US, Cuba ties in spotlight as Clinton visits Central America

Source: Agence France-Presse

US, Cuba ties in spotlight as Clinton visits Central America
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began a visit to Central America Sunday, amid new US steps toward ties with Cuba that Washington hopes will slow a sudden regional push to end Havana's isolation. Skip related content

Clinton landed in San Salvador from Washington where a senior State Department official announced that Cuba had agreed to resume talks with the United States on migration and direct mail service.

The chief US diplomat is in El Salvador for Monday's inauguration of president-elect Mauricio Funes before traveling to neighboring Honduras for Tuesday's general assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS).

The OAS is beset by a row over the pace of normalization with Cuba.



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That sounds like an empty threat if I ever heard one. If she doesn't like the OAS, she sure and heck in not going to like UNASUR.

There's a damned important reason for Unasur's existance and she damned well knows it.

I wonder how they will try to buy Funes.

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For the first time in the 47 years since Cuba's membership was suspended from the OAS, more and more Latin American leaders are insisting the communist nation be brought back into the hemispheric fold. Cuba's advocates -- in this case led by Nicaragua and Honduras -- say the 1962 resolution that pushed Cuba out is anachronistic, because it was tied to Cuba's alliance to the former Soviet Union.

Nation after nation has pressed for Havana to be let back in, despite public assurances by the Castros that they are not interested.

What's more, the OAS approved a clause to its charter eight years ago that calls for democratic principles. Critics of allowing Cuba's reintegration to the hemispheric organization argue that the OAS Inter-American Democratic Charter should prevent Cuba's inclusion, even if the 1962 suspension was tied to Cuba's allegiance to a nation that no longer exists and seems like a Cold War relic.

The United States appears to be the only nation that agrees.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1075293.html

If ANYTHING, the Latin American and Caribbean members of the OAS should expel the USA from the organization (for countless acts of state sponsored terrorism, fomenting/aiding/abetting overthrows of democratically elected governments in the Latin Americas & Caribbean, sanctions on Cuba, overall hegemony, etc etc).

But they don't have tha balls to do that (well.. maybe Chavez and Morales do, but few else). That is why Cuba doesn't want in.

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