In a public break with the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton said Thursday that the US should lift the half-century-old embargo of Cuba.
“The embargo is Castro’s best friend,” Clinton told the Council on Foreign Relations while promoting her new book, “Hard Choices.”
Clinton, who is considered the leading Democratic hopeful for president in 2016, said the Castro regime has used the embargo as a ready “excuse” to blame the US for all its problems and foment anti-American sentiment.
“I would like to see the excuse removed,” Clinton said.
“It also would help our relationship with other Latin American countries . . . I’d like to change the psychology of that issue.”
(NYPost)