Alberto de la Cruz

Cuba’s totalitarian communist regime has enjoyed decades of impunity as it brutally oppresses its own people and spreads the cancer of socialism throughout Latin America. But the future is not bright for Cuba’s apartheid dictatorship and they know it. They are running out of support, time, and money and will do whatever is necessary to survive. Even attempt to adopt the same slogans as their sworn enemy.

Frances Martel reports in Breitbart:

Cuba Adopts Trump-Style Slogan for Leftist Summit: ‘Latin America First’

Cuban state propaganda newspaper Granma called for a regional “Latin America First” policy to combat the alleged “Monroe doctrine” revival occurring under President Donald Trump this week, promoting a “Thinking Americas Forum” to replace the pro-democracy Summit of the Americas that Trump is expected to attend.

The Summit of the Americas is held by the Organization of American States (OAS) and will occur next month in Lima, Peru. Cuba was banned from the OAS between the time of the Cuban Revolution until 2009, when a coalition of socialist states led by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez voted to tentatively allow Cuba back. The OAS requires all members to be participating democracies.

This year, the OAS did not invite Chávez’s successor, Nicolás Maduro, to the summit. Although Maduro has vowed he will personally disrupt the summit anyway and has lied about receiving an invitation, the Cuban government made legitimizing the Venezuelan tyranny a priority at the “Thinking Americas Forum.”

Granma promoted the forum on its website throughout the week. In a piece titled “It’s Time for Latin America First,” the newspaper described it as a “parallel” forum that will “have the challenge of showing the diversity and richness of Cuban civil society in times of transcendental change to guarantee a prosperous and sustainable socialism.” Despite being run by the Cuban Communist Party, the regime often chooses to use the word “socialist” for its autocratic rule as communism’s record of 100 million dead has largely tainted the communist brand.

“As the liberators said 200 years ago, it is time to say, ‘Latin America and the Caribbean first,’” the column concludes, deriding President Trump’s “America First” policy, and the president himself, as “xenophobic” and “reviving the Monroe doctrine.” The Monroe doctrine was an anti-imperialist policy that warned Europe not to meddle in the Western Hemisphere, as this constituted a threat to American interests. The Castro regime regularly claims to be an “anti-imperialist” regime, despite colonizing Venezuela, and refers to the United States as el imperio, “the empire.”

Claiming that Trump’s threat of “fire and fury” against North Korea would apply also to Latin America, the Granma piece goes on to warn that Trump will arrive at the Summit of the Americas “with his xenophobic rhetoric fresh in the memory of his Latin American and Caribbean analogs.” Rather than use the summit as planned—to address the dire humanitarian crisis in Venezuela—Granma‘s writers would prefer the occasion become a referendum on Trump.

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In addition to claiming it is a colorblind communist society, Cuba’s apartheid Castro dictatorship also claims they are on the forefront of LGBT rights. The former is a documented lie (see yesterday’s post HERE) and the latter is a documented lie as well. Contrary to the propaganda put out by the regime and parroted by useful idiots throughout the world, the bigotted and homophobic Castro dictatorship continues its policy of persecuting LGBT Cubans.

Via The Washington Blade:

Homophobia in Cuban sports

Editor’s note: Tremenda Nota is an independent e-magazine in Cuba that reports on the country’s LGBT and other minority communities and young people. It is a Washington Blade media partner in Latin America.

Tremenda Nota originally published this story on its website in Spanish.

In Cuba sport is untouchable, one of the most significant strongholds of machismo where homophobia es pasto de cultivo diario. How difficult is life for an athlete who goes against heteronormative standards?

This time the three training sessions ended really late, so the girls had to wash later than usual in the shared bathroom of the student dorms. The hour now clashed with the softball players’ turn to bathe.

“What are you doing in the bathroom?” her roommates asked her.

The answer seemed obvious, “Bathing, taking advantage of the fact that there’s water!”

But the worst was yet to come.

“Nooo, you have to fill the bucket and wait for the men to finish!”

Liuba Grajales was 12 years old when she was awarded a place at the Sports Initiation School (EIDE) in Santa Clara, 260 kilometres from the Cuban capital. This is where she was exposed to homophobia for the first time. Three years later, from la base nacional de fondo, which was headquartered in the same city, she was the national runner-up in the half marathon and was expected to win the following year.

