Caribbean nations urge US to end Cuba embargo

[Mika]

Caribbean nations urge US to end Cuba embargo
US pressed to end 54-year-old economic embargo, as 15 Caribbean nations meet in Havana for summit.

Caribbean leaders have urged the US to end a 54-year-old economic embargo against Cuba, describing it as "senseless" as they convened in Havana for a regional summit.

Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Sunday implored US President Barack Obama to end the 54-year-old economic embargo, as 15 Caribbean nations met to discuss financial assistance and economic agreements.

"We continue to stand with Cuba on the US embargo against Cuba," Browne, who chairs CARICOM said.

"I call on President Obama to lift that senseless embargo now," he added at a welcoming ceremony at the Cuban capital's Jose Marti International airport.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. They're small countries, and have been afraid to say a lot. Now they will not remain silent.

They have learned they have the whole world (except for Israel) on their side.

Someone has even tried to claim the mighty nations of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau themselves wholeheartedly supported the embargo. Just goes to show you we've got people among us who refuse to learn anything. With even a little knowledge they'd be ashamed to be caught expressing uninformed gibberish like that.

We remember the U.S. also arm-twisted Guatemala into backing the embargo, too, but that's certainly out of the question, now.

From the O.P. :

Trinidad and Tobago's foreign minister, Winston Dookeran, said the meeting, along with Cuba's invitation to the Summit of the Americas in Panama in April, signaled "the full integration of Cuba into the Western Hemisphere."

Thank you, Mika.