[saganite]

This time Cuba will be able to pay cash when they drill the Gulf oil Americans won't.

[doug from upland]

Do not miss the story about how Peter Paul and friends ripped off Fidel for 8.7 mil in the Cuban Coffee Caper ---

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1422368/posts

[GSlob]

'The Russians can provide his military dictatorship, in addition to weapons, with credits to purchase other Russian products. "
Perfectly phrased. Dictatorship is indeed one of russian products offered for export. But here one is dealing with an indigenous growth.

[docbnj]

Putin is reconstituting the Soviet Union, including helping its surviving allies, and undermining our interests wherever possible.

I keep telling you: never, never, never trust the Russians.

[Thunder90]

I heard that Cuba has an advanced order of Rifles from that factory that Chavez is building.

[Thunder90]

And I heard that Russia is opening another spying facility on Cuba, possibly the old Lourdes site.

[RusIvan]

The Russians also may be interested in resuming and expanding Cold War era espionage cooperation. The Soviet Union built the Lourdes electronic eavesdropping facility near Havana and used it to spy on U.S. military and technological secrets. It was closed by the Soviets following U.S. pressure in the 1990s, but could be recreated. ==

Accually it was closed by Russia latter then in 1990th. Th eresons was that the today communications go through the wire connections and syphered. So no need to eardropping the american cell phoners.

[GOP_1900AD]

I wonder what ever happened with those illegal SS-20s in Cuba.

[word_warrior_bob]

We should grant politcal asylum to all the gorgeous Russian women who want to come here.