US owes millions of dollars to Cuba: Fidel Castro

Cuba has its own claims, as noted in a newspaper column by Fidel Castro on Thursday saying the U.S. owes the island “numerous millions of dollars” for damages caused by the embargo.

Eisenhower’s move followed an order from the relatively new Cuban president, Fidel Castro, to remove all but 11 U.S. diplomats from the country.

There has already been a significant increase in U.S. visitors since December, much to the delight of Cuba’s privately run tourist sector.

But as they’ve was employed to replace connections, the main target transported to entertaining a central authority that often encounters the dissidents as Simply.S. mercenaries.

“One of the reasons that the US has changed its approach to Cuba is the realization that government officials are going to shape what happens here next, while the dissidents will play only a marginal role, ” he said. In 2015 Raul does what many considered unthinkable: Restores diplomatic relations with Cuba’s long-time nemesis: The United States. He doesn’t trust the U.S. or the Cuban government to help him or his family.

Lawmakers, entrepreneurs and Cuban American activists clamoured for a chance to fly down with Kerry and his official delegation.

Marco Rubio will mark the U.S. flag being raised in Havana for the first time in more than 50 years with a speech in New York, assailing President Barack Obama for making “dangerous deals” with Cuba and Iran.

Fidel Castro is celebrating his…

From left, James Tracy, Larry Morris and Mike East – the Marines who lowered the flag at the U.S. Embassy in Havana in 1961.

Thursday, Senator Amy Klobuchar was in Mankato at Vikings training camp…but Friday, she will be in Havana along with Secretary of State John Kerry to celebrate the re-opening of an embassy in Cuba.

Kerry is flying into Havana on Friday to formally reopen the long-closed Embassy.

Kerry, however, is set to hold a low-profile meeting later in the day with “a small group” of Cuban dissidents at the home of the chief of the U.S. mission there. Relations with the United States were broken in 1961 as Castro led Cuba rapidly into a socialist model allied with the Soviet Union. Only a day earlier, President Dwight D. Eisenhower had announced that diplomatic relations between the two countries would cease – the coup de grace to what had been an increasingly frosty relationship.

“It’s one step more for peace”, Tracy said.

After counting Washington as their top ally for decades, opponents of the Castro regime are nervous the US-Cuban thaw will leave them out in the cold. “We must redouble our efforts to educate and support the people of Cuba to ensure that this flag continues to serve as an inspiration for those who seek democracy, justice and respect for human rights”.