Until that time her sexuality had had no impact on her life. “It started to affect me when I fell in love with a woman. When they dared to question my athletic performance because of my sexual orientation,” she tells Tremenda Nota in the storeroom of the pharmacy where she works on the Sagua highway.

Before she fell in love with a woman she “fulfilled” expectations; she had a boyfriend and seemed to have a defined sexuality. Still, although they were not sure that she was a lesbian, her classmates stopped talking to her in their dorms and the classroom. They would also try to provoke physical confrontations. Teachers and trainers never intervened. At the time Liuba only had a gay friend who she liked spending time with. This was labelled “antisocial behavior.” A meeting was immediately called and brought her mother to the school.

The school’s director, her trainer, the athletics commissioner and the head of the training base (all men) gave her two options: They could take away her scholarship or she had to stop spending time with the person “with antisocial characteristics.” They considered being gay to be antisocial. “I thought antisocial meant robbing, killing, not working, not studying, what’s outlined in the criminal code. But I was doing well, I felt good, I liked what I was doing. After that meeting I didn’t want to have anything to do with sport, so I decided to leave.”

Liuba abandoned her rising athletic career to avoid homophobia. Now she is 35 years old and a pharmacist and LGBTI activist in Cuba. She believes that the best thing that has happened to her was accepting her sexuality and leaving high performance sport.

“They humiliate you, bully and marginalise you. They demand double. They don’t see you as a woman, more like a man. You don’t even want to see yourself like that. I tried not to listen, that was my defence mechanism. If you lower your head it’s bad, but if you dare to lift it it’s worse.”

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Ivan Garcia in Translating Cuba:

Private Sector in Cuba, Defenseless in Face of New Restrictions

The last week was pure hustle and bustle for Yunia, owner of a hair salon in the neighborhood of Cerro, fifteen minutes by car from downtown Havana. After having given birth at 48 to a nine-pound baby girl and while breastfeeding her in an armchair, holding the cordless telephone between her right shoulder and her head, she was talking to a sister who, for two months, had been running her hair salon.

The news on the other side of the line was not good. “My sister says that an official of the ONAT (National Tax Administration Office) informed her that when the state begins issuing licenses again, in the case of hairdressers, the products [purchased for use in the business] must be supported by a purchase receipts in the [legal] market.”

Yunia explains that in hard currency stores, beauty products are expensive and their sale is irregular. “Sometimes a certain product disappears for months. The best Havanan hairdressers buy their products abroad, either because people have the ability to travel or because their relatives send them. They are also acquired through ’mules’ dedicated to the sale of clothing, cleaning and cosmetics.”

She puts her newborn in her crib and continues explaining: “Hair treatments, extensions and dyes, when using premium products are expensive. In a month, a young woman who carries extensions can spend 30 or 40 CUC in her city. But in Havana there are customers who can pay those prices. For hairdressers there are a variety of options, to try to please all pockets. If now, the State begins to inspect and control the inputs or insists that they be bought in Cuba, the prices will rise, since it will be much more expensive to obtain suitable cosmetics. The worst thing is not the state interference, but that the private workers are legally defenseless. They impose new measures and there is no legal venue where one can take a complaint. It’s a lion-to-monkey fight, with the monkey tied up. ”

Since last week, Martí Noticias and the Reuters news agency revealed details about a restrictive package of measures for private work, the social networks lit up, and inside the old taxis, which have become forums for debate, discontent has been increasing.

The new twist is being openly criticized by ordinary Cubans. “They did it with the roving cart vendors and the private produce markets, and now you walk through the state produce markets and they’re empty,” says Roberto, retired, pointing with his hand to the dirty and empty shelves.

“What will be the solution, that the State takes control of everything again? That has not worked in sixty years. Sometimes I think there are government officials who are from the CIA. They are idiots. If you forbid what works more or less well, to implement what has never worked, chaos returns. The issue is not that individuals charge high prices. The problem is that the State does not pay the wages that are needed. Of course, the easiest thing is to take on the weakest party and put a lot of limitations and kill your business or make you work yourself to death to earn a few pesos,” says Gladys, a state cafeteria worker.

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Michael Ramirez:

Cuba’s Castro dictatorship continues to show the world the wonders of socialism.

