US needs to stop intervention in Cuba, Ron Paul says

In an article wrote on his website on Monday, Paul said President Barack Obama should be praised after he announced last week that the two countries would restore full diplomatic relations and that embassies could be reopened by the end of the month.
 
He explained that Washington began to embargo Cuba after it realized that it could not control former president Fidel Castrol.
 
“When Washington realized it could not control Castro, it embargoed the island and began launching plots to overthrow and even kill him. US policy likely was responsible for Castro turning to the Soviet Union in the first place,” Paul wrote.
 
The former presidential candidate also noted the US intervention in Cuba's internal affairs continues to this day.
 
“Even under Obama several US plots to overthrow the regime have been exposed,” he said.
 
Paul described opening an embassy in Havana as a “positive step.”
 
“This embassy must be used to help promote truly normal relations with Cuba. That means an end to the embargo, an end to the travel ban, and an end to US interference in Cuba's internal affairs. A more free and prosperous Cuba will not emerge as long as US interventionism continues to turn Cubans against the United States,” he concluded.
 
The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1961 two years after Fidel Castro came to power. One year later, it imposed an official embargo against Havana.
 
On Wednesday, President Obama called on Congress to lift the United States decades-old embargo on Cuba.
 
The Republican-dominated Congress has so far refused Obama's request to lift the longstanding embargo.