Castro's daughter: Cuba not returning to capitalism despite US deal

[bemildred]

Cuba will defend its socialist principles and will not return to capitalism just because it has agreed a detente with the United States, the daughter of President Raul Castro said, dispelling any notion that US companies would be free to roll into Cuba.

"The people of Cuba don't want to return to capitalism," Mariela Castro, a member of parliament, told Reuters on Friday.

Cuba and the United States on Wednesday agreed to end more than five decades of animosity and re-establish full diplomatic relations. US President Barack Obama also said he intends to remove some sanctions against Cuba and work with the US Congress to end the economic embargo.

But even if all US barriers to Cuba were lifted, any US companies would still need permission from Cuba's communist government to do business on the Caribbean island.

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Castros-daughter-Cuba-not-returning-to-capitalism-despite-US-deal-385218

[tradewinds]

1. They say that now..............

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Is your sig gif from the ending of The Interview?

[monmouth4]

2. Bless her heart.....n/t

[Sunlei]

3. That's what china said and now they have hundreds of Walmarts & fattening fastfoods- So it goes!

so it goes

[bemildred]

4. Nothing lasts forever.

A good idea to keep in mind, that. I think the idea is that they won't be hasty about change, and that's good thinking.

[Sunlei]

5. one thing that will change, I think pretty fast though it wasn't mentioned is the 'wetfoot-dry foot'

special Cuba policy.

[bemildred]

7. Yep, less funny business one hopes. nt

[Judi Lynn]

8. The difference in the way Cuban immigrants have been treated, and other Caribbean,

or Central American immigrants have been treated is horrific.

If the same deal were offered to Mexicans, Haitians, Guatemalans, Hondurans, Jamaicans, etc., there would be so many people here we wouldn't have room to turn around!

Outrageous, brutal, shabby, and just plain vicious. All for politics.

Who can forget the fact the US outfitted, and trained Haitian paramilitaries (death squads) right across the border in the Dominican Republic, who stormed into Haiti to overthrow Aristide AGAIN, slaughtering supposed Artistide supporters wherever they found them, leaving them dying in the streets as they moved toward the capital.

When surivors tried desperately to flee Haiti to get to the US, George W Bush used the US Navy and the Coast Guard to surround Haiti, and turn everyone back, feeding them right back into that meat grinder to die. All that just to keep them from immigrating to save their lives and those of their childrens.

Hideous behavior from someone purporting the be the leader of a very large, powerful country.

The way people have been used as pawns has been downright evil.

[Sunlei]

9. I agree, the treatment is and always was vicious, brutal and "downright evil".