bripat9643
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And THAT is exactly the problem. Apparently our senators were using Havana as their playground. As a result we backed a despot who was allowing his people to starve.I’d hope that’s not it.I reckon it's residual humiliation from the Bay of Pigs.We do business with corrupt Russia. Why is Cuba’s economic paradigm our business? We deal with far worse autocrats and dictators.
When I was there they were so thrilled the US embassy is open. Maybe if they gave Donald a place for a hotel.
And one has to ask how they provide free health care and education through college but we can’t.
We did not have an enormous capital investment in Russia either.
Not Russia, not China...our one percent was EXTREMELY leveraged in Cuba when Castro nationalized all of it.
At some point they forbid ticked off. On our tour a lot of people, including my parents, got uncomfortable every time we drive past a building and the guide said “This building used to belong to a big sugar manifactirer” or to Bacardi or to a big cigar maker.
It should be a cautionary lesson in how not to treat working people. And they don’t have much. They live a very hard life. Multiple generations of families and relatives live in one little house. But they think it’s better than what was previously. At least that’s what they say. Obviously they’re not going to be 1000% candid.
What were you uncomfortable about, the fact that the building was now a total wreck and was no longer functional?
So you realize that people had to lie to keep the kommisars from sending them to the Gulag. And you are actually defending this system?