Dili, Nov 7 (Prensa Latina) In a message addressed to US President Elect Barack Obama Timor Leste President Jose Ramos Horta asked him to lift the blockade of Cuba.In an official note published on Friday, Ramos-Horta said he expected a change in Washington's foreign policy and that the new administration should immediately lift the trade blockade and sanctions against Cuba.
The economic blockade of the most powerful nation against the small nation is immoral and politically senseless, affirmed Timor Leste's head of State.
He also emphasized that Obama's election means a change of direction in US history, a victory of liberty and justice that shows that the US society has left discrimination and exclusion in the past.
He also said that the president elect would have to face urgently the current financial crisis caused by the incompetence and irresponsibility of that country's executive leaders, and he would have to fight the increasing extreme poverty in emerging nations.
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May 23, 2008, 12:40 pm
Obama Criticizes ‘Bush-McCain’ Cuba, Latin America Policy
Susan Davis reports on the presidential race.
In a speech today on Cuba and U.S.-Latin American policy, Barack Obama will reiterate his pledge to immediately allow “unlimited” family travel and remittances to the island if he is elected president—policies that would loosen restrictions imposed under the current administration. In the excerpts of the speech provided by the campaign, the Illinois senator does not address easing or lifting the trade embargo.
“It’s time to let Cuban Americans see their mothers and fathers, their sisters and brothers. It’s time to let Cuban American money make their families less dependent upon the Castro regime,” the Democratic presidential front-runner is expected to tell a Miami audience.
Barack Obama addressed the Cuban American National Foundation on Cuba and Latin American policy at a Cuban Independence Day Celebration in Miami on Friday (Assocated Press)
In several, pointed critiques, Obama aligns expected Republican nominee John McCain with President Bush on Cuba and Latin American policy. Three days earlier, McCain also gave a speech on the same topic in Miami in which he criticized Obama’s foreign policy views.
The Illinois senator defends himself against McCain’s attacks that he would “sit down unconditionally” with Cuban leader Raul Castro, but he does acknowledge his position to meet with foreign leaders without preconditions.
“Now let me be clear. John McCain’s been going around the country talking about how much I want to meet with Raul Castro, as if I’m looking for a social gathering,” Obama says. “That’s never what I’ve said, and John McCain knows it. After eight years of the disastrous policies of George Bush, it is time to pursue direct diplomacy, with friend and foe alike, without preconditions. There will be careful preparation. We will set a clear agenda. And as president, I would be willing to lead that diplomacy at a time and place of my choosing, but only when we have an opportunity to advance the interests of the United States, and to advance the cause of freedom for the Cuban people.”
Obama mentions Bush almost as frequently as he mentions McCain—a broader political effort by Democrats to align the Arizona senator with the unpopular president in the general election campaign.
“I will never, ever, compromise the cause of liberty. And unlike John McCain, I would never, ever, rule out a course of action that could advance the cause of liberty,” Obama says. “We’ve heard enough empty promises from politicians like George Bush and John McCain. I will turn the page.”
Obama further attacks McCain for joining “the parade of politicians who make the same empty promises year after year, decade after decade,” and says that “you can’t take his so-called straight talk seriously.”
On Latin America, Obama says he will create and a regional energy initiative to develop alternative and clean energy sources (an unusual proposal in an area with ample oil and gas resources), and offer more development assistance to the poor. He also pledges to broaden U.S. efforts to crack down on drug trafficking, and to expand diplomatic efforts by creating a Special Envoy for the Americas in the White House and expand Peace Corps efforts in Latin America.
Obama is opposed to the U.S.-Colombia free trade deal, but he takes a somewhat softer rhetorical approach on trade in this speech that he has on the campaign trail, where both he and Sen. Hillary Clinton have been highly critical of U.S. trade policy.
“Trade must be part of the solution,” he says, “But I strongly reject the Bush-McCain view that any trade deal is a good deal. …There’s nothing protectionist about demanding that trade spreads the benefits of globalization, instead of steering them to special interests while we short-change workers at home and abroad.”
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Timor Leste Highlights Cuba Solidarity
Dili, Nov 8 (Prensa Latina) Timor Leste authorities discusseed here Saturday the benefits of work by Cuban collaborators who have saved lives and helped this country's citizens learn.
In a press conference with Foreign Minister A. da Costa and Health Minister Nelson Martin the highlighted the result of this medical work of 12,097 patients saved, 23,091 surgical operations and nearly 2 million visits made by 233 Cuban doctors with an average of 15 years experience.
Both government leaders said that there are 700 Timor Leste medical scholarship holders in Cuba and 149 studying in the first branch of the National University of this specialty opened in the 13 districts of the country.
There are 36 teachers working in different districts of this territory and 12,000 Timor Leste citizens have learned to read and write with the method “Yes I Can”.
Zacarias has put forward that President Jose Ramos-Horta will propose Cuban doctors, who have devoted 45 years of their career to saving lives around the world in over 70 countries currently, as Nobel Prize Candidates.
The exchange with the press took place before the opening ceremony of First Cuba-Timor Leste Mixed Commission presided over by Dili foreign minister and Cuban foreign affairs Vice Minister Yiliam Rodriguez Exposito.
The Timor Leste Foreign Minister informed of the agenda of this commission and stressed that the meeting took place at a moment in solid and growing relations between the two countries.
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