Posted on 01/28/2015 8:15:22 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
SAN JOSÉ, Costa RicaCuban President Raúl Castro demanded Wednesday that the U.S. return the 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.
Mr. 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 arent resolved, this diplomatic rapprochement wouldnt make any sense.
Mr. Castro and U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Dec. 17 that they would move toward renewing full diplomatic relations by reopening embassies in each others countries. The two governments held negotiations in Havana last week to discuss both the reopening of embassies and the broader agenda of re-establishing normal relations.
On Wednesday, Mr. Castro emphasized an even broader list of Cuban demands, saying that while diplomatic ties may be re-established, normal relations with the U.S. depend on a series of concessions that appear highly unlikely in the near future.
The U.S. established the military base in 1903, and the current Cuban government has been demanding the lands return since the 1959 revolution that brought it to power. Cuba also wants the U.S. to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in damages for losses caused by the embargo. . .
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not only do the obamites not have a problem with this, it’s a common goal.
obummer is probably appalled that he isn’t demanding even more.
Active Duty/Retiree ping.
Reuters version of same story:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/28/us-cuba-usa-idUSKBN0L12EP20150128
Should we throw in Florida, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands while we’re at it?
Been the goal all alone, I suspact.
And will Castro reimburse all of the Americans whose property was expropriated after the revolution?????? Or are all demands a one way street????
Obama says: “OK”
This was obamas plan from the beginning. The White House staff was probably the ones who wrote the speech and demands that Castro just read.
Raul is saying what Obama wants him to say LOL!
What Raul wants is a better deal than Petrocaribe has offered him.
Only an old commie pedophile like Raul Castro could think that “relations” could ever be “normal” between a commie sewer and the free United States of America. It won’t be happening in this lifetime Raul.
Castro is nuts ... but the problem is ... so is Obama!
And Hawaii! Yes, plus Guam.
Just Dade, Monroe, Broward and Palm Beach counties....
Coming soon to a dictatorship near you.
And I want 50 million bucks and a night with Scarlett Johansson, f*** you Raul!
But, Guam will tip over...
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