Romney Says He Wants to Oversee the End of the Castro Regime
by John Lantigua | January 25th, 2012Mitt Romney told a loud, enthusiastic crowd of Cuban-American supporters here Wednesday that if elected president he will oppose the Castro regime in Cuba “by overt ways and covert ways” and says he hopes he can help drive Fidel and Raul Castro from power.
He stopped short of calling for military action against Cuba.
“I want to be president at the time when we are able to say we brought freedom back to Cuba,” he said to loud applause at the historic Freedom Tower in downtown Miami. Romney was hosted there by the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC.
Romney was joined on stage by many Cuban-American political stalwarts –U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Miami), former Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, and former U.S. senator Mel Martinez. U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, R-Naples, was also on hand.
Romney attacked President Barack Obama who he said had made concessions to the Castro regime by increasing remittances that can be sent to Cuba and allowing more Americans to travel there, which he said was only helping prop up the Castro regime.
He said “ showing an olive branch” to Cuba was the wrong approach.
“By helping Castro (Obama) is not helping the people of Cuba, he is hurting them,” Romney said.
He said if elected he would strictly enforce the economic embargo against Cuba.
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January 25th, 2012 at 8:21 pm
I can assure you this days there are more human rights and less oppression in Cuba than here in the U.S. While this country is always sticking its nose in other countries affairs; here in the U.S. we have more people in prisons and more police brutality than in any other country in the world. We love to boast to all the nations about our great justice system and human rights, but we don’t tell them that those rights and so called justice is only for those who can afford it. In Cuba no one can get rich, that’s true. But no one is homeless either and there are no foreclosures and families thrown out in the streets like animals after being scam and ripped off by banks schemes.
January 26th, 2012 at 2:09 pm
We’ve been hearing this from Republicans for years.
They’ve accomplished nothing.
The only way to “free” Cuba is to open up all travel, all communication, all internet, all radio & TV and let Cubans themselves communicate with each other and form their own homegrown opposition.
Americans deserve the truth about Cuba, not the lies.
How many children get shot in Cuba’s schools? Zero. More kids in Chicago schools get shot in 1 year than in the last 50 in Cuba.
That’s just 1 example – what Casto’s soldiers did when they stole private property was wrong. But their society today is safer than ours by a longshot.
If there had been no economic embargo who knows how much they would have prospered.
An open policy towards Cuba is the only way to “freedom” for Cuban people.