Follow U.S. at Own Peril, Cuba Warns

Published May 14, 2008

Canada will be setting itself up for "failure" if its strategy for re-engaging Latin American and Caribbean nations takes a page from the United States and follows in the superpower's footsteps, Cuba's first deputy foreign minister warned last week.

Instead, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said Canada should use its historic approach to Cuba as a model for its Americas strategy as a "wave" of socialism sweeps across the hemisphere.

"I...