Miguel Ángel Moratinos

In pursuit of change to EU’s Cuba policy

July 28, 2010

Deutsche Welle reports of a rebellious Spain hell-bent on pushing for change in the EU’s stance on Cuba: As holder of the rotating EU Council presidency, Spain tried to massively influence the EU position on Cuba by pushing for increased dialogue and a normalization of relations despite Cuba not yet meeting the benchmarks set out [...]

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Diplomatic corner

July 17, 2010

Fidel Castro met with Cuban diplomats and warned of imminent nuclear war. [infobae] Spanish diplomacy and the release of Cuban prisoners. [Radio Nederland] Prime minister of Kuwait visits Cuba to sign bilateral agreements and the opening of a new embassy. [EFE] EU diplomat: EU foreign ministers forced Spanish FM Moratinos to cede his obsession in [...]

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Concession turns to quick advantage

July 13, 2010

Newsweek magazine on the new tactics for an aged regime: But Havana has already turned the concession to quick advantage. By taking the most obvious human-rights issue off the table, Raúl Castro has driven a new wedge between U.S. and European policies. Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos, who helped broker the deal, crowed that [...]

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Prisoner release is no sign of a new era

July 11, 2010

Columnist Andres Oppenheimer in today’s The Oppenheimer Report: Cuba’s announcement that it will free 52 political prisoners over the next four months is a welcome development, but Spain’s Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos’ claim that this opens a “new phase in Cuba” is ludicrous. [...] First, Cuba has a long history of using political prisoners as [...]

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Video of the Day

July 10, 2010
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Hankering for freedom

July 8, 2010

From today’s The Economist: CUBA’S leadership understands only too well how starving to death can help a cause. In 2000 Fidel Castro, who had apparently been moved by the plight of Irish republican hunger-strikers, approved the construction in Havana of a memorial to Bobby Sands and his fellow prisoners. Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein’s leader, attended [...]

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