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Judi Lynn

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Mon Jan 27, 2014, 07:10 PM Jan 2014

OAS head at Cuba summit in unusual encounter

Source: Associated Press

OAS head at Cuba summit in unusual encounter
10:01 AM Tuesday Jan 28, 2014

HAVANA (AP) The secretary-general of the Organization of American States arrived in Cuba on Monday to attend a regional summit, in an unusual encounter 52 years after Cuba was kicked out of the regional bloc.

Jose Miguel Insulza, a Chilean, was attending as an observer, so there was no official access to his arrival as was the case with visiting foreign ministers and heads of state. But Cuban officials confirmed his presence on the island to The Associated Press.

Hugo Zela, Insulza's chief of staff, said the OAS, which was formed in 1948, has no record of a secretary-general visiting Cuba.

Tensions between Cuba and the OAS began shortly after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, when Washington put pressure on Fidel Castro's nascent Communist government through the organization.

Read more: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11193028

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