Republican Presidential Candidates Call for Castro's Damnation to Hell, Cuban Spring

Eager for the U.S. to intervene in yet another country's internal political structure, Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich have spoken out against Fidel Castro's government in Cuba with former House Speaker Gingrich calling for a 'Cuban Spring'.

In a political ploy that will result in increased tensions should either candidate become President, Gingrich said at an event in Miami, "I don't think it's ever occurred to a single person in the White House to look south and propose a 'Cuban Spring.'". He declared that if he became President, he would use "moral pressure, psychological pressure, information pressure, economic pressure, covert assistance". He also stated that the U.S. would work to ensure that the Castro government would not continue following the death of Fidel Castro.


Mitt Romney criticized the Obama administration's policies on Cuba and declared that, “it is time for us to strike for freedom in Cuba, and I will do so as president". Romney went on to say that upon Castro's death, "he'll find a nether region to be more to his comfort".

In a recent column, Fidel Castro commented “The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is – and I mean this seriously – the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been".

With increasingly harsh rhetoric directed at Iran, Russia has felt the need to lash out against increasing international sanctions and threats of further action. If the U.S. were to strike against Cuba, it is curious what affect this will have on U.S. relations with South-American nations and what the response from an already hostile Venezuelan government will be. Increasingly, U.S. foreign policy appears to have found new targets to direct hostilities toward, and attract hostilities in the process.

It's also noteworthy to question what Canadian foreign policy will be with regards to meddling in the affairs of the Cuban government. Cuba is currently Canada's largest market in the Central American-Caribbean region with over $1 billion in two way trade transacted in 2010.