President Barack Obama offers to ease tensions with Cuba. If they ease up on human rights questions. This after Raul Castro says that he would be open to talking with the United States on many issues.
Fidel Castro says that the President should not misinterpret things. His brother was only saying that he is not afraid to talk about things, but is in no way ready to give up on the people's revolution down there.
I think that Castro doesn't want to ease relations. I think he needs an enemy in the person of the US to hold his people together under his leadership. You think he's not the real leader down there until yet? Notice how Raul has not contradicted his brother's clarification of the 81 year old "former" head of state's remarks?
Fidel still calls our embargo on trade with Cuba a blockade. What's being blockaded? There are no naval vessels outside of Havana keeping products at bay.
Cuba levies a ten percent tax on money sent by Cubans in the USA to relatives on the island nation. Why? Only because he needs the cold hold cash, the Yankee Dollar, to help support the ineffective government.
The bottom line is that it is the Castros who do not want normal relations with Washington. Obama can talk all he wants about normalization. Sadly, there's nothing normal about a dying old dictator being petty in the face of a decrepit system which cannot in the end sustain itself. It is merely selfish and egotistical.
And here I thought that was us.
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