Barack Obama to shift policy on Cuba

Will Obama Shift Policy on Cuba? BBC Article

"As the Americas have changed, we have sat on the sideline, offering no compelling vision and creating a vacuum for demagogues to advance an anti-American agenda

Barack Obama"

Are you fucking kidding me, Barack Obama? We've "sat on the sideline?!" What fucking sideline? The united states has had an extraordinarily active role in the shaping of Latin America, shaping it against the United States. "Creating a vacuum for demagogues?" As though there is no rational reasoning behind the advancement of an Anti-American agenda? Not the puppet governments of Batista and Pinochet, not the arming of right-wing contra guerillas, not the raping of Mexico by NAFTA, not the free trade zones of Guatemala, Ecuador, not the military campaigns in Colombia, not the centuries of pillaging of South American shores.. the Constitution of Cuba itself thanks in it's opening lines their lineage of patriotism and rebellion that overthrew the "Yankee Imperialists"! You make it sound, Barack Obama, as though all of a sudden, whoaaaa, we've woken up in this scary world where everyone hates us for no good reason. Like we're the little guys between the atlantic and the pacific, offering "no compelling vision" and that's why they hate us. That in our absence as the "leader of the free world", we've allowed "evil-doers" to get ahead. You're sounding an awful lot like your predecessor, Barack Obama. And so now, you're saying, let's kick them down a chance to get ahead in global capitalism, let's open their markets to the same disgusting free trade that's ruined economies around the world. Because every other option has failed. Not invasions, not embargoes, the Cubans have survived through the fall of the Soviet Union, through Peak Oil, through isolation tactics, they've survived and graduated to become one of the most successful, healthful, free countries of the southern hemisphere. And so now you want to subject them to the final test- and screw them to hell with the free market. And then dress it up as helping them out. As though that has ever been the goal of the United States. With friends like us, the Cubans need no enemies.