Analysis: New climate of pragmatism prevails in U.S.-Cuba relations (Reuters)

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By David Adams
6 hours ago

... Hostile rhetoric has long characterized relations between the two countries, separated by only 90 miles of sea. But U.S. and Cuban officials now are privately expressing appreciation of each other's handling of the incidents ...

"For Obama to say what he said, and do that in Miami, is not easy. That didn't go unnoticed here," in Havana, said Carlos Alzugaray, a retired Cuban diplomat and former ambassador to the European Union. "There is still a great lack of confidence between the two sides, but I think both sides want to do something" ...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry .. thanked Cuba for its help late last month in securing the release of a U.S. army veteran held by the FARC in Colombia ...

Talks between the United States and Cuba to renew direct postal service, which was suspended 50 years ago, also have progressed better than expected ...

http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-climate-pragmatism-prevails-u-cuba-relations-130557013.html

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. MIC/PNAC ain't gonna let relations be normalized.

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USA is running around the World dominating other nations. They sure are not going to allow a free nation right off their shores.

If some of us Canucks think we are free from USA's dominance,

then we got our heads up our asses.

Thanks a lot Harper . . .

CC

[struggle4progress]

2. Dunno. The younger Cuban-American community might be eager

to have existing travel restrictions eased, and a number of US businesses would probably like the trade opportunities

Anti-Cuba rhetoric certainly played a role in Cold War propaganda, but with the collapse of the Soviet Union, terrorism probably adequately fills the slot, that the Communist bloc once played in such rhetoric, from the perspective of businesses hoping to profit from so-called defense spending

The US normalized relations with China about 35 years ago and with Vietnam almost twenty years ago, so I expect many people are asking themselves whether there's any real reason not to normalize relations with Cuba