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    Cuba President Raul Castro demands US hands back Guantanamo Bay

    Cuba President Raul Castro demands US hands back Guantanamo Bay

    Date January 29, 2015 - 11:21AM
    Maria Isabel Sanchez

    Raul Castro at the Latin American and Caribbean summit in Costa Rica on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

    Cuban President Raul Castro has laid out the conditions to normalise relations with the United States, demanding an end to the embargo, the return of Guantanamo Bay and Havana's removal from a terror list.


    Mr Castro issued his demands a week after the highest-ranking US delegation to Havana in 35 years and Cuban officials held landmark talks aimed at reopening embassies and renewing ties that broke off in 1961.


    The Cuban leader, brother of former president Fidel Castro, also warned Washington to cease interference in Cuba's internal affairs.

    Camp Delta at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Photo: Reuters

    "Everything appears to indicate that the aim is to foment an artificial political opposition via economic, political and communicational means," Mr Castro told a summit in Costa Rica.


    "If these problems are not resolved, this diplomatic rapprochement between Cuba and the United States would be meaningless," he said.


    Cuba has long blamed the embargo for the communist island's economic woes, with billboards in the country equating the decades-old economic sanctions to a "genocide".

    Protective wire around the US military detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Photo: Getty

    "The main problem has not been resolved: the economic, commercial and financial blockade, which causes huge human and economic damage and is a violation of international rights," Mr Castro said.


    "The establishment of diplomatic relations is the beginning of a process toward the normalisation of bilateral relations, but this won't be possible as long as the blockade exists."


    Speaking at a summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States in Costa Rica, Mr Castro said that the road to ending the embargo would be "long and hard".


    US President Barack Obama called on Congress last week to put an end to the embargo, which was imposed in 1962 and has been a major source of tension between the Cold War-era rivals since then.


    Earlier this month, Mr Obama used his executive powers to ease travel and trade restrictions with Havana, putting a dent on the embargo.


    But Mr Castro said that the US leader should do more.

    "He could use with resolve his broad executive powers to substantially change the scope of the blockade, even without the Congress decision," he said.

    The 33-nation summit is expected to issue a declaration condemning the embargo. The group, which does not include Washington, was created by the late Venezuelan socialist leader Hugo Chavez.


    "Enough with the criminal blockade of Cuba," Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa told the summit. Nicaraguan counterpart Daniel Ortega said the embargo "will have to disappear."


    Mr Castro and MR Obama simultaneously announced on December 17 their intention to end half a century of animosity and normalise ties.


    Some US politicians have voiced concern about the rapprochement, especially those of Cuban-American origin, who say Mr Obama conceded too much to Mr Castro without securing guarantees of political change on the island.


    The United States has invited Cuba to hold another round of talks in the coming weeks in Washington.


    In his speech in Belen, Costa Rica, Castro said that Havana also wants to be removed from a US blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism, which has blocked Cuba's access to financial institutions.


    In addition, he demanded the return of Guantanamo Bay, where the US navy has a base being used to jail terrorism suspects.

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    UPDATE 3-Raul Castro warns U.S. against meddling in Cuba's affairs

    Wed Jan 28, 2015 6:42pm EST

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    (Adds Castro reference to Guantanamo)
    By Enrique Pretel
    Jan 28

    (Reuters) - Cuba will not accept any interference from the United States in its internal affairs, President Raul Castro said on Wednesday, warning that meddling would make rapprochement between the two countries "meaningless".


    His comments came after U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson, the highest-ranking U.S. government official to visit the island in 35 years, held talks with Cuban officials on restoring diplomatic relations. Jacobson also met Cuban dissidents, annoying Cuban officials.


    "Everything appears to indicate that the aim is to foment an artificial political opposition via economic, political and communicational means," Castro told a summit in Costa Rica.


    "If these problems are not resolved, this diplomatic rapprochement between Cuba and the United States would be meaningless," he said.


    Castro made it clear, however, that he was committed to the talks despite his concern that Washington might try to stir up internal opposition within Cuba through greater telecommunications access and the Internet.


    Castro said during the visit with American diplomats that Cuba had proposed that it be removed from a blacklist of state sponsors of terrorism, and the return of the U.S. Guantanamo naval base.


    The Cuban leader also urged U.S. President Barack Obama to use executive powers to ease a decades-long embargo against Cuba, saying Washington could extend measures like those announced for telecoms to other areas of the economy.


