Oscar Biscet is the Afro-Cuban physician to whom President George W. Bush awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007.
After President Obama granted full diplomatic recognition to the still-dictatorship of Cuba, Biscet declared:
“I feel as though I have been abandoned on the battlefield.”
National Review magazine noted that Yoani Sanchez, the famed Cuban dissident, said:
“Castroism has won.”
On the same day he announced this diplomatic recognition, Obama revealed that we are returning three convicted spies for two of our own people. One of these was Alan Gross, the aid worker whom the Castro regime took hostage in 2009. Previously, the Obama administration announced that it would never trade the Castro spies for this aid worker.
Apparently the Obama administration had a change of mind.
The Castros were supposed to release 53 of their political prisoners. Instead of any news of the keeping of this promise, there were reports of more arrests and imprisonments.
Obama’s normalization of relations means dollars to this dictatorship – a lifeline to replace Venezuela, a country now on the brink of economic and political collapse.
President Obama is signaling that he will remove Cuba from the State Department’s list of terror sponsors.
National Review observed:
“If the Castro brothers are no longer sponsoring terror, they have undergone a hard-to-see transformation.”
This is why the Republican-dominated House – and now Senate – should do the following:
- Pass a resolution opposing any such diplomatic recognition.
- Refuse to fund any establishment of any embassy or even legation in Havana.
- Refuse to allow the Castros to establish any embassy or even legation in Washington.
- Pass resolutions censuring Obama for his single-handed recognition of this still-communist dictatorship.
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