So far, this is only information received “from sources who wished to remain anonymous”. But this information is very logical
It is about the resumption of the policy of improving relations between Washington and Havana, initiated by Obama, which was then called “Cuban detente”.
Secret negotiations began at the end of 2012. In 2013, it was already beginning to sew in a sack. At the funeral of Nelson Mandela in December 2013 in South Africa, Obama shook hands with Raoul Castro. The two leaders even had brief conversations with each other. The mediator was then Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. She brought Castro to Obama at the funeral.
I remember right now! (I apologize for the lyrical digression).
In 2012, a group of researchers suggests that after the re-election, Obama will go to detente with Iran. This becomes apparent only at the end of 2013. And at the beginning of 2013, a hypothesis was expressed about an imminent Cuban detente. Obama never arrived in Tehran for further negotiations (the administration ruined the “big plan”), but the “nuclear deal” with Iran was concluded in 2015. But Obama flew to Havana. In 2016. The change of power in Washington prevented further action. Well, that group of researchers from Moscow was disbanded in the summer of 2014 without explanation.
Anyway….
Obama’s visit to Havana in March 2016 has been called “historic”. Of course, opinions in Washington were divided. Republicans – led by two Cuban senators, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz – lashed out at Obama with harsh criticism, “Cuban detente” being labeled “treason”. And not all Democrats understood Obama. Still, the left wing of the Democratic Party applauded Barak Husseinovich. They realized that Obama’s plan with an eye on Florida was really cunning… Let’s talk about it sometime.
And now the second coming of the Obama administration… Well, it would be logical to resume the Cuban dialogue. Especially in the eye of the long one-party rule of American liberals.
Dmitry Drobnitsky