Even Obama Can’t Open Cuba’s Clenched Fist

Ray Walser / February 23, 2010

Cuba’s communist regime lashed out at the Obama Administration over the weekend following bilateral meetings in Havana.

A visit by a senior State Department official — Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Craig Kelly – marked the highest-level contact thus far. The chief aim of the visit: a discussion of migration issues.

Ambassador Kelly also tested the political waters by meeting with prominent Cuban dissidents and civil society figures.

The Cuban reaction was swift and predictable.  The Castro regime fulminated:

from the very day he [Kelly] arrived in the country, [he] was warned that a visit with dissidents would not be tolerated.   This meeting ”demonstrated anew that (U.S.) priorities are more related to supporting the counterrevolution and the promotion of subversion to destabilize the Cuban revolution than with the creation of a climate conducive to real solutions to bilateral problems. (more…)