I realize the politics is difficult for some folks, but, this is great news for most of the Cuban people. They will have jobs in building their new infrastructure and beyond the construction there will be jobs to improve their lives and that of their country.
I congratulate all the countries that are finding Cuba an important trade partner. It is all good and I look forward to happier Cubans and greater peace for the Western Hemisphere.
For any other countries that feel left out of the burgeoning economy in Cuba, there is a permanent mission within the United Nations to start a new relationship. (click here)
May 11, 2015
The AP
French President Francois Hollande speaks to reporters on the tarmac of Jose Marti Airport in Havana late Sunday night. Hollande is the first French president to ever visit Cuba. (Desmond Boylan/The Associated Press)
...Top diplomats from Japan, the European Union, Italy, the Netherlands and Russia (click here) have visited the island in recent months in bids to stake out or maintain ties with an island that suddenly looks like a brighter economic prospect amid warming U.S.-Cuba relations.
On Sunday night, François Hollande became the first French president to ever visit communist Cuba, bringing along five ministers and two dozen business people, including the heads of Pernod-Ricard, Cuba's partner in exporting Havana Club rum, and grain exporter Soufflet.
"It's impossible to deny that diplomatic detente between Washington and Havana has accelerated the process of normalization between Cuba and Europe," said Salim Lamrani, a Cuba expert at France's University of La Reunion.
Cuba was once accustomed primarily to visits from leftist Latin American partners and smaller allies in Africa and the Caribbean....
I congratulate all the countries that are finding Cuba an important trade partner. It is all good and I look forward to happier Cubans and greater peace for the Western Hemisphere.
For any other countries that feel left out of the burgeoning economy in Cuba, there is a permanent mission within the United Nations to start a new relationship. (click here)
May 11, 2015The AP
French President Francois Hollande speaks to reporters on the tarmac of Jose Marti Airport in Havana late Sunday night. Hollande is the first French president to ever visit Cuba. (Desmond Boylan/The Associated Press)
...Top diplomats from Japan, the European Union, Italy, the Netherlands and Russia (click here) have visited the island in recent months in bids to stake out or maintain ties with an island that suddenly looks like a brighter economic prospect amid warming U.S.-Cuba relations.
On Sunday night, François Hollande became the first French president to ever visit communist Cuba, bringing along five ministers and two dozen business people, including the heads of Pernod-Ricard, Cuba's partner in exporting Havana Club rum, and grain exporter Soufflet.
"It's impossible to deny that diplomatic detente between Washington and Havana has accelerated the process of normalization between Cuba and Europe," said Salim Lamrani, a Cuba expert at France's University of La Reunion.
Cuba was once accustomed primarily to visits from leftist Latin American partners and smaller allies in Africa and the Caribbean....
