Cuban diplomat says some in US government want to 'sever' bilateral relationship
Source: The Hill
BY JUSTINE COLEMAN - 12/16/19 07:09 PM EST 145
A top Cuban diplomat reportedly said Monday that some officials in the U.S. government want to “sever” the relationship between Cuba and the U.S.
Carlos Fernández de Cossio, the Cuban foreign ministry’s general director for U.S. affairs, made his comments outside a U.S.-Cuba academic conference in Havana, saying some U.S. officials are aiming to “increasingly apply hostile measures.”
“There are powerful people today in the U.S. government that would want to increasingly apply hostile measures and to sever our bilateral relationship. If that were to be the case, we are ready to face that reality,” de Cossio said, according to NBC News.
He added that harming the relationship “is not what the people of Cuba want. It’s not what the government of Cuba is seeking. And, again, we know it’s not what the people of the United States would want.”
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I was lucky enough to travel to Cuba before Bolton pushed tRump to kill what little bit of a relationship we had with them. The Cuban people are welcoming and friendly, and it warmed my heart to be somewhere without a single McDonalds 
. Cuba could become a wonderful vacation spot for people from the US if we'd lift the stupid embargo.
The Cuban government is evolving also. There's nobody named Castro in the top echelon of their government anymore, their current president was educated as an engineer. They are slowly bringing in foreign investors as partners to develop and refurbish much of their infrastructure.
