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Fucking why?
They are evil. Also, they know they are extremely unpopular right now so might as well go for broke. The Grand Old Pedophile party has been slow genociding the Cubans ever since they lost their tropical rape paradise.
The Presidency has enriched itself by billions of dollars now, this amount of corruption no one could possibly fathom a couple of decades ago. I shudder to think of what they will do next after they have broken countless laws, violated the Constitution numerous times, and have dropped any pretense about being white nationalist thugs.
The democrats on the other hand have been so good for Cuba... Just expanded and made permanent the embargo that crippled Cuba since 1960.
The oppression of Cubans for the glory of capitalism is bipartisan.
They have been complicit and have not fought for the Cuban people the way they should have. Criticism is deserved.
I am not a fan of Obama, but he did normalize relations. I was not able to visit, but some of my friends were. They were very impressed with Cuba and its people.
It is a disgusting that this administration is responsible for the the increased suffering of their people. It is in my opinion a crime against humanity. No wonder this administration is hates the ICC, they know they are criminals.
They were not merely complicit; they actively supported policies that harmed the Cuban people.
JFK dramatically strengthened the embargo and made it comprehensive. Decades later, Helms-Burton effectively locked much of that embargo into federal law through a bipartisan Congress:
So yes, the degree of responsibility was different, but this was not simply a Republican policy. A majority of House Democrats voted to codify and entrench the embargo as well.
Yeah, absolutely. Obama deserves real credit for reopening diplomatic relations and making travel and engagement much easier. It's just that the underlying embargo still remained in place, largely because Helms-Burton had written so much of it into federal law. So Obama was working around a legal structure that Congress would have had to change to fully end the embargo, and I don't know about you, but looking at the history of that law, I have no reason to believe democrats would have fell just short of a vote or two change it, and blame a DINO...
Totally. What Trump is doing is taking it to the next level, and the American people are letting him, because it doesn't effect their day to day. Just like Palestine, Cuba was forgotten and left to suffer in silence until they could resist no more, and Trump being so stupid is at least putting Cuba back on the table. If only the average American would care.
How many democrats have you heard speak up for Cuba in the last 40 years?
Agreed, I have no excuses for the Democratic party. Just disappointmemt.
At this point, does it matter?