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  • Castro to Obama: Reparations, Gitmo, and cutoff from dissidents the price for normalized relations

    01/29/2015 8:21:32 AM PST · by PROCON · 27 replies
    hotair ^ | Jan. 29, 2015 | Ed Morrissey
    The good news: The discomfort over the embargo of Cuba has led to a good bargaining position in talks with the US. The bad news: Raul Castro’s the one that thinks so. Far from being grateful for the diplomatic overture from Barack Obama, Castro wants the US to pay reparations for the economic damage that Castro says the embargo caused, plus the immediate return of control over Guantanamo Bay, as the opening ante for normalizing relations: 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...