Cuba Ready for Talks with Obama

HAVANA TIMES, Jan. 3 – Barack Obama takes office in two and a half weeks and Cuban President Raul Castro restated on Friday that he is ready to meet the US leader for unconditioned direct talks “without intermediaries.” Castro said he had no illusions of major change in US policy towards the island, but noted that Obama has raised a lot of expectations around the world and “could take some positive steps.”

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