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President Obama "Normalizes" Relations With Cuba, Opens Diplomatic Channels; USAID Chief Resigns - Live Feed
Odd... during a week when President Obama prepares to launch new sanctions against Venezuela and Russia, The White House admits, “It is clear that decades of U.S. isolation of Cuba have failed to accomplish our enduring objective of promoting the emergence of a democratic, prosperous, and stable Cuba."
Diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba were severed in January 1961 after the rise of Fidel Castro and his Communist government. Mr. Obama has instructed Secretary of State John Kerry to immediately initiate discussions with Cuba about reestablishing diplomatic relations and to begin the process of removing Cuba from the list of states that sponsor terrorism, which it has been on since 1982, the White House said.
President Obama will speak on the matter at 12:01ET....
The Good news...
Alan Gross. Back on U.S. soil. pic.twitter.com/Ut5jvdQGg2
— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) December 17, 2014
Here's The President in 2010... Statement by the President on the Human Rights Situation in Cuba
Recent events in Cuba, including the tragic death of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, the repression visited upon Las Damas de Blanco, and the intensified harassment of those who dare to give voice to the desires of their fellow Cubans, are deeply disturbing.
These events underscore that instead of embracing an opportunity to enter a new era, Cuban authorities continue to respond to the aspirations of the Cuban people with a clenched fist.
Today, I join my voice with brave individuals across Cuba and a growing chorus around the world in calling for an end to the repression, for the immediate, unconditional release of all political prisoners in Cuba, and for respect for the basic rights of the Cuban people.
During the course of the past year, I have taken steps to reach out to the Cuban people and to signal my desire to seek a new era in relations between the governments of the United States and Cuba. I remain committed to supporting the simple desire of the Cuban people to freely determine their future and to enjoy the rights and freedoms that define the Americas, and that should be universal to all human beings.
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And today, as Bloomberg reports,
White House says measures will “end our outdated approach,” promote change in Cuba consistent “with U.S. national security interests”
In coming mos., U.S. “will re-establish an embassy in Havana and carry out high-level exchanges and visits between our two governments as part of the normalization process”
Initial step will involve U.S.-Cuba Migration Talks in Jan.
U.S. institutions will be allowed to open accounts at Cuban financial institutions for authorized transactions; U.S. credit, debit cards permitted for use by travelers to Cuba
Travelers can import $400 of goods from Cuba, no more than $100 of tobacco, alcohol combined
White House moving to expand exports of U.S. goods, services incl. building materials, agricultural equipment, communications devices
Lifts sanctions on Cuban nationals outside Cuba
Changes announced will be implemented via amendments to U.S. Treasury, Commerce Dept regulations
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Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez is not happy...
"This is a moment of profound relief for Alan Gross and his family. Mr. Gross' physical and mental health has declined severely as a result of his five-year imprisonment under difficult conditions. He should have been released immediately and unconditionally five years ago. He committed no crime and was simply working to provide internet access to Cuba's small Jewish community. His imprisonment was cruel and arbitrary, but consistent with the behavior of the Cuban regime.
“Let's be clear, this was not a "humanitarian" act by the Castro regime. It was a swap of convicted spies for an innocent American.
“President Obama's actions have vindicated the brutal behavior of the Cuban government. There is no equivalence between an international aid worker and convicted spies who were found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage against our nation. One spy was also convicted of conspiracy to murder for his role in the 1996 tragedy in which the Cuban military shot down two U.S. civilian planes, killing several American citizens. My heart goes out to the American families that lost love ones on that fateful day.
“Trading Mr. Gross for three convicted criminals sets an extremely dangerous precedent. It invites dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans serving overseas as bargaining chips. I fear that today’s actions will put at risk the thousands of Americans that work overseas to support civil society, advocate for access to information, provide humanitarian services, and promote democratic reforms.
“This asymmetrical trade will invite further belligerence toward Cuba's opposition movement and the hardening of the government’s dictatorial hold on its people. Let us all remind ourselves that an untold number of ordinary people yearning for democracy remain imprisoned by the exact same tormentors that have punished Alan Gross and they, along with all Cubans, deserve a free and liberated Cuba."
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And then there is this...
Rajiv Shah, the administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development, abruptly resigned on Wednesday after US and Cuba announced plans to normalize relations and exchange prisoners.
USAID oversaw secret US programs aimed at regime change in Cuba.
U.S. Government Caught Using Humanitarian HIV Program As Front To Foster Cuban Dissent
Conspiracy Fact: How The U.S. Government Covertly Invented A "Cuban Twitter" To Create Revolution
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LMFAO!!! Russia is "bad", but Cuba is "good".
