CLINTON AND VENTURA SAY LIFT THE CUBA EMBARGO


Off The Grid




Hillary Clinton & Jesse Ventura agree with the majority of Americans - it's been 52 years and it's time to lift the embargo.



52 years and ten U.S. presidents later, our embargo on Cuba is still being enforced, but Jesse Ventura would like to see that changed. And fast! On his online-only show, "Off The Grid," the Governor recounts his trip to Cuba, his meeting with Fidel Castro, and provides his firsthand insight on how improving trade relations with our neighbor to the south would be a win-win for both of our countries.



"The embargo was put in place [in 1962].They felt hopefully the citizens of Cuba would rise up and overthrow Fidel and his dictatorship," said Ventura. "Well, clearly it hasn't happened. It's been 50 years. All we are doing is hurting the Cuban people through this whole ordeal. Do you think Fidel has missed one sandwich? I don't think so."



Hillary Clinton reveals in her new book "Hard Choices" that she urged President Obama to end the embargo. "Since 1960, the United States had maintained an embargo against the island in hopes of squeezing Castro from power, but it only succeeded in giving him a foil to blame for Cuba's economic woes," Clinton writes. "I would support normalizing relations, which could very well lead to lifting the embargo," she told NPR.




Jesse Ventura explained that 52 percent of the American people support ending the embargo. In Florida, where there is the highest percentage of Cuban-Americans, 64 percent of adults said it's time for the embargo to be lifted. Even Governor Rick Scott and Charlie Crist feel that normalizing economic ties with Cuba will bring greater financial gains to Florida.



If lifting the embargo "helps both of our economies, how do you turn away a win-win?" remarked Jesse Ventura, who noted the United States trades with other communist and socialist countries all the time.



"What has Cuba ever done to us? We've been practicing terrorism against them! We've:

Blown up ships in their harbor 

We've tried to destroy their monetary system 

We've attempted to destroy their cane fields

We've tried to assassinate their president on multiple occasions 

And we've even blown up one of their airliners with civilian passengers on board 


Is that not terrorism?" He asked. "We have no right telling another country what to do. It's not our call -- it's the Cuban people's call."



Jesse Ventura also explained that he is "for open borders. Take down these borders. You don't need barbed wire fences for a great place to live."



"If I get elected president, not only would I be shutting down Guantanamo within a year, I would give it back to Cuba - where it belongs," said Ventura. "This is probably why I won't be elected president," he continued, expressing how he feels it is wrong to indefinitely detain prisoners of war. "Why do we occupy Cuban land? For what ungodly purpose besides to hold prisoners so they can't be tried in a regular court of law."

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