By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--January 27, 2015
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"This is going to do absolutely nothing to further human rights and democracy in Cuba. But it potentially goes a long way in providing the economic lift that the Castro regime needs to become permanent fixtures in Cuba for generations to come."The argument was that, as long as the Castros were alive, they simply had no reason to allow increased Cuban freedom. Now, we know that those concerns were 100% correct. The dictatorship has no desire to alter the way it does business: From Yahoo News:
The start of talks on repairing 50 years of broken relations appears to have left President Raul Castro's government focused on winning additional concessions without giving in to U.S. demands for greater freedoms, despite the seeming benefits that warmer ties could have for the country's struggling economy. Following the highest-level open talks in three decades between the two nations, Cuban officials remained firm in rejecting significant reforms pushed by the United States as part of President Barack Obama's surprise move to re-establish ties and rebuild economic relations with the Communist-led country.
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