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Tuesday, July 28th, 2015

 

Thawing Relations: Cuba’s Deeper (More Challenging) Significance

By SUSAN BABBITT  Barack Obama, at the Summit of the Americas, wanted to bury the past. Argentinean president Cristina Fernández disagreed. Cuba was at the Summit, she proposed, not because of negotiations but because Cuba has fought more than sixty years with unprecedented dignity. That fight itself is not most notable; its explanatory philosophical traditions are needed and significant. Cuba’s history makes them believable.