Carter and Castro discuss US-Cuba relations

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

Carter and Castro discuss US-Cuba relations
By Jeff Franks, Reuters
Posted at 03/30/2011 3:27 PM | Updated as of 03/30/2011 3:27 PM

HAVANA, Cuba - Former US President Jimmy Carter and Cuban President Raul Castro discussed U.S.-Cuba relations in a meeting on Tuesday in which Castro repeated an offer to hold talks with the United States on any issue, Cuban state television said.

They met on the second day of Carter's three-day private visit to Cuba after he said he hoped to help smooth over difficulties between the two longtime ideological enemies.

Carter, 86, is on his second diplomatic trip to the communist-led island following a groundbreaking 2002 visit.

The Cuban television report said Carter and Castro spoke about the "international situation, the situation in Cuba and the United States and relations between the two nations."

Read more: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/world/03/30/11/carter-and-castro-discuss-us-cuba-relations

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1. good

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2. Hillary/Obama and the rightwing Miami Mafia won't be pleased

Raul Castro and Jimmy Carter

At a news conference shortly before leaving, Carter recommended that the United States take Cuba off the list of nations pegged by the State Department as sponsors of terrorist.

Carter said there was "no base whatsoever" for Cuba to be on the list.

There was also this intriguing tidbit -- Carter said "there was very close cooperation, I understand, between the Cuban and U.S. intelligence services to face threats by Al Qaida and other organization around the Gulf."
(Añadió que además "hubo una cooperación muy estrecha, tengo entendido, entre los servicios de inteligencia cubanos y estadounidenses para enfrentar las amenazas de Al Qaida y otras organizaciones alrededor del Golfo".)

First time I hear of Cuban/U.S. intelligence working together against Al Qaida.

Article by French news agency AFP reporting from La Habana, story published (Spanish) in El Tiempo newspaper of Bogota.

http://www.eltiempo.com/mundo/latinoamerica/visita-de-jimmy-carter-a-cuba_9096726-4

[Judi Lynn]

3. And we wouldn't ever hear of it, without a doubt, if you hadn't found it in the Colombian newspaper!

Simply amazing.

We're just not likely to see it anywhere in our corporate media.

Thanks for bringing it to us from El Tiempo, Colombia's biggest newspaper.