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5. Fidel: 'Cuban Model Doesn't Even Work for Us Anymore'

Thu Apr 17, 2014, 01:35 AM

Apr 2014

Fidel: 'Cuban Model Doesn't Even Work for Us Anymore'

Raul Castro is already loosening the state's hold on the economy. He recently announced, in fact, that small businesses can now operate and that foreign investors could now buy Cuban real estate. (The joke of this new announcement, of course, is that Americans are not allowed to invest in Cuba, not because of Cuban policy, but because of American policy. In other words, Cuba is beginning to adopt the sort of economic ideas that America has long-demanded it adopt, but Americans are not allowed to participate in this free-market experiment because of our government's hypocritical and stupidly self-defeating embargo policy.

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Is This the Moment to Normalize US Relations With Cuba? [View all] Mika Apr 2014 OP

Don't forget we've had Ileana Ros-Lehtinen running the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, too. Judi Lynn Apr 2014 #1

Ain't gonna happen until after Fidel takes his dirt nap Zorro Apr 2014 #2

Maybe you haven't heard this yet: Fidel is retired. No longer running anything. Mika Apr 2014 #3

Normalization leanforward Apr 2014 #4

Fidel: 'Cuban Model Doesn't Even Work for Us Anymore' Mika Apr 2014 #5

Terrific! I remember reading about this journalist when he was had made contact with Fidel Castro, Judi Lynn Apr 2014 #6

Hmm, that's interesting Marksman_91 Apr 2014 #7

It would seem silly to someone who has no awareness of the extraterritorial aspects Judi Lynn Apr 2014 #8

Gotta love the know-nothing Cuba "experts" here. Mika Apr 2014 #12

Yes. nt Flatulo Apr 2014 #9

The embargo was a nefarious decision that should have never been taken ChangoLoa Apr 2014 #10

+1000. We don't agree on much, but on this we do. Mika Apr 2014 #11