Mauricio Claver-Carone, a spokesman for the U.S.-Cuba Democracy Pact, which supports full sanctions, said Obama's statement could hurt U.S.-Cuban relations at a crucial time.Notice anything ironic about this last comment by Claver-Carone? Let me give you a hint: The Castro regime is coming up on 50 years in power. In fact, the Castro Regime is older than Barack Obama by almost two years! I doubt that anything Obama says is "entrenching" the Castro regime. Any honest person would have to admit that the regime is pretty much entrenched already, and has been long before Obama even knew who Castro was. It's statements like these that defy the imagination and point out ever so much more the anachronism that is the pro-embargo lobby in the United States.
"I'm sure he's well intentioned," Claver-Carone said, but he added that with the death of Castro possibly approaching and the potential for change on the island, such a statement could send the wrong message.
"It entrenches the regime at this historic time," Claver-Carone said.
Friday, August 24, 2007
Can You Catch the Irony?
Barack Obama has called for an easing of restrictions on some elements of the Bush Administration's Cuba policy. A critic of Obama's position had this to say about it:
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I agree with you Jimmy. Our policies toward Cuba seem to legitimize a central tenet of the power hungry populists' rhetoric; the seductive claim that they are defenders of Latin independece against 'El Colosio del Norte.' Isn't the United States' consistent violation of Latin American political/economic soveriegnty one of the pillars buoying Castro and Chavez's power? The anti-Castro groups are the ones truly helping to entrench the Castro regime when they bully U.S. politicians into supporting irrational and out-dated foreign policy. Policies that consequently cast the U.S. in a negative light, as they hurt the Cuban people and not the Cuban government.
Well said, Austin. I agree.
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