Hundreds of U.S. Farmers Headed for Cuba

[guajira]

Hundreds of millions of dollars for American farmers from food sales to Cuba. Imagine if the travel industry were booking trips for Americans to Cuba. One more reason to get rid of B*!!

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/state/8421090.htm

[arikara]

1. I could never quite understand the fear of little Cuba

Seems quite irrational to me. Can anyone enlighten me?

[Eye and Monkey]

2. Unless you're "preserved in amber", it is irrational.

Cold War rhetoric.


http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/60min_StahlClarke_transcript.html

CLARKE: I blame the entire Bush leadership for continuing to work on the Cold War issues when they came back in power in 2001. It was as though they were preserved in amber from when they left office eight years earlier. They came back, they wanted to work on the same issues right away -- Iraq, Star Wars -- not the new issues, the new threats that had developed over the preceding eight years

[Judi Lynn]

3. It was our own former head of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana

who compared mentioning Cuba to the appearance of a full moon.


Wayne S. Smith

(snip) Smith opposes the 38-year-old U.S. trade embargo of Cuba and has fought to lift U.S. bans on the importation of food and medicine to the impoverished nation. In that stand, he joins the ranks of Pope John Paul II and some top Cuban dissidents on the island. Yet so far, he can name no concrete success in Washington: "Our policy towards Cuba has become to me more and more of an embarrassment. It has never been very logical or rational and now it is distressingly irrational. Relations are the worst they've been since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis."

To illustrate his point, Smith will call up his own words, his favorite quote cited in The New York Times: "Cuba seems to have the same effect on American administrations as the full moon has on werewolves."

"It's awfully frustrating," he adds. "I left the Foreign Service in 1982 and vowed to take up this cause, and 16 years later the relations are worse than they ever were. It's my cause and I just can't let go of it. I can't go off and sail around the world or retire to a mountain meadow while this is still there."
(snip/...)

http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0498web/cuba.html

Cuba, whoooooooooooo!

[dumpster_baby]

4. google the phrase "threat of a good example"

That is something Chomsky came up with. Basically, the elite in the USA are afraid that if Cuba succeeds at socialism, it will set a good example for other countries to follow.

[guajira]

5. Actually it's not that complicated!

Americans are not allowed to visit Cuba because MiamiCuban exiles don't want Americans there. The exiles can fly directly from Miami or NY or LA to Havana, and also can fly their Cuban relatives from the island to the US for visits - so they have exactly what they want until Castro is gone, and they think they can take over Cuba!

The WH and US State Dept. will do anything the exiles want, because they provide almost a million votes and lots of campaign $$$ to pandering politicians.

The following article shows how B* is kissing Miami butt to try and get those million (mostly republican) votes!

Notice how Homeland Security is used against Americans freedom so B* can curry favor with MiamiCubanos!!!
snippet:
Bush has already strengthened measures to identify and fine U.S. citizens who travel to Cuba illegally through third countries; the Department of Homeland Security has trained hundreds of Customs agents to spot illegal tourists at airports across the Caribbean and in Canada, the paper said.

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000086&sid=aPxpxJN6wcUo&refer=latin_america

[Judi Lynn]

6. Photos of Cuban spirit give N.Y.ers an isle seat

Photos of Cuban spirit
give N.Y.ers an isle seat


Farmer San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, 1996

When freelance photographer Cynthia Carris Alonso went to Cuba for the first time in 1992, her assignment was to take pictures of musicians for a German record company.
"I had photographed a rumba group from Cuba that was in Harlem," she says, "and I was fascinated to learn more about a country that was illegal for Americans to travel to."

She fell in love with the island and traveled there often that year. And among the souvenirs she brought back was a new artistic direction and a Havana-born husband.

She also came home with a deep appreciation for what she calls "the soaring and incredible Cuban spirit."
(snip/...)

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/183673p-159354c.html