flag would proudly be raised alongside the Cuban flag.Ĭuba would be a free republic again. My father fought all his life for human rights and freedom for Cuba, and for when the day would come that the U.S. It brought tears to my eyes when I thought of my late father, Dr. Obama, however, opened diplomatic relations with Cuba this year.
All adhered to the embargo put in place by Democratic President John F. presidents, five Democrats and five Republicans, since then. president to visit Cuba, who tried to lift the embargo placed on Cuba after Fidel Castro brutally took over in Cuba with his Communist Revolution in 1960. How thoughtful and incredibly generous from the first U.S. In the future, freedom-seeking Cubans will all be retuned. policy and is reversing the “wet feet, dry feet” Cuban refugee policy. Obama is giving the Cuban people yet another little gift. Now, with just a few days left of the Obama administration, Mr. The inalienable rights that are given by God to every man and woman - and that no man has the right or power to take from another - have sadly eluded the Cuban people for decades. These are the very freedoms and liberties that our Founding Fathers wrote about and fought for in the Revolutionary War. Imagine the horrors in Cuban life that could lead a young mother to risk the life of her 9-year-old son, and her own in search of liberty. Elian, his mother and a handful of others fled Cuba to try to reach freedom in the United States. The sea passage between Cuba and the United States is one of the most dangerous in the world. For the Cuban people enslaved on that island, the path to freedom is what horror movies are made of. I have often wondered if the same thing had happened during the height of the Cold War, with a mother rushing the Berlin Wall from the East trying to get her young son to safety in the West, would we have given him back to the Communist Stasi? I think not. Elian survived the torturous waters between Cuba and the U.S., often called the Florida Straits, after his mother fell off the boat in a storm trying to get her son to the United States. That policy has been in place since President Clinton declared it so after the horrific debacle of the Clinton administration’s handling of 9-year-old Elian Gonzalez. With only a week left in his presidency he announced that the long-standing policy of accepting Cubans that flee the Communist island of Cuba by sea - the policy known as “wet feet, dry feet” - would change. I couldn’t have imagined that President Obama could do any more harm to the Cuban people before he left office, but I was wrong.
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