Posted on 02/12/2016 1:30:50 PM PST by Olog-hai
U.S. officials say the United States and Cuba will sign an agreement next week to restart commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx flies to Havana on Tuesday to cement the deal.
It will let U.S. airlines bid on routes for dozens of U.S.-Cuba flights per day. That's more than five times the current number of flights, all of which are charters. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at bigstory.ap.org ...
bernie, kerry and deblasio will be on the first flight.
We have to end the policy of instant permission to stay once on US soil before this happens, or we’ll have a heck of a lot of Cuban refugees booking flights for instant refugee/immigrant status.
Naw, they've already been there, done that.
Mayor Rahm wants a seat too.
Can I ask a stupid question??
If communism is such a superior system, then why has Cuba allegedly been hurt so much by the American trade embargo all these years??????
If capitalism is evil and all that, why does a communist worker’s paradise such as Cuba see great benefits from international trade with us?????
it’s too democratic for them now lol
"I think it's fine. I think it's fine, but we should have made a better deal," Trump added. "The concept of opening with Cuba is fine."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/08/politics/donald-trump-cuba-diplomatic-opening/index.html
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How Russia arms America's southern neighbors
Ioan Grillo
May 9, 2014
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Russia's push into Ukraine has put many on edge. But less known is that Russia is also strengthening its military links south of the Rio Grande and re-establishing itself as a power in the region. ..."
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140508/russian-arms-military-trade-latin-america
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Russia Boosts Arms, Training for Leftist Latin Militaries
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BY: Bill Gertz
February 20, 2015
Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said. ..."
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-boosts-arms-training-for-leftist-latin-militaries/
"There is no such thing as a woman being violated by a man; he who says that a violation is wrong denies the October Communist Revolution. To defend a violated woman is to reveal oneself as a bourgeois and a partisan of private property."Since abolition of the family is still a Marxist doctrine, the hardliners still want to spread that all over the world.
— Unnamed Soviet official
Maybe Pan American’s investment in aviation in Cuba can be recuperated. Oh it’s give and take or in this case take and give. Senselessness is all it is.
Who would want to go to that hell hole? It’s not like a tourist destination.
Oh wait, Michael Moore can go there to get his health care!
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