[Iain Churches[_2_]]

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Cuba can do business with every country n the world besides the US and
yet it is a ******** supreme.

The US does not approve of its own trading partnerts doing business
with Cuba, and so to keep good relations with the US, (a much larger
market) most countries refrain from doing so. France, Canada and
Northern Korea are notable exceptions.

Cuba's trade difficulties are mainly due to the insistence by the US
that Cuba does not receive credit from the World Bank.

Cuba is a delightful countrty for European tourists, there are plenty
of beautiful old American cars but no visitors from the US, who seem
to embarrass themselves and others wherever they go.

Their current situation is preferable to the previous domnination by the US,
with most of the land owned by the United Fruit Company, and businesses
and hotels controlled by the US mafia.

But there are clearly winds of change blowing. It will be interesting to
see what the Cuban people decide is the right course for them.

Iain

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On Apr 23, 12:59 am, "Iain Churches" wrote:
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Cuba can do business with every country n the world besides the US and
yet it is a ******** supreme.

The US does not approve of its own trading partnerts doing business
with Cuba, and so to keep good relations with the US, (a much larger
market) most countries refrain from doing so. France, Canada and
Northern Korea are notable exceptions.

Cuba's trade difficulties are mainly due to the insistence by the US
that Cuba does not receive credit from the World Bank.

Cuba is a delightful countrty for European tourists, there are plenty
of beautiful old American cars but no visitors from the US, who seem
to embarrass themselves and others wherever they go.

Their current situation is preferable to the previous domnination by the US,
with most of the land owned by the United Fruit Company, and businesses
and hotels controlled by the US mafia.

But there are clearly winds of change blowing. It will be interesting to
see what the Cuban people decide is the right course for them.

Most Cubans who were not either Marxist ideologues or plain lazy/
stupid/indolent went to Miami.

They could do very well in Cuba with a number of things, but the
socialist economic system has wiped out the leaders.

Success for Cuba will entail the removal of the regime and the
repatriation of at least a reasonable number of the best Cubans now in
Florida. It will be difficult.

That said, the isolation policy of the US was largely a case of
pandering to the Cuban community in Florida and a basic unwillingness
of leaders of either party to be perceived as weak on communism, which
of course was an entirely reasonable fear in the Cold War. It did not
work in terms of getting Castro out, he is indeed popular-at least to
the extent of if you don't like him you keep damn quiet or get out.
Many Cubans do genuinely love him, though, as and for the same
reasons some Russians (and I mean Russians, not the international
tribe) loved Stalin and Lenin.