Not that we needed another reminder, but when the ideologically clueless, politically prostituting Donald Trump came to South Florida with Rick Scott, Marco Rubio and Mario Diaz-Balart in tow, you knew nothing good would result. Nothing good did.
The only consolation. It could have been worse.
The new policy directive by a president who wouldn’t know Fulgencio Batista from Arturo Fuente is a blatant nod to the hard-line, exile community that makes it more challenging to travel to Cuba. It also lessens U.S. influence. All in the hypocritical name of addressing cherry-picked human rights violations.
We’ve gone over the specifics all too often, so there’s no need to traffic in the obvious again about what the U.S. gets from normalizing relations with Cuba and why it makes sense to continue distancing ourselves from a Cold War policy that has been counterproductive for more than half a century.
The bottom line should be this: “Treat Cuba like a sovereign county.” That’s how Vicente Amor, vice president of ASC International USA, a Tampa travel company, put it. What a concept.