Sunday 3 April 2016

Barack Obama to Cuba to make history

US President Barack Obama is poised Sunday to turn a page of history by traveling to Cuba, one of the last bastions of communism with which he intends to end more than five decades of frenzied antagonism. On landing Sunday at 5:00 p.m. local (2100 GMT) on the tarmac of the Jose Marti airport in Havana, Mr. President Barack Obama is poised Sunday to turn a page of history by traveling to Cuba, one of the last bastions of communism with which it intends to end more than five decades of frenzied antagonism.

On landing Sunday at 5:00 p.m. local (2100 GMT) on the tarmac of the Jose Marti airport in Havana, Obama will become the first US leader in the coming year on the island since Calvin Coolidge in 1928.
Accompanied by his wife Michelle and their daughters Malia and Sasha, it moves with a double objective: to meet the Cuban people and consolidate the rapprochement committed spectacular late 2014 with Cuba's Raul Castro. Upon complete his second term, Mr Obama wants to pass a "coup" and diplomatic progress as possible on the Cuban case to complicate any return, whatever his successor in 2017.

It is this objective which has led the White House to decree recent months a series of measures easing the embargo imposed on the island since 1962, the total lifting depends on Congress. The hotel chain Starwood announced Saturday it had received the green light from the Treasury Department to open two hotels in Havana, becoming the first US multinational to take advantage of new regulations to settle in Cuba since Castro's 1959 revolution.

On his arrival Sunday, US President must step to the embassy and then to the old town along the Malecon seaside boulevard along which many Cubans should be massaged to see pass his armored limousine. In the evening, he must walk the streets of Old Havana, classified as UNESCO heritage and groomed for the occasion, then meet with Cardinal Jaime Ortega, one of the architects of the US-Cuba rapprochement.

The highlight of the visit of US president will deliver his speech on Tuesday in a theater in Havana, before a carefully selected audience and cameras Cuban television. On Saturday, President Obama surprised Cubans suitable to play a small skit with the famous Cuban comedian Panfilo. Posted by the US Embassy, the video was released in the evening by state television, causing the astonishment of many Havanese. The Ladies in White show

In Havana, where the excitement is palpable, many Cubans who grew up during the Cold War, rocked by anti-imperialist diatribes of Fidel Castro, still struggling to achieve the impossible is about to happen.
"A president of the United States to Cuba (...) probably greeted with smiles, cheers and bands! Never in our dreams or nightmares imagined we see something like in our lifetime, "says the writer Leonardo Padura in the Cafefuerte information blog.

However no meeting between Barack Obama and Fidel Castro, 89 years old, if one believes the White House. If the Cuban media have so far paid scant coverage to the visit, the American flags blossomed in recent days in the streets of the capital. "Of course we welcome him! "Proclaims Reinaldo Peres, 42-year-server in central Havana. "I think he should move here, Give it a home! "He laughs, showing the capital of sympathy enjoyed by the US President in Cuba.

Despite the hype around this long unthinkable move, the embargo remains in place and the expected changes in Washington could soon materialize. Thursday, Cuban Foreign Minister recalled that Havana was not willing to "give up one of its principles (...) to move towards normalization." Obama himself has got to meet with dissidents Tuesday and warned that it would evoke "directly" the human rights during talks Monday with Raul Castro, who succeeded his brother Fidel here almost 10 years.

Like every Sunday since 2010, the dissenting organization Ladies in White was preparing for a march on its usual course in the Miramar neighborhood (west of Havana) to demand more freedoms on the island. Berta Soler, leader of the group winner of the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament in 2005, was invited to meet with Mr. Obama on Tuesday but has told AFP she had not yet decided. "You said you would come only if there was progress on human rights, or it does not happen," she recalled at the US president.


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