[RealJustme]

HAVANA — President Raúl Castro declared victory for the Cuban Revolution on Saturday in a wide-ranging speech, thanking President Obama while also reaffirming that restored relations with the United States did not mean the end of Communist rule in Cuba.

In a televised speech that lasted less than an hour at the end of Cuba’s legislative session, Mr. Castro alternated between conciliatory and combative statements against the United States and the rest of the world. Mr. Castro, wearing a traditional white shirt and only occasionally gesturing for emphasis, also referred repeatedly to President Obama, praising him at one point for initiating big changes in America. He insisted as he and Fidel Castro have insisted for years that the United States not meddle in the sovereign affairs of the Cuban state.

“Every country has the inalienable right to choose its own political systems,” Mr. Castro said. “No one should believe that improving relations with the United States means Cuba renouncing its ideas.”

[sillydaddy]

Obama will bring hope and change to the Cuban people.

[Clownkicker]

It's good to see even dimwitted reactionaries like RealTool getting behind ending the anachronistic, ridiculous policy the U.S. has had toward Cuba for too long.

RealTool now knows what the rest of us have known for years: that an increased presence from the developed world will bring an end to the 'communist' system that has only survived because of being closed off from the larger world and the U.S. in particular.
Communism in Cuba will now go the way of Communism in China and the Soviet Union.

Undoubtedly RealTool will be taking his family to vacation there within two or three years and he will be gloating about how the U.S. and capitalism won the cold war there. But he'll be sure not to credit Obama for the change.

[RealJustme]

Communism in Cuba will now go the way of Communism in China and the Soviet Union.

Obama didn't promise to change China, Russia or Cuba, he promised to change America, thus the reason Castro thanks him and proclaims victory for communism.

[elklindo69]

Communism in Cuba will now go the way of Communism in China and the Soviet Union.

Obama didn't promise to change China, Russia or Cuba, he promised to change America, thus the reason Castro thanks him and proclaims victory for communism.

Who's the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows the fool???

Apparently Rubio really thinks Castro would concede to having open elections?

Another Kool Aid drinker.......................

[johnforbes]

The bigger fool?

That would be Elkin.

[Malcolm]

It is absolutely obvious that the United States will always try to put pressure on Cuba, as they do on the UN or any other public or private institution of the world. That is one of the features that characterizes the governments of that country; it would be impossible to expect otherwise from them. No wonder we have resisted for 54 years –and we’ll continue to resist for any additional amount of time, if need be- relentlessly defending our country and confronting the criminal economic blockade imposed by the powerful empire.....

[sillydaddy]

"Revolution for revolution's sake".

[Malcolm]

....Rubio was especially exercised, as one might expect of the son of Cuban refugees. (Unfortunately, Rubio isn’t actually the son of Cuban refugees, he just plays one in American politics — his father emigrated long before Fidel Castro was a playah.) Still, his role as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Western Affairs is that of a conservative Cuban human rights advocate and he went all out explaining why even after more than 50 years, the U.S. policy is bound to start working any day. It’s a matter of American moral leadership, you see:......