Argentina urges end of U.S. embargo against Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

Argentina urges end of U.S. embargo against Cuba
2009-04-18 08:00:45

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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez (R) talks with U.S. President
Barack Obama before the opening ceremony of the 5th Summit of the
Americas in Port of Spain April 17, 2009. Leaders from across the
Americas gathered on Friday for a summit overshadowed by an intense
debate over a possible reconciliation between the United States and
Cuba and how this could be achieved.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

By Marcelo Cajueiro

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez on Friday urged the United States to lift its trade embargo against Cuba at the opening of the fifth Summit of the Americas here.

She asked the United States to immediately lift the embargo against Cuba while expressing appreciation for the Obama administration's recent easing of restrictions on Cuban-Americans' travel and their remittances sent to Cuba.

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Presidents of Chile Michelle Bachelet, Argentina Cristina Fernandez,
the U.S. Barack Obama and Brazil Inacio Lula da Silva (L-R) talk
before the opening ceremony of the 5th Summit of the Americas in
Port of Spain April 17, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

"It is now to look at the embargo and ... request that it be lifted," Fernandez said. She described the embargo as "an anachronism".

Fernandez also said it was important to "look at a new starting point," which is "based not on subordination but on coordination and cooperation ... integration but not intervention."

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[dipsydoodle]

1. Well I would like to think

that Cuba will infact now forgive the USA for its misdeeds of the past and let them lift the embargo.

[Mika]

2. Huh? Cuba doesn't have any control over the US embargo.

Cuba has sought full normalization all along.

That is just what all Americans should be seeking, imo. Simply "lifting the embargo" doesn't deal with the myriad of other insane policies the US has enacted - like the American travel ban, and the Cuban Adjustment Act, and Wet Foot/ Dry Foot, and nationalization compensation (Title III of Helms Burton), to name a few.


Full Normalization! Now! Anything less is still an injustice.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Mika

I was being cynical. I'm fully aware that the problem lies wholly with the USA.