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Cuba, Venezuela, U.S.A.: Empty Dialogue?

Thursday, July 31st, 2008 @ 12:57 UTC

by Janine Mendes-Franco

Countries:: Venezuela, Cuba, U.S.A.
Topics:: Freedom of Speech, Business, Diaspora, Economics, History, Human Rights, Media, Travel, International Relations, Politics
Languages:: English

Cuban bloggers Babalu and Ninety miles away…in another country focus on U.S. Republican senator Arlen Specter's upcoming Latin American trip, during which he hopes to meet with both Raul Castro and Hugo Chavez: “The Cuban government has made clear that the only thing it is interested in is the unilateral lifting of the embargo…as for the overtures some purport to have seen in regime pronouncements, I fear that they are but olive branches of the mind.”

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