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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Cuban President: Only partial Obama relaxation

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Cuban Pres­i­dent Raul Cas­tro de­liv­ered his maid­en ad­dress to Trinidad and To­ba­go in an his­toric vis­it yes­ter­day, crit­i­cis­ing the out­come of the mul­ti-mil­lion dol­lar fifth sum­mit of the Amer­i­c­as in Port-of-Spain in 2009.Pres­i­dent Cas­tro ad­dressed Cari­com lead­ers at the open­ing of the fourth Cu­ba-Cari­com Sum­mit at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts (NA­PA). Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day, say­ing:

"The 2009 Sum­mit of the Amer­i­c­as held in this coun­try has failed to rise above the rhetoric even less now when elec­tions (in the US) will be held."In one of his first ma­jor sum­mits af­ter be­ing elect­ed as the 44th Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States, Pres­i­dent Bar­rack Oba­ma told the sum­mit: "The Unit­ed States seeks a new be­gin­ning with Cu­ba."

"Two years lat­er," the Cuban Pres­i­dent said, "the mea­sures pub­li­cised by the cur­rent Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States has not gone be­yond a par­tial re­lax­ation of re­stric­tions lift­ing re­mit­tances and trav­els to the is­lands of Cuban cit­i­zens liv­ing in the Unit­ed States."Cu­ba will nev­er for­get the sup­port of Caribbean na­tions to put an end to the eco­nom­ic and fi­nan­cial em­bar­go im­posed on our no­ble peo­ple by the Unit­ed States Gov­ern­ment over five decades ago, an em­bar­go that re­mains es­sen­tial­ly un­changed."

It's a po­si­tion Cu­ba has Cari­com's full sup­port.


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