Desperate for an electoral win in Florida in November, President Trump is targeting the Cuban people with even more impoverishment, maybe even death. He just announced that he is strengthening the 60-year-old economic embargo against Cuba by ordering a cancellation of private charter flights to the island. Trump’s Secretary of State (and former CIA Director) Mike Pompeo said, “The suspension of private charter flights will deny economic resources to the Castro regime and inhibit its capacity to carry out abuses.”
Unfortunately, Pompeo failed to mention anything about the abuses that his former agency — the CIA — also carries out in Cuba. I’m referring, of course, to the CIA-Pentagon torture and prison center at Guantanamo Bay, where torture, indefinite detention, denial of due process, and kangaroo military tribunals are established policies, just like on the communist side of Cuba.
Pompeo said that another reason for strengthening the embargo is the Cuban regime’s support of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. But why isn’t it within the prerogative of any government to support any other government in the world? Let’s not forget, after all, that the U.S. government is one of the biggest supporters of dictatorships in the world, especially the ones that it installs into power. Do the names Saudi Arabia (today), Egypt (today), Guatemala (1954), Iran (1953), Cuba (prior to 1959), and Chile (1973) come to mind, among many others?
And hey, let’s not forget Vietnam! That country has been headed by a communist regime ever since it defeated the Pentagon and the CIA in the Vietnam War, killing 58,000 American men in the process. The Vietnamese communist regime has the same type of political system as the one in Cuba, one where the exercise of the rights of free speech and free assembly are not permitted........read more........
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