Republican Boehner calls Obama's Cuba deal a 'mindless concession'

WASHINGTON - US House Speaker John Boehner sharply criticized US President Barack Obama's policy change toward Cuba, calling it "another in a long line of mindless concessions" to a brutal dictatorship.

"Relations with the Castro regime should not be revisited, let alone normalized, until the Cuban people enjoy freedom - and not one second sooner," Boehner said in a statement.