Sommet des Amériques: focus sur les relations entre Cuba et les États-Unis

Cuba participera au Sommet des Amériques plus tard cette semaine (10 et 11 avril). Si les sujets de discussion foisonnent, le rapprochement évoquer par le Président Obama risque d'être le centre d'attention.

 "The hemispheric summit, held every three years, is the third of Obama’s presidency and the first not overshadowed by Latin American opposition to U.S. insistence that Cuba be excluded. Previous summits, held in 2009 in Trinidad and Tobago and in 2012 in Colombia, failed to issue joint declarations because of disagreements over Cuba.

“We, frankly, having gone through two previous summits, did not think it was constructive for the United States to continue to try to isolate Cuba,” said deputy national security adviser Benjamin Rhodes. “It only pointed to the failure of U.S. policy.”

Each time the United States took part in the Summit of the Americas, the question at issue was not about “improving democratic values,” Rhodes said, but “why Cuba wasn’t at the summit.”

Beleaguered by ongoing crises in the Middle East and Ukraine as well as polarized politics at home, Obama is likely to find the visit a welcome respite."

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