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Castros welcome Obama to Cuba with a slap in the face
[Wash Post] President Obama went sightseeing in Old Havana, savoring the adulation of pro-regime crowds welcoming him on streets that had been whitewashed for his visit. But a few hours before his arrival, the true nature of the dictatorship he is embracing reared its ugly head, as hundreds of uniformed security personnel attacked and arrested peaceful protesters leaving Palm Sunday Mass.

A group of dissidents known as the Little Sisters of the Poor Ladies in White was met outside Havana’s Santa Rita church by an organized crowd of Castro loyalists shouting insults and revolutionary slogans. Then, The Post reports, Castro’s secret police pounced on the women and "half-dragged, half-carried them to waiting buses," while men marching with the women "were chased, thrown to the curb and handcuffed." As they were arrested, the crowd chanted "This is Fidel’s street!"

This was a slap in the face to President Obama -- a display intended to send a clear message that, despite his normalization of relations, nothing has changed in Cuba.
Take THAT! You jankee communist wanna-bees !
How little respect do the Castro brothers have for Obama? This month, deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes met in Miami with Carlos Amel Oliva, head of the youth wing of a major dissident organization on the island. When Oliva returned to Cuba, he was detained by the regime for "antisocial behavior." His was just one of 526 political detentions in the first two weeks of March leading up to Obama’s trip.
But meeting with a member of the Obama regime actually is "antisocial behavior."
Obama had promised not to visit Cuba under such conditions. In 2014, Obama said he would visit Cuba only if "I with confidence can say that we’re seeing some progress in the liberty and freedom," adding: "If we’re going backwards, then there’s not much reason for me to be there. I’m not interested in just validating the status quo."
Posted by: Besoeker 2016-03-22
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=449856