“The first time Castro leaves Cuba for any nation we have extradition treaties with, he should be detained, arrested and extradited to the U.S. for indictment and trial on charges of murder and terrorism.”
With President Obama’s legitimization of Cuba making headlines, turn-of-the-century writings by Donald Trump suggest he would have striven to extradite and imprison Cuba’s leaders, not line their pockets, if president.
Unearthed by Babalú Blog contributor and friend of Breitbart Humberto Fontova, a 1999 Miami Herald column by Trump hidden in the depths of the internet reveals that he had an opportunity to build hotels in Havana through European corporations, legally avoiding the restrictions of the American embargo on the communist regime there, but he declined them.
“Several large European investment groups have asked me to take the `Trump Magic’ to Cuba,” he wrote, asserting that “we would make a fortune” if he were to collaborate with European entities already established there. He ultimately declined to do business in Cuba, he said, because, “I had a choice to make: huge profits or human rights. For me, it was a no-brainer.”
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