{"id":15833,"date":"2015-08-14T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T19:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=15833"},"modified":"2015-08-14T12:44:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T19:44:18","slug":"rubio-habla-mierda-de-los-toros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/14\/rubio-habla-mierda-de-los-toros\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Habla Mierda de los Toros!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I remember Fidel Castro\u2019s goodwill tour to the US, and at the time, I had just read The Ugly American<\/u> by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer.  So I knew what to look for.  I was not surprised when US corporations refused to give up practices that exploited Cuban workers, and Castro nationalized their assets.  The US now has friendly relations with almost all nations who committed crimes against US citizens.  However, the US has embargoed Cuba for over fifty years, because the alleged crimes were committed against US corporations.  It hasn\u2019t worked.  It\u2019s time to end the embargo.  Of course, Republicans disagree, and Marco \u201cDeport Them All\u201d Rubio (R-FL) has lies to fit the occasion,<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0814Cuba\"Just before the American flag will rise for the first time in more than 50 years at the newly reopened U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba on Friday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) blasted the current administration for expanding trade and travel with the former cold war nemesis. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the eyes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the Cuban people are suffering because not enough American tourists visit the country,\u201d the Cuban-American presidential hopeful said in a speech in New York City, \u201cwhen the truth is the Cuban people are suffering because they live in a tyrannical dictatorship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubio also asserted, in an attack on the Castro government, that \u201cthe Cuban people have a standard of living well below that of virtually every other nation in the hemisphere.\u201d Yet the U.N.\u2019s Human Development Index<\/a> ranks Cuba above all of its Caribbean neighbors, above Mexico, above all of Central America and above much of South America. <\/p>\n

Cuba has a lower infant mortality<\/a> rate than the U.S. and about an equal life expectancy. The country also has the lowest HIV rate in the Americas, according to the United Nations<\/a>, and just this summer became the first country in the world<\/a> to eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mothers to children\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not forget that Cuba offers free, comprehensive medical care to all it\u2019s citicens, something Rubio and his Republican cronies would deny US citizens.<\/font><\/p>\n

Kudos to Obama and Kerry for ending this travesty, and let Rubio and his Republican cronies gag on the mierda they are trying to feed us!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I remember Fidel Castro\u2019s goodwill tour to the US, and at the time, I had just read The Ugly American by Eugene Burdick and William J. Lederer.  So I knew what to look for.  I was not surprised when US corporations refused to give up practices that exploited Cuban workers, and Castro nationalized their assets.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}