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...along with getting an escape valve for 50,000 dissatisfied citizens, Fidel is closer than he has ever been to seeing at least a partial end to the U.S. embargo and a formal recognition of what has been the most brutal dictatorship in the history of a country remarkable for its brutal and corrupt dictators. The New York Times has recently reported that a "blueprint" for talks between Cuba and the U.S. are imminent...
...began to slow last week, the Cubans apparently decided they now had more to gain by coming to terms with Washington. But in accepting this narrowly focused solution, Castro seems to have settled for very little. Why would he agree to something that does not even mention the hated embargo? Did he get some unspoken understanding on that score? Apparently not, but he did win some points. He took a step toward better relations with the U.S. He received an immigration package that gives him some say about who can leave his island and, at the same time, removes much...
Ending the embargo is still Castro's Plan A. The rafters were a way of forcing Clinton to look again at the sanctions. Another was last week's carefully orchestrated conferences in Madrid between Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina and three leaders of the Cuban opposition based in Miami. The three -- Ramon Cernuda, Alfredo Duran and Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo -- are all considered moderates in the world of Cuban exile politics, and all strongly favor lifting the U.S. embargo...
...Haiti's a mess. That's too bad. It was a mistake for us to begin the sanctions Clinton's continued. They only hurt the poor, the people who deserve better since we won't allow them into the U.S., which is the right policy. We should lift the embargo and focus on really important things, like rolling back North Korea's nuclear program...
...breakthrough agreement with Serbia over the stationing of international civilian monitors along its border with Bosnia, raising the possibility that the U.N. may ease some of its less important sanctions against Serbia. The monitors' mission would be to help ensure that Serbia is keeping its word on the military embargo it has imposed against its Bosnian Serb allies as a result of their refusal to sign on to the latest peace plan...