Hillary Clinton scorns ‘entrenched’ Cuba
Cuba’s leaders do not want to normalise ties with the US because then they would lose their excuse for the state of the country, says Hillary Clinton.
Cuba’s response to recent US efforts to improve relations had revealed “an intransigent, entrenched regime” in Havana, said the US secretary of state.
The Cuban authorities have long blamed a 48-year US trade embargo for holding back the country’s development.
The US says the embargo will remain until Cuba improves human rights.
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“It is my personal belief that the Castros do not want to see an end to the embargo and do not want to see normalisation with the United States, because they would lose all of their excuses for what hasn’t happened in Cuba in the last 50 years,” she said in a speech at Kentucky’s University of Louisville.“I find that very sad, because there should be an opportunity for a transition to a full democracy in Cuba and it’s going to happen at some point, but it may not happen any time soon.”
Was about time she said it.
Cuba was free to trade with the rest of the world, yet is a rat hole. They have absolutely nothing to trade with. Cousins of my aunt visited it last year & couldn’t leave fast enough. Money was exchanged at artificial rate, there was NOTHING to spend it on & exchange back was impossible, IIRC. Altogether it was a very therapeutic excursion for your Euro-socialists.
Hillary has probably only now figured out what the rest of us have known for decades.
> Was about time she said it.
Don’t worry, she didn’t mean it.
About this time next week she’ll be singing the praises of the Cuban Health Care system and lamenting that we can’t “be like them”.
> Hillary has probably only now figured out
a) She’s known all along
or
b) She’ll never know, this is just pandering
Take your pick. She didn’t “just learn” this now.