    While Obama can gut much of the embargo, only Congress can lift it completely. Obama has asked Congress to do so, and has started by easing restrictions on telecommunications companies in Cuba, among other measures.


    Any U.S. companies would have to reach an agreement with Cuban authorities before doing business on the island.


    Castro reiterated that he has no plans to budge from Cuba's single party political system, although observers have said that does not rule out the possibility that independent politicians might be given space to run for local elections in the future.


    Castro said Obama's decision to hold a debate in Congress about eliminating the embargo was "significant", adding that he was aware that ending it "will be a long and hard road".


    The historic high-level talks between United States and Cuba in Havana are expected to lead to re-establishment of diplomatic ties that were severed by Washington in 1961.

    (Additional reporting by David Adams in Miami and Daniel Trotta in Havana; Writing by Simon Gardner; Editing by Gunna Dickson, Kieran Murray, Christian Plumb, Toni Reinhold)

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    The timing has been pretty obvious. Get all the prisoners out of GITMO and empty the base so that it could be turned over to Cuba easily. GITMO is the Cadillac of military bases complete with soccer fields paid for by American tax payers.

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    Congressional travel to Cuba surged last year

    BY SUSAN CRABTREE |
    JANUARY 28, 2015 | 5:00 AM



    Passengers walk across the tarmac at Jose Marti International Airport after arriving on a charter...Travel by members of Congress to Cuba shot up last year ahead of President Obama’s December executive action normalizing relations with the island nation.

    Thirteen Democratic House members traveled to Havana in 2014 on at least three separate trips sponsored by nonprofit outside groups, according to travel reports members are required to file with the House Ethics Committee.

    One of the trips, in which at least seven lawmakers participated, ended just one day before Obama’s Dec. 17 announcement of a détente with the Castro regime.

    The visits coincide with a furious behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign from longtime advocates for normalizing relations with Cuba pressing Obama last year that the time was right to make a bold move and ease sanctions and lift travel restrictions.

    The surge in members’ Cuban travel in 2014 is striking when compared to just one member making the trip in 2012, and just five staffers and no members who paid a visit in 2013. House members' participation fluctuated from five visiting Cuba in 2011 to two in 2010, although several staffers visited those years.

    It is unclear how many senators also made the short flight from Miami or Tampa to the island nation. Senate rules, unlike the House, don’t require reports to be as detailed.

    In the years leading up to Obama’s December announcement reversing 50 years of U.S. policy in Cuba, the State Department didn’t sponsor any trips to the island, so outside groups supporting re-engagement with Cuba filled the void and sponsored the travel.

    The Center for Democracy in the Americas, a nonprofit that advocates for opening diplomatic relations with both Cuba and Venezuela, and closer bonds with several countries in Latin America, has sponsored the most travel since 2007, according to the latest records posted online.

    “We really do believe that engagement is the answer — how you get a conversation going and open up,” said Sara Stephens, the center’s executive director, who has led dozens of congressional trips to Cuba over the last 15 years.

    “Do we believe it’s going to change Cuba’s policies tomorrow? No. But we hope it exposes them to new ideas and vice versa.”
    While she said the number of visits the group sponsors each year fluctuates depending on Washington’s Cuba policies at the time, she said 2014 was a very big year in response to a renewed push to open relations.

    Stephens also reports an explosion in congressional interest in the trips over the last month after Obama’s decision to re-engage and ease Cuba sanctions.

    The center already plans another Cuba visit for senators in February led by Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.

    Last year, she said several Senate chiefs of staff traveled with her to Cuba, including those from the offices of GOP Sens. Jerry Moran of Kansas, Dan Coats of Indiana and Orrin Hatch of Utah.

    Stephens is currently reaching out to more Republican members to encourage them to join in this year to talk to Cubans in person and gain first-hand experience of the U.S. policy shifts.

    “We’re really especially focused on inviting Republicans and newer, younger members to Cuba now in this new context and new policies to see what they think about it,” she said.

    Other members of Congress who vigorously oppose Obama’s decision to ease relations with Cuba have long argued against lawmakers' travel to Cuba for trips she said are orchestrated at least in part by the Castro regime.

    Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a Cuban-American, has slammed Americans who visit Cuba, including some of his House and Senate colleagues, arguing that they are helping perpetuate Castro's false claims and bolster his government.

