U.S. and Cuban government officials met in Washington Wednesday for a new round of migration talks. The talks are held every six months to discuss the implementation of 1990s migration accords. Regular discussions were suspended in 2011, when Cuba sentenced a U.S. government development subcontractor to 15 years in prison. But the talks resumed in 2013. The migration discussions have often been used to talk about other issues as well because it is a rare chance for dialogue between two countries that have not had full diplomatic relations since 1961. A U.S. State Department announcement said Wednesday that negotiations are being led by Alex Lee, deputy assistant secretary at the department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, and Josefina Vidal, the top official for North American affairs at Cuba's Foreign Ministry.
