{"id":9979,"date":"2009-04-22T06:32:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T11:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9979"},"modified":"2009-04-22T07:03:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T12:03:59","slug":"now-thats-the-fidel-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9979","title":{"rendered":"Now THAT&#8217;S the Fidel we know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama learned why we&#8217;ve frozen out Cuba from US relations for the last five decades. On Sunday, Obama sent a message to Raul Castro announcing his plans to lift some aspects of the embargo against the communist nation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/world\/story\/66476.html\">McClatchey<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If Castro wants to start a dialogue with the United States, he should start by releasing political prisoners and lowering the steep fees the Cuban government charges on money sent from abroad, Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, his administration will examine what other steps can be taken toward ending decades of isolation between Washington and the hemisphere&#8217;s last communist nation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So today, Fidel responds (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,517383,00.html\">Fox News\/AP link<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fidel Castro said Tuesday that President Barack Obama &#8220;misinterpreted&#8221; his brother Raul&#8217;s sentiments toward the United States and bristled at any suggestion Cuba should free political prisoners or reduce official fees on money sent to the island from the U.S.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How dare the US dictate policies to the Castros? In other words, they have no intention of ever allowing any meaningful measure of freedom. They want to continue with business as usual &#8211; stealing the bounty of the labor of everyday Cubans PLUS steal money from their relatives in the US, and they feel no compunction to abide by any deals with the US.<\/p>\n<p>Damn, this is harder than just making campaign promises, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama learned why we&#8217;ve frozen out Cuba from US relations for the last five decades. &hellip; <a title=\"Now THAT&#8217;S the Fidel we know\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9979\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now THAT&#8217;S the Fidel we know<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}