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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 02:26 PM Original message |
OAS 'agrees to let Cuba rejoin' |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. Good ! it's more than about time. |
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Scurrilous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
2. Miami Herald article: |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 06:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
11. The OAS is misnamed. It is not an organization of American lapdogs |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
3. "... The decision was taken by consensus, meaning the United States accepted it ..." |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 04:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. The article in the OP quotes HRC as saying there was no consensus. |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 05:03 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I think it more likely |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 05:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. In committee work, one way to insist on having your way is to play "cast-iron butt" |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 06:03 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. That's a great and hilarious phrase. Hillary did her job exactly. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:27 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Sounds like she was playing |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 04:42 PM Response to Original message |
5. It's a major step forward, and about time. As a couple of South American leaders have already stated |
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RedCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 04:45 PM Response to Original message |
6. Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh came to the USA looking for help. |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 10:03 AM Response to Reply #6 |
19. Good point. Mao did the same during WWII, but we preferred to gack a corrupt loser. |
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BumRushDaShow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 05:30 PM Response to Original message |
9. Historic! |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 06:29 PM Response to Original message |
12. Excellent news. And there are no "conditions." |
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Prophet 451 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-03-09 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
13. Someone call Jesse Ventura |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 02:48 AM Response to Original message |
14. OAS: For Brazil's Lula, Cuba Is Not the Ugly Duckling Anymore |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:30 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. The article you've posted confirms |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:34 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. When OAS kicked Cuba out, Latin America was run by rightwing dictatorships |
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dipsydoodle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 03:42 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Indeed - |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 01:40 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. But the US criminal treatment of Cuba continues - extra territorial US sanctions remain. |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 04:35 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Action worthy only of a Bush administration, or so one would have thought. |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 09:34 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Maybe in a short while Obama will lift the messenger ban and claim it as relaxing sanctions.. |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-05-09 10:09 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Clearly right! They would trash Cuba's health and educational systems in a heartbeat, |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-04-09 05:09 PM Response to Original message |
22. Chávez: Readmission of Cuba to OAS marks the "beginning of a new age" |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-08-09 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
25. Fidel turns down the offer to join |
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