Zitat von Miami Herald / Carlos Moore

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Why Castro regime fears Obama administration

Since Nov. 4, Cuba has been experiencing a bad case of the Obama Blues. The election of the United States' first African-American president was conspicuously downplayed by the Cuban media. President-elect Barack Obama's victory went unheralded in Granma, the official mouthpiece of both the government and the ruling Communist party; it was relegated to the back pages.

On the streets, however, ordinary Cubans were reported to be exultant. All of a sudden the Cuban people no longer hated the ``enemy.''

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Zitat von Miami Herald / AP

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Obama free to change US-Cuba policy

HAVANA -- Barack Obama will be the first American president in nearly 50 years to have a relatively free hand in deciding whether to ease punitive Cold War-era policies toward communist Cuba, and the foreign policy team he announced this week seems predisposed to make it happen.

Obama said during the campaign that immediately after taking office on Jan. 20, he will lift all restrictions on family travel and cash remittances to Cuba - not just roll them back to previous rules that were tightened by the Bush administration.

Obama also said he would uphold the embargo imposed after the island went communist, to use as leverage until Cuba shows "significant steps toward democracy," starting with freedom for approximately 219 jailed political prisoners.

For nearly five decades, the embargo is where the two nations have been stuck, each side demanding that the other change first.

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Zitat von ORF

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Fidel Castro: Kuba ist bereit für Dialog mit Obama

Kuba will nach Angaben seines früheren Staatschefs Fidel Castro ein neues Kapitel in den Beziehungen zu den USA aufschlagen. Mit dem neuen US-Präsidenten Barack Obama könnten Gespräche jederzeit an jedem Ort stattfinden, schrieb der erkrankte Revolutionsführer gestern in einem Beitrag für die Staatsmedien.

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Zitat von taz / Knut Henkel

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Beziehungen zwischen USA und Kuba
Fidel Castro macht Obama Avancen

Nach Staatschef Raúl Vastro() zeigt sich auch Vorgänger Fidel bereit zum Treffen mit dem nächsten US-Präsidenten Obama. Als Treffpunkt schlägt Kuba Guantanamo vor.

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Zitat von USA Today

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Obama could change relations with Cuba

If Fidel Castro survives through January, he will not only celebrate the 50th anniversary of his takeover of Cuba, he may also witness the most dramatic shift in U.S. policy toward the nation since it became a dictatorship.

An assortment of liberals, businessmen and farm-state politicians have been pushing for the easing of sanctions against Cuba for years, but every president, no matter the party, has done little to alter Cuba policy based on the apparent refusal to accept a totalitarian regime 90 miles from the U.S.

President-elect Barack Obama's stated position that he would like...

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