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...Punishing the American people in our effort to somehow deal a blow to the Castro government has not made any sense at all.' BYRON L. DORGAN, U.S. Senator, on a bill that would lift the 50-year-old travel ban to Cuba...
...contrast a more bookish foreign service veteran, a former journalist who was Cuba's ambassador to the United Nations from 1995 to 2003. As such, he may be a better fit as Foreign Minister as Raúl tries to engage the Obama Administration - and vice versa. The younger Castro has expressed a desire for improved ties with the U.S. and is seeking an end to Washington's 47-year-old trade embargo against communist Cuba. (See how salsa struggles to survive in Cuba...
...Cubans travel freely, a change Cuba watchers thought Raúl would order last year but which he didn't. But the provisions reflect a movement among a growing number on Capitol Hill, most prominently Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, to acknowledge that the embargo has failed to dislodge the Castro regime and that it's time to open diplomatic channels. (See TIME articles about Fidel Castro...
...this week to replace top officials often viewed as loyal to Fidel, "was more about streamlining bureaucracy" - an effort to make his government more responsive than it was perceived by most Cubans to be in his first year as President - "than any response to the Obama Administration." (See Fidel Castro at the height of power...
Although he is considered a Raulista, Rodriguez remains a relatively unknown entity in the Castro hierarchy. As experts like Mora point out, it's too soon to tell if Raúl chose Rodriguez with a proactive U.S.-Cuba mission in mind or simply to have a professional but nondescript bureaucrat warm the Foreign Minster's seat. Raúl already consults a small core of foreign policy veterans on U.S. policy, including Jorge Bolaños, Cuba's de facto ambassador in Washington, and Fernando Remírez de Estenoz, one of Cuba's most respected diplomats...