Cuba Says It's Ready to Negotiate

[Zorro]

Source: New York Times

Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations said in an interview that Havana wanted to talk but the Trump administration was creating pretexts for military action.

Cuba is open to changes to its economy and government, and eager to continue negotiations with the United States, but it does not believe Washington is participating in talks in good faith, Cuba’s ambassador to the United Nations told The New York Times.

“Cuba is willing to talk about everything with the United States. There is no taboo subject in our conversations — on the basis of reciprocity and equality,” Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, the Cuban ambassador, said in an interview on Wednesday.

But, he added, “obviously it does not help a climate of dialogue and trust that every other day there are statements like, ‘We are ready to take over Cuba,’” referring to recent comments by President Trump.

“Warmongering rhetoric does not help,” he said. “Building different pretexts for military aggression against Cuba, which is what they are building, does not help.”

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Cuba gonna hand itself over to the Trump Crime Family?

[sop]

2. If Trump is really serious about regime change in Cuba he should completely do away with the embargo.

Many familiar with the current situation in Cuba argue that lifting the embargo would create an explosion in free trade on the island, stimulate the private sector economy to help grow an economically independent middle class, and create internal pressures for political liberalization and anti-authoritarian reforms.


However, American corporate interests oppose any political change in Cuba that does not return ownership of all their confiscated properties, and doesn't re-establish their economic and political hegemony in Cuba. They want things like they were before Castro nationalized all foreign holdings in 1960, and that's what Cuba won't accept.

[Timewas]

3. Cuban embargo

Should have been dropped many years ago, purely egotistical...

[BaronChocula]

4. They should hire Iran's negotiating team

Game this lame demented pant crapping child molesting duck.

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. They should hire Iran's drone team. Nt

[Bayard]

6. There's the problem--trump does not consider Cubans as equals

There won't be any negotiations. He will demand and order, and if you don't like it, you will be bombed. Hint: He wants your sunny beaches.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

7. Are the people of Cuba going to be happy with the island being run by the Trump Klux Klan?