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Mika

(17,751 posts)
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 04:46 PM Jun 2014

Clinton says she urged end to Cuba embargo



Clinton says she urged end to Cuba embargo

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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.

She says that late in her term in office she urged Obama to reconsider the U.S. embargo. "It wasn't achieving its goals," she writes, "and it was holding back our broader agenda across Latin America. ... I thought we should shift the onus onto the Castros to explain why they remained undemocratic and abusive."



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Clinton says she urged end to Cuba embargo (Original Post) Mika Jun 2014 OP
First I heard of it Demeter Jun 2014 #1
10 lbs of shit in a 5 pound bag. Mika Jun 2014 #2
Seriously! tech3149 Jun 2014 #3
How unbelievably stupid. She'll be running our foreign policy all by herself, in time. Judi Lynn Jun 2014 #4
Said it before, and I'll say it again Zorro Jun 2014 #5

tech3149

(4,452 posts)
3. Seriously!
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 06:50 PM
Jun 2014

How can anyone believe that BS when she has been as much a neocon as any top tier politico for a century?
I will judge her by her deeds not her words. So far I find her wanting.

Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
4. How unbelievably stupid. She'll be running our foreign policy all by herself, in time.
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 01:30 AM
Jun 2014

If this is a Democrat, why do we need violent, malignant, super sleazy teabaggers, anyway?

Why don't we just throw our hands in the air and elect that dirtbag Bundy and his fellow asshats from Nevada to run things for us?

If Hillary believes she would love to give "material comforts of the outside world" to Cuba, why doesn't she REALLY advocate dropping the embargo? After all, numb####, DEPRIVATION is the POINT OF THE ####ING EMBARGO.

OMG. Duhyyuh.

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