Cuba issues bristling editorial ahead of Obama visit



Cuba said it would welcome President Barack Obama to Havana later this month, but the Communist government had no intention of changing its policies in exchange for normal relations with the United States.

In a long editorial on Wednesday in Communist Party newspaper Granma and other official media, Cuba demanded Washington cease meddling in its internal affairs and said Obama could do more to change U.S. policy.

The March 20-22 visit from Obama comes 15 months after he and Cuban President Raul Castro agreed to end more than five decades of Cold War-era animosity and try to normalize relations.

They have restored diplomatic ties, and Obama has relaxed a series of trade sanctions and travel restrictions, leading Republican opponents and even some of the president's fellow Democrats to question whether Washington was offering too much without any reciprocation from Havana.
But the editorial made it clear that Cuba still has a long list of grievances with the United States, starting with the comprehensive trade embargo. Obama wants to rescind the embargo but Republican leadership in Congress has blocked the move.

Cuba also objected to U.S. support for its political dissidents, whom some Americans consider champions of human rights but whom the Cuban government views as an unrepresentative minority funded by U.S. interests.

"(The United States) should abandon the pretense of fabricating an internal political opposition, paid for with money from U.S. taxpayers," the nearly 3,000-word editorial said.

The editorial came during Cubans' growing anticipation of the Obama visit, only the second by a U.S. president and the first since the 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro that overthrew a pro-American government.

The editorial said Cuba was working to build a new relationship with the United States, but no one should assume it had to "renounce any of its principles or cede the slightest bit in its defense" to do so.

The two countries have also negotiated greater cooperation on law enforcement and environmental issues and agreed to resume scheduled commercial flights and postal services. Obama has removed Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism.

The editorial acknowledged Obama had taken some positive steps but criticized their "limited nature and the existence of other regulations and intimidation caused by the overall blockade that has been in force for more than 50 years."

I guess that Venezuela and Maduro are next on his list of a** kissin.

more O-Bendover!

I guess Havana is a wee behind on current events.

Somebody needs to inform Castro, that the Obonzo administration
is even more socialist, than anything the Cuban "revolutionaries"
could have ever dreamed of.

When the President breaths, the Obama Haters Club of America declares that breathing is an act of cowardice, betrayal, weakness, and proof positive that Obama is an African born Muslim fundamentalist.

Waiting to get factual details, and think about them before spouting garbage like this, isn't one of their skill sets.

Here's a graphic detail of Obama's buddy, Raul Castro


Even before the triumph of the Revolution, Castro and his gang were prone to murder those who disagreed with them.In the photo below, taken while still in the Sierra Maestra mountains, Fidel Castro’s brother, Raul, is seen getting ready to shoot a young rebel soldier who disobeyed orders.
It wasn't garbage to the thousands that were killed under the Castro Regime.
The facts are there, you just have to look for them. You have heard of the Castro's infamous firing squads ?
Take a look at Obama's new friends.
http://www.therealcuba.com/?page_id=55

Topic: Cuban Migrant Crisis 2016
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Edmund Burke — ‘Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.’

show us some proof that he's not... been 8 years, and nothing to show us otherwise...

Edited for drama and off-topic.

soufie
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These are simply comments. You have the right to say they are meaningless things if you like. If they seem meaningless to you,
why are you here?

The claim that something has happened which has not happened, which is what this thread is about, isn't meaningless.

It is a lie.

I just hope Obama gets to lick the Stirring Spoon!

Meanwhile, back in this universe...