Posted on 03/17/2016 2:20:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez says the country will do away with a 10 percent penalty on dollars exchanged at banks and money-exchange centers in Cuba if new U.S. measures allowing Cuba access to the international banking system prove to work.
The measure would make it much easier for U.S. visitors to Cuba to change dollars during their trip. …
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Cuba will become a playground for American socialists.
This is to enrich the dictators. Period.
Can I ask a stupid question?
If Cuba is a workers paradise, and communism is such a superior system to organize your society and economy, then why do Obama and others say that our trade embargo with Cuba has harmed the Cuban people so much? Why does Cuba benefit from increased trade with an evil capitalist country such as America, if communism will bury us and all that???
I’ve heard some people say, go visit Cuba now, while its still relatively unspoiled , before Hilton Hotels and Starbucks and all the rest arrive.
Which sounds very odd to me. If Cuba has been outside the mainstream of the world economy why is it good to visit and see what its like before it gets into the main stream???
Just in time for the Stones concert
Nature and birding preserves are probably not going to be in as good shape once development allows hotels to be built in pretty places.
Scarface says he was busted for changing dollars...
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