USA looks under

Fidel Castro has survived another American President. And he may even manage to survive the American blockade.

Lately last year, the Cuban exile in Miami asked the already President elect to change his policy with Cuba. And to withdraw the embargo. The change in the Cuban-American relations was already in the agenda of the presidential team. Now it is as well in the agenda of the Senate, who just made public a document where criticizes that the isolationism policy with Cuba isn’t working. The document comes with the signature of Richard Lagar, the most important republican in the International Relations Committee of the Senate.

The paper comes into light just days after Castro reappeared again -and maybe he will do once more alter Hugo Chávez’s visit to the island- and it marks a crucial point for the new American policy with the Caribbean country. The report highlights, as some of the biggest problems of the blockade, that it difficults the cooperation in immigration and drugs trafficking policies.

But what it threatens more is the relations of America with his allies in Europe and Latin America, eager for more compromises with La Havana. Until now, and because of the embargo, Cuba is forced to make deals with Africa, China or Russia -with the latter and Venezuela they even have done military joint exercises last summer and the relation is growing.

With the new geopolitical map on the table, Obama’s team prefers to maintain friends back at home and enemies out of the neighborhood. So, renewing links with Cuba not only eliminates an old foe, but also attracts the prodigal sons of Europe (specially Spain, not too close to the US since 2004) And not only that, it also [tries to] isolates, a bit more, Chávez, Morales y Correa in a growing leftist Latin America.

A warning for the left in Europe who though Obama was one of their own. He won’t come to save them.

Photo: AP



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