Posted on 07/02/2015 1:50:22 PM PDT by Will88
While President Obama described the embassy as “not merely symbolic” and a move representing the liberation of the American people from “the past” in a speech this morning, the Cuban government issued a statement refusing to reestablish full diplomatic relations with the United States until America gifted the territory of Guantánamo Bay to Cuba and ceased broadcasting radio and television news reports into the island, which constitute the only way many Cubans have of receiving trustworthy international news.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Cuba demands?
Well, sure, why not. Mexican respassers demand, queers demand, atheists demand, prisoners demand, warmers demand, high schoolers demand, vegans demand, muzzies demand, gun grabbers demand, dopers demand... So why not Cuba, too?
Haha, like it’s an honor to have diplomatic relations with that Commie hellhole of a country.
Perhaps Captain Midnight could give them a few nuclear weapons also.
Naval Base Guantanamo is US property. Obama cannot “give” it to anyone.
Gee... nobody saw this coming!
Obama will comply before he leaves, maybe even this year. He’s got to get this off his plate because he has a lot more stuff to “transform” in the year and a half he has left.
Obama will surrender. Anything to destroy America’s power is in his purview.
You don’t think that they did in coordination with Obama? Obviously Obama would love not only to close Guantanamo Bay, but to also give it to Cuba.
This is the sort of “negotiation” that we’re all used to seeing between so-called environmental groups and the EPA, or between unions and a Democrat governor. They make it look like they are opposing each other, when in reality they are colluding to screw the American people.
I think Congress can refuse the funding to close the place down. And what about all the American-owned assets that Fidel “nationalized?”
Returning Gitmo to Cuba would involve a treaty subject to Senate ratification, wouldn’t it?
Now...Bammie can shut down those Radio & TV Marti broadcasts with the stroke of a pen. He’ll do that first & judge the uproar as to whether he can proceed with relinquishing Gitmo.
I have zero faith in this Congress that they will stop him.
The Cuban government's statement at the bottom of the article seems pretty demanding.
To achieve the normalization of relations, it will also be indispensable that the illegally occupied territory at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base be returned; the radio and television broadcasts towards Cuba, which violate international norms and hurt our sovereignty, cease; and programs directed towards promoting subversion and internal destabilization end; and that the Cuban people be compensated for human and economic damage provoked by United States policies.
There aren't enough derogatory words to properly describe Obama that he would even consider those demands.
If King Barry doesn't mind giving Iran nukes why should he care about Gitmo?
Barry n' Kerry keep trying to figure out who the sucker in all these rigged poker games is when in fact it's either Barry, Kerry, or both every single time.
I agree.
I’m not saying relations with Cuba should never be normalized, but there’s absolutely no justification for it now.
And turning over Gitmo, that’s just destructive.
CUBA DEMANDS
Really???????????????????? Seriously?????????????????????
Who the hell wants their opinion except for ‘slob boy in the oval office’???????????????????
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You can take that to the bank.
Well, no I suppose you can’t. LOL
“He’ll probably...”
With all my typos I hate being a grammar nazi but I think you misspelled “absolutely”
“What’s often forgotten, though, is that the embargo was actually triggered by something concrete: an enormous pile of American assets that Castro seized in the process of nationalizing the Cuban economy. Some of these assets were the vacation homes and bank accounts of wealthy individuals. But the lion’s share of the confiscated property—originally valued at $1.8 billion, which at 6 percent simple interest translates to nearly $7 billion today—was sugar factories, mines, oil refineries, and other business operations belonging to American corporations, among them the Coca-Cola Co., Exxon, and the First National Bank of Boston. A 2009 article in the Inter-American Law Review described Castro’s nationalization of US assets as the “largest uncompensated taking of American property by a foreign government in history.”
Today, the nearly 6,000 property claims filed in the wake of the Cuban revolution almost never come up as a significant sticking point in discussions of a prospective Cuban-American thaw. But they remain active—and more to the point, the federal law that lays out the conditions of a possible reconciliation with Cuba, the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, says they have to be resolved. According to that statute, said Michael Kelly, a professor of international law at Creighton University in Nebraska, settling the certified property claims “is one of the first dominos that has to fall in a whole series of dominos for the embargo to be lifted.””
I don't know. I doubt the president has the authority to abandon a military base on his own, and I think Gitmo involves a long term lease that communist Cuba objects to.
None of the news I've heard has described the process that must be followed. Actually, this story has been drowned out like many other stories by last weeks huge stories.
Our governments negotiating prowess is so fantastic that it makes me proud to call the USA home./Sarc!!!
This is off to a really good start.
0bama probably suggested that they demand that stuff in the first place.
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