fiery rally before a miami crow crowd, he called out the cuba regime s treatment of opponent and demanded his return of a woman convicted of killing a new jersey state trooper. president trump: we challenge cuba to come to the table of a new agreement that is in the best interests of both their people and our people, and also of cuban-americans. to the cuban government, i say put an end to the abuse of dissidents. release the political prisoners. stop jailing innocent people. open your selves to political and economic freedoms. return the fugitives from american justice, including the return of the cop killer joe and
policy, which also had big changes. this is a direct hit to one of president obama s significant achievements. in a tweet posted moments ago, the president promised to, quote, empower the cuban people and hold the regime accountable. on some level, it is as though his goal is to repeal and replace obama full stop. the first major change, reinstituting some of the travel restrictions lifted by president obama two years ago. specifically, those on individual travelers. you remember the boom, this excitement around people getting to go and visit cuba. now, americans who are hoping to travel to the island will have to go on as part of an organized group tour. like how it used to happen. the second change would be to block american companies from doing business with the cuban military, a move meant to restrict the flow of cash to oppressive elements of the cuba regime, which is according to a senior administration official. one point i know we re going to dig into. they don t like the
there s no logic to criticize what president obama did. this is a wise and courageous thing for president obama to do and in my opinion, long overdue. in my time in the white house, we would have had diplomatic relationships there and maintained since 1979 in havana and in washington. do you see, i mean, it s interesting. obviously, you know fidel and raul castro. raul, how does he compare? is he hard lined as fidel castro, do you see any efforts or willingness of this regime by raul castro to really effect change towards democracy? people in cuba still really respect and revere almost fidel castro but there s no doubt under raul s presidency, there have been a lot of openness and reforms implemented in cuba, particularly, economic in nature. a lot of things are permitted in cuba now that were not permitted as long as fidel was in office. so i think with raul, this is what he told me personally and all the visitors is he s looking for an opportunity to open up cuba step by step. i
a lot of the survival depends on venezuelan oil money is drying up and economy is in shambles. we ve held it in place for 50 plus years. the cuban regime, two castro brothers since january 1st, 1959. over half a century. we are a lot closer to the end than we are to the beginning and so now when we are so close to the end of the castros, the end of that regime, when you haven t seen fidel castro react because if he s alive, he s too weak or too senile to know this just happened and react. now that we are so close to the end of those two dictators who have oppressed these people for over half a century, now we re going to change and do it unilaterally without them lifting the oppression? ana, what sign do you see
cuban people. all of this is going to do is give the castro regime which controls every aspect of cuban life the opportunity to manipulate these changes. to perpetuate itself in power. this debate has been going on for decades. it s deeply personal. political commentator and gop strategist navarro and senior western security affairs on the counsel. ana, you re critical of the agreement. to rubio s point, there s relationships with china and vietnam, why not with cuba? well, first of all, china and vietnam are not in the state-sponsored terrorism list as cuba has been. instructing secretary kerry to take them off. you know, anderson, part of it, yes, is internal politics. the bottom line is that there are a lot of cuban american