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Friday, April 17, 2009 - 00:00
We will never win a "war on drugs" and should be moving to decriminalize and legalize drugs under medical and government supervision
Friday, April 17, 2009 - 00:00
The issue of what to do about Cuba is becoming more of a focus as the Summit of the Americas begins Friday
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''I want to be clear: I want Cuba back in the Interamerican system,'' OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza said
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"We want to listen and learn as well as talk. That approach of mutual respect and finding common interests is one that ultimately will serve everybody."
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think one of the important things will be to what degree Obama is able to offer any concessions to Brazil and build up that relationship. It hasn't really been discussed too much in the media
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President Barack Obama opened the door on Thursday to more changes in his Cuba policy, saying his lifting of restrictions on family travel was an effort to recast ties
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It is welcome if belated recognition that half a century of US attempts to isolate and strangle Cuba, to cut it off from the free movement of people and goods, turned into a near-perfect mechanism for keeping Fidel Castro in power
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez remains an exception, but even he and Cuba's communist leadership appear to be monitoring Obama for signs of a thaw
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Latin American leaders overwhelmingly oppose the U.S. trade embargo imposed on the communist island in 1962
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Preparing for the trip, the president used several different types of media to deliver his message to the people of the region -- and set up his agenda for the meetings