Authors see chance for breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba relations
Authors see chance for breakthrough in U.S.-Cuba relations
By Daniel Trotta
HAVANA Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:42pm EDT
Oct 13 (Reuters) - The authors of a new book detailing 55 years of informal communications between the United States and Cuba see a rare opportunity to normalize relations, provided President Barack Obama wants to seize the moment.
William LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh co-wrote "Back Channel to Cuba," which was officially released on Monday and explains the informal and secretive "back channel" means that Havana and Washington have used to speak to each other despite their hostilities.
Based largely on declassified documents, the book created a stir with its revelation that former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ordered contingency plans for a military strike in order to "smash Castro" in response to former President Fidel Castro sending Cuban troops to Angola in 1975.
The authors are in Havana for a dual presentation of their work and a similar book by Cuban authors Elier Ramirez and Esteban Morales, also released on Monday, that is based on previously unreleased Cuban documents.
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Probably reads the same as "100% of mentally competent U.S. Americans."
It's good to see numbers like this, anyway.
Thanks, Mika. 
