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- Subject: Castro's Cuba (was Re: Milton Friedman...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.141412.3999@desire.wright.edu>
- From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
- Date: 9 Sep 92 14:14:12 EST
- Followup-To: talk.politics.misc
- References: <1992Aug31.142622.3826@desire.wright.edu> <1161@kps.UUCP> <1992Sep2.215118.20393@henson.cc.wwu.edu> <1165@kps.UUCP>
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- In article <1165@kps.UUCP>, ded@kps.UUCP (David Edwards /DP) writes:
- > 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?
- >>
- >
- > Who's talking about fuel? I'm talking about trade in general. You need
- > hard currency in the form of dollars to buy fuel.
-
- Or gold. Or something else that someone will take in trade.
-
- > 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.
-
- The US had no say in the matter. India sold it despite the US, if you
- will. I believe Italy did also.
-
- But since we are on the subject of embargoes, if Castro is so
- anti-embargo why does he have embargoes on his people leaving? On people
- calling into Cuba? On people receiving US TV and radio? On opposition
- political parties?
-
- Such a wonderful man, eh?
-
- Brett
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