Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Anger in Congress against Obama and rapprochement with Cuba – The World

Republican Senator Marco Rubio, hostile to the rapprochement with Cuba, on 17 December in Washington.

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Florida Senator, where many Cuban refugees very hostile to the regime of Raul Castro, the Republican Marco Rubio criticized the naivete of the states-Stator initiative. “The White House conceded all but achieved little” , said Marco Rubio told reporters.

“THIS CONGRESS not lift NOT BAN”

Marco Rubio chair from January Subcommittee of Foreign Affairs will be responsible to examine and confirm the next US ambassador to Cuba, and implied that this confirmation s’ prove tricky.

“This Congress will not lift the embargo” , further stated Marco Rubio, in response to the call of Barack Obama to end the embargo in place since 1962. “I will use all the tools at my disposal to thwart as much as possible the changes announced” .

President Republican House of Representatives, John Boehner, regretted “a long series of ill-considered concessions to a dictatorship that brutalizes its people and conspires with our enemies” . “This will encourage all countries that support terrorism,” , he said.

The Democrats were not left out, including Senator Robert Menendez, who presided until now the Foreign Affairs Committee and is part of the group of viscerally hostile parliament to lift sanctions against Cuba.

“TIME FOR CHANGE CAME”

The reconciliation “endorse the brutal behavior of the Cuban government” , has he said in a stern statement. Senator particularly regretted the exchange of three Cuban spies against a Cuban imprisoned on the island for spying on behalf of Washington. “This asymmetrical exchange will only encourage Cuba to become more belligerent towards the Cuban opposition” , has he predicted.

Three parliamentary fetched Alan Gross, released Wednesday by Cuba after five years of detention in favor of the merger. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, Republican Senator Jeff Flake and Democrat Chris Van Hollen

Patrick Leahy urged his colleagues not to “cling to a failed policy” . “The time for change has come,” , he said on his return to the United States

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