A.G. Gancarski
In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Monday, Gov. Rick Scott lamented the Donald Trump administration’s “vision” of Cuba policy that has “fallen short in its execution.”
In doing so, Scott, who has not been accompanied by President Trump since launching his campaign for Senate weeks ago, got to the right of the President on this issue.
Scott wrote Pompeo that “the vision announced by the President on June 16th, 2017 has fallen short in its execution,” urging “vigorous execution” of “immediate measures to assemble a team that will vigorously and effectively carry out the President’s policy.”
That policy was intended to be a reversal of relative detente from the Barack Obama White House.
“We are quickly approaching on the one-year anniversary of when the Administration laid-out a new Cuba policy. The course correction was important in letting the international community and the people of Cuba know that the United States would not engage with the dictatorship but would in fact engage and support those who are bravely seeking human rights, freedom and democracy,” Scott wrote.
Scott notes that while moves were made to “prohibit U.S. financial transactions with businesses entities of the Cuban military … [the] scope of those entities was very narrowly defined by the State Department, allowing for numerous loopholes that has permitted the dictatorship to easily circumvent the prohibitions.”
Scott also argues for a blanket ban on visas for those “affiliated with the dictatorship” or “linked to acts of repression.”
3 comments
Fed Up
April 30, 2018 at 1:29 pm
Perhaps we should consider a ban on all politicians who ripped off the Medicaid system to pad their own pockets. Are you listening Rick?
Vahe Demirjian
April 30, 2018 at 3:59 pm
Cuba just had a leadership change and even though I’ve recognized that Nicolas Maduro, Daniel Ortega, and Evo Morales continue to view Fidel Castro and Che Guevara as great and not evil, Rick Scott doesn’t mention that the US supported right-wing military dictatorships in the Americas in the 20th century, nor does he want to admit that Trump’s approval ratings are such a huge drag on Congressional Republicans that even safe Florida congressional seats held by Mario Diaz-Balart and Carlos Curbelo might be vulnerable too, especially with Miguel Diaz-Canel’s ascension to power potentially emboldening Cuban-Americans in the Democratic Party to punish Diaz-Balart and Curbelo at the ballot box in the midterm congressional elections this November because they know that the political system in Cuba isn’t changing anytime soon.
Jake Crosby, MPH
May 10, 2018 at 10:16 pm
READ Table 2, what does it say Vahe? You developed “viral pneumonia” the week of your MMR vaccine – nothing about autism!
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(97)11096-0.pdf
Your dad already said your problems didn’t begin after the vaccine, unlike what BMJ said. Submit a rapid response and get them to retract the series!
https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347
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