Obama Urged to Press Havana on Cuban Interrogation of American POWs

U.S. President Barack Obama takes out his umbrella as he steps out of Air Force One during his arrival at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba / AP

President Obama is being urged to raise the issue of Cuban interrogators who tortured American prisoners of war during the Vietnam War and killed at least one of them.

“President Obama during his current trip to Cuba should ask its leaders to identify those Cubans who participated in the torture of American POWs in Hanoi in what was termed the Cuban Program,” said Mike Benge, a former POW and member of the National Alliance of Families, a POW activist group.

Obama and his family arrived in Cuba on Sunday as part of his push to normalize relations with the communist dictatorship in power on the island since 1959.

U.S. officials said Cuban government repression has increased since the president made the diplomatic overture to Cuba during secret talks that began in the middle of 2013. Diplomatic ties were recently restored.

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Mark
Mark
8 years ago

Please…the most radically leftist president (small p) in the history of U.S. is going to press the Commies in Havana on the Cuban program torturing POWs and even beating one to death???
A Socialist is Just a Progressive in a Hurry – A Communist is Just a Socialist in a Hurry.

Obama is just a Lame Duck ideologue narcissist…who has managed to actually pass Jimmy Carter in owning the bottom slot as the worst president in modern times… pretending to be a Progressive…while harboring a hammer and sickle heart.

Big difference in-between the Peanut farmer and the Community Organizer…Jimmy was an accidental failure with a toothy smile…If he told the truth Obama’s boyish grin would show the Commie fangs.

He may have been snubbed in Havana…but he is home.