I lived in Miami for many years, and most of my friends were Cuban-Americans. I knew some who had lost everything when Castro took power, I knew one who saw her father and brothers gunned down in their front yard. When I was working there as a bank examiner, I met several bankers who had been among the unfortunate (betrayed?) freedom fighters who had been at the Bay of Pigs. An older Cuban gentleman who ran a combination grocery/cafe (where I routinely purchased cigars and Cuban coffee) had been a political prisoner; he and his wife practically adopted Mrs. Paco and me, inviting us to their home and introducing us to their children and grandchildren. The liberation of the Cuban people has long been a matter close to my heart, and I pray that I will live to see this happen.
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ReplyDeleteWhen the USSR could turn a brush war into a serious conflagration, we had to ignore little pygmy dictatorships, now we don't.
The worst fallout so far has been gas going up almost to Biden-era levels.
Trump does not blindly accept what our fine betters tell us to believe, and been proven correct far too many times, for them to ever forgive him.
Right you are. "Short-term pain for long-term gain", the president said. And the days of Cuba hiding behind the power of the Soviet Union are dead and gone. Personally, I think that the biggest obstacle to change in Cuba may be the fact that the military and the communist party own so much of...well, everything. Separating the commie fat cats from their ill-gotten gains may take some finesse. And if finesse doesn't work, there are always other ways.
DeleteThose "other ways" are, at least, the stick in any carrot&stick approach. And a big one.
DeleteI expect that any "ownership" rights will be signed away as a condition of the commies not being exiled into the middle of the South Pacific, out of the back of a C130 at 10,000 feet.
I hasten to add ... ... sans parachute ... ...
DeleteM'yes, not in the budget, un(?)fortunately.
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