Posted on 11/16/2016 2:52:35 PM PST by Kaslin
Cuban-American leaders and human rights activists within the island nation are hoping that the incoming Trump administration will scale back President Obama’s efforts to restore relations between the two countries, measures they say emboldened the communist regime and brought the U.S. little in return.
Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican who sits on the Foreign Relations Committee, said that a top priority for him next year will be to roll back sweeping changes President Obama implemented that significantly eased trade and travel restrictions. Rubio, like many Cuban-Americans who have opposed the normalization of relations, said Obama’s overtures to the Cuban government have not yielded the hoped-for reforms.
“By any objective measure, President Obama’s unilateral policy changes have failed, and they are not in the best interest of the American people or the people of Cuba,” Rubio said in a statement. “Rolling back President Obama's one-sided concessions to the Castro regime, a key campaign promise shared with President-elect Trump, will be a top priority for me next year.”
Rubio met on Tuesday with Guillermo Farinas, one of Cuba’s most prominent human rights activists, during the dissident’s visit to Washington D.C. Farinas, who has been jailed numerous times by Cuban authorities, has been a vocal critic of the Obama administration’s surprise decision two years ago to normalize relations with the Cuban government after more than a half-century of hostilities between the two nations.
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Trump should just announce that it’s over for the Castro’s and they are not entitled to the dignity of a natural death. Call for a public over throw. See what happens.
Invade Cuba, Lynch both of the Castros and hold free and open elections. About damn time.
Bring back the Casinos and it would be a great vacation destination. Rename it Fantasy Island. John McCain and Lindsay Graham could be the Host’s.
Any change towards Cuba should have been on the condition of free elections.
Castro needs to go.
He will be burning in hell soon enough but the future of Cuba is best secured by bringing him to an earthly judgement first. Obama’s deadly bromance with this monster has diminished this country and that act of shame needs to be reversed.
No trade, no travel. Nothing. The Castro punks get nothing.
The time for that was in 1959. That would be like invading San Francisco, Portland and Seattle today. Even if you overthrew and executed their Communist leaders, the overwhelmingly brainwashed Communist populace would just elect another in their place.
CAN’T invade. We agreed with the Soviets-Russians now.
Considering the fact that Cuba has been "open" for trade and tourism with the rest of the world but still remains a third world island run by marxist commies should be an indicator of what's going to happen now that the U.S. has lifted the embargo - absolutely nothing.
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