Really? Really, now??? Well, then, amigo..........howcomeisit that your little island Workers' Paradise is so incredibly backward, you can't feed your own people worth a darn, you can't buy basics in your stores if you even HAD the money, and your citizens routinely risk their lives to float across 90+ miles of shark-infested waters to seek asylum in the US of A?? If you're so damned beloved by all of these countries and have such terrific relations with so many, why do you remain such a backwater, Communist s**thole?
Sign me.........."Just Wondering"
Paul Greenberg: Fidel and friends**** The problem is that, like any other economy that's been run into the ground by some Communist caudillo, F. Castro and brutal company are a little short of cash just now and always. Cuba is already some $11 billion in debt, it defaulted on its international loans years ago, and so it can't get any more money from the World Bank. Or any other lending agency that has this thing about being repaid. In short, Fidel's is a typical Communist economy, that is, bankrupt -- and not just morally. That's where American banks and credit and you, the American taxpayer, come in. Because all the loans and grants that Cuba's sordid little dictatorship would need to buy our rice and shore up its own power would have to be backed some way by the U.S. government. That's the dirty little secret none of those pushing for an end to this embargo emphasize. They see trade with Cuba as still another farm subsidy.****