Mamela Fiallo reports in PanAm Post:

Amid historic meat shortage in Cuba, either you steal or you starve

Domestic burglary and compulsive shopping resulted from a panic boosted by meat shortage in Cuba’s west region.

Those familiar with the island’s history will remember that Cuba lost its financial backing, after decades of dependence, when the USSR came apart.

Cuba then entered a severe crisis that began in 1989 that was known as the ‘Special Period’.

On the streets of Camagüey, a western province of Cuba, people are again talking about the arrival of a new ‘Special Period’.

The horror of the ‘Special Period”

During the Special Period, daily essentials went missing. Items such as soap, cooking oil and rice that today Cubans can buy with the exchangeable currency for tourists, the CUC, were not available. During the Special Period, US dollars were needed but their use was prohibited. Having dollars was cause enough for imprisonment.

According to socialist logic wealth is distributed and managed collectively, and during that period nobody had the right to buy antiseptic wipes, nor baby clothing -never mind diapers- until a baby was five months old, because if he/she died it would be a waste of resources that could be used by others.

Worry in the shadow of another looming Special Period

In anticipation of another crisis, people are buying the products that were scarcest during those terrible years, the worst Cuban crisis.

Today – except for those who receive remittances– purchasing boxes with chicken for 30 CUC, equivalent to the same amount in dollars, is impossible. The price of the chicken is more than the average Cuban salary and three times more than what a construction worker from Camagüey earns in a month. “It feels like Armageddon,” merchants said, because of the fear that something terrible is looming.

Now the shortages are bringing in a crime wave against vulnerable sectors. For, as many know, food is rationed monthly in Cuba.

But the regime doesn’t distribute food to the people, instead, it controls how much they can buy. There are government stores where products are sold with CUP, the Cuban peso -equivalent to 2 CUP per US$-, and stores where they sell using CUC, the exchangeable peso for tourists, that has the same value as a US dollar.

The Cuban ration book keeps track of the purchases of essentials in CUC alotted to each family every month. For each child younger than 6 years old, a portion of meat is included. In a month, they can consume one pound of beef, approximately half a kilo. So, homes with children are becoming a target of potential theft.

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Fighting against the violent repression and tyranny of socialism takes on many forms. This young and courageous Venezuelan dissident stood tall in protest against totalitarianism with his violin and inspired us all.

Via the Dissident:

Interview with a Young Venezuelan Exile

Wuilly Arteaga is a young Venezuelan violinist who attracted worldwide attention for playing his music in the midst of Venezuela’s massive 2017 anti-government protests. In retaliation, government forces destroyed his violin and arrested and tortured him. Wuilly is now one of the approximately three million Venezuelans who have left their country to escape its authoritarian regime. During a recent trip to Washington, Wuilly sat down with Dissident to discuss his activism and the experience of the Venezuelan diaspora.

DISSIDENT: Do you remember the first time that you played in a protest?

WUILLY ARTEAGA: I had been protesting for days without a violin—I hadn’t had a violin for months. But one day a friend gave me a violin, and I was practicing with some friends to play at a wedding. When I left the rehearsal, I went to a protest. I really didn’t plan to play. But when I saw how the police were beginning to shoot, I felt like I couldn’t do anything else. I took out my violin and started to play. I didn’t plan it—it was something that happened in the moment. I thought I might die because I didn’t have anything to cover my face and I couldn’t breathe with the tear gas. But I started playing and I was able forget everything that was happening.

It wasn’t exactly a decision. It was more like a consequence of actions that I took. I wasn’t thinking that I would one day be speaking out in the US. Still, after I began playing violin in the protests, I felt in my heart that I had made a greater commitment to represent people in Venezuela, who are still at this very moment suffering under the situation in the country. That’s why even though my tortures are over, I can’t be at peace until Venezuela itself is at peace. And that’s why I still feel the same commitment that I felt when I was playing my violin in the protests.

DISSIDENT: Do you think there was a moment when you turned into a dissident or activist?

WUILLY ARTEAGA: Yes—exactly that moment. I discovered, or realized, that I was a musician for an important reason. I had always asked life why I was a musician, why I had to play. At that moment, I realized that the purpose of music wasn’t just making a recording or playing in a concert but giving voice to the people. I realized that that would be my life’s activism: to give voice to the people through whatever song I play.

