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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Relations between US, Cuba seem within reach By ANITA SNOW,Associated Press Writer AP - 1 hour 6 minutes ago HAVANA - Talks toward a thaw in U.S.-Cuba relations seemed to be a real possibility after the new presidents of both countries reached out to each other with surprisingly straightforward language about their desire to revive a relationship frozen by 50 years of cold war. ADVERTISEMENT Barack Obama said Thursday it was up to Havana to take the next step after his "good faith" gesture of removing some of the restrictions that lock Americans and their money out of Cuba. Raul Castro responded within hours, saying "we have sent word to the U.S. government in private and in public that we are willing to discuss everything _ human rights, freedom of the press, political prisoners, everything." "We could be talking about many other things," Castro replied from a summit in Venezuela. "We could be wrong, we admit it. We're human beings." It was the most conciliatory language Castro or his brother Fidel _ who handed him the presidency a year ago after falling ill _ have used with any U.S. administration since that of Dwight D. Eisenhower in early 1961, when the nations broke off relations. It appeared to be a transcendent development, the best opportunity for talks in a half-century. Raul Castro has previously said he would be willing to discuss all issues with Obama. But Cuban officials have historically bristled at the suggestion that they might discuss human rights or political prisoners with the Americans, saying such matters are none of the Yankees' business. Castro called on the U.S. to release five Cubans imprisoned on espionage convictions and offered to free a group of political prisoners in exchange. "I'm confirming it here today: If they want the freedom of those political prisoners ... free our prisoners and we'll send them to you with their families." Talking about these issues, of course, is no guarantee Havana is ready to offer the reciprocity Obama says the U.S. needs to see before making any more changes in its Cuba policies. And Fidel Castro, who still pens enormously influential columns from the sidelines of power, could still throw a bucket of cold water on the conciliation. Indeed, Obama said a relationship frozen for 50 years "won't thaw overnight." But their words seemed as historic as any that leaders of the two nations have made to one another. Relations warmed briefly during Jimmy Carter's administration, which featured short-lived direct flights between Miami and Havana and the opening of interests sections that provide some contact in lieu of embassies. But that honeymoon soon ended with a refugee crisis when 125,000 Cubans fled to the United States from the Mariel port west of Havana in 1980. Warming relations under Bill Clinton also were put in the freezer after Cuban fighter jets shot down two civilian planes off the island's coast in 1996, killing the four exiles aboard. Raul Castro said his only conditions for talks now are that Washington treat them as a conversation between equals and respect "the Cuban people's right to self-determination." Earlier this week, Obama lifted restrictions on visits and money sent to Cuba by Americans with families there _ steps he called "extraordinarily significant" for the families. But he ruled out a unilateral end to the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba, even though the policy is widely seen as a failure that has complicated U.S. relations throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. On a visit to Mexico City, Obama said the Cuban government needs to reciprocate with actions "grounded in respect for human rights," possibly including lifting its own restrictions on Cubans' ability to travel and to voice their opinions. President Castro did not mention Obama's comments specifically _ and stopped short of promising any action. "We're willing to sit down to talk as it should be done, whenever," he said, while also condemning decades of efforts by Washington to undermine the Cuban government. "What's going on is that now ... whoever says anything, they immediately start (talking about) democracy, freedom, prisoners." Obama spoke at a news conference after meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who called the U.S. embargo a failed strategy. Asked what the U.S. should do on Cuba to improve its image across Latin America, Calderon said "we do not believe that the embargo or the isolation of Cuba is a good measure for things to change." Before Obama spoke, a similar message was sent by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on a visit to Haiti. "We stand ready to discuss with Cuba additional steps that could be taken," she said. "But we do expect Cuba to reciprocate." "We would like to see Cuba open up its society, release political prisoners, open up to outside opinions and media, have the kind of society that we all know that would improve the opportunities for the Cuban people and for their nation," she said. Castro spoke at a meeting of leftist leaders in the seaside Venezuelan city of Cumana, in advance of the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, where Obama and most leaders of the Americas will meet beginning Friday. Castro is not invited because his country is not democratic. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called the U.S. position a "show of disrespect." ___ Associated Press writers Christopher Toothaker in Cumana, Venezuela, Jonathan M. Katz in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Ben Feller in Mexico City contributed to this report. 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