Cuban President Raul Castro demanded on Wednesday that the United States return the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, lift the half-century trade embargo on Cuba and compensate his country for damages before the two nations re-establish normal relations.
Castro told a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States that Cuba and the U.S. are working toward full diplomatic relations but 'if these problems aren't resolved, this diplomatic rapprochement wouldn't make any sense.'
No way, the White House said Thursday.
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Pretty sure that's Obama's plan anyway...
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remember... even justin trudeau didn't name his uncle fidel when asked what government he admired most.
good news is... you play second fiddle to the people who put melamine in baby formula... there's no place to go but up.
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Uncle Fidel? Funny uncle Fidel??
Why would Cuba want normal relations? It would expose the lie that the American boycott is the reason their economy is in the crapper. Cuba trades with every other country in the world so American trade is irrelevant.
Yep and it looks like Iran will get their way too.
Waiting for the apologist for all things Cuban and commie.....
of course Justine didn't mention Uncle Fiddle. Uncle Mao offed 48 - 80 million, Uncle Fiddle only about 150 thousand. That would be like turning down a Lambo, and accepting a bicycle to ride instead.
Numbers matter you know!!!
The State Dept. wrote the speech for Raul for f's sakes! obama would be a hero to communists and fellow neo-Marxists around the world, as well the Dem party in the old ussa. He is going to empty Guantanamo, he doesn't care what becomes of the terrorists being held there(He'll have his own body guards for years), and if he can find a way to give the base back to Cuba he will.
I still think he's interested in being Secretary-General of the UN, for him that would be like president of the world and keep the media fawning he. With all the thugs that would support him, putting sanctions on the western world for this reason or that, could be very scary.
He wants to tear down America like Regan tor down the Russians.
If you give a mouse a cookie...
I was SO glad to hear Cuban revolutionary hero Fidel Castro is alive and well, now if only Che is pumping gas with Elvis at a station in Arizona....
Raul is doing as every other antagonistic government in the world has been doing since 2008, testing America's resolve,knowing the Yanks have the most naive,weak President in history.
Castro will win this as I doubt he really gives a damn about Guantanamo, but will use it as a bargaining chip to gain more concessions from the bloody Kenyan.
I say offer Cuba a fair trade, Detroit to Cuba, Gitmo remains in U.S. hands.
Sounds like it's Executive Order time again.
Given Obama's negotiating skill, he'll give Castro everything he wants and throw in Puerto Rico for good measure.
Obama's playing hardball. He's holding out for the right to serve as doormat and footstool for the Castro family and any and all future Cuban dictators.
"If you give a mouse a cookie..."
...you are supposed to have a hammer in your hand when he comes back for another cookie. Is there nothing Obama can't do?
"A $6 billion sticking point could create headaches for the U.S.-Cuba talks.Though concerns over human rights, press freedoms and U.S. fugitives living free on the island have dominated debate over the Obama administration's negotiations on restoring diplomatic ties, the Castro regime also still owes Americans that eye-popping sum.
The $6 billion figure represents the value of all the assets seized from thousands of U.S. citizens and businesses after the Cuban revolution in 1959. With the United States pressing forward on normalizing relations with the communist country, some say the talks must resolve these claims."
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http://babalublog.com/2015/01/27/the-6-billion-elephants-in-obamass-cuba-policy-room/
Raul Castro DROP DEAD
All the we-are-poor-because-of-US-embargo bullshit falls apart when it is pointed out that the Cuban commies were free to trade with any and/or all of the other nations in the world. Cuba is a shithole for the same reason N. Korea is a shithole...preference.
The "we-are-poor-because-of-US-embargo" might work for all of those who aren't pulling the levers. Didn't Forbes rate the Castro's as some of the most rich in the world?
Will Jimmy Carter be there to lick castros boots?
There is a critical mass of Cuban émigrés in the USA with serious talents and resources and grudges towards the Castro's....
Picture the crazy Spaniard in "The Princess Bride".....
"My name is Montoya....."
Psht.... Castro is small change. Jim Jong Ug wants 10 billion just to negotiate.
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