DISSIDENT: Do you think that most young people protesting in Venezuela feel voiceless today?

WUILLY ARTEAGA: Yes. Venezuela is basically alone. It seems like all the hopes that we had back when I was playing in the protests no longer exist. Venezuelans are leaving Venezuela and being scattered all over the world.

Nevertheless, I know that nothing lasts forever. God knows that at some point everything is going to get better and all those Venezuelans abroad are going to be able to return.

DISSIDENT: You have been here in the US for five months. What are you hearing from your friends, your girlfriend, and your family back in Venezuela?

WUILLY ARTEAGA: I can’t help but hear the daily complaints, and not just from them. Every day I get messages on my phone and on social media from people asking me for help because they don’t have medicine, food, work, or money. Many people have been left in the streets without a job. Many people have died from lack of medicine. It’s not easy to deal with all these messages—a lot of people seem to think I’m here in New York with lots of money and that I can help them, which is not really the case.

But the messages I get make me understand that Venezuela is destroyed and that if everything continues like this, Venezuelans themselves will actually get used to the situation. Today, if someone dies from lack of medicine, it’s something normal. What is really sad is that now Venezuelans don’t even feel like asking for help because they know no one will give it.

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While other U.S. governors are lobbying in favor of Cuba’s communist dictatorship so they can do business with a corrupt and murderous regime, Florida’s Governor Rick Scott is lobbying in favor of freedom and liberty.

Via Sunshine State News:

Rick Scott Letter: Exclude Cuba from the Summit of the Americas

Gov. Rick Scott on Friday called for the exclusion of “the Cuban dictatorship” from the upcoming Summit of the Americas April 13 and 14 in Lima, Peru.

In a letter to Secretary General Luis Almagro of the Organization of American States, Scott called on Almagro’s “commitment to the democracy requirement” in the OAS and the Inter-American Democratic Charter.

“For six decades the sovereignty of the Cuban people has been held hostage by a brutal dictatorship that has incarcerated, tortured and murdered innocent people in order to preserve its reign of oppression and misery over the Cuban people,” Scott wrote. “In recent days, we witnessed a fraudulent effort to carry out so-called elections as the dictatorship advances toward a dynastic succession.”

Read the letter here.

Scott pointed out the government of Peru’s recent action, rescinding its Summit invitation to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to be consistent with the principles of Almagro, who is a Uruguayan. “You have spoken clearly about the need for the Venezuelan government to adhere to the norms (of the charters) in order for it to be able to participate in Inter-American Summits. Therefore Cuba, just like Venezuela, should be denied participation,” Scott said.

Scott said Cuba’s participation in the Summit “would greatly undermine the admirable work of Cuba’s courageous pro-democracy movement on the island and embolden the regime to continue its relentless repression.”

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Despite all the claims of equality, communist Cuba is not a good place for black Cubans. Far from being the colorblind ideal communist society, systemic racism by the apartheid Castro dictatorship continues to flourish on the island.

Via Diario de Cuba:

If you’re black and Cuban, you had better stay away from Trinidad

Carlos Infante and José Samuel Cantón wanted to see a show at the Escalinata de Trinidad, but ended up spending the night in jail. The reason? They are from Cienfuegos and were “illegally” in Sancti Spíritus, the police told them.

They are also black. When the agents approached, they only asked for their identification.

“One of the officers told us that they had orders to incarcerate anyone who was not from Trinidad,” says Infante. “The next day they booked us, like we were criminals, and cited us for being in the tourist zone and supposedly being ‘prone to committing criminal acts.'”

Neither of them has a criminal record. Infante, 38, is an artisan; and Cantón, 29, is a dancer in a rumba group.

Infante posted what happened on his Facebook wall and many people reported suffering similar abuse. “They told us that it was standard practice for the police to turn drive non-Cubans out of Trinidad,” he says.

“What hypocrisy, criticizing other nations for how they treat their immigrants, when the Cuban authorities make us immigrants in our country,” reflected Infante.

In February 2017, Reiniel Eduardo Pool Rodríguez, a cultural promoter, heritage researcher and a worker at Trinidad’s Office of the Conservator, had an experience similar to that of Infante and Cantón. In his case, he was arrested when he accompanied some foreign visitors, accused of “harassing tourists.” He spent the night in a crowded cell.