Okay fucker, just annex Cuba already. My guess is that America's political puppets have already bought their beach-front property.
Crony/corporate/fascism on a global scale!!! "winning"
Russia is "bad", but Cuba is "good".
You got it!
Next question?
Deos this mean we're about to lose Turkey? Are we replaying Monroe Doctrine?
Trading vassal states is such tricky business
Buy beach front property now
USAID
LOL... I still can't get over that name. We come to aid in the overthrow of your country.
AZUCAR, BITCHEZ!
YEAH BABY!
CUBAN CIGARS ARE BACK!
Who cares about cigars. When can we buy Havana Club?
i travelled to viet nam on a business trip in 1995. moments before the capitalists littered the sky with tall buildings and turned the rice paddies into golf courses. if there are cubans out there listening. close the doors to the infidels and preserve your culture.
Dream on. The deals are already made. The serfs will be serving their new masters by New Years.
Internet my ass…
The only reason the sanctions on Cuba are being lifted is because of Putin’s trip to Cuba a few months ago.
We, the US, don’t want Russian nukes in Cuba in return for the NATO encroaching on Russia.
BTW, Russia recently forgave 95% of the Cuban debt - $32 Billion. ;-)
Looney
We Johnny Ola'd some folks.
Turkey and Russia allied will dominate central Eurasia, and the eastern Mediterranean (at the least).
Ok, ok, ok, on a fundamental level, having peaceful relations with Cuba should be an inherently good thing, even if Cuba does have a fucked up super-statist government. I mean, the Cuban missile crisis is ancient history and they pose no legitimate threat to us. (We're a bigger threat to ourselves right now.)
So, how is Obama going to fuck this up? The man is a master of taking something that should be good and turning it bad.
Isn't Cuba one of the last remaining countries without a Central Bank?
Expanding the Franchise to export inflation. Perhaps that is all that matters?
Need...more...tax...slaves...
close the doors to the infidels and preserve your culture.
Fair enough. But allow JR or some other retailer acces to the stogies.
Havana Club is crap compared to Santiago Del Cuba rum
The original Bacardi
Smooth as it gets
Who needs Cuba....we have Miami
It's now a two-fer.
Bullish for classic cars!
Geopolitical volatility, just like the markets. If there were any doubts before about this being the end game, I think we can all agree now that it is here.
bearish for sugar?
Nope. What do you think subsidies are for?
Where else can you get a mint condition 52' Chevy for $70?
moved
moved
I'm personally eager for the return of Miami Vice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPu4hjfHKg
Anyone else think that this is being done to prevent Russia from realigning and moving miliatry equipment to Cuba? Like right off US waters just like the US/NATO is currently doing to Russia in Ukraine?
Absolutely and good observation.
For those who disagree, ask yourself...why now? Nothing has changed in Cuba. The only thing that has changed is the geopolitical calculus regarding Russia.
So the ZWO hauls out their teleprompter reader in chief to pre emptively prevent a cuban missile crisis redux.
He'd rather be playing golf I'm sure and does whatever the hell they tell him to do.
I'm sure the attached provisions for normalizing relations include no Russian missiles.
That's exactly what it is. I CANNOT believe the Cubans fell for it.
The 'Cubans' will obviously be better off for it. The rest of the planet? Not so much...
Speak for yourself. I'm a fourth generation American born son of Cuban Parents.
The Murder, Rape & Pillage of today you see in Iraq, Syria, Lybia, Ukraine, South & Central America in the late 60's & 70's happening again now in Cuba can be directly attributed the the exact same Psychopathic Pure Evil doers Globalist at the Criminal Fraund UNITED STATES, CORP. INC State Dept. & CIA who put Castro in power to begin with.
Feeble attempt at retribution at Putin.
Cuba was heavily dependant on Venez. cheap oil, and finished good imports. Since Cuba's fx reserves are pretty much 80% bolivar, ruble & euros, with a smidge of gold I would have expected the Castro's know that.
So if Cuba does align with us, then it's a stimulus for energy as I would expect Cuba will start importing the petro-products and refined which they will lose access to in a Venez. regieme change. Likewise, the Cuban migration/industrialization will be a tailwind for all those industry consultants which are locked out of Russia now. I can see many of them like GE rolling over their old 1950 complaints/claims for access to the industrialization contracts, much like how they did with Saudi's nationalization of the ARM fields.
regional reorientation.. u.s. , mexico, canada is pretty formidible when you consider all of the assets. cuba does have good cigars, beachfront properties, and some other "ass"ets that are interesting to investors... new days coming, new alignments
The U.S. will do whatever it can to spite Russia.
going long cuban golf course developers.....
