Washington Post: Cuba 'Remains One of Most Repressive'

House Democrats showed naiveté in a recent trip to Havana, looking only at what the still-repressive Castro government wanted them to see, The Washington Post editorial board writes in a column published this weekend.

The Post slammed the gullibility of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who led a House delegation, and Sens. Mark Warner, Amy Klobuchar and Claire McCaskill, saying "the tone and tenor of which were too starry-eyed by half."
Klobuchar, the column noted "gushed that she and her colleagues 'walked freely around the streets and talked with anyone we wanted.'" She was "apparently oblivious to the political surveillance within which those 'free' conversations occurred," the Post said.

McCaskill, meanwhile, posted "charming photos of vintage cars on her Instagram account," the editorial board said. She included "nothing depressing, like images of Cuba’s poverty, though."

Both House and Senate delegations met with officials of the Castro regime, including Vice President Miguel Díaz-Canel, whom President Raul Castro has designated to succeed him, but neither group met with dissidents, the Post noted.

How could those American congress people gush over anything Castro would present. Have they forgotten our history?


Castro jailed people who mildly spoke against anything he did. He was known for physically torturing and killing political prisoners.
If I were those visiting Cuba, I would be suspicious of all of that poverty, and old autos.

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How could those American congress people gush over anything Castro would present. Have they forgotten our history?


Castro jailed people who mildly spoke against anything he did. He was known for physically torturing and killing political prisoners.
If I were those visiting Cuba, I would be suspicious of all of that poverty, and old autos.
[/quote] Cuba was such a wonderful country under Batista and then  communist  Fidel Castro  came destroyed it all.
 

I don't see how Cuba's poverty can be any worse than anybody else's, except America's.

America's poverty is the least severe in the whole world.