According to the website www.cubaminrex.cu, the director general of the U.S. division at MINREX, Gustavo Machin, stated that efforts are underway to resume the banking services of the Cuban Interest Section in the northern nation.

Those progresses can create an “appropriate bilateral and regional context to move towards the restoration of diplomatic relations and the opening of the embassies,” he noted.

The third round of talks on the restoration of diplomatic relations will take place on Thursday, May 21.

The March meeting was to follow up the issues discussed during the two previous rounds, held in January and February, 2015.

In this round, the delegations should exchange on aspects relating to the functioning of the diplomatic missions and the behavior of their officials.

These are issues that have been discussed in the two previous rounds of talks, and in this round, we will analyze them and they will be part of what we are going to discuss during the May 21 meeting, he said.

Of course, Cuba will insist on the observance of the principles of International Law enshrined in the United Nations Charter and the norms established by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic and Consular Relations, which should be the basis of the bilateral ties and the functioning of the respective missions, he pointed out.

(Prensa Latina)

However , Andy Garcia, who presented these days his film “Falling in Love” showed ” very angry at the (supposed) end of the block and with the approach of the Obama administration to Cuba”, we can read in the Faro de Vigo newspaper (3). “Any assistance tha woul be given to Cuba actually is given the Cuban government, ie to the Castro regime and its repression”, he claimed. He even denied the own existence of the block: ” the embargo is a tale”, claimed to El País newspaper (4). “The embargo that the Cuban government has to lift is the embargo on human rights, which lack to the Cuban people,” he added.

But , what means they believe they have appeared statements of each of these actors? How many people have been able to read , therefore, in each case? Let the great Spanish press. The three largest circulation newspaper in an interview published each … Andy Garcia. In all three , the reason for the interview is the premiere of his latest film. However, in the three … the owner does not mention it, but the political opinion of the actor on Cuba , a country that- way- not set the film.

“Andy Garcia : What needs to change is the Castro Cuba embargo human rights ” is the owner of ABC ( 5); “Andy Garcia and his beloved Cuba ” headlines El País ( 6); “Andy Garcia : US perpetuates the Castro ” , leads El Mundo ( 7).

In contrast, none of these three major newspapers became interested in -críticas statements with US policy , but at all ” militants” with cubana- cause of actor Sean Penn. Not one of them.

Treatment in all interviews with Andy Garcia is also a more than cloying kindness. Something shocking when this actor, whose family left Cuba the fall of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista ( 8) , defend the positions of the extreme right in Miami: is honorary member of Brigade 2506 , made up of mercenaries who tried to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs (9); and participated in public actions as deplorable as supporting the kidnapping of Elián González in 1999 ( 10).

The ideology of Andy Garcia is evident in the only fiction film he has directed, ” The Lost City ” ( 11): a nostalgic song of bourgeois society Batista Cuba , where Che Guevara is a brutal murderer and where the hungry families, street children , landless peasants or the millions of illiterate people of Cuba before the Revolution (12 ) disappear . The Spanish agency EFE, in another interview reproduced by several newspapers , describes this film as ” a family drama about Cuban exile, inspired by ( the ) own history ” family of Andy Garcia ( 13). Indeed, it is a film that reflects the social vision and policy-and the concepts of justice and liberty of a Cuban bourgeois family of the time , like Andy Garcia , owner of a major perfume industry in Havana (14 ) .

But absolute vision of Cuban peasant population in the country, then -mayoritaria which over 47% were illiterate ( 15); more than 50% could not send their children to school ( 16) or more than 85 % lacked running water in their shacks ( 17).

That is , apparently , the Cuba ” freedom ” they dream of Cuban extremists as the actor Andy Garcia … hand friendly interviewers.

(José Manzaneda,Cubainformación)

Farrar’s monitoring of the Internet along with his wife occurred in August 2008, when he addressed a memorandum to the US State Department described as sensitive, without reporting any obstacle from Cuban authorities.

The diplomat suggested the White House to facilitate programs to circumvent regulations established by local Internet providers, as denounced by cubasi.cu website, reproduced today by Cubadebate website.

The memorandum said that USINT in Cuba welcomes all contributions coming from Washington, where work is undergoing to develop programs to avoid Internet filters.

It also announced that he would try to improve local Internet conditions and consider its possible use in website operations.

The text titled “On-Line Surfing in Havana” described visits to several web access points, including some hotels, to verify if the websites of several organizations benefited by the United States were easily access.

Farrar reported the impossibility to access webpages of demised and current organizations that get funds from the US government for the Cuba Program with the objective to change the political system in the Island.

Blocked sites included Directorio Democratico Cubano; Centro Cubano para una Cuba Libre o Grupo de Apoyo a la Disidencia, all affiliated to subversive projects against Havana.

He recognized having access to websites of non governmental organizations dealing with human rights like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

“You can even unload fully the report HRW 2007 if you are patient enough to wait twenty minutes,” said Farrar in his memorandum.

He said that you can also surf websites of USINT, the State Department and the United Nations Organization, and even those of The Washington Post and The New York Times journals.

The Cubasi article recalled that in March, Cuban courts gave US citizen Alan Gross a 15-year prison sentence for acts against the independence and territorial integrity of the State after proving that Gross was directly involved in a subversive US plan to destroy the Revolution using infocommunication systems.

(by Prensa Latina)