I think President Obama had courage, just as Nixon had courage to go to China, just as Reagan had courage to deal with Gorbachev, just as Bill Clinton and John Kerry and John McCai...
It is not an acknowledgement that things are better in terms of human rights in Cuba or any more democracy.
In announcing the policy change, the President stated that this is fundamentally about freedom and openness.
I find it incredibly disconcerting that President Obama made his announcement on December 17th, and I still have not been granted a private ...
So it is fair to say that this negotiation occurred through NSC personnel.
But what about the policy changes?
Is it not fair to say that if tomorrow an American gets on an airplane and travels to Cuba and stays at a hotel and rents a car and fills up...
the Castro government has turned our policy against us, and how this has helped an authoritarian form of government survive.
So the CEO of this company that owns all these hotels on the island is also a general of this repressive government.
Cuba yes, Castro no.
no country ever became a democracy simply because of trade and tourists.