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R.I.P. Fidel Castro
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30/11/2016 13:58:44
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
 
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>>You believe that Castro was the savior of the Cuban people and the only reason that they are in poverty is because of the big bad US embargo..

Not the only reason. But lets see what happens to Cuba once its tourism develops and havana cigars once again are legally available 90 miles away.

FWIW, I used to buy cigars at the shop in the Heathrow departure concourse that had plenty of Cuban options, so I carried disallowed cigars in preserving aluminum canisters into the US more than once without even thinking about it. One time, the African American running the scanner looked hard, looked at me, gave a shrug and let me through. Apparently they can read the canister labeling on the scanner, so she knew what they were. I think that in their hearts, most people in the US knew it was a pointless embargo but after 50 years there was a lot of momentum from failed invasions, ridiculous assassination ideas (google them- exploding cigars and chemicals to make him lose his hair?!) and it just sort of kept going.

People can think what they like about Trump, but he has the moral authority to call the whole thing off- like Catch 22's Major Major who ended the loyalty oaths when nobody else could. I hope that's what happens. Easy win for him at home and abroad.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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