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Cuba insists embargo has to go
By Staff Writers, teleSUR
Sunday, Jul 19, 2015
Cuba is preparing to reopen its embassy in Washington for the first time in over 50 years, trying to normalize relations between the two countries.
If the United States does not fully remove its blockade against Cuba, relations between the two countries can never return to normal, Cuban Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel said. The vice president's comments come as Cuba prepares to reopen its embassy in Washington Monday 54 years after Washington ended relations between the two countries amid the Cold War.
However, despite the diplomatic advances, Cuba has insisted that in order for relations to be considered fully normalized, the United States needs to lift the illegal blockade on the island that continues to hamper its economy.
There can not be a true normalization if US do not lift the blockade, said the vice president Saturday in a speech at the National Council of Universities in Havana. The Cuban leader added relations will never be normalized, if [the U.S.] does not stop the illegal radio and television, if it does not return the illegally occupied territory of Guantanamo Bay and if there no change in the conduct of U.S. diplomats residing in Cuba, in reference to the activities of U.S. diplomatic staff to aid the activities of opposition groups.
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RandySF
(59,414 posts)I doubt it would even get a vote right now.
flamingdem
(39,332 posts)but who knows.
forest444
(5,902 posts)No, not the one that stipulates that if there's grass in the field, play ball. The thoroughly unconstitutional policy started by Hastert that allows speakers to seek a majority in their own caucus before allowing legislation onto the floor - even if the bill has majority support overall.
Any hope of persuading Orange Man to let it on the floor on the other hand might lie with his lord and master, the Chamber of Commerce.
Castro and the Chamber Commerce. Strange bedfellows indeed.
Judi Lynn
(160,648 posts)Doubtful you could have told him it could even happen when he was fighting in the Sierra Maestra!
Mika
(17,751 posts)Hardly.
They just happen to agree that an insane and unproductive policy is just that - insane and unproductive,
I agree with Trump about restoring tariff based trade, but, that certainly does not make us bedfellows.
RandySF
(59,414 posts)That is controlled by the Republicans.