Posted on 12/13/2014 5:40:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
PANAMA CITY - Cuba will attend the Washington-backed Summit of the Americas for the first time, host nation Panama said Friday, edging two adversaries closer to a possible joint appearance by Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro.
The United States is expected to attend but has not yet announced whether Obama will lead the U.S. delegation, a development that would stir protest from the influential anti-Castro lobby.
Washington has said Cuba should be excluded, but Secretary of State John Kerry indicated a softening of that position in a speech in Miami on Wednesday when he said, "We must get beyond the perennial debate about attendance — who comes — and focus on the substantive issues at the summit."
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Once again Democrats show themselves to be Communists!
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