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US, Cuba to sign agreement on restarting commercial flights
Associated Press ^ | Feb. 12, 2016 4:24 PM EST | Michael Weissenstein

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 ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cuba; Extended News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: betterdeal4trump; castros; commercialflights; havana; obama

1 posted on 02/12/2016 1:30:51 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

bernie, kerry and deblasio will be on the first flight.


2 posted on 02/12/2016 1:32:50 PM PST by dp0622
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To: Olog-hai

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.


3 posted on 02/12/2016 1:35:31 PM PST by tbw2
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To: dp0622
bernie, kerry and deblasio will be on the first flight.

Naw, they've already been there, done that.

4 posted on 02/12/2016 1:36:02 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: dp0622

Mayor Rahm wants a seat too.


5 posted on 02/12/2016 1:37:34 PM PST by C19fan
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To: Olog-hai

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?????


6 posted on 02/12/2016 1:39:07 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: 1Old Pro

it’s too democratic for them now lol


7 posted on 02/12/2016 1:39:44 PM PST by dp0622
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To: Olog-hai
"50 years is enough," Trump said in an interview with the Daily Caller published Tuesday, referring to Obama's decision to re-establish U.S. ties with Cuba.

"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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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/

8 posted on 02/12/2016 1:42:52 PM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
The communists are the ones that need to answer that. Don't expect coherent answers.

BTW, the USSR once wanted to legalize rape.
"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."

— Unnamed Soviet official
Since abolition of the family is still a Marxist doctrine, the hardliners still want to spread that all over the world.
9 posted on 02/12/2016 1:49:23 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

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.


10 posted on 02/12/2016 2:29:05 PM PST by Recompennation
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To: Olog-hai

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!


11 posted on 02/12/2016 2:36:25 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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12 posted on 02/12/2016 2:53:32 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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