The Late John Fitzgerald Kennedy taught Cuba respect for the USA and Former President Jimmy Carter opened the gates to Cuba in anticipation of broader trade and better humanitarian efforts. That was reduced to nothing with the current president Bush and vice Cheney ordering naval exercises off the coast of Cuba, which killed endangered wildlife including Marine Mammals and whom's new policy closes all the doors Carter opened.
No different than Nixon opening China, Carter opened Cuba.
Castro Welcomes Jimmy Carter to Cuba (click here)
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter arrived in Cuba on Sunday and became the first U.S. president -- in or out of office --to visit this communist country since the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power.
Dressed in a gray suit, Castro, 75, greeted Carter, 77, at the airport with a handshake and symbolically threw open the doors of the island to the former American head of state. Carter, Castro said, could speak with anyone "even if they do not share our endeavors," an obvious reference to human rights groups. He also said Carter could go anywhere �� including Cuban scientific centers, which U.S. officials recently claimed could be working toward making biological weapons.
Carter said he and his wife, Rosalynn, had traveled here as friends of the Cuban people and hoped to meet many during their five-day stay. Carter reminded Cubans that he would be addressing them on live television Tuesday evening.
After their private jet arrived at 10:45 a.m., Castro escorted the Carters down a red carpet and over to a wooden podium with the Cuban and American flags flying alongside. They stood at attention for the playing of the Cuban and the American national anthems...
