Cuba

[carlfense]

The United States will open an embassy in Cuba for the first time in a half century and restore full diplomatic relations, senior administration officials announced Wednesday.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/17/alan-gross-released-from-cuban-prison.html?via=twitter_page

 

Wow. About time, too. NUance will probably rejoice.

[NUance]

 

The United States will open an embassy in Cuba for the first time in a half century and restore full diplomatic relations, senior administration officials announced Wednesday.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2014/12/17/alan-gross-released-from-cuban-prison.html?via=twitter_page

 

Wow. About time, too. NUance will probably rejoice.

 

 

Ha ha! It IS awesome. Opening Cuba was one of Obama's original campaign promises way back in 2008. Aside from the cigars (which is what I think you're referring to above), I've been saying this for years. Why don't we open Cuba? We should have done this shortly after the Soviet Union disbanded. It would've been good for both countries.

[StPaulHusker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7hZjNO3I-Q

[GM_Tood]

Only allowing $100 worth of tobacco/alcohol products to be brought back is a start...though this doesn't effect the ban on selling/retail.

[carlfense]

I'm stunned, I tell you. Stunned.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/marco-rubio-says-cuba-talks-are-absurd-113639.html

[StPaulHusker]

I'm stunned, I tell you. Stunned.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/marco-rubio-says-cuba-talks-are-absurd-113639.html

It's always a bad idea when you don't do it first.

 

Also, who else is on the long list of appeasement toward dictators and tyrants?

[strigori]

I'm stunned, I tell you. Stunned.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/marco-rubio-says-cuba-talks-are-absurd-113639.html

So is that numbskull going to call to break relations with China? Or most of the Middle east? Hardly. This is south Florida politics and nothing more.

[BigRedBuster]

I was fine with the embargo and cutting ties when it happened after their relations with USSR. Now it's time to move on and build relations again.

 

Not much controversy here.

[Creighton Duke]

Vlad Putin's head just exploded.

[Junior]

I'm stunned, I tell you. Stunned.

 

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/marco-rubio-says-cuba-talks-are-absurd-113639.html

 

The feckless tyrant, at it again.

[carlfense]

Vlad Putin's head just exploded.

He really is getting pinched from all sides isn't he?

[NUpolo8]

Does this mean I can go fishing in Cuba now? I have very much wanted to do this.

[carlfense]

Does this mean I can go fishing in Cuba now? I have very much wanted to do this.

Looks like it:

"We're authorizing as much travel as we can within the constraint of the legislation," a senior administration official told reporters before Obama spoke. The embargo will still stay in place pending Congressional action. Americans will be permitted to use debit and credit cards in Cuba, and Americans will be able to bring back Cuban cigars legally for the first time in over 50 years.

[NUpolo8]

 

Does this mean I can go fishing in Cuba now? I have very much wanted to do this.

Looks like it:

"We're authorizing as much travel as we can within the constraint of the legislation," a senior administration official told reporters before Obama spoke. The embargo will still stay in place pending Congressional action. Americans will be permitted to use debit and credit cards in Cuba, and Americans will be able to bring back Cuban cigars legally for the first time in over 50 years.

I for one can't wait for the hipster quips, "pfft, I went to Cuba BEFORE it got Americanized"

[carlfense]

I for one can't wait for the hipster quips, "pfft, I went to Cuba BEFORE it got Americanized"

f**k hipsters.