US-CUBA Partial Normalization - Obama Finally Makes a Correct Move!

[R.K. Locke]

Well, the Cubans have seen the wonders of capitalism in free fall with the recent banking clusterfuck. They see what's happened in Libya, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Venezuela, Iran. The complicity and silence on Palestine. They know the wastelands in the US and the racism there. They know there is no health care in the US unless you can afford it. They know what they would lose. Travel will be better. Business and trade will be better. Sending money there will be easier. The US is always trying to bribe Cubans any way they can. That will not stop but the gains of the revolution are treasured by most Cubans as implied here for the USAID hip hop thread:

Rotilla had independent roots, but documents show Bozic and the EXIT festival had been backing it since 2006, a period during which it grew enormously.

In an interview Sunday in Havana, Rotilla founder Michel Matos said that while he was proud of his role in Rotilla, he was shocked to learn that the Serb was working for USAID and said he would never knowingly take American money from people with ulterior motives.

"If I get money from the American government to take cultural action, it's not that I just have a problem with the Cuban government," he said. "I have a problem with Cubans."

Yes, I think that between the engineered downfalls of the abovementioned states and the recent American attempts at subversion (the Twitter and hip hop infiltrations, etc.) the Cubans have made a strategic decision to play ball. I have serious doubts as to whether this will benefit them in the long-term but I suppose they are stuck between a rock and a hard place. If nothing else this will buy them some time.

Here is a piece that I think outlines the main concerns that I have very well:

https://cienflamingos.wordpress.com/2014...-is-trash/