You beat me to it.
Oh, absolutely it did. Much more to do with keeping Russia out than it did with this phoney-baloney "prisoner exchange".
Still, that doesn't mean it's a bad thing to do.
If it was anybody but Obozo I'd say the CIA was getting ready to implode the Cuban government but in this case I expect to see boatloads of new Democrat voters....
It could be a good thing to do, but we'll fuck it up somehow if we are given enough time. This is the US government we're talking about here.
Yep. Guess their list would no longer fit on the whiteboard of countries the western banking cartel needs to destroy, so they had to knock one off.
Sex tourism anyone? Hooker prices in Cuba are about to skyrocket. Shame...
Then there's also the angle that maybe Michael smokes cuban cigars and asked Barry to make the move on Cuba.
Did we just do something right here?
This is way too rational an approach for us. Are we sure we wouldn't prefer to carpet-bomb Cuba for a couple weeks before we "normalize" relations?
It's Obama, so of course it isn't right. Continuing sanctions against Cuba is probably pointless, but linking the end of sanctions to the release of a prisoner is worse than fucking retarded, it's dangerous.
....similar to its releasing the 5 known terrorists for basically nothing in return... another great move by the incompetent, divisive, corrupt arrogant narcissistic illegal indonesian kenyan alien sociopathic pathological liar in chief fudge pacerk...
5 spies, not 5 terrorists. They were locked up for spying. If my big sister spies on me, that doesn't terrorize me. If she kicks me hard in the shin, that terrorizes me.
Either the US crashes soon, or you'll find that we fuck it up somehow.
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There's something called the carrot and the stick, then there's the less well known candy with rohypnol.
Cuba's about to wake up with a condom in its ass and western own tourism highrise resorts on its shores.
Makes sense. We are rapidly approaching parity with Cuba economically and politically. Soon to be a match made in heaven.
Plus, USAID has more commies per square foot than Beijing or Havana.
Ah, now I understand. The abbreviation CIA means Commies Infiltrating Agency. Gotcha.
There is a ferry that goes back and forth between ft Myers and key west. It runs a t pretty high speed, and the distances are similar, with key west being. 90 miles from Cuba. The first person to set up a ferry service like that one for US tourists is going to make a killing once sanity prevailes with Cuba. I know I'm going the first chance I get.
USAID - is that the CIA branch that was caught red-handed setting up the fake Cuban twitter?!
I wonder what triggered this sudden change towards Cuba? Probably just a pre-emptive measure, USSA needs new "friends"...
WoooooHoooo! A fresh flavor of blow and hookers!
Hey give the man what looks like a cigar.
I thought Clinton was the cigar guy.
The time to buy beach front property in Cuba is right after a regime change, unless you are the one doing the regime change, or the person doing the regime change happens to be your BFF (or paid lackey).
Expropriation via regime change in Cuba is on an endless Rinse, Repeat cycle that dates back to colonial days. Even today among Cuban immigrants there are distinct differences between those who got fucked by the Castro brothers and those who got fucked by the Castros' predecessors (often to the benefit of United Fruit, American Sugar, North American Sugar, West Indies Sugar, Francisco Sugar, Manati Sugar, New Tuinucu Sugar, Bangor Punta, Coca-Cola, Exxon, Texaco, Lone Star Cement, MOA Bay Mining, Nicaro Nickel, Cuban Electric, ITT, Starwood Hotels, et al.)
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Bubba Clinton will be able to get his pre-dipped cigars legally! Next, he needs to get his wife in the White House so he can have a fresh supply of interns.
Amnesty....it's not just for mexicans anymore.
"Wet Foot/Dry Foot" (as opposed to "wetbacks") - Cubans have had amnesty and a path to citizenship for decades.
everyone's had a "path to citizenship" for decades.
what has changed is that the path is no longer....it's an Express ticket.
Amnesty... it's not just for Cubans any more. (fixed it for ya)
http://immigration.about.com/od/immigrationlawandpolicy/a/U-S-Allows-Cub...
Barry and the vagina squad don't have the balls to just take it, like Putin did with Crimea...
USAID chief resigned? Please tell me that his horse got fucked too..... :)
He doesn't believe Russia is bad. It is a game to fool the sheep.
