to Cuba more than a photo op?
Churches in Cuba have also been at the receiving end of the government’s human rights violations. “What changes come will depend on the Cuban people”.
If Obama going to Cuba is wrong then Nixon going to China was wrong. Two, Obama’s references to Cuba’s famed healthcare model is a compliment to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who has promised a Cuba-like healthcare system for the U.S., if elected. By 2014, the president announced that the two nations would restore full diplomatic ties, a first since the tense era of the Cuban missile crisis five decades earlier. We need to make sure we’re not rewarding a communist regime that has been engaged in political persecution and violating human rights. “But…it turned out that, during the presidency, I didn’t have time to take Spanish lessons”.
“I use Brian as a… good example of the power of the Internet”, Obama said.
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Instead, they are reaching out to media focused on the president’s visit to make their case for why the embargo should be lifted.
