Posted on 12/17/2014 11:08:44 AM PST by Bettyprob
(Reuters) - The United States will restore diplomatic relations it severed with Cuba more than 50 years ago, a major policy shift ending decades of hostile ties with the communist-ruled island, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday.
Announcing the end of what he called a "rigid" policy of isolation of Cuba that had been ineffective, Obama said the United States would move toward normal ties and would open an embassy in Cuba.
Obama discussed the changes with Cuban President Raul Castro on Tuesday in a nearly hour-long telephone call. Castro spoke in Cuba as Obama made his announcement on a policy shift made possible by the release of American Alan Gross, 65, who had been imprisoned in Cuba for five years.
Cuba is also releasing an intelligence agent who spied for the United States and was held for nearly 20 years, and the United States in return freed three Cuban intelligence agents held in the United States.
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do we still have a Congress or what...
Comrade dictator Obama never met a commie he didn’t like.
How come Rush is not talking about this?
We have diplomatic relations with China, Russia and Saudi Arabia. They are all at least as bad as Cuba.
He’s going all out now he’s near his end to destroy this country and our laws.
This is only the beginning and he needs to be marched out of our white house and impeached.
Cuba is merely 90 miles away, thus making that barbaric country an existential threat.
I wonder when the supplies of cigars start to flow ?
That’s what this is really all about .....
” There’s an old Indian saying: “Follow the cigar smoke, find the fat man ( politicians) there.”
Gen. John Buford - Union Army - 1863
Of course, here's a picture...
Soon... perhaps North Korea will become our closest ally eclipsing South Korea.
Under this administration who knows?
If our allies are following along here (and they certainly are), imagine what connection to the U. S. they’ll consider in the future.
Our government needs a stadium filled dose of Prazac, to combat the multi-personality it has become.
Even a broken clock gets the time right twice a day.
As a cigar person I am very excited. I would expect trade relations to be established with Cuban tobacco as legal as Dominican, Honduran, and Nicaraguan tobacco is today.
Cigar manufacturers have pledged that when it is legal they will create new multi-country blends—and all cigar smokers will benefit.
In addition reputable mail order houses should incorporate Cuban cigars—assuring a reliable supply. Right now thousands of Americans are wasting their money on fakes sold in Mexico and the Caribbean.
That is—if the FDA doesn’t publish some wacky new regs (which they may do this year).
There is one other factor as well—it is not in our interest to keep Cuba close to Russia. This is an opportunity to change that situation.
Capitulation!
Iran is next.
SURE ... let’s open up THAT border TOO!!
lol
Wouldn’t be shocked to find the Crony Capitalist Chamber of Commerce (CCCC?) fingerprints all over this.
If we want to effect regime change in Cuba, we need an American embassy in Havana staffed with CIA officers. The only way we can find out definitively what is going on is to have those officers recruit agents inside the Cuban government, as the CIA does in governments all over the world. It's how we can get our tentacles into Cuba.
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