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US’ Two Faced Strategy: Dialogue With Cuba is Ploy to Destabilize Havana
US’ Two Faced Strategy: Dialogue With Cuba is Ploy to Destabilize Havana
© AFP 2015/ YAMIL Lage
18:09 08.07.2015
The start of the US-Cuba dialogue is a decoy to defeat Cuban independence, as in reality the White House uses diplomacy to influence Cuban citizens and through them they wish to pressure the government in Havana, US academic James Petras said in an interview to La Radio del Sur.
According to Petras, who is a former professor of sociology at Binghamton University in New York and Saint Mary's University in Canada, the US started talking to Cuba because its previous strategy of sanctions and isolation didn't work, and Washington decided to use a trickier route.
"Washington couldn't overthrow the Cuban government and decided to restore diplomatic relations to influence Cuban citizens, and through them to pressure the government," Petras said.
The main problems in the US-Cuban relations remain unchanged. The economic blockade is still on and most importantly the prison at Guantanamo Bay is still open, Petras said.
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