Hillary Clinton Urged Obama To End Cuba Embargo: Book
PARIS (AP) — In her new book, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she pushed President Barack Obama to lift or ease the decades-long U.S. embargo on Cuba because it was no longer useful to American interests or promoting change on the communist island.
In excerpts of the book "Hard Choices" obtained by The Associated Press ahead of its release next week, Clinton writes that the embargo has given communist leaders Fidel and Raul Castro an excuse not to enact democratic reforms. And she says opposition from some in Congress to normalizing relations — "to keep Cuba in a deep freeze" — has hurt both the United States and the Cuban people. She says the 2009 arrest by Cuba of USAID contractor Alan Gross and Havana's refusal to release him on humanitarian grounds is a "tragedy" for improving ties.
"Since 1960, the United States had maintained an embargo against the island in hopes of squeezing Castro from power, but it only succeeded in giving him a foil to blame for Cuba's economic woes," she writes. She says her husband, former President Bill Clinton, tried to improve relations with Cuba in the 1990s, but the Castro government did not respond to the easing in some sanctions. Nonetheless, Obama was determined to continue the effort, she writes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/05/hillary-clinton-cuba-embargo_n_5457117.html?utm_hp_ref=hillary-clinton
Interesting, I didn't know that she had proposed lifting the embargo.
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An issue where most here would agree on and not a peep from anyone.
I gather it's easier to continue the bashing 24/7.
Carry on...........
She can't win with them.........
and a sexist too!
I wonder what other pearls of Clinton resentment are waiting.
Projecting much?
I know that it's hard for you to do, but we are talking about the Cuban embargo.
I got to go, I don't have time for your inanities.
Ciao........
In the past it may not have been the proper time to lift the embargo, but it doesn't serve any purpose at this point in time. It only hurts the average Cuban and not the government. The problem will be the response from conservative Cubans in the US and the RW. There'll be a backlash.
To the T.P. folks, she and Obama are Marxists. They can't win with that crowd.
It's also true about younger Cubans, they are not as interested in the embargo and Castro as their parents and grandparents. It used to be that when I went to FL to see my mother, if there were was a gathering of more than 3 Cubans, the conversation inevitably turned to Castro. It's not like that anymore.
