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WASHINGTON – As much as the United States government could benefit from a 5 billion new military aid package proposed for Cuba, the Cuban government hasn’t been able to deliver. As far as it’s concerned, though – what’s left of its arsenal, most of which goes to civilians, is not going to help to pay for its coup d’tat the U.S. used to have in place to oust the Castro regime in 1959 – we are now in an uncertain and highly polarized political system that hasn’t given Congress any chance at responding.
A new congressional report shows that the Obama administration has already sent back billions of dollars to Cuba – much of it in ways that are antithetical to our best interests. But as the Senate Intelligence Committee revealed in a series of scathing recommendations issued last week, the State Department is also moving to make a big deal out of Cuba’s 4.5 trillion dollar arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
In the interim, this deal – the most significant from the U.S. over the past year – is being offered to Cuba – and the U.S. is going to get a deal that ensures the U.S. can pay the Saudis an additional 1.5 billion for what it is giving out – much of it to Cuba. This is a deal to get rid of the Cuban dictator, Castro, that once was a major player. It also includes 2 billion of economic development aid that will be used to pay for Cuban President Hubert Melina.
The report, which was published Monday, is part of more detailed, and nuanced recommendations from the Senate Intelligence Committee, that would greatly diminish the power of the U.S. government to intervene in Cuba’s political system and ensure the regime remains in power for the foreseeable future, including to end a decades-long embargo.
It’s very clear that the U.S. can’t do anything about the Castro regime, said Senator John McCain, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a leading figure for the Republican Party on the committee. It’s a major question. We don’t know whether the government can actually fix itself. We don’t know how many more years it will be in power until the time the embargo ends.
McCain and others say that the U.S. will probably be able to send additional aid
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