Vatican newspaper lauds Obama visit to Cuba
March 22, 2016
The vice-editor of L’Osservatore Romano welcomed President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba as the end of the post-World War II era of conflicts and as a manifestation of dialogue, “a way rarely traveled in the resolution of international controversies.”
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“The embargo is still in force, and it will not be easy for Obama to obtain its repeal, in the very year of the presidential election, by a Congress controlled by Republicans,” Giuseppe Fiorentino added in a front-page op-ed article.
Fiorentino also contrasted Obama’s openness with the “new European walls constructed against migrants.”
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Further information:
- Il concreto valore del dialogo (L’Osservatore Romano, p. 1)
- President Obama meets with Cuban cardinal (CWN, 3/21)
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