    "Cuba is not a zoo where you pay an admission ticket and you go in and you get to watch people living in cages to see how they are suffering," Rubio reportedly told a pro-Cuba political action committee in 2013. "Cuba is not a field trip. I don't take that stuff lightly."

    Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., a Cuban-American who has spent more than two decades fighting the Castro regime in Congress, is equally adamant about what she views as the fallacy of lawmakers’ “fact-finding” trips to Havana.

    “The Castro regime puts on a Potemkin village sham tour for visiting dignitaries,” she told theWashington Examiner. “Visitors are allowed to arrange a few meetings on their own, but the communist regime knows of such meetings and usually has spies 'helping' the delegation who report back to Castro.”

    She urged U.S. dignitaries and others to remember that Castro represents a “murderous regime that denies human rights to 11 million people and jails those who try to express their right to free speech.”

    She also pointed out that human rights activists, such as Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and former Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., have been routinely denied entry to Cuba because “they would have highlighted the abuses perpetrated by the regime."

    The Center for Democracy in the Americas has ties to the Center for International Policy, a research and advocacy think tank founded in 1975 in response to the Vietnam War. Stephens previously worked at the CIP and launched its Freedom to Travel to Cuba program and ran its Congressional trips, and their boards share an advisor in Philip Brenner, an American University professor and associate dean of the School of International Service.

    The center’s mission, according to its website, is to advocate policies that “advance international cooperation, demilitarization, respect for human rights and action to alleviate climate change and stop illicit financial flows.”

    It is also affiliated with several other projects, including Win Without War, a coalition of 40 organizations, including groups opposed to unilateral U.S. military responses throughout the world such as Greenpeace and MoveOn.org and the National Organization for Women.

    Wayne Smith, a Johns Hopkins University professor who served as President Jimmy Carter’s top U.S. diplomat in Havana from 1979 to 1982, joined CIP to start its Cuba policy program and remains a senior fellow at the organization. He is one of Washington’s leading critics of the longstanding U.S. embargo on Cuba.

    During a trip the Center for Democracy in the Americas sponsored in May of last year, lawmakers met with Alan Gross, the former U.S. AID contractor, at the hospital where he was serving his sentence, according to an itinerary submitted to the Ethics Committee for approval.

    The center noted that it was an “official meeting, organized by the Cuban Foreign Ministry.”

    They also had breakfast with European Union ambassadors to Cuba and other foreign diplomats to discuss their countries’ approaches to Cuba, and lunched with Cuba’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.

    During one night, the group dined with an owner of a “paladar,” or private restaurant operated out of the owners’ home, what the center described as the largest and fastest-growing parts of Cuba’s “booming private sector.”

    The three-day tour included a walk through Old Havana, where members could converse with vendors selling art, music and books, as well as lunch with Tom Palaia, the U.S.'s current top diplomat in Cuba. They visited artists and students’ homes and spoke about their challenges and the changing economy and its impact on their businesses.

    Another major sponsor of congressional travel to Cuba last year is Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba, or MEDICC, an Oakland, Calif.-based group that works “to enhance cooperation among the U.S., Cuban and global health communities” and to share medical advancements, according to its website.

    In fact, MEDICC sponsored a trip to Cuba for seven House members that focused on innovations developed in the island to help diabetics. The trip ended Dec. 16, just one day before Obama’s big Cuba executive action.

    A spokeswoman said MEDICC's executive director was out of the office and unavailable Tuesday. She said the group has contributed to the diplomatic opening between the two countries by "showing the benefits of mutual U.S.-Cuba cooperation in the specific field of health and medicine."

    All but two of the members traveling to Cuba over the last three years are Democrats, many of whom vocally support lifting the embargo or travel and trade restrictions.

    Rep. Aaron Schock of Illinois is the only Republican to travel there during that time frame, which he did in 2012, and Rep. Betty McCollum, a member of Minnesota’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party who caucuses with the Democrats, went last summer.
    McCollum has pushed to end the trade embargo since coming to Congress in 2001. She also has sponsored a bill that would end U.S. taxpayer funding for Radio and Television Marti, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars broadcasting news in Spanish from Florida to Cuba.

    Other frequent Cuba flyers include Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., who visited the island three times last year, and Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., who went twice last year.

    Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., who has repeatedly introduced a series of bills to end travel restrictions between the U.S. and Cuba, was in Havana Dec. 17 when Obama made his announcement, having lingered there on the MEDICC-sponsored visit.

    In applying to the House Ethics Committee to sponsor any travel, an outside group must certify that the visit will not be financed in whole or in part by a registered federal lobbyist or an agent of a foreign government.

