In the May 17, 2004 issue of National Review (article is only available to subscribers), Jay Nordlinger has an interesting piece on John Kerry's Latin American policy record. Excerpt:
For the benefit of South Florida, he's claiming to be a big anti-Castroite: "I don't like Fidel Castro. Some people have cottoned to him in our party [now there's an admission!] and go down and visit. I went to Cuba once and I purposely said I don't want to." That statement was a little mysterious. Kerry has also said, "I'm pretty tough on Castro, because I think he's running one of the last vestiges of a Stalinist, secret-police government in the world. And I voted for the Helms-Burton legislation to be tough on companies that deal with him." That was a little mysterious too, for Kerry was one of only 22 senators to vote against Helms-Burton. His campaign later explained that he had voted for an early version of the bill, objecting to the final one because of Title III: which allows Americans whose property was stolen to sue foreign companies acquiring that property.
Hey, that sounds familiar!
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