and these to back it up...
Posted on 04/13/2009 9:58:07 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
At today’s daily White House briefing, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs will announce that the administration will lift travel, remittance, mail and business restrictions relating to the Communist nation of Cuba.
The changes will allow unlimited visits to family members on the island as well as unlimited remittances -- the cash recent immigrants to the U.S. send to relatives back home. President Bush imposed stricter restrictions on both in 2004.
"As hard as we search, we can't find anyone who thinks the limitations Bush put on family travel and family remittances in 2004 were a good idea," a senior administration official tells ABC News.
The Obama administration will also take steps to enhance the flow of information by allowing U.S. telecommunications networks to link the U.S. and Cuba; and will allow an expansion of humanitarian items that can be sent to the island (including clothing, personal hygiene items and fishing equipment). It will remain illegal to send items to senior government officials and members of the Communist Party. "These steps are being taken in support of the Cuban people's desire to freely determine their own future and to open up the space needed to see democratic progress in Cuba," says a White House official.
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Maybe, and that’s the confusing thing when you look up his history. I was in Spain when he made a trip there a number of years ago, and of course the leftists were ecstatic about his Gallego ancestry. He was generally referred to as being gallego and libanes, but I was never sure whether this referred to his birth mother or his father’s wife.
Oh come on, how else would he be legally allowed to go and lay a wreath at the leftist hero Che Guevara memorial? Remeber he is a President of Change and a bunch of firsts... like being the First sitting President to Trash talk his country while overseas and never have the decency to honor the Americans buried at The Normandy American Memorial....
The funny thing is that Galicia was firmly in the Nationalist side during the Spanish Civil War.
I've never heard of the "Lebanese" angle before. His father was Gallego and his mother was a maid with Spanish surnamed parents.
Pardoned? Where do you think the next crop of Supreme Court nominees will come from? Especially after Ruth "Buzzie" Ginsburg opined that we should let foreign laws influence American jurisprudence.
and these to back it up...
Canada: Low-tax haven for fleeing Americans
National Post / Wall Street Journal | April 13, 2009 | Kelly McParland
Posted on 04/13/2009 1:26:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228270/posts
It is not uncommon for white Cubans to be descended exclusively from 19th Century or early 20th Century immigrants, especially from Galicia and Asturia, although obviously many Cubans can trace their ancestors to 16th Century Spanish immigrants. I know that the Castros have no black or Indian blood, and am by no means questioning that assertion on your part (which, was, of course, the substantive point of your post).
I am also quite familiar with the patterns of Christian Lebanese emmigration, as well as the patterns of Cuban immigration; I just had never heard that Fidel Castro’s mother was of Lebenese descent. If his mother’s family came from the Canary Islands as you state, it makes it less likely that the Castros are partly of Lebanese descent, since the Canary Islands were not exactly a popular destination for 19th Century Lebanese emigrants. From what I recall reading about Castro’s mother, she was born and raised in Cuba, and IIRC so were her parents, so most likely her ancestors moved to Cuba from the Canary Islands in the mid-19th Century, and were probably of Spanish descent (with perhaps some Jewish and Moorish blood as well).
You can say that again.
We’re so BIG though, and I don’t mean fat. We’re the third largest country in the world, population wise. But, I guess it’s only right that we dissipate our wealth in China, India, and Africa so that we can all be poor together. Forget about lifting anybody up.
Lots of cubans are black... maybe that’s why they like them.
Next you will have amnesty for illegal cubans who will make democrat voters....This megalomaniac croock has been brought on stage to change deeply USA...
He must NOT succeed
How long do you think it will be before that happens?
-PJ
It’s because they’ve made it very clear that opposition will not be tolerated, and nobody has come up with the nerve to get in his face and find out what they really mean by that. Except for Rush maybe.
There were actually a lot of Lebanese in the Canaries.
However, somebody else raised the question of whether this referred to Castro’s birth mother (he was the offspring of his father and a maidservant in the Castro household) or his “official” mother, his father’s legal wife. I really don’t know. But when he visited Spain a few years ago, a lot was made of his Gallego and Lebanese heritage.
Every day it’s another atrocity from this administration......
CNN had a group on named the Cuban American national federation and they were saying great things about obama, an dhow this is good bla bla
When I did a search I can’t find much about them so id this a group of 10 cubans who are with eh Dem party and CNN has got them on the air to try and say this is the view of all Cubans???????????
The ADM knows no bounds. They’re preaching to the choir though and I would have never known they did that if you had not posted it. I stopped watching CNN and all other networks in 2007 and I have not tuned in to MSNBC since the 2000 election when they called Florida for Gore when the Panhandle had not submitted their results yet.
ML/NJ
I understand. Chairman BHO simply wants to improve relations between the U.S. and the nation he aspires for the U.S. to become a clone of during his administration.
LOL, like "illegal" means anything to the elite communists in Cuba.
No matter who it is sent to, most of it will end up in the hands of the corrupt leadership and trickle down to other high ranking loyal communist.
Send money to Palestine a few years back, terrorists were armed and Arafat got rich.
Send food and medical supplies to African countries, the corrupt leaders use it and sell the rest.
Send money to...etc etc etc.
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