While Democrats are besides themselves with delight at Obama’s trip to Cuba, some Cubans are having a very different, very negative reaction.
One such person is Maria Conchita Alonso, the Grammy-nominated actress and singer. Despite the staunchly liberal reputations of both Hollywood and the Latino community, Alonso had little good to say about the president’s visit to the communist Caribbean island.
Speaking briefly with TMZ, Alonso said she didn’t think Obama should have gone to Cuba because it essentially “legal[ized] a regime that has been torturing Cubans and that has not been respecting [human rights].” She added that Raul Castro and his brother Fidel respected neither human rights nor dignity, denying their citizens the opportunity to be “[themselves], to grow.”
These are strong words coming from not just somebody, but somebody for whom Obama’s trip has even bigger repercussions for than most Americans. Sadly, Alonso’s remarks will likely be dismissed as illegitimate or hateful by the mainstream media.
Watch Alonso criticize Obama’s Cuba trip on the next page:
A refugee who originally fled Cuba after the communists took power for Venezuela, Alonso watched that nation tread a similar path under Hugo Chavez from the safety of her new home in the US. Having had the opportunity to see not one but two socialist regimes rise, it is no surprise that Alonso is doubtful about the chances of Cuba and the Castros changing:
“Alonso, who was born in Cuba and raised in Venezuela before immigrating to the United States, has been a vocal critic of the communist dictatorships she grew up under. In 2011, the singer called actor Sean Penn a ‘communist a—hole’ for his enthusiastic support of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez after the pair bumped into each other at LAX. The singer later wrote an open letter to Penn, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
‘Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is nonexistent, it’s startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba’s mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world,’ Alonso wrote.
In 2014, the singer-actress rallied outside the White House with dozens of other demonstrators to urge the U.S. to impose harsh sanctions on the Venezuelan government.”
See the video for yourself below:
Source: Breitbart
The whole family should have stayed in Cuba! Go Trump! No Vote For Lying Ted!
The Democrats do have Socialist Communists to offer as candidates. Enough said.
Obama is a spineless$#%&!@* And the worst president in the history of this nation
GOD, GUNS, AND GUTS MADE AMERICA — AND THATS WHAT ITS GONNA TAKE TO KEEP HER!!!
America is systematically being taken over and destroyed from within, and this is happening everyday right before our eyes. Our morals, values, and God given freedoms and rights are being assaulted or taken away with the stroke of a pen. The very men and women that we voted into leadership and gave the power to stop this assault — are betraying our trust on a daily basis. We trusted these people with our futures, our children’s futures, and our grandchildren’s futures, as well our the future of our once great and proud Nation. The failures by those voted into office to regulate or stop the actions of that mighty pen should be considered weak, cowardly, and pathetic — even Treasonous!!
The checks and balances that were built into our system of government by our founding fathers are being nullified and defied by a POTUS that believes his word should be Law. By his words and deeds he has proven that he is a believing and practicing member of a violent, archaic, and barbaric cult that masquerades as a peaceful religion, and he is determined to transform America and its people into such.
The abhorrent acts that are taking place daily in our schools with the mandated and forced indoctrination of our children about or into the cult known as Islam – MUST STOP!!!
Abraham Lincoln once said: ‘The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next’ – and we’re seeing that everyday as our government grows more Liberal and out of ‘We The People’s’ control. Ronald Reagan said that: ‘Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation from extinction. Its not ours by inheritance: it must be fought for and defended constantly be each generation, for it comes only once to a people. If not, one day we will have to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like to live in the United States where men were once free. Those who have known freedom and then lost it — have never known it again!!’
#allenism
Obama has set back freedom for the Cubans he is a disgrace!
Set back freedom? The embargo of 50 years has done zero to change anything.
Only to other Communist Socialist Liberal Democrats.
The American People don’t agree you foolish idiot !
I wish you would have keep Obama & Michael over there cause we don’t want them!
Obama es un hijueputa