{"id":57175,"date":"2014-12-18T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57175"},"modified":"2014-12-18T18:40:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T23:40:31","slug":"new-era-of-us-cuban-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57175","title":{"rendered":"New era of US-Cuban relations"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, yesterday, it looks like Cuba released American Alan Gross who hasn’t had the pleasure of living in Obama’s America since he was imprisoned in Cuba for the last five years. In exchange for his release, it looks like the President has traded away the effects of 50 years of embargo against the tiny nation (which has asserted that the only reason their economy has failed is because they couldn’t trade with only one nation out of the 165 in the world). According to CNN<\/a>, the President plans on easing some of the restrictions of the embargo;<\/p>\n

President Obama announced a major loosening of travel and economic restrictions on the country. And the two nations are set to re-open embassies, with preliminary discussions on that next step in normalizing diplomatic relations beginning in the coming weeks, a senior administration official tells CNN.<\/p>\n

Talks between the U.S. and Cuba have been ongoing since June of 2013 and were facilitated by the Canadians and the Vatican in brokering the deal. Pope Francis — the first pope from Latin America — encouraged Obama in a letter and in their meeting this year to renew talks with Cuba on pursuing a closer relationship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, there are still hundreds of Cubans still in the prisons in Cuba, prisoners of conscience, I think the Left would call them if they weren’t in a Communist repressive nation. Hedonist that I am, I look forward to some of those Cuban Partagas cigars and a nice bottle of Havana Club rum, but I still have my personal embargo in place, until Cuba is free from the grip of the Castros.<\/p>\n

By the way, here’s Gross just after he got back in his lawyers’ office. See the picture on the wall behind him? I’d be looking for a new lawyer.<\/p>\n

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