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(14,732 posts)won't let Congress. 'Soft on Comminism, etc.'
riverbendviewgal
(4,251 posts)I love talking to the bus drivers and this one I talked to often as his ride took me to the end of my transit. and I was the last stop.
We were talking about vacations one day and he said he had been going to Cuba for years. I said what about the Communist government making it bad...
He said he had been going to Cuba before Castro and after Castro. The people are now fed, educated and have medical care...which most did not have when the dictator Batista was in power before Castro's army overthrew him.
My girlfriends have been going there for years and love Cuba and the people. I think I may do it this winter...as I am not going to vacation in Florida anymore.
Look at wiki about cuba.
Pryderi
(6,772 posts)riverbendviewgal
(4,251 posts)DPC.Comment
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Changing our Cuba policy is way overdue. We need some smart leaders to stand up to the Miami-Cubans so that we can get things done. That said, i urge caution: yes people in Cuba are fed, but those speak against government policies are not fed; they are put in jail and many are never heard from again. And yes they have a low eco footprint, but that is because there isn't electricity for many. So....where does that lead us: in a place where we all need to recognize that our policy is bad and communism is bad. We need smart leaders who can stand up to the Miami-Cuban lobby, and develop a plan that helps Cubans economically while not turning a blind eye to the human rights of the people for whom we are morally obliged to speak.
daeron
(28 posts)My beloved friends (not) at Freeport were caught trying to blackmail a US official who around 1958 was to negotiate the government out of a Korean War contract it was being milked for - so long as a Freeport said it's mine in Cuba was the source of the metals it was supplying the government, the government had to keep paying prices it had agreed to during the Korean war. At least that was as reported by the NYT.
Then a couple of years ago I was told by a Colonel that our friend McGeorge Bundy had made an unexplained night/early morning phone call cancelling the air support for the Bay of Pigs operation. Almost seems like the two nations Bundy inexplicably struck his nose into were the two countries Lovett and the Freeport mob had mining interests; I'm a big believer in coincidence Sure would be funny if it turned out that mine had been tapped out in the years before Fidel took over; guess we'll never know though.