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Our Outworn Cuba Policy
By Wayne S. Smith (September 2007)
The Cold War is long since over. The U.S. has normal diplomatic and trade relations with Russia and the other former components of the Soviet Union, with China, and even with Vietnam, where it fought a bloody and hugely controversial war. It is even negotiating with North Korea - however reluctantly. But relations with Cuba remain in the deep freeze, tenser perhaps than at any moment since the 1962 missile crisis. U.S.-Cuban relations, indeed, have been characterized by almost unrelieved hostility since the rupture of diplomatic relations in January of 1961.
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The devil skips the Havana NAM summit
The 14th NAM summit, Havana Cuba
By Stephen Gibbs (December 2006)
Hugo Chavez did not have to complain of a whiff of sulphur in Havana. The United States, (led, Mr Chavez, believes, by the devil incarnate) declined to send even a low-level observer delegation to the 14th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit, held this year in Havana. But for anyone who is anyone in the developing world, the city was the place to be that September weekend. 56 heads of state and government attended.
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Cuba: An international heavyweight
Despite Cuba's relatively small size it has played a significant geopolitical role, especially in the Non-Aligned movement for several decades.
By Matthew Pickles (November 2006)
During the past 5 decades Cuba has played an important role in many international forums, including the Non-Aligned Movement which held its most recent summit in Havana (see article). Cuba has used its international profile to critique many aspects of US foreign policy and put forward its own development agenda.
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