U.S.-Cuba sign torrent of agreements under the inauguration wire
Source: Washington Post
By Karen DeYoung January 18 at 6:58 PM
The United States and Cuba on Wednesday signed a treaty delineating their maritime boundary in the eastern Gulf of Mexico amid a torrent of last-minute negotiations between the two governments in the outgoing days of the Obama administration.
In the past two weeks, Washington and Havana also inked agreements on joint responses to potential oil spills and other pollution in the gulf and the Florida Straits; cooperation on law enforcement and information sharing; and maritime and aeronautical search and rescue.
Teams from the two governments also held their third meeting on outstanding monetary and property claims and held discussions about cooperation on human trafficking.
Last week, Obama unilaterally eliminated special preferences for Cubans seeking admission to the United States, including the 20-year-old wet-foot, dry-foot policy that automatically allowed any Cuban reaching U.S. soil to stay and be given near-automatic approval for permanent residence.
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Alice11111
(5,730 posts)cstanleytech
(26,231 posts)the American people had the Republicans not put their political party and its rise to power first and welfare of the American people last.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)He helped them out with his scandals, but they sandbagged him too. If it hadn't been Monica, it was always something...Whitewater (all of those false scandals for 2 or 3 decades helped defeat Hillary too).
We would have had Kerry, but for Swiftboating. We would have had Gore, but for voter fraud by Republicans ( a lot of Jews voted for Pat Buchanan? ) and Scalia Sup Crt.