Cuba Briefs: Latin America Blast Embargo, Russian Navy Visits, Cuba Offers Prisoner Swap
Latin American leaders blasted the US embargo while welcoming Cuba into the Rio Group:
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says he hopes Obama will end the embargo. He says it no longer makes political or economic sense.
Cuba recently extended an olive branch by offering to release jailed political dissidents:
Answering a reporter’s question about political prisoners in Cuba, Castro said he would consider releasing some as a gesture to opening talks with the new administration. But he said the U.S. would need to reciprocate by freeing the so-called “Cuban Five,” who were convicted in 2001.
As Putie-Pute continues his communist quest for influence in Cuba by sending Russian Navy Ships, the Bush administration dead-enders near their last days. Their propaganda machine feels the need one last time to spew their hate for the Cuban people by giving a litany of failures of reasons for the embargo.