Cuba

Obama’s speech (and not only) against the Cuban people

Shortly before the conclusion of his trip to Cuba, the US has turned-President directly to the people of the Caribbean nation, with a speech at the Great theatre of Havana. But he also had the domestic audience.

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US President Barack Obama has assured Cuba that a time of peace and understanding in relations of both countries had begun. He wanted to give the Cuban people a “Saludo de Paz”, a greeting of peace, he said in a speech to the people of Cuba at the Great theatre of Havana. There is also the Cuban state was among his listeners-in-chief Raúl Castro.

Born in 1961, Obama said, the time of his life gave it to an Isolation of the island, which is only 90 miles from the American mainland. He had come to “the Remnant of the Cold war,” to bury. In this context, Obama called on the Cuban people to reform. “It is up to you”, to start steps for change, the US President during the live in Cuban televised speech. Human rights are universal and would apply to Americans as well as Cubans

Obama appealed to the U.S. policy, the American trade embargo against the Caribbean country is completely abolished. “It is an outdated burden for the people of Cuba, it is a burden for Americans to invest in Cuba, or companies want to operate,” said Obama in his speech. “It is time to lift the Embargo.”

The Cuban Staaatschef Castro waves to just before the Obama speech to the audience in the Large Theater in Havana

After the Revolution in 1959, the change to socialism and the Cuban reference to the Soviet Union, it was to a more than 50 years of enmity, and the U.S. trade embargo, The 55-year-old Boycott came as one of the longest in the recent history. Obama has eased the Embargo, but only the US Congress can repeal it completely. The Republicans, who have the Say, lock.

Obama is the first incumbent U.S. President since 1928, the Caribbean state.. attended His speech, he ended with the appeal “Sí se puede”, which is the Spanish version of his campaign slogans “Yes we can”.

Even young and apparently good-humored – Cubans, were among Obama’s listeners in the Great theatre of Havana

After the performance in the Great Theater of the Cuban capital of the U.S. will meet the President in the American Embassy with dissidents. A meeting with human rights activists, had Obama as a condition for his visit.

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