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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sr K who wrote (124597)	10/21/2012 9:40:35 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Mariela Castro lives in the U.S. In this CNN article from May 2012, she was called a visitor. Did she immigrate here in the last 5 months or were you wrong? New York (CNN) -- The daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro, widely seen as a champion of gay rights in Cuba, brought her brand of outspoken advocacy to a New York audience Tuesday. Mariela Castro Espin, who is her country's director of the National Center for Sex Education and is the niece of Fidel Castro, is on a multiday visit to the United States. cnn.com Here is the WSJ article online.wsj.com President Obama has received yet another endorsement, this time from the daughter of Cuban military dictator Raúl Castro. Mariela Castro proclaimed her support for the sitting president 10 days ago, during a visit to the United States. "I believe that Obama needs another opportunity and he needs greater support to move forward with his projects and with his ideas, which I believe come from the bottom of his heart," she said in a CNN interview in New York. Columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady on why the dictator's daughter gets a visa to make speeches here while the regime continues to hold an American hostage. The dictator's daughter, who is a vociferous proponent of the Cuban status quo, was ostensibly in the U.S. to discuss matters pertaining to her field of expertise, which has something to do with advocating for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights. As the Cuban-born writer Carlos Alberto Montaner put it in a syndicated column last week, "Mariela is tolerant of sexual preferences and intolerant of all the rest." He added: "For her, freedom and emotional coherence are something very specifically situated south of the navel."