The Obama’s administration have introduced new regulations that considerably ease half-century US sanctions imposed on Cuba, Associated Press reports.
These regulations were announced on Thursday, three days later when the US statesmen confirmed that Cuba made its promise by releasing 53 political prisoners. Thus, according to the source, the-18-month long secret talks between the high-ranking officials of both states regarding the release and exchange of imprisoned spies gave fruits. The US state contractor Alan Gross, who got five-years imprisonment in Cuban is also among the released prisoners.
The new regulations introduce the start of such economic and social activities that suppose exporting of US IT goods to Cuba, import of Cuban cigars, development of tourism, etc. accompanied with the possibility to use necessary supplementary services such as credit cards. So American iPhones, computers and softwares will soon be found in the Cuban market where telecommunication infrastructure, particularly that of the internet, is very poorly developed.
"These 50 years have shown that isolation has not worked," AP quotes Obama’s statement in which the US president added that Washington would ease the sanctions against Havana and rebuild the diplomatic relations.
In fact, the far-reaching and pragmatic US diplomacy comes to reassure Churchill’s famous wards: "There are no eternal friends or eternal enemies, only eternal interests."