Exclusive – Cuban Dissident Leader: Obama Cuba Policy a ‘Disaster’ that ‘Increased Repression’

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Exclusive – Cuban Dissident Leader: Obama Cuba Policy a ‘Disaster’ that ‘Increased Repression’

Dr. Óscar Elías Biscet, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Castro regime, told Breitbart News on Wednesday that he considered the Obama-era policy of closeness to Cuba a “disaster” that “increased repression” against people like him.

Biscet issued his remarks to Breitbart News shortly after being arbitrarily detained once again last week. He explained to Breitbart News that he was never shown a warrant for arrest or told why he had lost his freedom. A communist official told him that he had not been “detained,” but “retained,” a word that carries no legal meaning in the Cuban penal code.

Dr. Biscet is currently the leader of Project Emilia, a movement to use non-violent resistance and civil disobedience to bring a democratic government to Cuba that will respect the human rights of its citizens. His insights are of particular concern to Americans in light of Democrat presidential primary frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) repeatedly defending the Castro regime on television this week, insisting that “not everything was bad” about the Cuban Revolution.

Read more at: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/02/27/exclusive-cuban-dissident-leader-obama-cuba-policy-disaster-increased-repression/