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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 23, 2009

  The Cuban Five: A starkly controversial case

By Deanna Cox: COHA Research Associate - During Barack Obama’s first three months in office, his administration took several tentative steps toward rehabilitating the US relationship with Cuba. Up to now such ties have been dominated by unremitting hostility towards the Castro Regime of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 28, 2009

  Gestures that are impressive

Reflections of Fidel I confess that I have meditated many times on the dramatic history of John F. Kennedy. It so happened that I experienced the period during which he was the greatest and most dangerous adversary of the Revolution. That was something which was not within his...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 24, 2009

  Documents show Robert Kennedy tried to lift Cuba travel ban

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP) -- One month after president John F Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, his brother, attorney general Robert Kennedy, tried to convince the US government to lift its travel ban to Cuba, according to documents released Thursday by the National Security Archive. Freedom to...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 19, 2009

  Embargo up to US, Cuba

Ria Taitt Political Editor - Although Canada feels that the US trade embargo against Cuba is not the way to go, its removal is ultimately a matter between Cuba and the United States, Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said yesterday. Speaking at a news conference at the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 17, 2009

  Caribbean cannot base tourism on US embargo against Cuba

By Sir Ronald Sanders: US President Barack Obama has fulfilled a promise made to Cuban-Americans during last year’s Presidential campaign to ease travel restrictions allowing them to visit Cuba as they wish, and to send money back home to their dependents. This decision has caused more...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 14, 2009

  Cubans say Obama move will help families

By Jeff Franks and Pascal Fletcher: HAVANA/MIAMI (Reuters) -- President Barack Obama's lifting of US curbs on family travel and remittances to Cuba will bring divided families closer and supplement stressed budgets on the island, Cubans and Cuban Americans said on Monday. On both sides of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 24, 2009

  Obama administration urged to 'listen to Lugar'

WASHINGTON, USA: Calling Senator Lugar's report “a clear and convincing case against current US policy,” Sarah Stephens of the Center for Democracy in the Americas released the following statement on the report issued by the Ranking Republican Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 23, 2009

  Time to rethink US sanctions on Cuba, says top Republican senator

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The time is right for reevaluating US sanctions on Cuba, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says in a new report, calling for allowing Cuba to buy US goods on credit, US media reported Sunday. Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana's...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 12, 2009

  Lawmakers introduce bill to give US citizens unrestricted travel to Cuba

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): Lawmakers in the US House of Representatives have introduced a bill to permit US citizens unrestricted travel to Cuba, according to the Library of Congress website. The "Freedom To Travel to Cuba Act," which would overturn the 46-year-old US policy strictly limiting...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 31, 2009

  Deciphering the thinking of the new president of the United States

Reflections of Fidel: IT isn’t too difficult. After his inauguration, Barack Obama stated that the return of the territory occupied by the Guantánamo Naval Base to its legitimate owner had to be carefully considered, in the first place, in terms of whether it would affect the defense...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 30, 2009

  Chavez tells Obama to give Guantanamo back to Cuba

BELEM, Brazil (Reuters): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Thursday urged US President Barack Obama to return the military base of Guantanamo to Cuba after applauding his decision to close the prison for terrorism suspects there. The anti-US Cuba ally has tense relations with the United...... [view]

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