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The ground under U.S. policy toward Cuba took a significant shift today.

Mauricio Funes was inaugurated as President of El Salvador and, as announced previously, he immediately restored diplomatic relations with Havana. That left Washington as the odd man out, the only country in the Americas without normal relations with its Caribbean neighbor and long-time thorn in its side.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in San Salvador for Funes' assumption of power, was nevertheless very upbeat in remarks to the press. She described the Obama administration's May 22 offer to resume bilateral migration talks with Cuba as "part of our effort to forge a new way forward on Cuba that advances the interests of the United States, the Cuban people and our entire hemisphere," adding that the Administration was "very pleased" with the Cuba's acceptance of the offer.

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We still don’t know exactly what illness befell former Cuban President Fidel Castro, but in a column posted Thursday evening, the 82-year-old makes it clear he's sick of being referred to as a convalescent.

Castro chides "some agencies and publications" for depicting him as “the old man, the convalescent from a serious illness or some other description."

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Expectations are almost as high among Cubans as they are among Americans as the countdown to the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama speeds up. After 50 years of hostile relations, Cubans, too, are eager for change.

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