under castro rule. the most cruel, the most evil revolution that the americas has seen since the arrival of christopher columbus, no one has been able to be crueler and take repression to scientific levels, i am sure the castros will write history, and historians will look back and say these people gained power and maintained it over the most cruel and severe repression, but right now those people who have lost everything, their families, food, medicine, they lost their fear. that is where we see them we have seem them for 7 days out in the streets, thousands of cubans, facing torture, facing death, facing jail, and now the
under castro rule. the most cruel, the most evil revolution that the americas has seen since the arrival of christopher columbus, no one has been able to be crueler and take repression to scientific levels, i am sure the castros will write history, and historians will look back and say these people gained power and maintained it over the most cruel and severe repression, but right now those people who have lost everything, their families, food, medicine, they lost their fear. that is where we see them we have seem them for 7 days out in the streets, thousands of cubans, facing torture, facing death, facing jail, and now the
we saw the obama/castro game that they watched together. some people would say that s not how you do diplomacy with dictators like the castros. what do you say to your critics? i would say this they were learning from the mistakes of 60 years. we were learning from what had not worked in america s cuba policy. this is an island of 11 million people that are 90 miles from florida. if you allow for travel, the internet, the people are going to be empowered. you talk about a lot of american politicians, talking about the cuban people want. there was public opinion research after the obama opening that found that 977% of the cuban people supported normalization. they desperately want that interaction with the united states. the people protesting, of course, want freedom and deserve greater access to the basic universal values. they re also hungry, mehdi. they want they need medicine, they need food and the united states is in part together with the policies of the cuban government, res
all of the chickens and different poultry, when embargo? the embargo is one imposed, the castros are the ones who imposed the embargo on the cubans, because the fishermen cannot sell their fish, that has nothing to do with americanic embargo. the farmers cannot sell their crops to their own cubans, the castros have been in the business of power, they have done such a great job in san strangling the population, they say no more, as a congresswoman from the city of miami, heart of cuban exile community, and members of congress, we re
the cuban economy. they were connected to the americans who were traveling down there. we negotiated as part of the normalization deal with the cuban government not just the release of 53 political prisoners, but also increased internet access in cuba, increased wi-fi in cuba, entry for u.s. technology and social media platforms into cuba that became part of the way people in cuba were able to empower and connect one another. this is absurd to suggest that somehow the some way to support the cuban people is to a completely stifling embargo. your critics would say that, look, engagement was fine, diplomacy was fine, but you guys went too far. that you were way to chummy. we saw the obama/castro game that they watched together. some people would say that s not how you do diplomacy with dictators like the castros. what do you say to your critics? i would say this they were learning from the mistakes of 60