Cuban Dictator Castro Thanks U.S. With Insults And Grievances

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Diplomacy: After Obama showered Cuba with goodies, Raul Castro has repaid him with insults, demands and grievances broadcast through the UN. Seems the Castro brothers know a fool when they see one.

 

The White House has spent almost as much time touting its "success" at reestablishing normal relations with Cuba as it did on the actual negotiations themselves.

 

It used the occasion of Pope Francis' visit last week to spin the event as positive and compliment the pope for his bit part as a go-between, while just Monday, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes breathily hailed 84-year-old Cuban dictator Raul Castro's first appearance at the UN podium as a signal "that we're in a new era."

 

If you guessed Rhodes was a creative writing major in college, you were right.

 

The reality is far more sober. Demanding nothing in return, the Obama administration has not only granted diplomatic relations to the Cuban dictatorship — one whose current leaders shot their way into power in 1959, looted and bankrupted their country, and held autocratic power for 56 years.

 

Along with ties, Obama has laid out a host of benefits for the regime as a sort of love offering. Yet the response from Cuba has been to dismiss all that as of little value.

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Castro demanded the U.S. return Guantanamo Bay military base and pay reparations for economic woes. He said Cuba can agree to fully normalized relations upon "the return to our country of the territory illegally occupied by the Guantanamo Naval Base, the cessation of radio and TV broadcasts, and of subversion and destabilization programs against the island, and when our people are compensated for the human and economic damages they still endure."

 

 

http://www.ibtimes.com/cuba-united-nations-speech-2015-cuban-president-raul-castro-calls-us-end-blockade-pay-2117644

 

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