So Cuba is engaged in the Soviet-era tactics of preventing dissidents and independent journalists from traveling abroad.
Possible reasons may include fear of defections, as well as possible truthtelling about the evils of the Castro regimes.
Just a guess, but if Cuba were the idyllic place of wonderful free healthcare, top notch medicine, and free education unparalleled in quality, the regime would have had nothing to worry about.
And for those of you who still think that normalization with Cuba have somehow improved the conditions inside the country or will lead to liberalization, get your heads out of the sand.
The only people who have benefited are the people directly connected to the regime.
Everyone else continues to suffer deprivation and a worse human rights crackdown than before the normalization.
Showing posts with label normalization. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 21, 2017
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Marco Rubio's headlining of Jeff Flake's rally is a supreme act of hypocrisy.
Flake has got to be the worst Republican in the Senate, if not all of Congress, on enabling the Castro regime. Rubio claims to be Trump's great foreign policy influence on Cuba specifically and other Latin American countries, and yet he is empowering the senator who has been inimical to GOP's efforts to counter Obama's shameful and self-serving normalization with Castro.
I don't know whether FLake honestly believed that policy would actually lead to liberalization. If so, he should have issued an unqualified apology for his naive delusion. On the other hand, if he was doing that out of some cynical political calculations, or perhaps out of personal interest in investments, he deserves to be thoroughly condemned for taking that unconscionable position.
And Rubio should be ashamed of himself for supporting and enabling Flake and his harmful role in our foreign policy. How can we expect to take him seriously on Cuba or human rights after he is whole-heartedly supporting someone who took a position identical to Obama, and which Rubio claims to condemn?
Flake has got to be the worst Republican in the Senate, if not all of Congress, on enabling the Castro regime. Rubio claims to be Trump's great foreign policy influence on Cuba specifically and other Latin American countries, and yet he is empowering the senator who has been inimical to GOP's efforts to counter Obama's shameful and self-serving normalization with Castro.
I don't know whether FLake honestly believed that policy would actually lead to liberalization. If so, he should have issued an unqualified apology for his naive delusion. On the other hand, if he was doing that out of some cynical political calculations, or perhaps out of personal interest in investments, he deserves to be thoroughly condemned for taking that unconscionable position.
And Rubio should be ashamed of himself for supporting and enabling Flake and his harmful role in our foreign policy. How can we expect to take him seriously on Cuba or human rights after he is whole-heartedly supporting someone who took a position identical to Obama, and which Rubio claims to condemn?
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