The fruits of the Obama’s administration’s new policy towards Cuba paid off Friday, when Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Havana to reopen the new US embassy there. Of his Cuba policy, President Obama has said he is not interested in refighting battles that started “before I was born.” Today, the United States and Cuba now friends. But much of the real work of undoing more than 50 years of hostility remains.
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AS US Raises Flag Over Embassy in Cuba, New Challenges Emerge
Posted August 14th, 2015 at 12:07 pm (UTC-4)
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Obama Marks Diplomatic Milestones with Iran, Cuba
Posted July 21st, 2015 at 12:25 pm (UTC-4)
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By Barbara Slavin Two milestones occurred in U.S. foreign policy Monday that will cement President Barack Obama’s legacy and put the United States back in step with the vast majority of international opinion. At the State Department, the flag of Cuba was quietly inserted between Croatia and the Czech Republic as the U.S. and the […]
Formal Restoration of Diplomatic Ties With Cuba Is Just a Beginning
Posted July 21st, 2015 at 7:28 am (UTC-4)
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It would be naïve to expect that the Cuban government, a dynastic police state, will take big steps in the near future to liberalize its centrally planned economy, encourage private enterprise or embrace pluralistic political reforms.
Hope Takes Over Havana
Posted July 20th, 2015 at 9:11 am (UTC-4)
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As a long-time visitor, the first change you notice upon arriving in Havana these days is that the anti-“yanqui” billboards are all but gone. The barrage of outdoor posters lambasting American policy that greeted us in previous trips were nowhere to be seen.
Obama’s Cuba Policy Deserves a Cigar
Posted July 6th, 2015 at 2:01 pm (UTC-4)
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President Barack Obama’s announcement Wednesday that the U.S. will restore diplomatic relations with Cuba and reopen an embassy in Havana amounts to “unconditional surrender,” opponents say…They have it backward.
Time to Accept Change in Relations
Posted July 3rd, 2015 at 8:38 am (UTC-4)
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Cuban Americans everywhere, but especially the diaspora in South Florida, have been awakening to the reality that Cuba’s isolation was and is not a sustainable strategy.
US-Cuba Rapprochement Advances with Reopening of US Embassy in Havana
Posted July 2nd, 2015 at 1:25 pm (UTC-4)
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More than 50 years after the United States government left Cuba, later this summer Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Havana to reopen the American embassy. The announcement is not entirely a surprise given that normalization of ties had already begun last year.
But while there is widespread agreement that it’s time to let go of Soviet-era policies, activists worry that an uptick in human rights abuses by the Cuban government does not bold well for democracy.
Obama Administration Turns a Blind Eye to Cuba’s Transgressions
Posted June 3rd, 2015 at 9:37 am (UTC-4)
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For the sake of American security, however, the U.S. Congress should be asking more questions about Obama’s U.S.-Cuba rapprochement and whether there are any real benefits for Cubans or the United States absent any true economic or political reforms in Cuba.
‘When a Nation Is Threatened, Democracy Is an Impossible Dream’
Posted May 7th, 2015 at 1:15 pm (UTC-4)
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Obama’s openings to Iran and Cuba could make plain that U.S. military and economic aggression damages rather than empowers people struggling for freedom.