Ron DeSantis Rips Obama for Shaking Raul Castro's Hand

From his perch on the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., ripped the decision of President Barack Obama to shake Cuban Communist dictator Raul Castros hand at the funeral of Nelson Mandela.

The excitement exhibited in some liberal quarters regarding the embrace of Raul Castro by President Obama ignores the millions of victims of the totalitarian Castro regime, said DeSantis on Wednesday. I urge the president to secure the release of American Alan Gross from Castros prisons. The Cuban people have been denied liberty for more than 50 years and U.S. policy must be geared toward the establishment of a free and democratic Cuba.