Castro Calls Clinton, Obama on Bullshit

An article in the WaPo today highlighted Casto's (or his ghostwriter's) analysis of the Clinton/Obama exchange which has thrown his name around a lot.

Today, talk is about the seemingly invincible ticket that might be created with Hillary for President and Obama for Vice President. Both of them feel the sacred duty of demanding “a democratic government in Cuba”. They are not making politics: they are playing a game of cards on a Sunday afternoon.

Castro's musings on the presidential election yearned for the days of yore when Jimmy Carter was willing to take a stand against assassinating foreign leaders. The full text translation is here.

Vacation Havana

The AP reports today that Barack Obama is willing to reverse a decades-old policy on Cuban travel for vacationers. The general consensus that the American anti-Cuban policy doesn't work is right. It was intended as means of making Fidel Castro unpopular, which as we've seen, doesn't really work. Especially in a post-Cold War world, taking such a strong stance against socialist Cuba doesn't really make sense. We trade with far worse dictators and are friendly with many social democracies in Europe.