Normalization is good news for the Cuban people, who have been suffering under the US trade embargo for 50+ years. Or is it? American corporations are already rubbing their hands in lust at the chance to exploit the Caribbean island nation.
Giving Cuba the Business
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Mexico isn’t so happy about this, anticipating a loss of tourism that they’ve enjoyed for many years! 🙁
Reportedly, there is GOP support for this.
IF this is true, apparently the Repubs want to do their gambling, drinking, drugging and “bipartisan” whoring a bit further away from the eagle-eye, fearless, liberal media.
Just as long as the US base and torture chamber at Guantánamo is retained, one can’t complain too loudly, even if it is a tad embarrassing that the goal of regime change via a real-live golpe , to which the US government devoted so much time and effort during these last six decades and more, never was attained….
Henri