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This is my hope too. I don't want Americans to start looting the island, and I think the Cuban government should ban American land ownership (actually all foreign land ownership) but perhaps allow only foreign investment.
Cuba shouldn't return back to its pre 1959 semi colonial status, which is exactly what caused revolution in the first place.
B.S.!!! Cuba had one of the best economy in the Latin countries before Castro lied to the Cuban people and once he got to power and brought by force communism their economy went down the toilet with their civil liberties.
What Castro did was take ownership of all American investments in the island and confiscated every private property and personal bank accounts of everybody including All Cubans that's why millions fled to the U.S.A and Castro gave the finger to all investors and refused to pay Cuba's debt.
Not only that, Castro took the side of the Soviets during the Cold War to bring down the U.S.A.
If Obama wants to forgive and forget all that with the same regime then what guarantees Americans will get that the Castro's brothers won't do the same thing again if they invest in the island?
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I would love to travel to Cuba while it still has the mid-50s look and feel. In a short while, it will be overrun with American culture and that will be lost forever.
And the good guys won...no thanks to the democrat party or the American left.
There are no winners. It's been a 55 year failure on both sides.
We basically tried to starve out a nation in our own hemisphere because they had the temerity to want our boot off of their necks. That's one of the most shameful episodes in our history. It never had to be that way but we were intransigent and unyielding in this idea that WE should dictate Cuba's path forward, and not THEM.
Semi colonialism doesn't work against smart and strong people, especially when the colonialist doesn't even have enough tact to hide his duplicity.
The Cubans failed for a million different reasons...you and I both know how and why.
Wow. As a youth I never thought to see the Soviet Union dissolve or the Berlin Wall fall. Now, I am again fortunate to witness something else that seemed to be etched in stone: the embargo of Cuba.
This is my hope too. I don't want Americans to start looting the island, and I think the Cuban government should ban American land ownership (actually all foreign land ownership) but perhaps allow only foreign investment.
Cuba shouldn't return back to its pre 1959 semi colonial status, which is exactly what caused revolution in the first place.
Cuba is communist. I bet as long as it stays communist, foreigners won't be allowed to own land. Even in capitalist countries in Asia, it's hard for foreigners to buy land
I watched Obama's speech live.Obama just said something in Spanish, how many RWNJ heads will explode on this board from that?
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