‘This is a return to rhetoric of the Cold War’: Moscow blasts Donald Trump’s decision to reverse Obama changes that normalized relations with Cuba
Russian Foreign Ministry released a statement slamming Trump’s new policies
Moscow said Trump is: ‘returning us to the forgotten rhetoric of the Cold War’
The president announced his policy changes during a speech in Miami on Friday
President Obama worked to repair the US’s relationship with the island nation
By LIAM QUINN
DAILYMAIL.COM
18 June 2017
Donald Trump has been criticized by Moscow after going on the attack against Cuban leaders and flagging an undoing of changes made by Barack Obama.
The Russian Foreign Ministry took aim at Trump’s decision to freeze a detente with Cuba and his verbal outburst the Caribbean island’s leaders.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement Sunday Trump is: ‘returning us to the forgotten rhetoric of the Cold War.’
The statement added: ‘It’s clear the anti-Cuba discourse is still widely needed. This can only induce regret.’
Russia’s statement came after Trump said on Friday he was ‘cancelling the last administration’s completely one-sided deal with Cuba’ and putting new travel and trade restrictions in place.
‘They fought for everything and we just didn’t fight hard enough, but now those days are over. Now we hold the cards. We now hold the cards,’ he told a crowd in Little Havana, Miami.
Trump said the US will not negotiate a new deal with Cuba until it releases the political prisoners it claims it does not have, turns over fugitives from American justice, hands over military criminals, respects freedom of assembly and expression and holds free and fair elections.
The ban on tourism will be upheld until that time and American companies will be barred from engaging in financial transitions with Cuba’s military-operated businesses, he said.
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