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- From: ded@kps.UUCP (David Edwards /DP)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ,talk.politics.misc,alt.individualism
- Subject: Re: Milton Friedman...
- Message-ID: <1165@kps.UUCP>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 11:46:28 GMT
- References: <1992Aug31.142622.3826@desire.wright.edu> <1161@kps.UUCP> <1992Sep2.215118.20393@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep2.215118.20393@henson.cc.wwu.edu> n9020351@henson.cc.wwu.edu (James Douglas Del-Vecchio) writes:
- >ded@kps.UUCP (David Edwards /DP) writes:
- >
- >>Where should they get their fuel from under the current blockade? Why
- >>is the US so insistent on destroying Castro's Cuba. While hardly a
- >>perfect individual, his provoking attitude to America has unleashed a
- >>scarcly understandable paranoia there.
- >
- > Who is trying to sell fuel to Cubans and is prevented from doing
- >so? What is stopping them?
- >
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- Who's talking about fuel? I'm talking about trade in general. You need
- hard currency in the form of dollars to buy fuel.
-
- Let's say Cuba has cotton, cigars (or whatever) and wants to sell them
- to get money for fuel and everything else it needs. If France for
- example wants to buy cotton for hard currency, it had better look over
- its shoulder for what Uncle Sam's going to say. You can't trade with
- Cuba without the threat of US reprisals. Somebody mentioned that the
- US "let" India buy something from Cuba. 'Mighty big of them.
-
- David Edwards
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