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CUBAN President Raul Castro met his US counterpart Barack Obama on the fringes of the UN general assembly on Tuesday to discuss detente between their two countries.
Following the private meeting, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said that speeding up the process would require Mr Obama to use his executive authority to substantially modify his country’s 50-year blockade on Cuba.
Mr Rodriguez said that actions Mr Obama had taken so far have had “a very limited value, a very limited scope and do not deal with any significant aspects when it comes to the implementation of the blockade against Cuba.”
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON