Obama to ease travel restrictions to Cuba, allow more U.S. cash to island
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Great move - big round of applause. I've been asking for this since Reagan. It's about friggin' time.
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Lift the embargo and I'll be interested.
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It's a start.
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Not much of one...and 50 years too late.Seraph wrote:It's a start.
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What is the current nature of the embargo?
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Relations with Cuba!? Glenn Beck was right - he really is a communist!
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Wikipedia to the rescue. Looks like not a great deal has changed since Castro ousted the US administration's crony, dictator Batista.JimC wrote:What is the current nature of the embargo?
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Seraph wrote:Wikipedia to the rescue. Looks like not a great deal has changed since Castro ousted the US administration's crony, dictator Batista.JimC wrote:What is the current nature of the embargo?
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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I hope obama doesn't expect any kind of praise for this. It is akin to a wife beater, who has beat his wife for 50 years, one day deciding that she's now "allowed" to choose her own socks.
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Is it just me, or is it the case that Florida (with all those Cuban émigrés) is forever a marginal state that is helping to keep sanctions in place all this time?
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Just WTF is the issue that the USA (OK, not all USA'ns) have with Cuba? I've met plenty of Cubans, doctors mostly, who've been here (some for several years). I've even had a Cuban neighbour. And they're nice people. 
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That's unfair as he wasn't responsible for the last 50 years was he ?sandinista wrote:I hope obama doesn't expect any kind of praise for this. It is akin to a wife beater, who has beat his wife for 50 years, one day deciding that she's now "allowed" to choose her own socks.
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Not personally, but the US admin is. He, personally, is responsible now in NOT lifting the sanctions.Feck wrote:That's unfair as he wasn't responsible for the last 50 years was he ?sandinista wrote:I hope obama doesn't expect any kind of praise for this. It is akin to a wife beater, who has beat his wife for 50 years, one day deciding that she's now "allowed" to choose her own socks.
The issue is that the US can't stand to have a country NOT do as their told by the wanna be world police.Dries van Tonder wrote:Just WTF is the issue that the USA (OK, not all USA'ns) have with Cuba? I've met plenty of Cuban's, doctors mostly, who've been here (some for several years). I've even had a a Cuban neighbour. And they're nice people.
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A friend just got back from a holiday in Cuba ..didn't bring me any rum or cigars ..
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And Cuba has proved them wrong for how many years now? It's time that the US wakes up.sandinista wrote:The issue is that the US can't stand to have a country NOT do as their told by the wanna be world police.
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