Obama on Cuba (from Chile)

[Sandokan]

Obama on Cuba (from Chile)
Capitol Hill Cubans: Obama on Cuba (from Chile)

at 6:06 PM Monday, March 21, 2011

Excerpt from U.S. President Barack Obama's remarks today at the Palacio de la Moneda in Santiago, Chile:

More than 60 years ago, our nations came together in an Organization of American States and declared -- and I quote -- that “representative democracy is an indispensable condition for the stability, peace and development of the region.” A decade ago, we reaffirmed this principle, with an Inter-American Democratic Charter that stated -- and I quote -- “the people of the Americas have a right to democracy and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it.”

To its credit, the Obama administration has put further improvement of relations with Cuba on hold while pressing for the basic rights of the Cuban people, and the right to determine their own future. Obama made it very clear to the Cuban government that future improvement in the relation between the two countries depend on the actions of the regime to respect those basic humans rights. Raul Castro should know that taking half steps are no substitute for reversing the US policy.

 

[Sandokan]

According to President Obama talk in El Salvador, he has taken “unprecedented steps” to ease the five decades of tension between US and the Castros’ regime. Look that he is not eager to take new steps towards the regime. Seem he is telling the regime the ball is in your court, now is your turn to make something happen. But the Castros dictatorship has never responded positively to concessions.

 

[Sandokan]

The US Government has the right to consider the regime issues of human rights violations, the repression and coercion of Cuban with different political ideas, the practice of apartheid of Cubans within their own country, and many more issues in a long list dating back to the time when the Castro brothers were asking the Soviet Union to drop nuclear bombs over the US territory.

 

[Sandokan]

It is the same old game. The Castros’ regime has no interest in establishing relations with the US or relaxing anything. They have found the ideal scapegoat for all their problems. For years they have blamed the US for the results of their bad, corrupt and inefficient regime. Now the ball is in their court, let see what they would do.

 

[TheDemSocialist]

The US Government has the right to consider the regime issues of human rights violations, the repression and coercion of Cuban with different political ideas, the practice of apartheid of Cubans within their own country, and many more issues in a long list dating back to the time when the Castro brothers were asking the Soviet Union to drop nuclear bombs over the US territory.

Right..........