The dinosaurs in Miami who have kept US-Cuba relations in the Stone Age are finally dying out, human rights activist Medea Benjamin, who lived in Cuba for 4 years. Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, said the change in policy towards Cuba was prompted by a political shift in Latin America that has seen the U.S. become increasingly isolated diplomatically in the region. Relations between Latin America and the Obama administration have been the worst probably of any U.S. administration in decades, This will help, but new sanctions against Venezuela will also raise questions in the hemisphere about whether this is a change in direction or merely a giving up on a strategy that has failed for more than 50 years..
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:20:17 +0000
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