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While Fidel was a no-show at a Cuban national celebration yesterday, brother Raúl addressed the crowd with a pointed message to the U.S. that his government will extend the olive branch to the incoming U.S. administration:

…Raúl Castro centered his message on the U.S., historic enemy of the Cuban revolution, and extended his hand to the administration that will replace that of George W. Bush, whom he accuses of maintaining a “retrograde and fundamentalist” way of thinking which “allows no room for rational analysis.”

“The new administration will have to decide whether it maintains the absurd, illegal and failed policy against Cuba, or if it will accept the olive branch that we extended to them on the 50th anniversary of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, when we reaffirmed our willingness to discuss with equality our prolonged differences with the U.S.”, he emphasized. Raúl Castro was referring to the offer of dialogue that he made to the White House last December 2nd.

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