[Marxism] Fidel on Obama on Guantanamo

[Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fidel:

After taking office, Barack Obama said that the decision to return the 
territory occupied by the Guantánamo Naval Base to its legitimate owner 
requires weighing up the extent to which the defensive capacity of the United 
States would be or not in the least affected.



Soon after that he added, with regards to the return of the territory occupied 
by the Base to Cuba, that he would first consider under which concessions Cuba 
would accept that solution, which would be tantamount to demanding a change in 
its political system, a price against which Cuba has been struggling for half a 
century.

Eli:

Fidel seems to have better access to the pronouncements of Obama than I do. One 
of the huge failings of the White House website is that, under Bush, every word 
spoken by Bush in a press conference, interview, speech etc. was transcribed 
and easily available on the website; under Obama, so far, it's strictly 
selective. Transcriptions of the press secretary press conference finally 
started appearing after a week, but no so (so far) with the President. As far 
as what Fidel refers to above, I would love to see it, because it helps to 
explain why first Raul, then Felipe, and now Fidel are suddenly talking about a 
subject they hadn't talked about for years - the return of Guantanamo. But, as 
I said, I have no idea what Fidel is referring to above; this is the very first 
reference to any such pronouncements by Obama that I've seen.


Eli Stephens
 Left I on the News
 http://lefti.blogspot.com


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