“I think it’s time for us to end the embargo with Cuba… It’s time for us to acknowledge that that particular policy has failed.”
Barack Obama
2004 SIU Conference
Well, he kept his promise to the communist regime, anyway.
Axis of Evil? What Axis of Evil?
Obama will open the US to his comrades in Cuba.
No wonder the Castro supporters supported Obama.
The Obama Houston headquarters displayed Cuban flags and picture of Communist mass murderer Che Guevara.
The Guardian reported:
President Barack Obama is poised to offer an olive branch to Cuba in an effort to repair the US’s tattered reputation in Latin America.
The White House has moved to ease some travel and trade restrictions as a cautious first step towards better ties with Havana, raising hopes of an eventual lifting of the four-decade-old economic embargo. Several Bush-era controls are expected to be relaxed in the run-up to next month’s Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago to gild the president’s regional debut and signal a new era of “Yankee” cooperation.
The administration has moved to ease draconian travel controls and lift limits on cash remittances that Cuban-Americans can send to the island, a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of families.
“The effect on ordinary Cubans will be fairly significant. It will improve things and be very welcome,” said a western diplomat in Havana. The changes would reverse hardline Bush policies but not fundamentally alter relations between the superpower and the island, he added. “It just takes us back to the 1990s.”
