I will grade the statements later made by the various national leaders below. But I think it’s important to create a semi-central repository of some of the more important leadership responses.
Interestingly, Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA-03) on a conference call this morning said that he believes Obama and Clinton both are more flexible than their public statements indicate.
Here are some of the statements I have seen:
Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)
"Today should mark the end of a dark era in Cuba’s history. Fidel Castro’s stepping down is an essential first step, but it is sadly insufficient in bringing freedom to Cuba.
"Cuba’s future should be determined by the Cuban people and not by an anti-democratic successor regime. The prompt release of all prisoners of conscience wrongly jailed for standing up for the basic freedoms too long denied to the Cuban people would mark an important break with the past. It’s time for these hero...
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by Trevor Wallace
In this article, I would like to talk about my three favorite Cuban cigars of all time. Yes this was a very hard article to write as I love all of them, but I’m sure every cigar enthusiast has their very own top three. They are not rated by how good they are, but more like my favorite type for each flavor such as mild, strong and strongest.
The first cigar and my favorite especially when it comes to mild soft flavored cigars is the Fonseca brand. Did you know that F... more
by Trevor Wallace
In this article, I would like to talk about my three favorite Cuban cigars of all time. Yes this was a very hard article to write as I love all of them, but I’m sure every cigar enthusiast has their very own top three. They are not rated by how good they are, but more like my favorite type for each flavor such as mild, strong and strongest.
So let’s start this off and the best mild cigar in my book of Cuban cigars is the Fonseca. The Fonseca is very nice way o... more
by Trevor Wallace
In this article, I would like to talk about my three favorite Cuban cigars of all time. Yes this was a very hard article to write as I love all of them, but I’m sure every cigar enthusiast has their very own top three. They are not rated by how good they are, but more like my favorite type for each flavor such as mild, strong and strongest.
The first cigar and my favorite especially when it comes to mild soft flavored cigars is the Fonseca brand. Did you know that F... more
Der leere Blick und die eingefallenen Augen zeigen nur noch ansatzweise die charismatische Person, die Fidel Castro früher einmal war. Sogar sein Bart, der zu seinem Markenzeichen wurde, hängt licht und kraftlos am Kinn runter. Auf den jüngsten Bildern wirkt der “Máximo LÃder” abgekämpft, gezeichnet von schwerer Krankheit: FOTOS
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro will visit Russia next year, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, in a new sign that Moscow is reviving a Cold War-era trade and military alliance.
Moscow also repeated calls for Washington to lift the economic embargo imposed on the Caribbean island in 1962 when Castro’s brother, Communist revolutionary Fidel [...]
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Havana, Nov 13 (DPA) Cuban President Raul Castro replaced his foreign investment minister after the agency reported a drop in the number of state firms receiving foreign investment.... more
Havana, Nov 13 (DPA) Cuban President Raul Castro replaced his foreign investment minister after the agency reported a drop in the number of state firms receiving foreign investment.The announcement of the cabinet change was made Wednesday night on state-run television. It did not give a reason for removing Marta Lomas, 58, and replacing her with [...]... more
Later in the day, I plan to grade the various public statements from leading American politicians below. But one criteria I will use is whether they evince any humility at all about the fact that America’s many decades old embargo failed to alter the political path of the Cuban government.
I will grade on the basis of whether these politicians are seeing and responding to reality or blinded by a perversion dictated by ideology and calculations that they think will help them with t... more
The New America Foundation/US-Cuba 21st Century Policy Initiative just hosted this high octane media conference call that included more than 50 journalists and featured the following commentators:
Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA-03), US House of Representatives
Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson , Co-Chair, New America Foundation/US-Cuba Policy Initiative; former Chief of Staff, US State Department; blogger, The Havana Note
Julia Sweig , Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America S... more
This is the event that fifty years of U.S. policy was designed to stop.
Fidel Castro has announced his retirement. He will be replaced in a peaceful succession, without the violent upheaval that U.S. policy makers have been predicting since the 1960s.
Now that Fidel Castro has announced his retirement, it’s time to retire our Cold War era Cuba policy. It failed.
Every U.S. president since Eisenhower has tried to kill or topple Fidel Castro and replace Cuba’s government and econ... more
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