The US does not want Russia in Cuba. With the US pushing NATO right up to Russia's borders Cuba was the most likely spot for Russia to establish a naval base and to install missiles just like NATO is doing to Russia.
The US failed to destroy Cuba with sanctions. Actually the US protected Cuba in this way by not allowing the bankers to put Cuba into major debt to US banks. Now Cuba needs to be careful and not reach for the good life by going into debt, if they do their country will be taken.
Now, can I buy a cheap, modest but nice place with a little land for a good price?
Sorry, but Russia was Cuba's only hope to be free of central bankers and debt-based fiat. It's over.
If you're expecting that once usa install its not so fine defense missile shields in Romanian the Gypsy land and Poland ( earth's biggest cry baby cunts ) russia will not make its move with cuba ( an ally ) just because usa wants to normalize relations with them then you're daydreaming .
Ok, when will this happen? More important, why has it not happened? A great chess player would have seen the trouble coming long ago and would have had a naval base (first) built 6 yrs ago. With recent events the missiles should have been installed no later than 2 yrs ago.
You forget how it works. Now profits will cause some of the leaders in Cuba to think short term. They in turn will infuence internal decisions and the US will gain more control. Then in elections a US friendly leader is elected. Russia never gets in, or if Russia wants to get in Putin better get moving quickly.
FirstlySince 1959 the Cuban government has consistently protested against the US presence on Cuban soil and called it illegal under modern international law, since the military base was imposed on Cuba by force . Russians have naval base too in Cuba . With a farce defense shield you're not doing anything great rather than making them victims . US friendly leader gets elected doesn't mean he will act like a stooge . How many times had usa written off someone's entire national debt . It's a refreshing move but cubans are well aware it can be an another failed covert by usa to create ruckus . Start with Argentina , write off their debts usa oligarchs .
To my knowledge Russia has no naval base in Cuba. Russia has been allowed to dock, at times, a naval ship at a regular port in Cuba. Can you supply info about this Russian naval base?
The past Cuban protests did nothing. Now Cuba is welcoming the US
Cuba has announced today that they will allow the US to build an embassy in Cuba. This fact and the actions of Cuba show Cuba is opening new relations with the US govt. and suggest investment in Cuba by US companies will begin.
A US friendly leader is very important and historicly been part of a pattern.
I do not say this is good for Cuba long term.
Russia had naval base during soviet union time which they mentioned they will reopen in near future .It'll be inetresting to see if there's any substance to this "reach out" or if it's just more PR. I agree that the US will expect Cuba to virtually bend over backwards, so it might not pan out. The Castros see the BRIC nations rising and know where the real future lies. If the US had come at Cuba with this offer two decades ago, things might've been different.ey will reopen . Things will move only when US lifts sanctions on Cuba . If anyone mistrust the yankees, it's the cubans. It is possible the US may be getting desperate so may have to make a concession to show it's pretty face so it can continue it's war against Russia. Time will tell.The Pentagon been reading "Thirteen Days" maybe?
"Okay fucker, just annex Cuba already. My guess is that America's political puppets have already bought their beach-front property. Crony/corporate/fascism on a global scale!!! "winning"
BINGO!!! Russian backers have too many problems of their own, to be of any use to Cuba. The "Castro Revolution" is over.
This is more about currency wars. Isolate Russia from Cuba and USA begins trade with Cuba. We did it to the Japanese before war broke out.
This is high stakes poker. Its Putin's move now. He will do something closer to home. Perhaps in the Ukraine. Something mean. Military non- kinetic. Software logic bomb or surrogate terror attack.
CUBA fund (Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund) up >40 % on the news: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CUBA&ql=0
Indeed, the "Cuba = good, Russia = bad" hypocrisy is outright laughable.
Yeah, there's no pump-and-dump going on here:
http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=CUBA+Interactive#%7B%22range%22%3A%22...
The whole US/Cuba history needs to be revisited. We assisted Castro's rise to power, but he was a real wise guy and outsmarted his DC handlers. We then threatened him with cutting back on our Cuban sugar imports. Castro responded by saying he was cutting all of it off from us, causing sugar rations until other sources could be found. DC figured out they'd been outfoxed by this and other moves, hence the sanctions.
I am no fan of Castro, he's just another Marxist pest. But we assisted in Batista's overthrow and replacement with Castro. You get what you pay for. He never had any intention of obeying DC, but he played along to get what he wanted, all the while letting his idiot handlers think the same. He recognized their OCD for control and looting and turned the tables to let it work against them in the end and put him in the cat seat. The Cubans would have evolved within their own system if they had been left alone, which is impossible for DC.
