Meanwhile, the process of restoring diplomatic relations is expected to begin next month with a visit to Havana by Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson. The official told the Post that the reestablishment of formal ties could be accomplished simply through an exchange of letters, and that Washington would then "change the sign" on its large US Interests Section in Havana, turning it into an embassy.
Asked about how quickly the new measures expanding trade, travel and US banking operations, as well as quadrupling the amount of money that can be sent to individuals on the island, will be implemented, Jacobson told the Post, "I am quite certain we're talking about days or weeks. Certainly not months."
Washington's strategy is for the expansion of US trade and investment to intersect with the series of counter-reforms implemented over the past five years by the government of President Raul Castro, which have slashed government jobs and social spending while spurring private enterprise and offering more favorable conditions for foreign capital to exploit cheap Cuban labor. The ultimate aim is the fostering of a new bourgeois layer as the social basis of a semi-colonial Cuban regime.
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