Condolence Messages for Fidel Castro Featured
In a blog post Saturday on the post-Castro era Piccone said, “A better approach for the incoming Trump administration would be to maintain President Obama’s policy of constructive engagement and work with the post-Castro leadership to protect USA national interests in a more stable, independent, and open Cuba”.
President Barack Obama reversed more than five decades of U.S. hostility toward Cuba and re-established diplomatic ties past year. He visited the Caribbean island nation in March – the first sitting USA president to do so since 1928.
Trump does not like unrestricted immigration and that is what that policy allows, Robert Muse – an expert on US law vis-a-vis Cuba – told EFE.
The movement penned an article on Sunday titled “Lessons from Fidel: Black Lives Matter and the Transition of El Comandante” on the Medium platform where they eulogized the passing of the Cuban dictator. She said that despite reports of the Cuban government’s increased efforts to restrict speech and silence its critics, her husband found residents were eager to express their dissatisfaction.
Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman tapped as Trump’s chief of staff, said that if a deal for better relations by the Obama administration were to continue, the Castro regime would have to “meet our demands”.
Tourists take selfies on Sunday with an iconic image of Cuba’s revolutionary hero, Ernesto “Che” Guevara in the background, at Revolution Square in Havana.
Trump issued a toughly worded statement calling Fidel Castro “a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for almost six decades”.
Mr Trump has struck a very different tone from Mr Obama, who reached an agreement two years ago with Castro’s younger brother, President Raul Castro, to end half a century of hostilities. Raul Castro appears to be in good health and firmly in control. He has pledged to step down in 2018.
The President expressed this view as he joined the chorus of local, regional and global leaders in paying tribute to Castro who died on Saturday at the age of 90. They then follow the occasion by marching through Havana’s streets to protest the detention of political prisoners and support human rights in Cuba.
“We know that this moment fills Cubans – in Cuba and in the United States – with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families and of the Cuban nation”, Obama said.
“My only thought is with Cuba and the people of Cuba”, said Elena Garcia, a Boynton Beach resident who left Cuba for South Florida in 1961 at age 13 as part of the exodus of children known as Operation Pedro Pan. Both Rubio and Cruz caution the upcoming Trump administration to monitor Cuban-American relations with a close eye.
On Monday the first commercial flights from the United States to Havana are scheduled to land. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (Fla.).
I saw this meme that claims that Castro said “I will not die until America is destroyed” I have a doubt that such a convenient quote is real. “I hope we don’t see Barack Obama and Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton and Democrats lining up to lionize a murderous tyrant and thug”.
The Ladies in White dissident group chose to avoid creating tensions this week.
Maria Cano, a retired dental records assistant who came to the U.S.in 1982 with her husband and two of her children – two others joined them months later – said life in the US was better because of the education. Human Rights Watch said it placed hardships on Cubans and failed to ease repression. Only Congress can lift the embargo.