The U.S. has terrorized Cuba for over 50 years — Fidel Castro is right to be wary of Obama’s claims
Wednesday, Mar 30, 2016 11:15 AM CDT
The U.S. has terrorized Cuba for over 50 years — Fidel Castro is right to be wary of Obama’s claims
Since the 1959 revolution the U.S. has invaded Cuba, tried assassinations, imposed an embargo & harbored terrorists
Ben Norton
“We don’t need the empire to give us anything,” asserted revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in a recent article criticizing President Obama in the wake of his trip to Cuba.
Obama made history this month as the first standing U.S. president to visit the neighboring island nation in 88 years.The president was applauded for a speech in which he described Cuba as “family,” and called for easing tensions between the countries.
“It is time, now, for us to leave the past behind,” Obama insisted. The former Cuban president scoffed at the idea.
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For the crimes — and there is no question that they are crimes — the U.S. has repeatedly and continuously committed against its sovereign neighbor over the past five decades include:
•a violent invasion that left hundreds dead
•more than 600 assassination attempts
•myriad covert campaigns dedicated to fomenting “hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”
•the unilateral imposition of a suffocating embargo
•and the harboring of CIA-trained admitted terrorists who murdered Cuban civilians in hopes of toppling the socialist state.
More:
http://www.salon.com/2016/03/30/the_u_s_has_menaced_cuba_for_over_50_years_fidel_castro_is_right_to_be_wary_of_obamas_claims/
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