Rubio: Cuba taking advantage of U.S.

In “The Godfather Part II,” Michael Corleone famously responds to a U.S. senator’s demands by saying, “My offer is this: nothing.”

Since President Barack Obama announced his normalization deal with the Cuban regime in December, life appears to be imitating art. Last week, Cuban President Raul Castro declared that his regime would not even entertain the Obama administration’s requests to normalize ties until the United States abandons our naval base at Guantanamo Bay, ends the trade embargo, ceases pro-democracy radio and television broadcasts into Cuba and compensates the regime for “human and economic damages” the U.S. has, according to him, inflicted on the Cuban people. Last month, the regime’s lead negotiator summed up its position even more succinctly after the first round of U.S.-Cuba normalization talks in Havana, saying, “Change in Cuba is not negotiable.”

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