the hearty lumpen
Posted on 12/20/2014 5:08:57 PM PST by Olog-hai
Cuban President Raúl Castro sent a blunt message to Washington Saturday as the White House works to reverse a half-century of hostility between the U.S. and Cuba: Don't expect détente to do away with the communist system.
Castro’s speech to Cuba’s National Assembly was a sharp counterpoint to the message U.S. President Barack Obama gave in his year-end news conference the day before. Obama reiterated that by engaging directly with the Cuban people, Americans are more likely to encourage reform in Cuba’s one-party system and centrally planned economy.
“We must not expect that in order for relations with the United States to improve, Cuba will abandon the ideas that it has struggled for,” Castro said. …
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In other words, the peasants will remain peasants.
Someone on another thread related to this subject told me to “get over it”; I wonder if the same advice will be offered to Raúl by this person, since Sr. Castro is obviously not himself getting over it.
No matter.. so long as Obama’s boss George Soros gets to make his investments there, the life of the peasants is of no matter.
Communists can’t win in detante.
http://kansasfirstnews.com/2014/12/20/moran-obama-can-ease-regulations-on-wheat-exports-to-cuba/
“ Industry officials estimate Cuba could potentially buy 500,000 metric tons of wheat annually from the United States, and Kansas is the largest wheat-producing state.
Agricultural commodities such as wheat are exempted from the half-century old embargo. But the administration of George W. Bush instituted costly rules, such as requiring up-front cash payments before commodities leave U.S. ports and that the payments go through banks in other countries, Moran said. The only other exceptions to the embargo have been food and medicinal products.”
Obama and the media will try their best to screw this up but thanks to Jesse Helms they won’t be able to.
When will Zero announce he’s giving the Guantanamo Navy base crack to the Castros as part of the deal?
Crack? Darn auto correct.
Castro bankrupted the Soviet Union, Chavez came to his rescue; but Venezuela is also broke and the Cuban regime cannot count any more in the free petroleum given to Cuba by Venezuela and Castro sold in the world market... But the devil is powerful and another “sugar daddy” came to the rescue of the bloodiest and more long lasting tyranny in this hemisphere, comrade Obama put the Cubans under his protection and the American taxpayers in charge of financing the Cuban regime.
Hmmmmmm, so maybe Castro was a CIA plant after all. /s
Shhhhhhh. Everyone, be silent. Don’t tell Raul and Fidel that Obama’s friendship is the kiss of death.
If the Castros think there is crack at GiTMO, they’ll demand their cut.
Cuba has gorgeous farmland just sitting there…I expect BigAg corporations to buy them up—actually they probably have done so already. And then, the cuban workers can be slave labor in the fields and processing plants.
Somebody came up with enough money or other valuables to pursued Obama to make nice with Castro. He is as big a crook as Soros and all the lobbyists on K street who basically own the US Congress.
Did I mention that Fidel was listed in Forbes Magazine as the wealthiest dictator in the world? Poverty in Cuba is a hoax, the country trades with other countries around the world and virtually ALL of the money goes in to the hands of high-ranking commies and Castro. The people suffer unspeakably.
“Don’t expect détente to do away with the communist system.”
Obama must be relieved to hear that.
OOOPs. “pursued” should read persuade.
I’d say elated.
Jesse Helms, God bless him, made much of what you fear impossible. The president has limited ability to ‘reward’ the leaders of Cuba.
Helms pretty much took the lessons from detante with the Soviet Union and imposed them upon Cube in advance.
Cuba will quickly collapse as a socialist state and come round to our way of thinking in years, not decades.
Obama is going to engage directly with the Cuban people??? Which ones? The Communists or the real Cuban people? Or is he just plain lying again?
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