Meeting Castro: Harper fails history, feigns support for democracy
Stephen Harper met Cuban President Raúl Castro at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City last weekend. Officials called it a "pull aside" to signify it was not a formal sit-down meeting, but the prime minister still described it as "a long and detailed" conversation.
If Stephen Harper has gotten his way, Cuba would still be uninvited to the regular get-togethers of heads of government, held under the auspices of the Organization of American States (OAS).
In 2012, both Canada and the United States opposed Cuba attending the 2015 summit. Then U.S. President Obama decided to move to normalize relations with the country's neighbour, and Cuba got its first invitation to attend an OAS meeting.
The more famous Fidel is a difficult act to follow, but Raúl Castro did his best brotherly imitation, taking one hour to present the history of Latin-American resistance to American imperialism.
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