CNN’s Acosta: Trump ‘Ushering a Return to the Cold War Between Washington and Havana’

‘When the president talks about human rights and abuses and that sort of thing of people, he just came back from a foreign trip in Saudi Arabia where they still chop people’s heads off’

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ACOSTA: "Well, I think, Brooke, more importantly, besides the minute minutia of this policy, he’s ushering a return to the cold War between Washington and Havana. He made that very clear in this speech, going after the Castro regime time and again accusing the government in Havana of rounding up innocent people, putting them behind bars purely for political reasons. He talked about firing squads at one point, the sounds of gunshots in the air and the ocean breeze in Havana. That is the kind of Cold War rhetoric we have heard for decades between the united States and Cuba. But getting back to the policy, yes, you’re right, when he says that he is completely canceling the Obama Administration’s policy on Cuba, that is not the case, as he acknowledged later on in his remarks. He’s leaving the embassies open. People are still going to be able to travel from the united States and Cuba. They are not going to be able to do it as much individually but through groups. You and I both know, having covered this issue for some time, Americans can get around that policy. Americans can get around the policy if we were to return to one of banning people from bringing back cigars and rum. Some of this is symbolic what the Trump Administration is doing. But preventing U.S. Companies from doing business with the U.S. Military, that does have a potential to also chill some of the tourism development in Cuba because so much of it is run through a company that is essentially an outreach of the Cuban military. Brooke, we have to call them like we see them here. When the president talks about human rights and abuses and that sort of thing of people, he just came back from a foreign trip in Saudi Arabia where they still chop people’s heads off. There is selective outrage here when it comes to human rights and this cuban-american community down here in Miami is still vitally important and you’ll talk to cuban-americans who will say this is not a monolithic community. Not everyone here is in favor of the full reversal Obama policy. A total reversal of this policy would even outrage some of the hard liners in this crowd, Brooke.

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