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*Say WHAT? You’re Cuba, yet you don’t know what to do with your dissidents? Does Fidel have senile amnesia? Hint: you arrest them and all their friends! Their friends used to be hard to find, but now you just bust whoever follows ‘em on Twitter. Have you learned nothing from Iran? An anti-Castro Cuban militant was accused Wednesday in a federal indictment of lying about his involvement in a series of 1997 bombings that targeted tourist spots in Cuba. Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative and U.S. Army soldier, was indicted on 11 counts, including perjury and obstruction of a federal proceeding. Among other [...] Russian oil companies are expressing an interest in tapping Cuba’s offshore oil potential ahead of an official state visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Brazil may get the contracts to drill the deep water wells while US firms can do nothing. If major oil is found offshore Cuba, I bet the embargo gets lifted immediately. [...] This will make next week’s vote at the U.N. General Assembly, condemning the U.S. policy of embargo and the extraterritorial sanctions embodied in the Helms-Burton Act, even more lonely for the United States. It is quite a prominent dismissal of American interests, something the Europeans do only with considerable deliberation and cause. Perhaps they assume [...] Lawrence Wilkerson, retired Army Colonel and past aide & adviser to Colin Powell, on why Cuba embargo needs to end now. Let’s chalk up the losses of late in Latin America: We’re being tossed out of Venezuela. We’re being tossed out of Bolivia. We’re despised in Argentina. Nicaragua looks favorably on Russia’s move into [...] The Havana Note is a DC-based blog whose contributors include Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a former aide to Colin Powell. They favor “engagement with Cuba” and, I assume, ending the embargo. They can be quite Cuba-friendly. But they do think there’s co-dependent behavior going on, what with the “continued dysfunction of Washington’s dependence on the Embargo [...] |  | ||||
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