If anyone who reads this article by chance also saw and heard what Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and his interpreter had to say during the reinauguration of the Cuban embassy in Washington, you heard what real bullshit is all about. This communist ass-sniffer put a 180 spin on EVERYTHING that transpired in Cuba 56 years ago, and in the decades that have followed since.
One example of this, and there are many, deals with him saying how the United States stole land belonging to Cuba and its people in order to open the base in Guantanamo. Of course, he failed to say, because he is a communist sympathizer, that the Cuban Revolution of 1959 was all about stealing homes, businesses and personal belongings from the Cuban population. The result is that the two Castro brothers became billionaires. And while ass-sniffers such as Bruno Rodriguez and his predecessors, those who helped Fidel and Raul Castro gain and maintain control over the Cuban people have lived in relative comfort, the Cuban masses have lived in poverty and misery. This had nothing to do with the U.S. embargo on Cuba, this had to do with the Revolution, which was and to this day remains a communist ideology.
Bruno Fernandez also purposely failed to acknowledge that there are Cubans who to this day are still in prison because they opposed the Castro regime, and that thousands of Cubans, his countrymen, were assassinated before a firing squad for speaking out against communism.
In short, Bruno Fernandez, and all of the Cuban scum who have supported the communist regime of those two cockroaches known as Fidel and Raul Castro, are either totally indoctrinated, which makes them ignorant, and/or world-class hypocrites. Either way, they are low-lifes. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Reuters
By Matt Spetalnick
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez presided over the reinauguration of the embassy, a milestone in the diplomatic thaw that began with an announcement by U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro on Dec. 17.
Underscoring differences that remain between the United States and Communist-ruled Cuba, Rodriguez seized the opportunity to urge Obama to use executive powers to do more to dismantle the economic embargo, the main stumbling block to full normalization of ties. For its part, the Obama administration pressed Havana for improvement on human rights.
But even with continuing friction, the reopening of embassies in each other’s capitals provided the most concrete symbols yet of what has been achieved after more than two years of negotiations between governments that had long shunned each other.
In a further sign of a desire to move past a half-century of enmity, Secretary of State John Kerry later hosted Rodriguez, the first Cuban foreign minister to visit Washington since the Cuban Revolution, for talks at the State Department.
“The historic events we are living today will only make sense with the removal of the economic, commercial and financial blockade, which causes so much deprivation and damage to our people, the return of occupied territory in Guantanamo, and respect for the sovereignty of Cuba,” Rodriguez said at the reopening ceremony.
Obama has modestly eased some business and travel restrictions but the broader 53-year-old embargo remains in place. Only Congress can lift it, something majority Republicans are unlikely to do anytime soon despite the Democratic president’s appeal for it to be rescinded.
With Rodriguez at his side later on Monday, Kerry hailed a “new beginning” in relations but said there was still much that divided the two governments and that the path to complete normalization may be “long and complex.”
White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters the administration was “hopeful” that Cuba in coming years would start to show respect for basic human rights.
Earlier, a three-man military honor guard marched onto the front lawn of the newly restored embassy in Washington where the Cuban flag was hoisted while the Cuban national anthem played.
There were competing chants from the crowd outside the gates. “Cuba si, embargo no!” shouted one group. “Cuba si, Fidel no,” yelled a much smaller contingent of counter-demonstrators.
Rodriguez then spoke inside the stately building, which was visited by revolutionary leader Fidel Castro just months after he seized power in Cuba in 1959.
In Havana, the U.S. Embassy was also reopened for business but with much less fanfare. The Stars and Stripes will not be hoisted there until a visit by Kerry on Aug. 14.
In Washington, more than 500 people attended the ceremony at the nearly century-old mansion. The U.S. delegation was headed by Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson.
Before dawn on Monday, workers hung the Cuban flag in the lobby of the State Department alongside the banners of other countries with which the United States has diplomatic relations.
“We’ve waited a long time for this day,” Senator Patrick Leahy, a staunch supporter of rapprochement, said as he entered the grounds of the Cuban Embassy.
Hard-line anti-Castro lawmakers, such as Senators Marco Rubio and Bob Menendez, who oppose Obama’s outreach to Cuba, were not invited.
The opening to Cuba reflects Obama’s presidential doctrine of negotiating with enemies, a concept that faces an even tougher test with a nuclear deal reached with Iran last week.
But the counterpoint to restoration of ties is a long list of lingering disputes, as well as Havana’s desire to keep a tight rein on Cuba’s society and its state-run economy.
In addition to lifting the embargo, Havana demands the return of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay – an issue that Kerry said Cuba had “strong feelings about” but which is not currently under discussion. Other problems include the countries’ outstanding legal claims against each other and Cuba’s sheltering of American fugitives.
(Additional reporting by Dan Trotta and Jiame Hamre in Havana, Idrees Ali, Susan Heavey and David Brunnstrom in Washington, David Adams in Miami; Editing by Doina Chiacu and Dan Grebler)
