Comments | ontd_political: Obama visits Cuba! First President since 1928 to hit Cuban soil.

calinewarkwc69 in ontd_political

Obama visits Cuba! First President since 1928 to hit Cuban soil.

Mar 21, 2016 13:43

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diplomacy, barack obama, cuba

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radiantsoul March 21 2016, 20:54:08 UTC

Stocking up on rum!

pikapika217 March 21 2016, 22:05:31 UTC

I just need you to resize this large picture please

calinewarkwc69 March 21 2016, 22:06:49 UTC

OH! Is it super huge? It showed up that way in my email but looked fine on the page... I'll fix

colorfilm March 22 2016, 00:29:57 UTC

http://remezcla.com/culture/dissidents-arrested-obama-visit-cuba/?utm_content=buffer7c300&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

las damas de blanco are the women (wives, mothers, sisters, and other relatives) of political dissidents/prisoners and they were protesting his arrival.

i do like that obama is the first sitting president to visit the country in 88 years, but i still felt the need to share this. i'm still mad he didn't close guantanamo bay like he said he would.

jorge ramos posted the list of the political prisoners. i wanna believe castro, but...lol meh.

browneyedguuurl March 22 2016, 02:14:18 UTC

I'm just glad the arrests are getting attention at all. And yeah, I know what you mean.

beoweasel March 22 2016, 17:26:40 UTC

The problem with closing Gitmo is what to do with the prisoners currently being held there. While there are some that are innocent of the crimes that led to the incarceration, there are many more who HAVE been involved in terrorist activity. What do we do with those prisoners? We can't send them back, they'll likely just return to terrorism. We could send them to prisons on US soil, but Republicans have been VEHEMENTLY against, and many republican Governors have loudly declared they won't accept any Gitmo prisoners into their states.

It's a great big mess of politics and legals issues.

meadowphoenix March 22 2016, 01:07:15 UTC

The one conversation where "we have different view on human rights" is more "we don't like the way you treat people terribly, you should treat people terribly more like us."

prlsb4swiine March 22 2016, 01:57:17 UTC

Honestly

browneyedguuurl March 22 2016, 02:11:58 UTC

Nice to see gringos slowly creeping into Cuba and looking at ways to exploit them. Meanwhile Puerto Rico, a part of the US with over 3 million US citizens, continues to be fucked and they don't care.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-21/as-cuba-rises-puerto-rico-falls

countrygirl_914 March 24 2016, 01:04:14 UTC

"Nice to see gringos slowly creeping into Cuba and looking at ways to exploit them."

...so we shouldn't be normalizing relationships with Cuba? Or is that not what you meant?