Much like the
emperor of fabled fame, President Obama was left with no clothes on and saying
thanks for the memories…
As the President spoke from the podium, we were informed that
there had been an agreement to exchange prisoners and to re-establish relations
with Cuba, after 50+ years of diplomatic void. There would be new business
avenues open, and even the status of Cuba as a terrorist sponsor nation would
be subject to revision. All this, in exchange for basically… nothing.
What happened was that with one unilateral (and probably
unconstitutional) decision, Obama has given a new lease on life to a tired,
sagging regimen that has oppressed 11M citizens, caused massive people flight
and has germinated untold deaths through their fostering of guerrillas in Latin
America; Sendero Luminoso, Putumayos, Sandinistas, FARC (group which is now in Cuba “negotiating” a very one-sided peace treaty
with the Col. Govt) and the list goes on. All given in exchange for
nothing.
Where is the agreement to free political prisoners, to
guarantee human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of expression and thought;
freedom of movement. Where are the monitoring structures to
guarantee that whatever comes in will -at least in part- go to the direct
benefit of the people? Not just to the government and to the already bulging
bank accounts of the hierarchy? Sorry Mr. Obama. You were invited to a party,
were made to pay for it and got the leftovers. Bad move. This grandstanding is
not the way to retake the initiative lost in the midterm elections.
A change in the relations would have been
welcome, but with some of the above issues included as must-deal-with issues.
The Cuban communist hierarchy is a government which has shown absolutely no intentions
of leaving the country or the power it wields over its people. This is a government
which has, while yelling “Foul”, completely subjugated a people, keeping them
in emotional, physical and intellectual misery. They have used every excuse in
the book, blamed everyone but their own actions and terrible mismanagement,
accusing the very Yankees who would now become their de-facto saviors, of being
the cause of all their ills and misery. All this while filling their personal
bank accounts to the point of obscenity.
Maybe the midterm election debacle left a
very bad taste in the mouth of our defeated president. I wonder if this is an
in-your-face slap to that 65% of voters who turned their back to his own
mismanagement and mistakes, and to his use of an almost dictatorial mania in decreeing
what he thinks right, without really accounting to those who disagree.
If this is the case, it will be left to those who will now
come to reestablish the rule of law to review and not to shelve, but to
restructure what could be a positive beginning, but which must include benefits
for the people of both the US and Cuba.
Be Well … Be Back!!!
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