Obama Overtures to Cuba Overtaken as OAS Votes to Engage Regime

Viola Gienger and Helen Murphy
Bloomberg
June 4, 2009

President Barack Obama unlocked the door to ending Cuba’s diplomatic isolation by easing travel barriers and offering talks on migration issues. Latin American nations yesterday forced it wide open.

The region’s governments voted to lift Cuba’s 47-year-old expulsion from the Organization of American States without meeting the U.S. demand that the Castro regime first ease its crackdown on political dissent...

“...The final proposal didn’t include the explicit reference the U.S. wanted on human rights and political prisoners, which means it was less aligned with the U.S. than it had wanted,” said Christopher Sabatini, policy director at the Council of the Americas in New York.

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