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US PRESIDENT Barack Obama said detente with Cuba would help “consolidate” US power in Latin America in his state of the union address on Tuesday.
Mr Obama urged the US Congress to lift the 55-year blockade that has abjectly failed to destroy Cuban socialism while drawing worldwide condemnation.
“Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America,” he said.
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports