{"id":2474,"date":"2003-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2003-03-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-22T00:00:00","slug":"5643222003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2003\/03\/22\/5643222003\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/22\/2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;According to the New York Times, \u2018Cuban authorities said those [dissidents] arrested were traitors organized and paid by the United States, specifically by James Cason, the chief American diplomat in Havana. Mr. Cason has held numerous high-profile meetings with dissidents, and has made some strongly critical statements against the government,\u2019-(March 22, 2003)\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cEmbargo Update: Overview of Recent Developments,\u201d Cuba Policy Foundation,\u00a0March 28, 2003<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;According to the New York Times, \u2018Cuban authorities said those [dissidents] arrested were traitors organized and paid by the United States, specifically by James Cason, the chief American diplomat in Havana. Mr. Cason has held numerous high-profile meetings with dissidents, and has made some strongly critical statements against the government,\u2019-(March 22, 2003)\u201d \u201cEmbargo Update: Overview [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2003\/03\/22\/5643222003\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from 3\/22\/2003<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2468,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2003\/03\/18\/5583182003\/","url_meta":{"origin":2474,"position":0},"title":"3\/18\/2003","author":"AmarkData","date":"March 18, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"\"\u2026Havana, 18 March [2003]\u2026Cuban experts asserted that the behaviour meetings with Cuban dissidents and independent journalists \u00a0of James Cason, Chief of the U.S. Interest Section in Havana, is in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Missions and foments internal subversion on the island. 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