Obama: "Until there's justice in Cuba, there's no justice anywhere," will keep embargo [View All]

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He also spoke of his Cuba proposal but this underscores that, despite all the hype and "hope", he is fundamentally the same on Cuba as the other candidates and the foreign policy establishment.

==By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
AP Political Writer

MIAMI --
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama criticized President Bush's Cuba policy to rousing applause on Saturday at the same Little Havana auditorium where Republican Ronald Reagan once campaigned.

"Just 90 miles from here there is a country where justice and freedom are out of reach. That's why my policy toward Cuba will be guided by one word: Liberty," Obama said, adding that freedom in Cuba begins with the release of political prisoners.==

==Obama said he wouldn't lift the trade embargo, and said the offer to normalize relations in a post-Castro Cuba would be made after the country opened up to democratic change.

"Until there's justice in Cuba, there's no justice anywhere," Obama said. "We will talk to our enemies as well as our friends and both to our enemies and to our friends, we will tell them the truth and tell them what we stand for."==

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