Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba in a column for Politico published Sunday, saying “it is so sad … that Obama has chosen to legitimize the corrupt and oppressive Castro regime.”
Cruz, whose father is Cuban and left the island in the late 1950s, wrote that Obama and his “retinue of celebrities in tow” sends a message to political prisoners that “nobody has your back.”
“This is why it is so sad, and so injurious to our future as well as Cuba’s, that Obama has chosen to legitimize the corrupt and oppressive Castro regime with his presence on the island,” he wrote.
Cruz then wrote about how his father and aunt were “brutalized” by Cuban regimes before fleeing to freedom in the United States.
“That freedom can come to Cuba, and I pledge to work to make it so,” he continued. “But it cannot happen by enriching and empowering the dictatorship, while they export terrorism throughout Latin America. And it cannot happen by forgetting the heroism and suffering of the brave souls who have opposed the Castros for so many decades.”
Read the full column here.