He remembered: “95% of those who were imprisoned were young and black.” Like him.

Multiple discrimination

Did the police act illegally or do Cuban laws support them?

Independent lawyer Wilfredo Vallín cites Article 43 of the current Constitution: “The State upholds the right, conquered by the Revolution, that citizens, regardless of their race, color, sex, religious beliefs, or national origins, may reside in any area, zone or neighborhood of cities, and stay in any hotel (…) anywhere in Cuba.”

“Our Police have limited training. If they had it, these agents would have refused to comply with an order that runs contrary to the Constitution. No officer should violate it,” says Vallín, president of the Legal Association of Cuba.

Laritza Diversent, Director of the Cubalex Legal Information Center: “the actions of the police violate the guarantees of due process, protected at the international level, but national legislation protects the agents’ actions.”

“Cuban law does not provide for the detainees to be taken before a judicial authority that determines their rights and obligations, nor to wait for a trial, whether free or in pre-trial detention,” she explains.

“The police can detain anyone for up to 24 hours, without the need for confirmation by a superior or judicial authority. This allows them to advance reasons that are not expressly regulated in the law. They can act without judicial supervision, apply criminal law as if they were judges, and justify illegal acts, such as arbitrary detention,” she explained.

Carlos Infante has pointed to the fact that the police were, allegedly, ordered to arrest anyone who was not from Trinidad, but they only arrested him and José Samuel Cantón.

At the police unit to which they were taken all the detainees were black. “There were no whites there who were not from Trinidad?” Vallín asks.

According to Diversent, it is evident that “there are two reasons for discrimination, one based on one’s legal place of residence, and another on his skin color.”

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By Miriam Celaya in Cubanet via Translating Cuba:

Transportation In Cuba: Multiple Problems For One Solution

One of the most pressing and old problems never solved in the Cuban capital has been that of public transportation. There are countless causes, beginning with the extreme centralization that placed in the hands of the State the transportation administration and “control” for decades – with the disastrous consequences that this policy has brought in all spheres of the economy and services – to which could be added a long list of adversities inherent to the system, such as the aging of the vehicle fleet, the lack of spare parts to repair the buses’ constant breakdowns, the incongruence between the price of the (subsidized) fares and the cost of keeping the service running, and the chronic lack of cash that hinders the purchase of new and more modern effective buses, among other limitations.

As if such difficulties were not enough, in recent times, Havana residents have habitually used the most economical mode of transportation, the articulated “P” buses (40 cents CUP per passenger), which cover routes in high-demand and have the greatest passenger capacity. They have recently noticed longer waiting times between buses, which causes the corresponding crowding at the bus stops, the chaos at boarding time and all the inconveniences associated with it.

This time, however, it is not a problem of shortage of equipment, but of drivers. The truth about a growing popular rumor about this new fatality has just been confirmed by the director of the Provincial Transportation Company of Havana (EPTH), according to the official press. The aforementioned director said that, currently, the EPTH deficit is 86 drivers, which means – always in their own words – that, on a daily basis, 700,000 passengers cannot be transported in Havana, which represents about 60,000 pesos less in revenues and an average of 500 fewer trips.

The matter is not trivial. Among the four terminals most affected by the exodus of drivers are two with the highest demand: the ones at Alamar and San Agustín.

So, following “the vision of the directors of this company,” the (new) problem in the capital’s public transportation service, that is, the shortage of drivers, is due to “more tempting offers of salaries and hours at other work centers, as well as the increase in inspectors’ demands and actions so what is established in the sector is fulfilled.” (The underlined section contains the author’s views).

There wasn’t the slightest reference to fundamental issues that affect the transportation sector, and in particular, public transportation drivers, such as the salary incompatibile with the always ungrateful task of driving a heavy vehicle, loaded with irritated passengers, circulating through obsolete, insecure roads, full of potholes; the constant harassment of state inspectors, and the obligation to follow to the letter the sacrosanct commandments written by bureaucrats far removed from the actual work from the comfort of their air-conditioned offices.

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EDO:

Venezuela’s socialist economic policies have led to astronomical inflation and the collapse of the economy. Thanks to socialism, this oil-rich nation now has rolling black outs, shortages of medicine, starving people eating from garbage piles, and millions fleeing the country.

