
Where will President Obama and President Raul Castro meet ?
)The Cuban leader's offer came in a rare interview in Havana with actor-director Sean Penn, who wrote about it for the Dec. 15 edition of The Nation magazine. The article was released on the magazine's Web site Wednesday.
Penn asked if Castro would meet with Obama in Washington. The Cuban president said he "would have to think about it," but that it would not be fair for either leader to go to the other's territory. Instead he suggested the base at Guantanamo.
"We must meet and begin to solve our problems, and at the end of the meeting, we could give the president a gift ... we could send him home with the American flag that waves over Guantanamo Bay," Castro said.
Raul Castro is largely seen as more pragmatic and conciliatory than his fiery older brother Fidel, and has offered to meet with U.S. officials several times since replacing his ailing sibling in mid-2006.
Obama has said he is willing to meet with Raul Castro without preconditions, and that after taking office on Jan. 20 he would "immediately" lift all restrictions on family travel and remittances to Cuba. Under tough rules imposed under President George W. Bush, Cuban Americans can now visit their relatives on the island only once every three years.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/081126/us/politics_us_cuba_usa_obama
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/26/raul-castro-to-sean-penn-hed-meet-obama-at-gitm-1/
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Suspend date: Wed 30th Dec 3:59pm PST (50 weeks to go)
Initial likelihoods: Gitmo, Cuba: 10%, Washington, USA: 10%, Yucatan, Mexico: 10%, Puerto Plata , Dominican Rep: 10%, Quebec, Canada: 10%, Bern, Swiss: 10%, Caracas, Venezuela: 10%, New York, United Nations HQ: 10%, Another City / Europe or America: 10%, They don't meet : 10%
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Suspend date: Wed 30th Dec 3:59pm PST (50 weeks to go)
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