I remember Fidel Castro’s goodwill tour to the US, and at the time, I had just read The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer. So I knew what to look for. I was not surprised when US corporations refused to give up practices that exploited Cuban workers, and Castro nationalized their assets. The US now has friendly relations with almost all nations who committed crimes against US citizens. However, the US has embargoed Cuba for over fifty years, because the alleged crimes were committed against US corporations. It hasn’t worked. It’s time to end the embargo. Of course, Republicans disagree, and Marco “Deport Them All” Rubio (R-FL) has lies to fit the occasion,
Just before the American flag will rise for the first time in more than 50 years at the newly reopened U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba on Friday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) blasted the current administration for expanding trade and travel with the former cold war nemesis.
“In the eyes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Cuban people are suffering because not enough American tourists visit the country,” the Cuban-American presidential hopeful said in a speech in New York City, “when the truth is the Cuban people are suffering because they live in a tyrannical dictatorship.”
Rubio also asserted, in an attack on the Castro government, that “the Cuban people have a standard of living well below that of virtually every other nation in the hemisphere.” Yet the U.N.’s Human Development Index ranks Cuba above all of its Caribbean neighbors, above Mexico, above all of Central America and above much of South America.
Cuba has a lower infant mortality rate than the U.S. and about an equal life expectancy. The country also has the lowest HIV rate in the Americas, according to the United Nations, and just this summer became the first country in the world to eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mothers to children…
Inserted from <Think Progress>
Let’s not forget that Cuba offers free, comprehensive medical care to all it’s citicens, something Rubio and his Republican cronies would deny US citizens.
Kudos to Obama and Kerry for ending this travesty, and let Rubio and his Republican cronies gag on the mierda they are trying to feed us!
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"…let Rubio and his Republican cronies gag on the mierda they are trying to feed us!"
Au contraire (must be other-than-English day on Politics Plus) – I don't want them to gag on it, I want them to smoothly get it ALL down! And the parasites in it to start immobilizing them from the inside out.
Good point!
For those of you who need a translation of this phrase "Rubio Habla Mierda de los Toros!", It would be best to use the google translator at:
https://translate.google.com/
Really do not want to be disciplined by C2. lol.
Rubio is such a hypocrite. Yep. get it all down "smoothly" and rot them all (GOP) from the inside. And they (GOP) are doing an excellent job of it all.
Who needs a translator?
"Rubio Habla Mierda de los Toros!" = Rubio talks bullshit!
. . . just like all Republicanus/Teabaggerum!
Es verdad!!
Cuba has one of the best health systems in the world and doctors educated in Cuba are in great demand all over the world. I think many a tourists from America will now top his sun-filled holiday up with a cheap operation or some plastic surgery in one of those excellent hospitals. Cubans probably have more to fear from those disease-ridden American bodies that come in and what they will do to their health statistics than they have from the "tyrannical dictatorship"they live in.
Rubio seems to conveniently forget that things have changed for the better since Raúl Castro took over from his brother Fidel in 2008 and that even Fidel has apologized for some of the 'mistakes' he has made in his political past and his too strict adherence to communism. But Rubio is not spouting his Mierda de los Toros on behalf of the Cuban people, but on behalf of Florida's wealthy doctors and hospitals who will now see a lot of their revenue go to Cuba, so any lie is allowed, right?
Well we knnow his family came here, when Fidel was still in Mexico plotting the revolution, and his statement that his family fled Castro's Cuba is a lie. He has that lie part of his political identity.
Marco – Why don't you just grab your gerbil bottle and take a hike!
(Enjoyed your headline! Maybe a little literal – could just go w/ "Mierda" colloquially.)
You list Cuban achievements that are well deserving of pride. I wonder whether there is an element of sour grapes because he didn't position himself to make money off of this event.
Possible, but I have no evidence to support it.
Oh! Joanne D.! What you said! I agree! Wholeheartedly! Let them not even get a SIP of water to wash it down, EITHER!
Rubio needs to take a better look at the systems down there! They have more money in Classic Cars than he will ever see in his coffers in his run for the president!
Thank, Vivian. I would let tham have water if it contains e. Coli. Tyrannical dictatorship indeed. We are living under a Republican Congress – now THAT's a tyrannical dictatorship if you like.
It has never made sense to me to continue this embargo. Glad Kerry and the Prez worked this out. Rubio is a Koch, ALEC owned politician.
From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista
This is the Cuba that Rubio would defend. Sound familiar? It should because it is the way that the Republicanus/Teabaggerum operate. So which is the more tyrannical régime?
Cuba has:
a narrowing of the income inequality rate,
universal health care,
a standard of living above it's neighbour's and perhaps higher than some areas of the US,
lower infant mortality than the US, and
the lowest HIV rate in the Americas.
Under the Republicanus/Teabaggorum, the US would have:
a continuation and expansion of the income inequality gap,
no universal healthcare (aka universal death care),
a lower standard of living to match the income inequality gap, and the disappearance of the middle class,
a continuing increase in infant mortality as a result of the lack of maternal health programmes, and
an HIV rate that would climb further because of the lack of healthcare.
Rubio and all the other Republicanus/Teabaggerum need to be exposed as the liars and deceivers they are!
Excellent commentary from Lynn above.
And I believe his family benefited under Bautista and fled when that power/benefit relationship disappeared
Very well said!!
That is a 1956 Ford Convertible in the photo above meaning that it is 59 years old and looking very good.
The embargo has kept most new cars out of the country, so they have dome an amazing job of refurbishing the ones thay had.
I don't speak Spanish, but I did manage to work out the title and it seems most apt.
Gracias a todos y abrazos!!