Or rather, he was. Please, President Trump. Do the smart thing. Give this nation, which wants to move away from socialism as rapidly as it can, the full economic embrace. Think of the hotels you can build there!
Though I'm strongly free market, I think Cuba should remain as it is. That way all of the sympathisers in the West can move there.
Well, it's close, it's cheap, it's got wonderful scenery and interesting cities and friendly people. But you only have to be there for a day or two -- if you leave your expensive hotel -- and you see how terrible socialism is. And this is not the worst socialist country in the world. The government is fairly relaxed about dissenters, so long as they don't organize, for example. But the experience would be such an eye-opener to socialists who have not seen the real thing. It's another reason why the US should drop the embargo, and in fact should even subsidize trips by college students to the place.
Trump Reverses Pieces of Obama-Era Engagement With Cuba June 16, 2017 MIAMI — President Trump announced on Friday that he was reversing crucial pieces of what he called a “terrible and misguided deal” with Cuba and will reinstate travel and commercial restrictions eased by the Obama administration in an attempt to obtain additional concessions from the Cuban government. During a speech in Little Havana, the epicenter of a Cuban exile community that enthusiastically supported him in last year’s election, Mr. Trump said he was keeping a campaign promise to roll back the policy of engagement begun by President Barack Obama in 2014, which he said had empowered the communist government in Cuba and enriched the country’s repressive military. “We will not be silent in the face of communist oppression any longer,” Mr. Trump said at the Manuel Artime Theater, named for a former supporter of Fidel Castro who became a leader of Brigade 2506, the land forces that spearheaded the United States-led Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. “Effective immediately, I am canceling the last administration’s completely one-sided deal with Cuba,” Mr. Trump said. But Mr. Trump’s action fell well short of doing so. After the speech, he signed a six-page directive that ordered new travel and commercial restrictions while leaving in place some key Obama-era measures that eased sanctions. As part of the new policy, Americans will no longer be able to plan their own private trips to Cuba, and those who go as part of authorized educational tours will be subject to strict new rules and audits to ensure that they are not going just as tourists. American companies and citizens will also be barred from doing business with any firm controlled by the Cuban military or its intelligence or security services, walling off crucial parts of the economy, including much of the tourist sector, from American access. “We do not want U.S. dollars to prop up a military monopoly that exploits and abuses the citizens of Cuba,” Mr. Trump said. Despite his grandiose description, the policy represents a middle ground between hard-liners in Congress, including Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Mario Díaz-Balart, both Florida Republicans who have called for a complete reversal of Mr. Obama’s Cuba policy, and business leaders, human rights groups and many of Mr. Trump’s own advisers who wanted to preserve it. ... más: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/politics/cuba-trump-engagement-restrictions.html
We should invade Cuba ... with capitalism. Major League Baseball should place expansion teams in Montreal and Havana. That would get the camel’s nose under the tent. The genie would be out of the bottle. The commies wouldn’t last two years.
