US and Cuba Held Unannounced Talks
EmailABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Senior US and Cuban officials held talks in Havana earlier this month that were longer and more wide ranging than previously revealed, the State Department said today. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Bisa Williams traveled to the Havana, Cuba for talks on restoring postal service between the two countries, but officials now say she also held additional talks in western Cuba about the status of the US Interest Section in Cuba and migration, among other topics. Bisa Williams took advantage of the opportunity while in Cuba for postal talks to have additional meetings, talk with members of civil society and visit western Cuba which was hit hard by hurricanes last year. The highest level official she met with was the vice foreign minister for Latin America," Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs told ABC. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly says Williams stayed in Cuba for six days. “Williams met with host government officials and a wide range of representatives from civil society to gain a full appreciation of the political and economic situation on the ground,” Kelly said. The migration talks were a follow-up to discussions held earlier this year. Those talks are slated to be held again in December, though no date has been set. A US statement following the September 17 postal talks specifically said the talks lasted one day and made no mention of additional discussions on other topics. The postal talks are expected to continue, but a venue has yet to be decided upon. President Obama earlier this year said he would like to improve ties between the US and Cuba, but said the Cuban government must also take steps to release political prisoners and establish accountable governance.
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Like all Marxists, Barack loves Fidel. Why on earth shouldn’t they talk?
Posted by: Fascist Hyena | September 29, 2009, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm
Our president will be in Havana, apologizing for us, in a matter of months.
Posted by: mesquito | September 29, 2009, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm
It is about time to get this nonsense behind us. We do business with all sorts of nasty regimes around the world when we need their money or oil. Seems as though Cuba has nothing to offer. Feels good to bully the small guy. Makes you wonder if we fast tracked Iran to acquire nukes with all our threats against them. Got to love it! Ron Paul folks. You will get it eventually.
Posted by: Huh | September 29, 2009, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm
Transparencia
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn | September 29, 2009, 8:43 pm 8:43 pm
“Makes you wonder if we fast tracked Iran to acquire nukes with all our threats against them.”
That and seeing us kick in their next door neighbor’s front door and take over.
Posted by: Skip | September 29, 2009, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm
Support for socialism goes up significantly the more people hear the right wingnuts are against it.
Posted by: Flash Override | September 29, 2009, 10:03 pm 10:03 pm
I’m guessing that Obama, via back channels and lower level State Dept lackeys, is asking Fidel for some advice on why his version of “change” worked for so long and this character Obama’s version of revolution seems to be imploding and failing so soon.
Posted by: Ed | September 29, 2009, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm
Like all Marxists, Barack loves Fidel. Why on earth shouldn’t they talk?
Posted by: Fascist Hyena
same for Reagan and Saddam,
Reagan and the secret arms for hostages
Reagan and those horrible members of the former USSR
Nixon and the ‘dreaded’ Chinese
Posted by: Yowsa | September 30, 2009, 12:16 am 12:16 am
Fascist Hyena wrote: “Like all Marxists, Barack loves Fidel.”
And G W Bush borrowed so much from Communist China that we now have to pay them over $100,000,000 per DAY in interest.
Of course, a few million Cubans are more of a threat than 1,300,000,000 Chinese with nukes and economic power, right?
Posted by: The_Mick | September 30, 2009, 2:53 am 2:53 am
“And G W Bush borrowed so much from Communist China that we now have to pay them over $100,000,000 per DAY in interest.”
Posted by: The_Mick | Sep 30, 2009 2:53:26 AM
And Our Savior Obama is borrowing MUCH MORE from the Chinese, fool.
Posted by: Debt Czar | September 30, 2009, 8:19 am 8:19 am
“And G W Bush borrowed so much from Communist China that we now have to pay them over $100,000,000 per DAY in interest.”
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And Bush did this during the ‘good times’ when the American economy was supposedly strong – indebting the country to the major communist power in the world when we should have been able to carry ourselves. Obama on the other hand inherited a complete mess of an economy. Instead of being able to use money saved during the good times, he found a huge national debt, a huge pre-existing deficit and the economy in free-fall . . .
Posted by: tierra | September 30, 2009, 11:25 am 11:25 am
“Obama on the other hand inherited a complete mess of an economy. Instead of being able to use money saved during the good times, he found a huge national debt, a huge pre-existing deficit and the economy in free-fall…”
Posted by: tierra | Sep 30, 2009 11:25:12 AM
Obama took a $500 billion deficit from Bush and turned it into a $1.85 TRILLION deficit. So says the CBO.
Posted by: Redistribution Czar | September 30, 2009, 11:36 am 11:36 am
Obama took a $500 billion deficit from Bush and turned it into a $1.85 TRILLION deficit. So says the CBO.
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You totally missed the point.
G W Bush borrowed so much from Communist China that we now have to pay them over $100,000,000 per DAY in interest.
Bush did this during the ‘good times’ when the American economy was supposedly strong – indebting the country to the major communist power in the world when we should have been able to carry ourselves.
Obama on the other hand inherited a complete mess of an economy. Instead of being able to use money saved during the good times, he found a huge national debt, a huge pre-existing deficit and the economy in free-fall . . .
Posted by: tierra | September 30, 2009, 11:56 am 11:56 am
“Obama on the other hand inherited a complete mess of an economy. Instead of being able to use money saved during the good times, he found a huge national debt, a huge pre-existing deficit and the economy in free-fall…”
Posted by: tierra | Sep 30, 2009 11:56:29 AM
And Obama, not wanting to “waste a good crisis,” began imposing his Socialist revolution. Card Check, FOCA, government run healthcare, cap & trade, closing Gitmo (with no plan), etc.
Obama owns the explosion of the FY2010 deficit for three reasons:
1) $800 billion “stimulus”–which hasn’t stimulated anything except for a handful of government jobs.
2) $410 billion Omnibus–where the Dem Congress delayed most FY2010 discretionary spending until Obama could approve it.
3) $350 billion–half of TARP, left by Bush for Obama to spend.
Posted by: Redistribution Czar | September 30, 2009, 12:03 pm 12:03 pm
crooks are the same all over the world. thay like to keep company with each other. and keep it under the table.nothing suprises me any more. the chicago mob has set up new operatons in washington.
Posted by: jim bradford | September 30, 2009, 12:07 pm 12:07 pm
Correction: Should be the fiscal year 2009–going on right now.
Posted by: Redistribution Czar | September 30, 2009, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm
Posted by: Redistribution Czar | Sep 30, 2009 12:03:23 PM
You again totally missed the point.
G W Bush borrowed so much from Communist China that we now have to pay them over $100,000,000 per DAY in interest.
Bush did this during the ‘good times’ when the American economy was supposedly strong – indebting the country to the major communist power in the world when we should have been able to carry ourselves.
Obama on the other hand inherited a complete mess of an economy. Instead of being able to use money saved during the good times, he found a huge national debt, a huge pre-existing deficit and the economy in free-fall . . .
Posted by: tierra | September 30, 2009, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm
Bush and the GOP majority spent like drunken sailors. Conservatives criticized them for it, and stayed home from the polls in 2006 and 2008.
Now Obama and the filibuster-proof Dem majority are spending like sailors on CRACK and METH!!
The lesson in both cases, to adapt an old Clinton slogan: It’s the spending, stupid.
Posted by: Redistribution Czar | September 30, 2009, 6:09 pm 6:09 pm