Posted on 02/08/2014 10:38:49 PM PST by Olog-hai
When Miami’s new art museum opened in December, namesake Jorge Perez spoke easily about a once-taboo topic among Cuban-American powerbrokers: his desire to increase artistic exchanges with those on the communist island.
Then, this week, billionaire sugar baron Alfonso Fanjul—whose family’s business was seized by Fidel Castro in 1959—spoke publicly for the first time about investing back in Cuba.
Both men are among a growing number of powerful South Florida Cuban-American business, civic and political leaders breaking the long-held public line on U.S. relations with Cuba and the Castro government. For all the talk of changing attitudes among second-generation Cuban-Americans and newer Cuban arrivals, older powerbrokers have remained the guardians of the U.S government’s five-decade economic and travel embargo against Cuba and have for years used their political influence to block any major changes. …
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I’ve been predicting Castro’s imminent demise for about a decade now. I never would have guessed that, before he shuffled off this earth, we’d have a communist in the White House.
And why hasn’t king communist dropped the embargo yet? Puzzling.
Reminds me of the old saying “the devil takes care of his own” . . . along with another one, “a creaking door hangs the longest on its hinges”.
Not hard to predict infiltration of the White House when it’s been happening over a number of decades now to varying levels of success. The Dems (and RINOs) fed the people increasing doses of socialism to get them hooked, just like in Khrushchev’s blueprint.
He’s currently “evolving” on the issue. The press is helping it along, as one can see here.
The more afluent Cubans fled Cuba the first. Now that Fidel is fading and Raul is acting more conciliatory, they want to get back in on the ground floor. Lots of tourist potential in such a large, sunny Caribbean island. Also the Cubans are so starved for basic consumer goods that it could become a good market. Small cars, washing machines, microwave ovens, toasters, irons, computers, cell phones, etc. viva capitalism.
My friends: We lost the Vietnamese vote in Orange county, Calif. It was 40 years ago that the Democrats sold their country down the river.
What did Crist do yesterday?
Trading with non-market economies does not change them from what they are. Red China is literally the biggest example.
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