...the Guardian and others got it wrong when they headlined the - TopicsExpress



          

...the Guardian and others got it wrong when they headlined the normalisation of relations between Washington and Havana as an invitation to Cuba to come in from the cold. The truth was the other way around – and more of a break with history. For it is not Cuba that has decided to rejoin the modern world this week. It is the US. Until this week’s promise, the US has never, ever, been prepared to accept a conventional bilateral relationship with Cuba. On the contrary, for most of the republic’s history, its view of Cuba has been controlling and, at times, downright predatory.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:36:54 +0000

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