Re: [Marxism] Obama on Cuba

["Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eli writes, "President Obama was interviewed on CNN today. I liked the way
the discussion of Cuba started:"

Well, yeah, but you need to realize that Obama did a round of "exclusive"
interviews with the major US Spanish-language media yesterday. CNN held the
interview until today. But this interview wasn't done by the "REAL" CNN, but
the Spanish-language network staffed by Latin Americans. If it had been the
"American" CNN the entire interview would have focused exclusively on Bo.

The questions on Cuba were followed up by a question on all the countries in
Latin America that are changing their constitutions to allow for the
re-election of (usually) leftist presidents. The way the question was
formulated Obama pretty much had to say he respected that this was the
internal matter of each country and the U.S. wasn't going to tell anyone
what to do -- after he'd finished doing just that on Cuba. It was subtle,
but very sharp. I think the American CNN only ran a part of the interview,
and they may have cut that out. I saw the Spanish version which was said to
be the entire thing. It was close to 15 minutes.

Joaquin



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