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14 Aug 2015, 7:19 am

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On Friday, the American flag will once again fly over the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, the most potent symbol of the shift in relations between two countries that throughout the Cold War bristled with open hostility toward one another.

Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Havana for fewer than 12 hours to officiate the reopening of the embassy that was closed in 1961 when the Eisenhower administration severed diplomatic ties with the government of then 34-year-old Fidel Castro.

Kerry will be the highest-ranking US official to visit Cuba since Castro's 1959 revolution and the first secretary of state to visit the island in more than 70 years.


http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/14/world/u-s--embassy-reopens-cuba-havana/

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16 Aug 2015, 12:00 am

Well, the embargo...
and the CIA training Cuban exiles to retake Cuba...
and the CIA hiring the mafia and right wing extremists to kill Castro...
and rogue CIA personnel, with said right wing extremists and mafia, possibly murdering an American President by incriminating a Pro-Castro nut, along with a false trail of evidence leading back to Cuba...
all failed miserably. After fifty plus years of unsuccessful plots to oust the Beard, we might as well cut our losses, and turn an enemy into a friend.


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16 Aug 2015, 12:52 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
Well, the embargo...
and the CIA training Cuban exiles to retake Cuba...
and the CIA hiring the mafia and right wing extremists to kill Castro...
and rogue CIA personnel, with said right wing extremists and mafia, possibly murdering an American President by incriminating a Pro-Castro nut, along with a false trail of evidence leading back to Cuba...
all failed miserably. After fifty plus years of unsuccessful plots to oust the Beard, we might as well cut our losses, and turn an enemy into a friend.


Fidel hasn't been at the helm for several years; little bro Raul runs the show now. Raul has been slowly rolling back the revolution. Radio Havana is significantly less of an anti-US firebrand than in the old days. Cubans can actually travel to the US now. Americans can go to Cuba. Fidel is almost 90 (I read that he turned 89 a couple weeks ago) and he issued a ranting statement about how the US will always be Cuba's enemy. Fidel's got one foot in the grave, and once he and Raul are gone the revolution will likely be mostly a dead letter. The Castro kids and grandkids fled Cuba ages ago and now live in the US, so there will be no NK-style dynasty. For a precedent, look at Spain after Franco, where after the Generalissimo was finally dead and buried the new rulers declared the revolution over.



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16 Aug 2015, 2:12 am

pezar wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Well, the embargo...
and the CIA training Cuban exiles to retake Cuba...
and the CIA hiring the mafia and right wing extremists to kill Castro...
and rogue CIA personnel, with said right wing extremists and mafia, possibly murdering an American President by incriminating a Pro-Castro nut, along with a false trail of evidence leading back to Cuba...
all failed miserably. After fifty plus years of unsuccessful plots to oust the Beard, we might as well cut our losses, and turn an enemy into a friend.


Fidel hasn't been at the helm for several years; little bro Raul runs the show now. Raul has been slowly rolling back the revolution. Radio Havana is significantly less of an anti-US firebrand than in the old days. Cubans can actually travel to the US now. Americans can go to Cuba. Fidel is almost 90 (I read that he turned 89 a couple weeks ago) and he issued a ranting statement about how the US will always be Cuba's enemy. Fidel's got one foot in the grave, and once he and Raul are gone the revolution will likely be mostly a dead letter. The Castro kids and grandkids fled Cuba ages ago and now live in the US, so there will be no NK-style dynasty. For a precedent, look at Spain after Franco, where after the Generalissimo was finally dead and buried the new rulers declared the revolution over.


Absolutely true. My point is, the U.S. government had wasted untold dollars, not to mention human life, to accomplish ending the rule of the Castro brothers, when waiting for them to grow old and feeble seems to have worked much better.


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18 Aug 2015, 5:38 pm

Whatevs. People in my country have being going there with our flag on their luggage for years just to have a pleasant tropical vacation and buy fancy cigars.