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just-words-cubans-applaud-obama-visit-see-little-201952758.htmlYahoo News:

Havana (AFP) - After the heady excitement of seeing President Barack Obama shatter decades of US-Cuba hostility, Cubans woke up Wednesday wondering how much will really change on the communist island.

 

The climax of Obama's trip was a speech Tuesday in which his oratorical skills were on full display, urging Cubans to embrace democracy and vowing that the United States will drop its punishing economic embargo, even if that decision has to come from the more hawkish Congress.

 

The cheers for Obama in Havana's Gran Teatro showed how far the visit -- the first by any US president in 88 years -- has shifted Washington's old policy of treating Cuba like enemy territory. And while all-powerful President Raul Castro seemed less than happy, listening stone-faced, he had let the speech go ahead live on state television.

 

But after the euphoria came something of a hangover for Cubans who say there will be no easy answers.

 

"We appreciate his good intentions. He's a man who talks very well, but at the end of the day they're just words," said retiree Estrella Mora, 61. "Another thing is reality: Obama came and went, but the embargo is still there."

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He came, he spoke, he went back to the golf course.


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Draggingtree

March 24, 2016 By Fausta

 

The EiC goes on the road!

 

First, a symbolic gesture that delighted Leftie throngs around the world,

 

the building that Guevara’s face adorns is home to the Cuban Ministry of the Interior.

 

Unlike our own Ministry of the Interior, Cuba’s is not charged with innocuous tasks like protecting endangered waterfowl. Rather, it operates the National Revolutionary Police, which, in addition to keeping law and order on the streets, harasses and arrests dissidents, and suppresses “counter-revolutionary” activities. In other words, it’s Cuba’s version of the Stasi. Scissors-32x32.png

http://faustasblog.com/2016/03/obama-entertainer-in-chief/

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Mar252016
Brussels Tango

You have to hand it to the Community Organizer in Chief. While the rest of the world fretted about the terror attacks in Brussels that killed at least two Americans, Obama kept his head. Cool as a cucumber, he did the wave at a ballgame with a communist dictator, and then headed to Argentina to enjoy the nightlife:

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http://moonbattery.com/#sthash.3K8UK6Bc.dpuf

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