Seems like the tribe has managed to install some of their folks in the Cuban government.
It's more Obama just telling people what they want to hear. This still requires an Act of Congress.
Wrong. Simply a Presidential Memoranda. Same legality as Executive Order with a third less stink.
Besides.....too many Rethuglicans want more brown wage slaves and now less expensive Cuban cigars. It would pass Congress anyway. Boner is going to get a RIGHTEOUS tan when he goes there to buy a beachfront condo when he retires and becomes a consultant for Goldman Sachs Cuba office.
We normalized some folks.
so, when I can go there legally and get my medicine at a reasonable price?
We should lecture Cuba by telling them that torture and mass domestic spying are bad.
Makes perfect sense. President Faggot is a lame duck But he knows from his balls to his bones that he has an even lamer Republican party to deal with. So now is the time to go full retard on Executive Order and the sly Presidential Memorandas.....which have the same functional legal effect of Executive Orders but don't smell as bad to the press or the American Sheeple.
So this is the next step in the NWO's game plan to extend corporate fascism to the brown people of Latino America.
Argentina.....Venezuela...you're next.
..... and since it didn't "work" with Cuba but it will now work with Russia???????????
Clawback the fuckers pension too.
We're all commies now.....I'm sure he figured.......what the hell?
"fundamentally transform America" ----
Yeah.....North America and South America are such divisive terms.
We are ALL Americans......right President Faggot ?
pssst, the Ruskies are allready there
"pssst, the Ruskies are allready there"
Plus, while sheople were cheering Bill Clinton for twat-wetting his cigar and getting a BJ, he was rolling out the red carpet in Cuba for China
Someone made a contribution, a large cash one ?
Stupid In Chief!
What?! no free rum and cigars?!! Bogus.
My enemy is my frienemy
We dis-embargoed some folks...
One marxist ( the Pope) supporting another marxist( Obama) in their effort to normalize relations with other marxists
Interesting.. We would have never guessed
"I love relations"
amazing how a deeply conservative, family and life-oriented, sometimes nearly too hierarchical and bordering to the authoritarian organization like the Roman Church, with mild social criticism, though, can regularly be called "marxist" by some. but then, what are political labels... your cat is marxist, too, and your dog is a fascist thug
Please, the Roman Catholic chruch is run by the banksters and is in bed by gobalist, corporate,MIC, FCR, Wall street whores. Not to mention every "priest" and nun I have ever met was gay.
And then the turn around and help screw their gay brothers and the very poor people they claim to respresent. Quite Ironic....Btw, most gay people I know are cathing on to the scam.
The people of the chruch should take the Chruch out of the pocket of the banks.
Every one I ever met was a pedophile.
gay paedophile there fixed it for ya
Pedophiles like pre-adolescents. Pederasts like adolescents.
The Catholic Church has a problem with gay pederasts.
As an aside, it is worth noting that while 1-2% of the population expresses homosexual behavior, fully 50% of child molesters are homosexual.
Homosexuals and Marxists began to infiltrate the Catholic Church in the 1950s. Bergoglio is a well-known "Liberation Theologist", which is Marxism for clerics. The Jesuits in general are, um, highly problematic in this regard.
not that there's anything wrong with that. (a la Seinfeld)
Assuming pepophiles are gay is very lazy thinking - and incorrect.
As far as taking orders, the Roman Catholic Church has been around long before there was a Wall Street or banksters as we know them. The Church takes orders from no one.
If anyone is in anyone's pocket, I think it might be the other way around.
I find it interesting that a Jesuit pope helps mend fences with the Jesuit educated Castro boys. IIRC other notably educated Jesuit students include that Mugabe guy in Africa and Josef Stalin (although maybe that one is off some lunatic fringe website but it does sound good) and for those who long for the good ole Monica days, Bill Clinton.
It's a BIG CLUB.....and YOU AIN'T IN IT !!!
George Carlin
indeed, it's a big club. "jesuit educated" applies to a couple of million people. are you sure this is the club Carlin was talking about?
Is Cuba going to be the next tax haven?
Al Sharpton to soon take up residence.
I am relocating and starting a vintage car import business.
I think that wings are coming back into style.
You may be right. Time for a new 15 minute fad in USA.
About. Fucking. Time.
Just imagine if all nations of the world spoke to each other in calm, rational voices. We might - perish the thought! - have true peace and freedom amongst the general population of the world.
We can't have that, though. How else would the world's Elite keep us divided and conquered?
