March 29, 2024

As John Kerry Celebrates Embassy Opening, Cuban Dissidents Are Barred From Attending

The American flag was raised next to the U.S. embassy in Havana for the first time in 54 years Friday, but Cuban dissidents who have influenced U.S.-Cuban relations for decades were barred from the event. Secretary of State John Kerry justified the exclusion by telling Telemundo the symbolic opening was a “government-to-government moment, with very […]

Cuban refugees saddened by opening of American embassy in Havana

Friday marks a historic day in the nation’s history, but for many local Cubans, the emotions stirred up by the re-opening of the U.S. embassy were more bitter than sweet. Action News Jax reporter Lorena Inclan spoke to a group of six people made up of business leaders, research professionals, some fathers and even grandmothers. […]

Rubio: You Know, It’s Quite Telling Cuba’s Dissidents Weren’t Invited to Our Embassy Ceremony

The grand re-opening of the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba on Friday is being met with effusive and predictable praise everywhere you turn. Many Americans, after all, view it as an historic breakthrough in diplomatic relations between a longstanding, Cold War-era regime and the US government. But one Republican presidential candidate is alarmed — and […]

LEFT BEHIND: CUBAN DISSIDENTS NOT INVITED TO U.S. EMBASSY OPENING

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration doesn’t plan to invite Cuban dissidents to Secretary of State John Kerry’s historic flag-raising at the U.S. Embassy in Havana on Friday, vividly illustrating how U.S. policy is shifting focus from the island’s opposition to its single-party government. Instead, Kerry intends to meet more quietly with prominent activists later […]

Why I refuse to acknowledge the US embassy in Havana

Today a Cuban embassy will open in the United States, and an American embassy will open in Cuba. While the Obama administration fawns over its latest concession to the Castro regime, I will be honoring the legacy of a Cuban democratic martyr. On July 22, 2012, the Cuban government murdered my friend’s father, Oswaldo PayĂĄ, […]

COMMUNIST CUBA FLAG RAISED AT EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON

The terms and conditions for today’s opening of U.S. and Cuban Embassies, in Havana and Washington, D.C., represent a tragic failure by the Obama Administration in diplomacy, the rule of law, democratic solidarity and U.S. regional interests. Failure in diplomacy. The July 1st agreement between the Obama Administration and the Castro dictatorship for the opening […]

Cuba, the hemisphere’s only apartheid and unelected government rewarded with an embassy by Obama

Cuba’s apartheid dictatorship continues to celebrate Christmas courtesy of President Obama. After more than six months of gifts to the Castro regime with absolutely nothing in return, Obama has once again ignored the law and surrendered yet another unilateral concession to Cuba’s viciously repressive criminal government. Via Capitol Hill Cubans: Statement on Establishing Diplomatic Relations […]

Security Guard at U.S. Embassy in Egypt Arrested as a Terrorist

Egyptian authorities have arrested an Egyptian security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, claiming he is a senior figure in an Islamist terrorist organization. U.S. officials are scrambling to get information from Egyptian authorities, who did not alert them beforehand.An embassy official confirmed to The Daily Beast that 42-year-old Ahmed Ali, accused by the […]

U.S. Embassy in Indonesia Celebrated American Independence Day One Month Early to ‘Respect the Holy Month of Ramadan’

Anger has ensued following reports that the U.S. Embassy in Indonesia celebrated American Independence Day on June 4 rather than July 4 in an intentional effort not to offend Muslims in the region. Getty Images As it turns out, July 4 falls right in the middle of Ramadan, an Islamic holiday that involves fasting in […]

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