Cuban state media calls Clinton cynical for saying Castros don't really want US embargo lifted

[The Northerner]

HAVANA — Cuban state media dismissed U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as a cynic on Monday for her assertion that Fidel and Raul Castro don't want Washington's 48-year embargo lifted because they would no longer be able to blame America for their country's problems.

Clinton's comment last week "mixed ignorance and falsehoods at an infinite level," state-run Radio Reloj said.

"If cynicism needed an expression that would immortalize it, the American secretary of state gave it," the station said in a report read over the air and posted on its Web site.

Clinton's remarks also appeared without further commentary on Cubadebate, the government Internet site where Fidel Castro publishes frequent opinion pieces. The elder Castro dropped out of public view after undergoing emergency intestinal surgery in July 2006, and his brother Raul has since taken over the presidency.

Following a speech on nuclear terrorism at the University of Louisville on Friday, Clinton said, "it is my personal belief that the Castros do not want to see an end to the embargo and do not want to see normalization with the United States because they would lose all of their excuses for what hasn't happened in Cuba in the last 50 years."

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[DesertFlower]

1. i say "lift the embargo" and see

what happens.

[RM33]

2. Cuba will not survive

Cuba will not survive without the embargo. Who will Castro brothers blame for their ever sinking economy.

[mikita]

3. I wish I thought you were joking

but sadly I think you're serious.

[DesertFlower]

4. i don't think he's kidding.

[applegrove]

5. Lift the embargo. The Castros cannot last forever. Let that economy grow a bit while

we wait.