U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minnesota) at the U.S. Embassy in Havana. Marco Rubio – who is also a Republican Presidential candidate – and New Jersey Sen.
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The current policy allows those Cubans who reach American shores to seek asylum, while most who are found at sea are sent back.
Although most of the U.S. staff departed quickly, a few stayed behind to hand the keys over to their Swiss colleagues, who were to serve diligently and honorably as a protecting power for more than 50 years.
The sight was so unlikely that some Cubans could scarcely believe it: a US secretary of state lecturing their Communist government about democracy and human rights on State television. He says Cuba is’t a set up that people undergo phylogenetic segregation or policemen harm, and says Cuba has not got control over another country’s location that people are tormented – a guide onto the United states.S. seafaring bottom at Guantanamo in jap Cuba.
“Cuba is not a place where you can see police brutality or racial discrimination”, he said. “The territory where torture occurs and people are held in legal limbo isn’t under Cuban jurisdiction”. It contributes in no small way to a legacy that President Barack Obama may leave in foreign affairs.
Richard Blanco recited a new poem, “Matters of the Sea” or “Cosas del Mar” in Spanish, before Secretary of State John Kerry presided over the raising of the American flag over the embassy that overlooks Havana’s oceanfront promenade.
He said the Obama administration advocates lifting the embargo against Cuba because it was crucial to normalisation of relations. Rodriguez said even the developed north today had crises with the democratic formula and its electoral model much proclaimed by the US and were now seeking own models.
Giant Cuban flags were hanging from the balconies of nearby apartment buildings and people gathered at their windows with a view of the embassy.
“Kerry spoke about democracy, freedom, WiFi, and he’s right”, Lopez said.
“It’s a very complex situation and it all depends on the pressure to be generated by the US Congress“, Professor Fernandez Tabio said.
Rodriguez asserted that Cuban laws include that figure, applied to compensate all foreigners affected by revolutionary measures except for those of the U.S.as the Washington hostility against the process that triumphed the first of January, 1959, made it impossible to do so.
“It would be equally unrealistic to expect normalising relations to have, in a short term, a transformational impact”.
For sending its health care workers to other countries, the Cuban government receives about $7.6 billion per year, all while it grossly underpays those practicing overseas compared to non-Cuban doctors.
Kerry also conceded that the U.S. strategy of isolating Cuba and imposing an economic embargo to provoke regime change was a bust. Human rights groups say regular, short-term arrests and beatings of the government’s critics seek to intimidate dissent.
By Saturday morning, as the giddy reaction to the flag-raising ceremony wore off, many Cubans were leavening their praise of Kerry with criticism of the US that echoed Rodriguez.
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Soon after Kerry was heading home Friday evening, diplomats who negotiated the July 20 embassy reopening will launch full-time into discussing how to bring about measures such as re-establishing direct flights and mail service.
