Donald Trump’s Forgotten Cuban Flip-Flop

Donald Trump's Forgotten Cuban Flip-Flop
Mar. 4, 2016 2:00pm
Humberto Fontova

"To me the [Cuba] embargo question is no question at all. Of course, we
should keep the embargo in place." – Donald Trump June 25, 1999

"I think its fine. I think its fine … The concept of opening with Cuba
is fine … but we should have made a better deal." – Donald Trump Sept.
8, 2015

So what happened? Still more here (emphasis added):

"Several large European investment groups have asked me to take the
'Trump Magic' to Cuba. They have begged me to form partnerships to build
casino-hotels in Havana ... we would make a fortune, they promise, and
they are no doubt right … but almost every dollar would go to prop up
the police-state. Why? Because foreign investors cannot legally do
business with private Cuban citizens. They can go into business only
with the Castro government. I would rather take a financial hit than
become a financial backer of one of the world's most-brutal dictators.
Thereal cause of misery of the Cuban people is Castro's Marxist-Leninist
economic system — not the U.S. embargo." – Donald Trump June 25, 1999

Since Trump's (exploratory) campaign declarations in Miami, Florida in
1999 — where he expertly pushed the hottest buttons of one of that swing
state's most powerful voting blocs — some things have certainly changed
in Castro's Cuba.

Repression, for instance, has increased several notches — especially
against Christians. The Cuban people's desperation to risk their lives
fleeing the Castroite police state has also increased.

But Cuba's Marxist-Leninist economic system — along with the edicts that
prohibit foreigners from doing business with any Cubans outside the
Castro family and close Stalinist cronies — remain firmly in place.
Consequently the Castro regime — especially owning to the financial
windfall from President Barack Obama's new policy — is fat, happy and cocky.

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