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Former secretary of state and potential presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called for ending the US embargo against Cuba.
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Hillary Clinton made the case last week for lifting the embargo on Cuba, describing it as “Castro’s best friend.”
In an appearance in New York hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations, the former secretary of state said, “I think we should advocate for the end of the embargo. We should advocate for normalizing relations and see what they (Cuban officials) do.”
The economic embargo against Cuba has been in place for more than a half-century. As the Wall Street Journal noted, major presidential candidates have tread carefully in discussing the embargo for fear of alienating voters in the voter-rich swing state of Florida.
Clinton, a potential presidential candidate, apparently believes that the younger generation of Cuban Americans will not hold it against her for suggesting the US should stop a blockade that has hurt the common people on the island and has given Castro and his allies a rallying point.
Her remarks drew a rebuke from Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican and himself a potential presidential candidate in 2016.
“We’re seeing the frightening lengths to which Secretary Clinton went to undermine Cuba’s pro-democracy advocates by trying to help the Castro regime get its hands on more American dollars to carry out its repression,” Rubio said in a statement. “Just as astonishing is Secretary Clinton’s assertion that the Cuban embargo has stood in the way of the U.S. advancing its broader agenda with Latin America.”
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