The Cuba tight rope

Semi good news on the Cuba front, a US official has said that there are plans in place to hold some test meetings between the members of the State department and Cuban officials in Washington. These meetings will be informal water testing meetings, to see if it will be effective to purse official and open talks with the leaders of Cuba. These preliminary talks are to be kept hush-hush because the official policy of the Obama administration was to not make anymore moves until Cuba reciprocated President Obama’s lifting of restrictions on Cuban-Americans who wished to travel to Cuba or send money to relatives on the island. The Cuban situation is much more delicate then I previous thought. On the one hand you have Latin America and Cuban-Americans who have been pressuring the American government to ease its 47-year trade embargo. The leaders of Latin America also have been using the Cuban situation has a test to see how serious America is about dealing with and fixing there relations with Latin America. From there viewpoint it would make sense to go ahead with talks and start easing restrictions with Cuba, but on the other side you have anti-Castro conservative in office and a huge legislative plate to make it through. Obama has so many other legislative issues to deal with that he needs to tread softly with the Cuba talks, so that he doesn’t upset the anti-Castro politicians. It would be horrible if the president couldn’t get some of his most important legislature passed because of this relatively small issue, when compared to most of the other issues this is just a minor one. Good Luck Obama.