    Stephens says the money for the center’s congressional trips come from the group’s general funding and does not earmark certain donations for the travel.

    She said the center receives roughly two-thirds of its funds from private foundations, including the Ford Foundation, the Christopher Reynolds Foundation, the Open Society Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies. The other third comes from private donations, she said.


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    From the Huffington Post.

    Beyoncé, Jay Z Cuba Trip Cleared By Treasury Department

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    By Alex Lazar


    Posted: 08/21/2014 4:14 pm EDT Updated: 08/22/2014 3:59 pm EDT
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    Celebrity power duo Beyoncé and Jay Z were heavily criticized in April 2013 by pro-Cuban democracy activists and GOP lawmakers over their trip to Cuba that month.

    Most Americans who wish to visit Cuba need to obtain a license from the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), due to a long-standing trade embargo, and critics questioned the optics and legality of the couple's trip.

    Reuters reported at the time, however, that the trip was an official "people-to-people" cultural exchange organized by a New York-based nonprofit group, which obtained approval from the U.S. government through the standard licensing process.

    And on Wednesday, the Treasury Department's Office of the Inspector General sent a report to OFAC's director that cleared the couple of any wrongdoing.

    The report's conclusion reads as follows:

    OFAC is authorized to license travel to Cuba for people-to-people educational exchanges that enhance contact with the Cuban people, support civil society in Cuba, or help promote the Cuban people’s independence from Cuban authorities. Based on our review of the applicable laws and regulations, OFAC guidelines, the OFAC case file for the non-profit organization including related correspondence between OFAC and the organization, and inquiry of OFAC officials, we believe OFAC’s determination that there was no apparent violation of U.S. sanctions with respect to Jay-Z and Beyoncé's trip to Cuba was reasonable. While we are not making a formal recommendation in this memorandum, we believe that OFAC should document in its files with a summary of the basis for its determinations with respect to this matter.

    Florida GOP Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart were incensed when news of the trip first broke, and even sent a letter to OFAC about the matter.

    "Despite the clear prohibition against tourism in Cuba, numerous press reports described the couple's trip as tourism, and the Castro regime touted it as such in its propaganda," Ros-Lehtinen and Diaz-Balart wrote in the letter.

    "We represent a community of many who have been deeply and personally harmed by the Castro regime's atrocities, including former political prisoners and the families of murdered innocents," they added.

    When President Barack Obama was asked about the incident last year, he respondedby saying that "you know, this is not something the White House was involved with. We've got better things to do."

    Obama did loosen restrictions in 2011 for Americans looking to visit Cuba for cultural, educational and religious reasons. There is still debate, however, over whether and how much the Cuba embargo should be eased.

    Slide show of the 7 reasons the embargo should be lifted at link.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5697877.html


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    I support normalized relations with Cuba and have for many many years. There's been no benefit at all to ourselves or to the Cuban people from this embargo. And, ironically, this embargo hasn't been fostered by Americans, it's been fostered by Cuban immigrants who hate their country so much that they would lobby our government to starve it out. It's a revenge thing by Cubans here to get back at Castro. Our national policy shouldn't be based on such things. Castro is no better or worse than any other socialist or communist leader.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    I support normalized relations with Cuba and have for many many years. There's been no benefit at all to ourselves or to the Cuban people from this embargo. And, ironically, this embargo hasn't been fostered by Americans, it's been fostered by Cuban immigrants who hate their country so much that they would lobby our government to starve it out. It's a revenge thing by Cubans here to get back at Castro. Our national policy shouldn't be based on such things. Castro is no better or worse than any other socialist or communist leader.
    I do not support normalization with any country that is ruled by a communist dictator. The only reason this is being discussed now is because greedy business interest want Cuba as a potential market. Somet things just aren't worth trading your soul for.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MW View Post
    I do not support normalization with any country that is ruled by a communist dictator. The only reason this is being discussed now is because greedy business interest want Cuba as a potential market. Somet things just aren't worth trading your soul for.
    Trade benefits the people of a country so they can have the material things that we have. I oppose free trade agreements because they are always harmful to our people, but I support normalized diplomatic relations between our governments as well as fair or protected trade between the countries regardless of the type of government the country has. The Cuban people are very nice and we should have normal relations with their government. That doesn't mean that we support their Communism or that we even support the Leader of the country, it simply means that in spite of the differences between the two nations, we can communicate, build relationships, and have normal relationships. China is probably the harshest Communist regime on the planet and has missiles pointed at US, yet we have normalized relations with them, we have an abundance of trade with them, Americans visit China, go to school there, and even work there, and do Chinese with US. We have a huge trade imbalance with China because our free trade policies are wrong for US, but I support normal relations with China and can think of no reason why we shouldn't have them, which is the same for Cuba or any other Communist country. I oppose the embargo against Iran for the same reasons, that embargo has gone on way too long. We even have normalized relations with Vietnam as well as a free trade agreement with them, and there was no harsher regime that cost US more than any recent conflict, than Vietnam. So for Cuba who has never really done anything to hurt US to be treated this way after all these years is just wrong to me.

