{"id":233518,"date":"2016-03-23T14:35:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T14:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-hasnt-opened-new-chapter-in-us-cuban-relations-scholar\/"},"modified":"2016-03-23T14:35:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T14:35:44","slug":"obama-hasnt-opened-new-chapter-in-us-cuban-relations-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/obama-hasnt-opened-new-chapter-in-us-cuban-relations-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama hasn&#039;t opened new chapter in US-Cuban relations: Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"119\">\n<p><strong>US President Barack Obama&#8217;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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Petras said Obama has not turned a new page in US relations with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/03\/23\/457215\/Obama-new-chapter-US-Cuban-relations-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-233518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}