Cuba and US take tentative step with talks on migration

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cuba and the United States took a tentative step toward unthawing relations and resuming joint efforts to address irregular migration, a senior Cuban official said Friday following the highest-level talks between the two countries in four years.

There were no major breakthroughs, but the mere fact that the U.S. was holding substantive talks was a sign relations might be looking better under President Joe Biden after going into deep freeze under his predecessor, Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio said.

“They seem committed. They ratified that they are committed to the agreements in place," Fernandez de Cossio said. "So we have no reason to mistrust what they’re saying, but time will tell.”

The talks did not focus on broader U.S.-Cuba relations but more narrowly on restoring adherence to previous agreements that were intended to curtail the often-dangerous irregular migration from the island to the United States.

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[bhikkhu]

1. Fingers crossed that it leads to something

...about all a regular person can do. I hope that we could have them as a regular neighbor, the kind that you want to see doing well, because people in general tend to prosper best when their neighbors are also doing well. And I hope the government there does a good job of taking care of the people it represents.

Maybe a generation ago there was cause to fear the politics there, but I don't see any cause at the moment. No reason for people to keep suffering in isolation that I know of. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.

[groundloop]

2. I totally agree, and pray we can go a step further and end the idiotic embargo

Hell, we've had traded forever with governments far more despicable than Cuba.

I was able to visit Cuba shortly before 45* killed our relations with them. It was a great trip and opened my eyes to their rich culture and history.

I'm hoping that travel to Cuba will once again be legal in the very near future, I need to stock up on some of their wonderful rum .

[former9thward]

3. Americans can visit Cuba through Canada, Mexico or the Bahamas.

It is not difficult.

[EX500rider]

4. I assume they mean immigration rather than migration

Migration is something birds do when they fly up North for the summer..etc

[Grins]

5. "...unthawing relations..."?

So…freezing?