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Related: About this forumHillary 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.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Last edited Sat Jun 7, 2014, 01:47 PM - Edit history (1)
I posted this on GD and got not one response. I personally found it interesting that Hillary wanted to lift the embargo, particularly as she is always being judged to the Right of Obama around here.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)If she does make it to the WH, I hope that she does lift it.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)Sometimes this place feels like the LW's version of Free Republic.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025061551
I have to leave to run some errands. See you later..........
Beacool
(30,247 posts)Thank you.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)because those who would usually bash her statements agree with her on this, therefore... no bashing=no comments.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)They have such a virulent dislike for Hillary, that even when they agree with one of her positions, they don't have the grace and decency to admit it.
Whatever, this is not 2008. If Hillary does choose to run, she'll win the nomination without them.
TeamPooka
(24,210 posts)Robbins
(5,066 posts)that she is left of obama on anything.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)start. Now on to Texas.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)Texas is another story.......