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Mr Castro had said he was ready for discussions covering human rights, political prisoners and press freedom. The US passed a law this week easing restrictions on Cuban Americans. The move will allow Cuban Americans to visit relatives in Cuba and send money home more easily. Correspondents say a series of exchanges between the US and Cuba suggest that both sides appear to be making efforts to find a way to end their 50-year stalemate. US President Barack Obama has said it is now up to Cuba to make the next move if relations are to be further improved. He said the US expected Cuba to "send signals that they're interested in liberalising". He also cautioned that relations would not mend "overnight". Mrs Clinton made her comments about Cuba in the Dominican Republic, ahead of the Summit of the Americas that begins in Trinidad and Tobago later on Friday. "We are continuing to look for productive ways forward because we view the present policy as having failed," she said at a press conference. "We welcome his comments and the overture they represent, and we are taking a very serious look at how to respond," Mrs Clinton said. Cuba is excluded from the summit, which includes 34 members of the Organisation of American States (OAS), though Latin American leaders have been calling for the communist country to be readmitted. OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza said on Friday he would ask the organisation's members to readmit Cuba, 47 years after it was suspended. Mr Insulza said he would put the proposal to a meeting of the OAS general assembly in Honduras at the end of May. Speaking to Latin American leaders in Venezuela on Thursday, President Castro said he had sent word to the US government "in private and in public" that he is open to negotiations as long as they are "on equal terms".
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 To be instantly forgotten(If ever mentioned) by the MSM. (a democratic propaganda machine/arm) Democrats are GODS, they simply don't make mistakes. (And if you find one, it's all in your imagination. LIAR.) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-04-18 15:20 |
| #2 "Failed policy" defined below: U.S. civilian planes shot down near Cuba Search under way for possible survivors February 24, 1996 Web posted at: 12:45 a.m. EST (0545 GMT) MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Two small planes operated by a Cuban-American group were shot down by Cuban fighters over the waters north of Havana and the four people on board were missing, President Clinton and the U.S. Coast Guard said Saturday. Clinton said he had been briefed on "the shooting down Saturday in broad daylight of two American civilian airplanes by Cuban military aircraft." "I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms," Clinton told reporters< in Seattle, Washington. The two planes with four people on board were twin-engine Cessna aircraft operated by the group "Brothers to the Rescue," a Miami-based group of Cuban exiles funded by private donations. The group has flown hundreds of missions to spot Cuban rafters attempting to flee their island nations. Group founder Jose Basulto was on a third plane that escaped the gunfire and returned to Miami. Basulto said all three planes had radioed Cuban air traffic controllers to identify themselves and report their intentions to search international waters for Cuban refugees who may be on rafts. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-04-18 08:53 |
| #1 The usual liberal memory hole ignoring the overt actions of Havana to export 'revolution' [ie Communism] throughout the Caribbean and South America in the 60s and 70s. How about another body count on that one, like the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-04-18 08:16 |