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posted by Blackmoore on Thursday December 18 2014, @10:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the pigs-flying-in-a-bay dept.

Peter Baker reports at the NYT that in a deal negotiated during 18 months of secret talks hosted largely by Canada and encouraged by Pope Francis, the United States will restore full diplomatic relations with Cuba and open an embassy in Havana for the first time in more than a half-century. In addition, the United States will ease restrictions on remittances, travel and banking relations, and Cuba will release 53 Cuban prisoners identified as political prisoners by the United States government.

Although the decades-old American embargo on Cuba will remain in place for now, the administration signaled that it would welcome a move by Congress to ease or lift it should lawmakers choose to. “We cannot keep doing the same thing and expect a different result. It does not serve America’s interests, or the Cuban people, to try to push Cuba toward collapse.

We know from hard-learned experience that it is better to encourage and support reform than to impose policies that will render a country a failed state,” said the White House in a written statement. "The United States is taking historic steps to chart a new course in our relations with Cuba and to further engage and empower the Cuban people."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday December 19 2014, @07:06AM

    by isostatic (365) on Friday December 19 2014, @07:06AM (#127413) Journal

    SN continuously posts events in an attempt to claim they are "world changing". hunderds of "world changing" events happen every year, and they're posted on SN. Hint, if it doesn't break into normal programming, it's not world changing. Even if it does break in it's probably not world changing, unless it's breaking in in multiple countries at the same time.

    As a rule of thumb, if Hugh Pickens has posted it, it shouldn't be here. Sure it will attract lots of comments, many things do. Post something about gun control and you'll get thousands of people on all sides piling in. It's not something that should be on this site though.

    If something is newsworthy, there's usually a tech angle that is being ignored because by the general news. There are 54,239,413 websites out there discussing the latest "world changing" events, however very few are discussing what change it may have on technology. It used to be that slashdot was a place that did. Then the quality of contributers dropped, and more and more people were only interested in discussing their favourite political pasttimes. SN was supposed to be a return to the old days, before stories like this were posted to drive the adverts.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 19 2014, @09:13AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 19 2014, @09:13AM (#127428) Journal

    SN continuously posts events in an attempt to claim they are "world changing". hunderds of "world changing" events happen every year, and they're posted on SN. Hint, if it doesn't break into normal programming, it's not world changing. Even if it does break in it's probably not world changing, unless it's breaking in in multiple countries at the same time.

    It's breaking into normal programming in the US and Cuba at the same time. So that's multiple countries.

    But having said that, I see the danger. If we're not constrained by a rational person like you, then pretty soon we'll be doing something heinous like claiming SN invented the internet. Total protonic reversal.

  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday December 19 2014, @02:34PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Friday December 19 2014, @02:34PM (#127479) Journal

    Soylent is not exclusively a tech news site. You're thinking of Slashdot.

  • (Score: 2) by Blackmoore on Friday December 19 2014, @07:46PM

    by Blackmoore (57) on Friday December 19 2014, @07:46PM (#127563) Journal

    I would LIKE to post more Science and Tech content.

    Please send some in.

    Hugh sends in articles. several each day - and while I don't particularity find his content awful; I would rather run science and tech. but i dont have a lot to approve.