    Answer me this, why do you want to deprive the people of a country of things they want and need including normal relations with our country because they're ruled by Communist Dictators? There are 5 Communist countries in the world today. China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. We have normal relations with China, Laos and Vietnam, leaving only Cuba and North Korea. We should establish normal relations with both Cuba and North Korea and end a make-believe conflict with these countries that in reality doesn't exist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    Trade benefits the people of a country so they can have the material things that we have. I oppose free trade agreements because they are always harmful to our people, but I support normalized diplomatic relations between our governments as well as fair or protected trade between the countries regardless of the type of government the country has. The Cuban people are very nice and we should have normal relations with their government. That doesn't mean that we support their Communism or that we even support the Leader of the country, it simply means that in spite of the differences between the two nations, we can communicate, build relationships, and have normal relationships. China is probably the harshest Communist regime on the planet and has missiles pointed at US, yet we have normalized relations with them, we have an abundance of trade with them, Americans visit China, go to school there, and even work there, and do Chinese with US. We have a huge trade imbalance with China because our free trade policies are wrong for US, but I support normal relations with China and can think of no reason why we shouldn't have them, which is the same for Cuba or any other Communist country. I oppose the embargo against Iran for the same reasons, that embargo has gone on way too long. We even have normalized relations with Vietnam as well as a free trade agreement with them, and there was no harsher regime that cost US more than any recent conflict, than Vietnam. So for Cuba who has never really done anything to hurt US to be treated this way after all these years is just wrong to me.

    Answer me this, why do you want to deprive the people of a country of things they want and need including normal relations with our country because they're ruled by Communist Dictators? There are 5 Communist countries in the world today. China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. We have normal relations with China, Laos and Vietnam, leaving only Cuba and North Korea. We should establish normal relations with both Cuba and North Korea and end a make-believe conflict with these countries that in reality doesn't exist.

    Just my opinion.
    Like I said, I don't support normalization with any country ruled by a communist dictator. We're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one.

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    The U.S. is occupying 45 square miles of a foreign country, against their wishes.

    Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

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    "Gitmo" redirects here. For other titular locales, see Guantánamo (disambiguation). For other uses, see Gitmo (disambiguation).

    United States Naval Station
    Guantanamo Bay
    Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
    Aerial view of Guantanamo Bay
    Type Military base
    Site information
    Controlled by United States Navy
    Site history
    Built 1898
    In use 1898 – present
    Battles/wars Battle of Guantánamo Bay

    Map of Cuba showing location of Guantánamo Bay on the southeastern coast.


    Map of Guantánamo Bay showing approximate U.S. Naval Base boundaries.

    Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (also called GTMOand pronounced gitmo by the U.S. military personnel stationed there[1]) is located on 45 square miles (120 km2) of land and water at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which the United States leased for use as a coaling and naval station in the Cuban–American Treaty of 1903 (for $2,000 until 1934, for $4,085 since 1938 until now). The base is on the shore of Guantánamo Bay at the southeastern end of Cuba. It is the oldest overseas U.S. Naval Base.[2]

    Since 1959, the Cuban government has consistently protested against the U.S. presence on Cuban soil and called it illegal under international law, alleging that the military base was imposed on Cuba by force.

    At the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2013, Cuba's Foreign Minister demanded the U.S. return the base and the "usurped territory" occupied since the U.S. invasion of Cuba during the Spanish-American War in 1898.[3][4][5][6][7]


    Since 2002, the naval base has contained a military prison, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, for unlawful combatants captured in Afghanistan, Iraq, and other places during the War on Terror.[8] Cases of torture of prisoners,[9] and their denial of protection under the Geneva Conventions, has been condemned by some internationally.[10][11]

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