NEW BEGINNINGS, SAME OLD ENDINGS:

Bitter words cut short US-Cuba progress (Marc Frank, January 13 2010, Financial Times)

A year after Barack Obama became US president, pledging “a new beginning” in relations with Cuba and winning praise from Fidel Castro, vitriolic rhetoric is once more flying between the two governments.

Governments, investors and residents – both on the island and off – who had hoped that relations would improve are wondering whether recent events will plunge them back to the gloom of the past 50 years.

You can't say hopey-changey in Spanish.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 13, 2010 6:03 AM