President Barack Obama is not ruling out meeting Cuban President Raul Castro at the White House, as his administration works to restore ties to the communist country.
A day after the president announced the beginning of efforts to normalize relations with Cuba for the first time in more than 50 years, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Obama would be willing to host the Cuban leader, comparing it to visits from leaders from other countries with checkered human rights records.
What's next? Biden's taliban buddies in the Lincoln bedroom?
WASHINGTON � He was, in many ways, a perfect spy � a man so important to Cuba's intelligence apparatus that the information he gave to the Central Intelligence Agency paid dividends long after Cuban authorities arrested him and threw him in prison for nearly two decades.
Rolando Sarraff Trujillo has now been released from prison and flown out of Cuba as part of a swap for three Cuban spies imprisoned in the United States that President Obama announced Wednesday in a televised speech. Mr. Obama did not give Mr. Sarraff's name, but several current American officials identified him and a former official discussed some of the information he gave to the C.I.A. while burrowed deep inside Cuba's Directorate of Intelligence.
Well, if you're going to go that route, seems like a great geopolitical move on the President's part. Make the connection to Cuba before any re-ignition between the island and the bear.
Just a thought but isn't currious that we become friendly with Cuba just after Putin says he want Russia to be the next Roman Empire and that the west will never defang or declaw the bear as long as they have nuclear weapons?
I don't have a problem with normalizing trade with Cuba. It's not like trade ever completely stopped between the two countries. It's always been very easy to buy Cuban cigars.
My problem is the great negotiator in the white house gave away the farm and didn't get much in return. But in Obama's defense, when you weaken the country as much as Obama has, it makes it hard to negotiate.
We need to be careful when we start to send our ships that we don't unload all our products on one side of the island and not the other. We almost tipped over Guam until the brainy Democrat Hank Johnson stopped it.
capitalism is the only way to improve these people's lives. i think the concern is that the "capitalists" will be the ruling class, who are already so very rich. We can only hope that the cubanos can benefit as well.
i heard that only 5% of the populace has internet access, and only 2% have cell phones...talk about untapped territory.
i spoke today with an insider at carnival cruise lines, and he said it will be awhile before US ships can go to cuba, but foreign flagged vessels can., and the major hoteliers have already had partnerships with local companies for yearts...just waiting for this day
Normalizing relations with Cuba will be big business for both countries.
The 10 worst countries for political rights and civil liberties: Central African Republic, Somalia, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan, Eritrea, Syria, North Korea, Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan - we have diplomatic ties with 8 out of 10.
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