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Costa
Rica-Cuba Rapprochement Possible
Almost 50 years after Costa Rica broke off
diplomatic relations with Cuba, ties between
the two countries could be on the mend, said
Costa Rican Foreign Minister Bruno Stagno.
According to Stagno, the continental
atmosphere is favourably inclined for a
dialogue between the two governments.
Cuba currently has diplomatic relations with
all countries in the Americas except Costa
Rica, El Salvador and the United States.
With the victory Sunday of FMLN candidate
Mauricio Funes in El Salvador, it is
expected that relations between Cuba and
that Central American country will be
restored.
That would leave the governments of Oscar
Arias in Costa Rica and Barack Obama in the
US with the challenge to join the rest of
the continent in regards to Cuba.
The topic, as well as the half-century US
blockade on Cuba, are sure to be brought up
at the April 17-19 Americas Summit in
Trinidad and Tobago. The meeting will be
Obama’s first with the continent’s leaders.
Meanwhile, the US president met over the
weekend in Washington with Brazil’s
President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva who
reportedly made a pitch to the US leader to
set a new, less aggressive, tone to US-Latin
American relations and seek dialogue with
countries like Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia.
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