What is Rubio trying to say? What changes? [View all]

[flamingdem]

Speculations please. Later we'll find out just how much the State Department worked with Cuba behind closed doors. The announcement about Visas today is an example. That came with US approval no doubt to keep things on an even keel. But all signs point to normalization being on the way but Marco Rubio here is speaking with the ultra right wing so what would they want in terms of changes?

For audio:

http://mambiwatch.blogspot.com/

This past Sunday, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida appeared at a public event hosted by Unidad Cubana, the militant/hard-line Cuban exile organization. Below is the speech he gave in Spanish. I will be translating portions of the speech into English and updating this post below.

Yet, there is one portion of the speech that was very interesting. Sen. Rubio at one moment seems to suggest that he has confidential information concerning changes coming to the Cuban government. At these kind of events, someone always says that change is coming soon to Cuba and it is implied that the change will come with the death of Fidel Castro. But, Sen. Rubio's remark about having secret information is much more interesting (though he has been known to lie). That audio is at 8:31...

"It's already been many years of everyone thinking 'Well, at any moment this has to change.' I know you've heard that many times. But I promise you, for reasons that I can't express publicly, the reality is that the moment is coming."