Slow Change in Cuba Suits Everyone (UK)

A good rule of thumb in predicting Barack Obama's foreign policy in a given area has been to reverse the course taken by George W Bush. This week has seen a sterling example, in the shape of relations with Cuba. Cuban-Americans will now be able to visit relatives annually, rather than every three years; limits on the amounts they can send back to their families have been removed; and US communications firms and broadcasters are free to transact with the island.

But, tellingly, the President did not present these changes himself. That was left to his press secretary Robert Gibbs, who made the announcement on the afternoon of Easter Monday, a piece of stagecraft designed to bury the news as far down the evening bulletins as possible.

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