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The fundamental consideration for the improvement of US-Cuban relations is that they take each other seriously. It is not realistic or serious to think that an American President like Bill Clinton - the eighth President who has had to deal with Fidel Castro - can suddenly change a policy that has been predominant for more than three decades. Similarly, it is not realistic to expect that the Cuban leader will take gladly and passively to the hopes of some North American sectors that the only initiative worthy of consideration is the unconditional resignation of himself and his government. Both are unreal expectations, illusions created by years of rivalry and isolation. Especially in the past few years US- Cuban relations have not been taken seriously; they have stagnated to such an extent that even the diplomatic mechanisms that traditionally exist even between enemies have not worked.
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Statement of the Hon. Warren Christopher, Secretary of State, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 4 Nov. 1993.
Testimony of Dr. R. Wharton, Acting Secretary of State, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 27 Oct. 1993, p. 3.
Speech by Dr. R. Wharton, The Americas Society and Council of the Americas, New York, 3 May 1993.
Speech by Assistant Secretary of State Alexander Watson, Dallas, Texas, 1 Sept. 1993.
Speech by Alexander F. Watson, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter- American Affairs before the Cuban-American National Foundation, 26 Oct. 1993.
Remarks of Anthony Lake, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, ‘From containment to enlargement’, Johns Hopkins University, 21 Sept. 1993.
For a deeper discussion on this US position towards the Caribbean, see Anthony P. Maingot, The United States and the Caribbean: Challenges of an Asymmetrical Relationship (London: Macmillan, 1994
The opinions of Jorge Castaneda are categorical that the Cold War is over and the collapse of socialism and communism is total: Jorge Castaneda, Utopia Unarmed: Left after the Cold War (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), p. 3.
Nicolas Rios, ‘Entrevista con Hans Klein’, Contrapunto (Miami), 4 (36) (13 Dec. 1993–9 Jan. 1994), p. 33.
Pedro Monreal and Manuel Rua, ‘Apertura y reforma de la economfa cubana: las transformaciones internacionales, 1990-1993’, La Habana (Sept. 1993), p. 1.
’Entrevista con Roberto Robaina’, Contrapunto, 4 (33) (20 Sept.-17 Oct. 1993), p. 1.
’Entrevista con Abel Prieto’, Contrapunto, 4 (31) (July 1993), p. 36.
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Maingot, A.P. (1996). The US-Cuba Strategic Game. In: Beruff, J.R., Muñiz, H.G. (eds) Security Problems and Policies in the Post-Cold War Caribbean. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24493-5_8
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