US President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba is a positive step, but there is a long way to go before we say Washington has opened a new chapter in the normalization of relations with the Latin American nation, according to an American scholar.
Professor James Petras, who has written dozens of books on the Latin America and Middle East, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday.
Obama was in Cuba this week for a historic three-day visit along with his wife, two daughters, mother-in-law as well as a group of cabinet members, lawmakers and business leaders.
On the last day of his historic visit to Cuba on Tuesday, Obama called for a new direction of peace and friendship between the United States and Cuba.
He told Cubans in an unprecedented live television address that he came to their country to open a new chapter in the relations between Washington and Havana.
Professor Petras said Obama has not turned a new page in US relations with…