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US President Barack Obama arrives in Cuba for historic visit
US President Barack Obama has arrived in Cuba for the start of a key visit and meetings with President Raul Castro. The diplomatic opening is a centerpiece of Obama's presidential legacy.
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President Barack Obama has arrived in Cuba for the start of an historic three-day visit and talks with President Raul Castro. He became the first US president to visit the Caribbean island since 1928, when President Calvin Coolidge arrived in a battleship.
There was heavy rain falling as the presidential party descended from Air Force One at Havana's airport.
Obama went directly to greet staff at the new US Embassy building and then join his family for a tour of Old Havana. On Monday, Obama was due to hold talks with Cuban President Raul Castro and also hold an event with US and Cuban business people.
The diplomatic opening is a centerpiece of Obama's foreign policy legacy and the fulfillment of his pledge to engage directly with longtime American enemies. First Lady Michelle and their two daughters left Andrews Air Force Base on Sunday afternoon for the short flight to Havana, where they were spending three days.
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Mika
(17,751 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)getting all wild and crazy that the elected President of the United States has chosen to visit Cuba, just like former beloved President Jimmy Carter, who attempted to create an opening with Cuba during his Presidency which the piece of #### Reagan slammed shut as soon as he slimed into office.
They always look so intelligent don't they, protesting against US Americans who want relations with Cuba?
So impressive when they mocked Janet Reno, and Bill Clinton, during Elian Gonzalez. They couldn't have looked more ridiculous.
Right-wingers are the absolutely pits.
Really stupendous sign from the man, calling Cubans "asesinos" when everyone knows it was Miami Cubans who had men hiding in Cuba to shoot down Cuban volunteer teachers going throughout the countryside right after the revolution to work with people in remote places, helping them at night after their work was done, to learn to read, until the country was literate for the first time.
Shooting teachers! Same Cubans who bombed trains, set fire to fields, poisoned livestock, brought biological warfare into the country for the CIA, sent hit squads into Cuba to knock off their political enemies, even bragged about it in the U.S., shot up Cuban hotels from the ocean, hired Central Americans to act as "mules" to bring in and plant bombs in Cuban hotels, restaurants, discoteques, etc., etc.
"Asesinos!" Dumb schmuck.
"Coward." That's a hot one, too.
How does anyone keep from doing a spontaneous human combustion living in the same town with these cretins, anyway?
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Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)They counted on the Castros being their closest allies, but now the same Castros are basically starting to brownnose the supposed "sworn enemy" of the Bolivarian Revolution. If this isn't yet another sign of how the regressive and corrupt leftist movement in Latin America that was started by Hugo Chavez is dying, I don't know what is.
Mika
(17,751 posts)And pretty much every LatAm organization, along with most all UN nations, have routinely condemned the US sanctions... on behalf of the Cuban gov't.
And you call Obama's rapprochement 'Castro's brownnosing?
Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)But now that Chavismo is going down the drain with Maduro, and there's no more petrodollars to finance the Castro regime, they sought out the US to reestablish relations. Also, it's kind of funny how Cuba is so cooperative with the US despite the fact that the Chavista leadership continually and incessantly rambles about the US plotting at every turn to overthrow the Venezuelan government. It's just funny, is all.
And Maduro just happened to be visiting Cuba before Obama came. Wonder what kind of stuff be negotiated with the Castros. Maybe a guarantee of asylum once Chavismo falls and all the PSUV leaders start being prosecuted?
Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)they wouldn't be attending either.
Just the US and whatever tiny country could be coerced through the threat of withholding foreign aid, as usual, just like the UN annual General Assembly vote to condemn the embargo has often seen one or two tiny countries like Palau or the Marshall Islands, or even Guatemala vote to support the embargo, while all others condemn or refrain from voting.
Making certain adjustments with Cuba immediately was the only way to save face, and we all know it. Everyone does.
Everyone outside the propagandists who won't admit it.