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Obama names first ambassador in Cuba in fifty years, but needs Senate confirmation
The United States has tapped Jeffrey DeLaurentis, United States' top diplomat in Havana, to become the first official ambassador to Cuba in five decades. “The appointment of an ambassador is a commonsense step forward toward a more normal and productive relationship between our two countries,” President Barack Obama said in a statement. Read full article
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Sep 28th, 2016 - 04:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He was recently “Trumped” politically, and the current government is simply ignoring him
And his concerns as irrelevant, over half a century later.
He speaks for a lot of Cuban Americans, who are the majority population in Miami/S. Florida.
Sep 28th, 2016 - 05:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Most of them fiercely opposed to the Castro regime.
With political clout all the way to Washington, to match.
Who GAF which idiot is appointed Ambassador?
Sep 28th, 2016 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's a non-job in Cuba.
The U.S. has walked a long path from blockading Cuba, trying to overthrow the government, attempting to assasinate Fidel Castro, deploying a ruthless strategy throughout Latin America to prevent another Cuba, to the present unthawing relations.
Sep 28th, 2016 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cuba, on its part, has shown the world incredible resilience and resourcefulness by surviving as a country at the very doors of the Empire.
Propped up first by the USSR, then by Venezuela, all the time with the people suffering shortages and poverty.
Sep 28th, 2016 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Then when Venezuela could no longer bail them out, they were forced to accept capitalism US style, another victory for the Revolution no doubt, Yea.
Although to be fair, they did have education of a sort, and better than reasonable free health care.
Otherwise life was shit for them, you didn’t see loads of people trying to cross from Miami to Cuba.
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Sep 28th, 2016 - 08:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“At the very doors of the empire”
What does that mean?
Apart from what Fidel and the Soviets would tell you, there were no hostilities against Cuba itself
from the US after they drew their lines in the sand in the 60's.
In fact, Cubans have said life was good in Cuba under the Soviets. They had Iron Curtain markets for their goods, and shared in training and education with other countries within the Communist sphere. Energy was heavily subsidized by the Soviets.
The Cubans were very resentful when the Soviets abandoned them overnight.
They faced crushing poverty and food shortages until they started to better develop tourism in partnership with Italian and Spanish companies.
Waiters were suddenly making far more than doctors and engineers.
36. Which of these twelve presidents we have had since World War II would you consider the worst president: Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Senior, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush or Barack Obama?
Sep 30th, 2016 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Tot
Harry Truman -
Dwight Eisenhower 1
John Kennedy -
Lyndon Johnson 3
Richard Nixon 13
Gerald Ford 2
Jimmy Carter 8
Ronald Reagan 3
George Bush Senior 2
Bill Clinton 3
George W. Bush 28
Barack Obama 33
DK/NA 4
www.qu.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2056
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