US, Cuban Diplomats to Meet Today
EmailOfficials of the US State Department are meeting today in Washington, DC, with diplomats from the Cuban Interests Section, the non-embassy the Cubans have here.
What will be discussed at the meeting? Obama administration officials aren’t saying, though of course it would be only natural for US diplomats to see what the Cuban government thought of President Obama’s initiative announced earlier this month, in which he lifted travel, commerce, and mail restrictions on Cuba.
The president formally declared a potential new day in US-Cuban relations at the Summit of the Americas.
Meetings between the State Department and Cuban diplomats occurred during the Bush administration as well, an administration source says, so no one should necessarily read too much into today’s meeting, though the context of today’s confab might make that difficult. State Department officials might want to explore whether they should be listening to Fidel or Raul Castro, for instance, when it comes to official reaction to President Obama’s overtures.
– jpt
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Who will be apologizing for the bad, arrogant US since B0 won’t be there? Who will condemn us and sympathize with Cuba that all of its problems were created by the US? Who will undertake to make it all better? Maybe the Congressional Black Caucus?
Posted by: beebop | April 27, 2009, 8:55 am 8:55 am
beebop – that attitude is why the GOP will continue to lose, shrink and continue to push themselves into the oncoming traffic of Americas future.
lead-join-or move over…..
Posted by: beepbeep | April 27, 2009, 9:11 am 9:11 am
beepbeep wrote: “…that attitude is why the GOP will continue to lose, shrink and continue to push themselves into the oncoming traffic of Americas future. lead-join-or move over…”
That’s what you liberals thought back in 1993. One day America will finally wake up to the fact that the global warming…opps!..sorry!…the global climate change crowd is wrong; that cap and trade is really nothing but a means in which to tax corporations, small businesses and the people into submission. Once that lie is exposed, it will be easier to see all of the other lies before them.
The question is will the great wake up occur in time for the 2010 elections? 2012? Or will the Democrats and President Obama be fortunate enough to distract the electorate just long enough to actually pass their agenda through Congress and the great wake up will end up being from experience–after the fact–and too late to really do much about it?
Only time will tell!
Posted by: James Danley | April 27, 2009, 10:03 am 10:03 am
To date, only the US, via america-hating Obama has made concessions.
While Cuba conducts “military exercises” allowing missile laden russian war ships within it’s waters, clearly a taunting threat to the US, and while similar activities are undertaken with Venezuela, Obama grins like an idiot and offers apologies all around for our lack of support of their human rights violations.
Obama does not believe such “ideology” is contemporary or our business.
Just as he quietly acquiesced as Afghanistan reinstituted laws to enslave ALL women, something Bush would not have allowed and made a condition of our support, Obama will go along with whatever Cuba wants.
Obama will not get anything out of this. He will only further weaken us.
Obama is on a campaign to destroy the arrogant US and as he devastates our economic structures, nationalizes everything, gives away the farm , and takes away our civil rights, he is very quickly achieving that goal
Are any of you aware that his administration is in court to take away your right to counsel when questioned or interrogated by police.
He is busy releasing and making sure that terrorists have those rights, but is taking them away from us.
Posted by: MNM | April 27, 2009, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm
I can only hope that we are not about to offer Cuba a bailout package.
Posted by: DontGet818OnMeNow | April 27, 2009, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm