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Cuba embargo

Disagreeable

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Cuba has discovered a big oil reserve. At this point, US companies can't get involved in developing it because of the embargo. How many people think that embargo will be lifted before George W. Bush leaves office?

Link below.

"To be more specific, recent, sizable discoveries of it in the North Cuba Basin — deep-water fields that have already drawn the interest of companies from China, India, Norway, Spain, Canada, Venezuela and Brazil.
This, in turn, has reheated debate in the U.S. Congress and the Cuban-American community on an old question:
Has the time finally come to shelve the embargo — given America's need for more sources of crude at a time of rising gas prices, soaring global demand and the outbreak of war in the Middle East?"


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14061794/
 

kolanuraven

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I've always thought keeping an embargo against Cuba and acting as if it was a big bad neighbor was the most silly action to keep up this day and time.

Go in there, build a Walmart, K mart something of the sort.....and next thing ya know Castro will over!!! Just think of the $$$$$ Cuba could make as nothing but a tourist resort for the US!!

It would be good for Cuba....and bad for N. Korea and the like ...
 

Disagreeable

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kolanuraven said:
I've always thought keeping an embargo against Cuba and acting as if it was a big bad neighbor was the most silly action to keep up this day and time.

Go in there, build a Walmart, K mart something of the sort.....and next thing ya know Castro will over!!! Just think of the $$$$$ Cuba could make as nothing but a tourist resort for the US!!

It would be good for Cuba....and bad for N. Korea and the like ...

I agree with you. The embargo is outdated and useless. It's been in place for so many years and Castro is just as strong as every, maybe stronger with the support of Chavez. At one time the Bush Administration had more people watching to see that Cuba didn't get any money than they had watching radical Islamic groups' financial dealings! It's going to be funny, though, if the Bush Bunch starts talking about ending the embargo. The Cubans in FL won't be happy with them. They'll surely wait until after the election to make any moves on repealing the embargo, hoping to keep the anti-Castro bunch in the Republican fold. But I think there's too much money to be made for US oil companies not to pressure the Administation to be allowed to get into the bidding.
 
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FOXNEWS
Ailing Castro Gives Power to Brother
Monday, July 31, 2006
HAVANA — Fidel Castro temporarily relinquished his presidential powers to his brother Monday night and told Cubans he will undergo surgery.

The Cuban leader said in a letter read live on television by his secretary that he had suffered gastrointestinal bleeding, apparently due to stress from recent public appearances in Argentina and Cuba.

Because of that illness, Castro said he was temporarily relinquishing the presidency to his brother and successor Raul, the defense minister, according to the statement read by Carlos Valenciaga.
 

jigs

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drop the stupid embargo, and annex Cuba, hell we are feeding half of them anyway....if we are gonna get saddled with Mexico, we may as well get Cuba too.
 

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