Jimmy Carter's Cuba visit was questionable

Jimmy Carter's Cuba visit was questionable
By Mercedes M. Garcia
April 4, 2011

The media reported that former President Jimmy Carter visited Cuba to
meet with "President" Raul Castro.

To begin with, it is mistake made by members of the press, leaders of
other countries or regular citizens to call Raul or Fidel Castro
"president" because neither of them were ever elected to occupy the
presidency of Cuba or any other country.

According to reports, he was there for a three-day trip "to learn about
new economic policies and upcoming (Communist) party congress and
discuss ways to improve U.S.-Cuba relations," said a statement from
Carter spokeswoman Deanna Congileo.

There are times in our lives when we think that we have heard everything
and then we read that former President Carter went to Cuba to "learn
about new economic policies" in a country where it's citizens are living
in the worst human conditions and to survive many of them have to even
sell themselves to the tourists for a few dollars to buy food for their
families. Also, President Carter wants to learn about the upcoming
(Communist) Party congress and discuss ways to improve U.S.-Cuba relations.
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It is very difficult and almost impossible to comprehend how a former
president of the United States, that is supposed to be the most
democratic country in the world, bows to two tyrants like Fidel and Raul
Castro, who for 52 years have ruled, controlled, and destroyed
everything in the island as well as taken over the lives of the Cubans
who are their slaves.

This writer, whose country of birth is Cuba and knows first hand how
destructive the communist system is, has spent most of her adult life
denouncing Castro's totalitarian regime.

I am afraid that President Carter's main objective is to have open
relations with Cuba, end the embargo, lift all the restrictions and
enjoy the friendship of Cuba's communist leaders because at the end, who
cares about the Cubans on the island who, for over half of a century,
have been living in that large cell that the Castro brothers have made
of the whole country?

Mercedes M. Garcia is a resident of Royal Palm Beach.

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