[HiTech RedNeck]

Cuba is free to buy U.S. goods now, but because of their sorry track record of unpaid bills owed to other countries, we want cash, not U.S. taxpayer backed loans

Not all that many years ago, I heard about a decades-old U.S. escrow account with millions of dollars of embargoed payments owed to Cuba's telephone company (owned by the state) for long distance telephone calls made to Cuba. I wonder if that pot of cash has been freed up now.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I'm not sure but I doubt it.