What are you trying to do, crash the stock market? War is the only industry the US has left.
Yes, because dictatorial regimes are simply misunderstood, and people are all inherently good and altruistic.
Sarc off
Yes, because the USofA is all about freedom and liberty and not at all historically belligerent toward other people and cultures.
Sarc off
The chess match continues -- the US cannot pump arms into Ukraine as long as the option exists for Russia to pump missiles into Cuba. This is an attempt by the US to bribe Cuba into being a 'friend' so that they do not accept Russian missiles. Good luck with that!
Hey Hose, WTF, did you fall asleep 50 years ago and just wake up? Missiles? That's a joke right?
Wow, 0-for-9. Keep it up dumbshit.
It's laughable. The Cubans are not stupid and know what's about to happen. Russia is already there too, and Cuba's relationship with Russia is similar to Syria's. Good luck with that, oligarchs!
huh? why now?
this is... perplexing timing
It's all part of the strategy against Russia. See my post below.
yes 50 years of santions worked out wonderfully. Just keep the govt checks coming to Miami.
Raul, pass me another cigar before I laugh myself to death. Regards, Fidel
It's about time for this, long overdue because of all the Cuban refugees in Florida and their political influence.
It's all a ruse to get those classic cars...
A new market just opened up.
"American Pickers...Cuba Edition"
Starring Lloyd Blankfein
They're going to need a Central Bank asap!
IMF to the rescue.
Give us your gold, we give you loans, and then we're magically "friends!" har har
Venezuela bad for violating human rights
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/11/us-usa-venezuela-obama-idUSKBN...
Cuba good for violating human rights
Got it?
Time to kiss and make up!
Lets see how the legacy checklist is coming along here for the upcoming Presidential library now...
Didn't leave Afghanistan... Didn't leave Iraq... Bombed the shit out of Libya... Bombed the shit out of Syria (and gassed some folks), Droned the shit out of Yemen and Pakistan... Guantanamo still open for business (just released six of them)... Tortured some folks but we're fixing that one... Opened up a new front on Russia's most strategic border and looted the fuck out of it and killed some innocent folks... Passed the NDAA at the end of my first term and congratulated myself at making the U.S. part of the battlefield on the global "war on terror"...
Maybe he'll close Guantanamo Bay and give it back?...
No hard feelings. I'm an important guy... I've got a lot of important things to do... Are you kidding?... A guy like me without important things to do?...What time does Jimmy Fallon come on!
When you have this happening in the most important nation in the EU "community of Nations", the U.S. needs all the new friends it can't find at this point!
From one fellow communist to another...." welcome to the fold comrade".
I can't believe Cuba sold out. Translation of this "news": Russia will not get to reopen its spy station on the Island.
Fidel should have his brother shot.
I reckons you is right. Obola decides to get in there to block Russia.
Which goes against the meme that Russia has no military might to project outside of the motherland.
Wait a minute, for all you who point out that "Obama is a Marxist", you should be really mad.
Cuba just took over the USA!!!!
I'm no fan of the Castros and their regimes, but that country has got to be saying "Oh mierda, here come the Americanos!"
Quick, raise all prices 100 % and advertise how cheap Cuba is. Tourists will flock there.
How do you say "frozen daquiri" in Spanish?
Whew. Now I don't have to worry about that pound of Cuban coffee I bought back in '05 . . .
Can we start buying real Cuban cigars in the US again? No more knock-offs with fake labels.
Vaya con Dios Cuba.
638 ways to kill Castro
The CIA's outlandish plots to bump off the Cuban dictator would put 007 to shame ... poison pills, toxic cigars and exploding molluscs. Once he even offered to shoot himself, reports Duncan CampbellFor nearly half a century, the CIA and Cuban exiles have been trying to devise ways to assassinate Fidel Castro, who is currently laid low in Cuba following an operation for intestinal bleeding. None of the plots, of course, succeeded, but, then, many of them would probably be rejected as too fanciful for a James Bond novel.
Fabian Escalante, who, for a time, had the job of keeping El Commandante alive, has calculated that there have been a total of 638 attempts on Castro's life. That may sound like a staggeringly high figure, but then the CIA were pretty keen on killing him.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/aug/03/cuba.duncancampbell2
That particular estimate is probably the most well-known, because it revealed many specifics of the bizarre methods used, but I believe it is conservative.
I have seen other informed estimates that put the murder attempts since 1959 in a higher range.
Wonder if they reopen those Big Gambling casinos?
Sheldon Adelson, please pick up the house phone.