Hold Off on Booking Those Cuba Flights...

Hold Off on Booking Those Cuba Flights...
Friday January 22, 2010

... because top Cuban officials recently dumped a big bucket of "dis"
over the head of President Barack Obama, who had been widely seen as
open to easing the U.S. travel ban on Cuba.

The Associated Press reported that during the recent climate summit in
Copenhagen, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez spent an hour and a
half attacking Obama.

"At this summit, there was only imperial, arrogant Obama, who does not
listen, who imposes his positions and even threatens developing
countries," said Rodriguez, who also accused Obama of lying.

In a newspaper column, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro termed Obama's speech
in Copenhagen "deceitful, demagogic and full of ambiguities."

So, nothing much has really changed in U.S.-Cuban relations, and it's
hard to see how much will as long as Cuban leaders find it convenient to
attack the U.S. president in such undiplomatic terms. Obama has seemed
to want to avoid the Red-baiting language of the past, but apparently
the message from Cuba remains, "Yankee, Stay Home."

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