'Burying Cold War the opposite of true US intentions in Cuba'

The United States is not honest in normalizing relations with the revolutionary government of Cuba, but it is almost certainly laying the groundwork for a “color revolution” in the Latin American nation, an American writer and political analyst says.

Daniel Patrick Welch, a Boston-based political commentator, made these remarks in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday while commenting on US President Barack Obama’s landmark three-trip to Cuba.

Obama told Cubans on Tuesday in an unprecedented live television address that he came to their country to open a new chapter in the relations between Washington and Havana. “I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas,” Obama said.

But, the US president also criticized Cuba’s human rights record, and said a “full flowering” of the relationship would happen only with progress on the issue of human rights.

“In the absence of that, I think it will continue to be a very…

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