This is great news!
Thanks for sharing.
There are all sorts of things Obama can do by "executive order" which -- like his immigration order and now the restoration of ties with Cuba -- will accomplish great good while stirring dysfunctional rage in The Party Of Angry White Guys.
The only thing that comes close to Obama's goading of the GOP is vexing cats with laser pointers.
I am also happy to learn that Pope Francis was "in" on the deal.
I consider Francesco the most interesting figure on the world stage.
His criticism of unbridled, "invisible hand" capitalism is several standard deviations to the left of The Democratic Party, so much so that Bernie Sanders posts Pope Francis posters on his website.
"Plutocracy Triumphant"
Cartoon Compendium
Pope Francis: Quotations On Finance, Economics, Capitalism And Inequality
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/pope-francis-on-finance-economics.html
Paz con ustedes
Alan
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014, AH wrote:
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BREAKING NEWS Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:06 AM EST
U.S. to Restore Full Diplomatic Relations With Cuba, Officials Say
The United States will restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba and open an embassy in Havana for the first time in more than a half century after the release of an American contractor held in prison for five years, American officials said Wednesday. In a deal negotiated during 18 months of secret talks hosted largely by Canada and encouraged by Pope Francis, who hosted a final culminating meeting at the Vatican, President Obama and President Raul Castro of Cuba agreed in a telephone call to put aside decades of hostility to find a new relationship between the island nation just 90 minutes off the American coast. The contractor, Alan Gross, boarded an American government plane bound for the United States on Wednesday morning and the United States sent back three Cuban spies who have been in an American prison since 1981. American officials said the Cuban spies were swapped for a United States intelligence agent who has been in a Cuban prison for nearly 20 years and said Mr. Gross was not technically part of the swap but released separately on “humanitarian grounds.” In addition, the United States will ease restrictions on remittances, travel and banking relations and Cuba will release 53 Cuban prisoners identified as political prisoners by the United States government. Although the decades-old American embargo on Cuba will remain in place for now, the administration signaled that it would welcome a move by Congress to ease or lift it should lawmakers choose to. “Today, the United States is taking historic steps to chart a new course in our relations with Cuba and to further engage and empower the Cuban people,” the White House said in a written statement. READ MORE »
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world/americas/us-cuba- relations.html?emc=edit_na_ 20141217
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