Hillary's position on Cuba is more or less the same as Obama's. She discussed that in her book Hard Choices, according to the Washington Post.
Someone polled about 350 people and concluded that the younger generation in Florida favors the Obama policy. However, Cuban dissidents are reporting that the Cuban community prefers the status quo policy overwhelmingly because of the deaths of Floridians caused by Cubans, among other reasons.
At the end of this post, I will quote Hillary, but first some short introductory points.
1. The purpose of the Cuban embargo was not regime change but confinement of the Cuban military excursions into other countries. This was made clear by Dean Rusk, Secretary of State for then President John F. Kennedy, at an Organization of American States meeting.
2. George W. Bush effectively ended the embargo. Cuba can buy whatever she wants as long as she pays cash. The Castros are reportedly billionaires.
3. The average Cuban makes $20 per month. Cuba would be a source of cheap labor for American businesses.
4. Credit should not be extended to Cuba as she has defaulted on every singe loan ever made. The American taxpayer is going to get stuck with the bill and big companies such as Cargill, for example, are going to bank the taxpayers' money.
5. The Cuban vote can determine the outcome of an election in Florida.
6. In 2008 Obama supported the embargo, etc., and in 2012 was silent on the issue, so again he appears to be reaching for a legacy.
7. North Korea and Cuba are much the same.
Here is what Hillary wrote:
Near the end of our tenure, I recommended to President Obama that he take another look at the embargo. It wasn’t achieving its goals, and it was holding back our broader agenda across Latin America. After twenty years of observing and dealing with the U.S.-Cuba relationship, I thought we should shift the onus onto the Castros to explain why they remained undemocratic and abusive.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...lary-clinton-versus-jeb-bush-and-marco-rubio/
Someone polled about 350 people and concluded that the younger generation in Florida favors the Obama policy. However, Cuban dissidents are reporting that the Cuban community prefers the status quo policy overwhelmingly because of the deaths of Floridians caused by Cubans, among other reasons.
At the end of this post, I will quote Hillary, but first some short introductory points.
1. The purpose of the Cuban embargo was not regime change but confinement of the Cuban military excursions into other countries. This was made clear by Dean Rusk, Secretary of State for then President John F. Kennedy, at an Organization of American States meeting.
2. George W. Bush effectively ended the embargo. Cuba can buy whatever she wants as long as she pays cash. The Castros are reportedly billionaires.
3. The average Cuban makes $20 per month. Cuba would be a source of cheap labor for American businesses.
4. Credit should not be extended to Cuba as she has defaulted on every singe loan ever made. The American taxpayer is going to get stuck with the bill and big companies such as Cargill, for example, are going to bank the taxpayers' money.
5. The Cuban vote can determine the outcome of an election in Florida.
6. In 2008 Obama supported the embargo, etc., and in 2012 was silent on the issue, so again he appears to be reaching for a legacy.
7. North Korea and Cuba are much the same.
Here is what Hillary wrote:
Near the end of our tenure, I recommended to President Obama that he take another look at the embargo. It wasn’t achieving its goals, and it was holding back our broader agenda across Latin America. After twenty years of observing and dealing with the U.S.-Cuba relationship, I thought we should shift the onus onto the Castros to explain why they remained undemocratic and abusive.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...lary-clinton-versus-jeb-bush-and-marco-rubio/
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