Posted on 12/17/2014 7:48:31 PM PST by tcrlaf
Church bells rang out Wednesday afternoon in Havana, marking a major moment in history -- Cuba and the United States are renewing diplomatic relations after decades of ice-cold tension.
Word of the massive change was met with passionate opinions and some protests in the United States. And tearful celebrations erupted in the streets of the island after President Raul Castro announced the news in a televised address. SNIP
In Miami, where the vast majority of the large population of Cuban exiles once fiercely opposed any change in the U.S. stance toward the island, reactions were split, largely along generational lines.
A rift over the embargo that political analysts have noted within the Cuban-American community was on full display.
Angry debates erupted in the city's Little Havana neighborhood between groups of younger demonstrators who said they supported Obama's decision to exchange the prisoners and thaw diplomatic relations and older protesters who said they were opposed to the move.
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During the war in Viet Nam, the US traded with communist nations in Europe who in turn gave aid to communist North Viet Nam, thereby helping to kill our own troops. Communists can’t be trusted. I’m tired of our government aiding our enemies. Or should we have normalized relations with Nazi Germany and given it aid,too?
They’ll go because Cuba needs the money they will bring to their relatives. People with relatives in Cuba are already permitted to visit, and Castro relies on foreign money, since he has completely destroyed the formerly prosperous island’s economy.
Maybe BO will move there and take their place.
“He would turn his head to the side and spit whenever he said “Kennedy”.”
So do I and I am not Cuban! We were covertly patrolling off the coast of The Bay Of Pigs before during and after the failed coup. The whole crew was ‘angry’ to say the least that the kennedy brothers forsook the poor souls who went on to the beach anyway.
While the ‘freedom fighters’ were on the way to the beach the kennedy brothers removed promised air support. The ‘brothers’ were and are the scum of the Earth.
I can only assume that the ‘brothers’ wanted the operation to fail.
There wasn’t any support coming from European nations, just China and the Soviet Union. And China “cut off aid” in 1968.
True, communists can’t be trusted, but typically people from communist nations can. Especially sixty years after a revolution. We send them Coca-Cola and Levi’s and wait until the awesome power of capitalism takes over...and it does! Worked in Eastern Europe and China!
As far as “normalizing relations” with Nazi Germany, they were defeated soundly, but we do have normalized relations with Germany and there are still people around from the Third Reich timeline.
Good news - Florida just turned redder.
From my favorite all-time movie, “One, Two, Three”
C.R. MacNamara: Cigarette? Cigar?
Peripetchikoff: Here, take one of these.
C.R. Macnamara: Thanks. Hm, ‘Made in Havana’.
Peripetchikoff: We have trade agreement with Cuba. They send us cigars, we send them rockets.
C.R. Macnamara: Good thinking.
C.R. MacNamara: You know something? You guys got cheated. This is a pretty crummy cigar.
Peripetchikoff: Do not worry. We send them pretty crummy rockets.
Peripetchikoff: No formula, NO DEAL!
C.R. MacNamara: OK, NO DEAL!
Borodenko: We do not need you! If we want Coca-Cola, we invent it ourselves!
C.R. MacNamara: Oh, yeah? In 1956 you flew a bottle of Coke to a secret laboratory in Sverdlosk. A dozen of your top chemists went nuts trying to analyze the ingredients. Right?
Mishkin: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: And in 1958, you planted two undercover agents in Atlanta to steal the formula. And what happened? They both defected! And now they’re successful businessmen in Florida packaging instant borscht. Right?
Peripetchikoff: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: Last year you put out a cockamamie imitation “Kremlin-kola!” You tried it out in the satellite countries, but even the Albanians wouldn’t drink it. They used it for SHEEP DIP! RIGHT?
Mishkin: No comment!
C.R. MacNamara: So either get down to business or get off the pot!
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