{"id":5937,"date":"2011-12-09T04:34:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T08:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=5937"},"modified":"2011-12-09T04:34:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T08:34:45","slug":"end-isolation-of-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=5937","title":{"rendered":"END ISOLATION OF CUBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.270343009682150.58826.183031685079950&amp;type=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-ak-ash4\/384104_270345099681941_183031685079950_703256_1082260281_n.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"312\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IV CARICOM-Cuba Summit\" vspace=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.270343009682150.58826.183031685079950&amp;type=1\">Click here for more photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>By Clint Chan Tack<br \/>\nFriday, December 9 2011 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,151977.html\">newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>CUBAN PRESIDENT Raul Castro yesterday slammed United States (US) President Barack Obama for failing to keep a commitment he made at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Port-of-Spain in April 2009 to lift the 49-year-old embargo which the US placed on Cuba since 1962.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nCastro issued this condemnation as he addressed the opening ceremony of the Fourth Caricom- Cuba Summit at the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA).<\/p>\n<p>His condemnation came on the heels of calls earlier in the ceremony by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas for the embargo to be lifted. The embargo was implemented against Cuba by US President John F Kennedy on February 7, 1962.<\/p>\n<p>In thanking Caricom nations for supporting Cuba against \u201can embargo that remains essentially unchanged,\u201d Castro noted that Obama had announced the partial relaxation of regulations imposed on the island which would allow Cubans resident in the US to send remittances back to their relatives in Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Cuban leader slammed Obama for taking no concrete steps to lift the embargo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe expectations of the so-called 2009 Summit of the Americas held in this city (Port-of-Spain) have failed to rise above the rhetoric,\u201d Castro declared.<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,151977.html\">Full Article :  newsday.co.tt<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here for more photos By Clint Chan Tack Friday, December 9 2011 &#8211; newsday.co.tt CUBAN PRESIDENT Raul Castro yesterday slammed United States (US) President Barack Obama for failing to keep a commitment he made at the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Port-of-Spain in April 2009 to lift the 49-year-old embargo which the US &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=5937\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">END ISOLATION OF CUBA<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,119,45,1,117,178,7,39],"tags":[719,144,1015,107,49],"class_list":["post-5937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean","category-caricom","category-cuba","category-general-tt","category-latin-america","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-cuba-caricom-summit","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-politics","tag-raul-castro","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5939,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5937\/revisions\/5939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}