Exclusive: U.S.-Cuba deal expected in early July to restore ties, reopen embassies

Reuters ^ | 06/13/2015 | Lesley Wroughton

[ScottWalkerForPresident2016]

The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago, U.S. sources familiar with the matter said on Friday.

The two sides hope to conclude the deal by the first week of next month, clearing the way for Secretary of State John Kerry to visit Havana soon afterwards for a flag-raising ceremony to upgrade the U.S. Interests Section to a full-scale embassy, the sources said.

Since a breakthrough between the two former Cold War rivals announced in December, negotiators have settled all but a few differences and were confident they would soon be resolved, several sources told Reuters.

They said the exact timetable for the formal embassy opening was unclear because of Kerry's recovery from a broken leg suffered in a May 31 biking accident in France, as well as the looming June 30 deadline for a final nuclear deal with Iran, which would dominate Kerry's schedule over the next weeks.

[rktman]

Fairy service (ahem) from Key West?

[Cowboy Bob]

While I don’t like the fact the Obama is doing this without the approval of Congress, I suspect that re-establishing relations will set things in motion that the left-wing can’t imagine.

[dp0622]

negotiators have settled all but a few differences///

like murder, torture, terrorism, brutal Marxist rule..you know, the little things.

[dead]

A very oldie, but still illustrative. The left has always loved Fidel and his successful methods for dealing with malcontents.

[clearcarbon]

"Exclusive: U.S.-Cuba deal expected in early July to restore ties, reopen embassies"

Comrade dictator obama wants to add Cuba to his source list of imported undocumented democrats that are willing to accept enslavement in exchange for a free lunch.

[ifinnegan]

Fundamental transformation.

Next in the fourth quarter are Iran and N. Korea.

[hosepipe]

Marxist to Marxist is NOT unusual..

MANY/most americans have forgotten the death cult called Marxism..
That they murdered hundreds of millions of people last century.. AND made BILLIONS miserable..

AND they are overlooking that the Marxists(progressives/socialists) will stop at nothing to GLADLY murder a few BILLION this century..

AND.. will easily “liquidate” all or most of the muslims when they are through with them..

Socialists are a nasty murderous bunch.. and will eliminate their useful idiots (as they call them) in due time..

Interesting times AWAIT!...

[SoFloFreeper]

Doesn’t Congress have to approve monies for an embassy?

When did that happen?

[grania]

Is it all that certain that Cubans would be Democrats? They’ve lived under the results of overbearing government, and know where it leads.

[Covenantor]

Consider the re-unified Germany where the osties have higher unemployment rates than the west, growth of young skinheads, and the lack of usable work skills suitable for the last decades of the twentieth century much less the twenty first.

Cubans left on the island have had three generations of government control of their education and vocations. Sure there will be the right hand of the bell curve that will strive but the bulk will be mystified, bewildered, and resentful of having to compete on their own.

Then again Golf-1 will insure that they all have EBT cards etc.

Give us your wretched.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And, what of the property confiscated by the Castros ?

[Covenantor]

Castros and gang are still in power. Do you really think they’ll return any stolen land or properties. United Fruit and the exiled owners are sol.

[safeasthebanks]

"While I don’t like the fact the Obama is doing this without the approval of Congress, I suspect that re-establishing relations will set things in motion that the left-wing can’t imagine."

What, you mean like the Castros and their thugs becoming even more wealthy??? Give me a break.