To address this economic crisis created by socialism, Cuba’s puppet dictator in Caracas, Nicolas Maduro, feels there is only one solution: more socialism. If your currency is no longer worth the paper it’s printed on, then you just create a new currency.

The Associated Press reports via The Washington Post:

Venezuela president solution to inflation: Change money

President Nicolas Maduro attempted to tackle Venezuela’s staggering inflation Thursday by lopping three zeros off the increasingly worthless currency called the bolivar.

New bills replacing those like the current 100,000 note — worth less than 50 U.S. cents on the commonly used black market — should begin circulating June 4, he said.

The move comes as Venezuelans struggle to find food, medicine and cash in the worst economic crisis ever to strike the oil-rich country.

“Let’s defend our bolivar!” Maduro said in a state television broadcast.

He said the “redenomination” will relieve the cash shortages.

Venezuela holds the world’s largest oil reserves and once shined as one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations. A fall in global oil prices and a collapse in Venezuela’s crude production after nearly 20 years of socialist rule and mismanagement of the state-run oil company sent the economy into a tailspin.

A cash shortage has spiked as opposition lawmakers say the inflation rate has soared above 6,000 percent in the 12-month period ending in February. The economic crisis has left Venezuelans standing in lines for hours to buy common food items and withdraw small increments of scarce cash from ATM machines.

One kilogram (2.2 pounds) of sugar costs around 250,000 bolivars. Meanwhile, the monthly minimum wage is less than 400,000 bolivars, which along with a food bonus amounts to about $5.60 at the black market exchange rate.

Critics consider Maduro’s plan a superficial solution with little chance at solving the deep economic problems plaguing Venezuela.

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President Trump has named Ambassador John Bolton as his new National Security Advisor to replace General H.R. McMaster. For those of us who are wondering how Ambassador Bolton views Cuba and the brutally repressive Castro dictatorship, an Op-Ed he wrote about Obama’s new policy of embracing and supporting the apartheid Castro regime back in July of 2015 gives us a pretty good idea.

Via the New York Daily News:

Obama’s outrageous Cuba capitulations

President Obama’s decision to resume full diplomatic relations with Cuba on July 20 represents the purest form of ideological diplomacy. By exchanging ambassadors, reopening embassies and calling for Congress to lift decades-old trade and travel restrictions, Obama has untethered our foreign policy from any discernible American interests.

Obama may even travel to Cuba before he leaves office. Undoubtedly, Fidel and Raul Castro will turn out cheering crowds to greet him as a hero. Why not? Obama will feel right at home in their company.

In return for enormous U.S. concessions to Cuba’s authoritarians, the Obama administration has received essentially nothing. Havana’s promises to lessen its repressive domestic policies have already been violated, and there is little chance that a more “open” American policy will aid the Cuban people more than the caudillos running the country.

Cuba’s last “opening” followed the USSR’s 1991 disintegration. Moscow ended its annual practice of trading oil priced well below international levels in exchange for roughly 80% of Cuba’s sugar exports. But when the Clinton administration loosened some U.S. economic constraints, far from “liberalizing” Cuba, that lifeline simply abetted the Castros’ continuing authoritarian rule.

Similarly, last year’s drop in global oil prices devastated Venezuela, which had become Cuba’s chief economic benefactor. Forced yet again to seek help, the Castros will nonetheless ensure that Cuban citizens do not benefit from increased economic relations with America. Instead, Havana will rigorously control the increased flow of dollars resulting from expanded trade and travel, providing the Castros once more with a path to survival. Make no mistake, they know this playbook well.

Even worse is what lies ahead under Obama. While he refers blithely to “normalizing” relations, Fidel and Raul have a different definition of “normal.” What will emerge in the next 18 months, unless Congress acts, is whether Obama agrees with the Castros.

On July 1, “the Revolutionary Government of Cuba” issued a statement, distributed in New York by Cuba’s UN Mission. In the kind of Cold War rhetoric that shows it’s still the early ’60s for the regime in Havana, it says that in exchange for truly “normal” relations, the United States must:

“Return to Cuba the territory illegally occupied by the Guantanamo Naval Base; cease the radio and television broadcasts, which violate international regulations and are harmful to our sovereignty; stop the implementation of programs aimed at promoting internal subversion and destabilization; and compensate the Cuban people for all the human and economic damages caused by the United States.”

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