In Victory Speech, Dictator Raul Castro Demands Obama Issue Another ‘Executive Action’ to Lift Embargo

December 18, 2014 By Greg Campbell

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It seems that dictators are inclined to think alike as Raul Castro, the despotic leader of Cuba who rules via executive edict, has demanded that President Obama continue down the same road of tyranny and issue an executive order to lift the embargo on Cuba that has stood for decades.

 

Raul Castro, the brother of communist dictator Fidel Castro and the current leader of Cuba, revealed the news of Obama’s reforms with diplomatic relations with Cuba to the Cuban people imprisoned on the island and celebrated that Obama’s actions would lead to “sustainable socialism”

 

Breitbart News reports on Castro’s victory lap in the game of diplomacy that every U.S. president, up until now, has won: 

Castro spoke simultaneously to the Cuban people as President Obama delivered his remarks, explaining the release of both USAID worker Alan Gross– who had been subjected to various abuses in Cuban prison for attempting to connect Cuban Jews to the Internet– and three Cuban spies convicted of crimes in the United States. He described the release of the three spies as a promise kept by “Comrade Fidel” and addressed them by their first names.

 

For Castro, he explained, the new diplomatic relations were a sign that Cuba can “resolve differences through negotiations without renouncing to even one of our principles.” He heralded “the heroic cuban people” for “remain[ing] loyal to our ideals of independence and social justice.” The new reforms, he continued, would help in “the actualization of our economic model to construct a prosperous and sustainable socialism.”

 

Castro noted that “this decision by President Obama deserves the respect and recognition of our people,” without indicating any specific measure Cuba would taken in removing its economic sanctions and limits on the American people. Instead, he placed the blame squarely on President Obama’s shoulders, and urged unilateral executive action:

 

The economic, commercial, and financial blockade that provokes enormous human and economic damage to our nation must cease. Even though the measures of the blockade have been made by law, the President of the United States can modify their application through his executive powers. We propose to the United States government to adopt mutual measures to improve the bilateral climate and advance towards normalization of links between our countries, based on the principles of the international rights and the UN Charter. 

 

Castro only expressed a “will to dialogue” about both economics and human rights, demanding the United States “remove obstructions to the families of both nations regarding trips, direct postal service, and telecommunications.” He did not discuss his own unilateral executive actions in September severely limiting travel by Cuban Americans into the island and limiting the free flow of necessary goods from Cuban Americans to the needy on the island. 

President Obama’s continued commitment to the advancement of socialism and the weakening of America’s foreign relations remains evident in this one diplomatic disaster.