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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOk, can anyone tell me what happened in Cuba?
With us suddenly not being able to go there?
I thought it has been quiet. Haven't heard any news that sounds like it's unstable. What the heck is going on?
BannonsLiver
(16,403 posts)Essentially, he's reversing another Obama era policy...just because. The upshot is I'd expect there will be a lot of those in the cruise industry who will be donating to whoever his opponent might be in 2020. And these companies have a lot of cash, and don't like their business being restricted no matter who is in charge of the country. He's made an enemy here, and that's good news for the good guys.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Figures.
genxlib
(5,528 posts)So naturally, Donnie had to reverse the policy.
It really isn't any more complicated than that.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,448 posts)The orange anus' plans to build a hotel in Cuba were denied.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,448 posts)Retribution, Retaliation and Revenge.
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung are in agreement; the orange anus is one sick puppy.
malaise
(269,087 posts)They support Maduro and the Venezuelan people's right to choose their own leader
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)The orange "want to be" dictator gives so much to talk about.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)are squeezing the Ponzi Don. BTW,Canada offers the best ride into Cuba if anyone cares. Is Putin working this in the background,ah it sure seems that way.
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)He seems not to remember that.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)as someone who used to travel the Caribbean for many a winter,there are Ferries that travel to and from Cuba as well as small Freighters who move goods and products in and out of their daily.
The Canadian foot print is huge as well as the Italian one in Cuba.
FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)For the people who are already booked and paid that cruise ship will be allowed.
My family just returned Sunday from a cruise to Cuba sure glad they made it before this took effect.
Trump is crazy and wants everything Obama ruled on overturned
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)We have a jerk and chief.
struggle4progress
(118,309 posts)By Carolyn Kenney and John Norris
Posted on June 14, 2017, 12:01 am
... Reporter Kurt Eichenwald wrote in an Newsweek article that in 1998, a company controlled by Donald Trump, then called Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, had secretly conducted business in Cuba without U.S. approval and thus in direct violation of the Cuba embargo. According to the report, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts executives, with Trumps knowledge, paid for an American consulting firm called Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corp. to travel to Cuba to explore and develop business opportunities for the company there ...
More recently, there has also been speculation about whether Trump executives violated the Cuba embargo through frequent, potentially business-related travel to the country. For instance, Bloomberg reported that several Trump Organization executives and advisers traveled to Cuba in the past several years, including Executive Vice President for Strategic Development Larry Glick, environmental consultant for golf Edward Russo, Chief Legal Officer Jason Greenblatt, and Executive Vice President for Management and Development Ron Lieberman. In phone interviews with Bloomberg reporters, Russo, who reportedly spearheads the organizations Cuban golf efforts, confirmed having traveled to Cuba around a dozen times since 2011, including one trip in which Glick also participated. However, Russo told Bloomberg that his trips were not made on behalf of the Trump Organization.
although Russo said that these trips were not related to the Trump Organization, he referred questions about the trips to Eric Trumpwho at the time was the Trump Organizations executive vice president for development and acquisitions. In an email response to Bloomberg, Eric Trump stated, In the last 12 months, many major competitors have sought opportunities in Cuba.
While we are not sure whether Cuba represents an opportunity for us, it is important for us to understand the dynamics of the markets that our competitors are exploring. That is far from a denial.
Glick, Greenblatt, Lieberman, and the Trump Organization spokeswoman did not respond to Bloomberg reporters requests for comments. In another article published after the 2016 election, Bloomberg reported on comments made by Miguel Fluxa, a Spanish executive chairman of the hotel business Grupo Iberostar, which has 11 hotels in Cuba. Fluxa reportedly stated that he had learned from industry contacts that Trump had been looking into buying hotels in Cuba as recently as mid-2016 ...
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/news/2017/06/14/433923/trumps-conflicts-interest-cuba/
Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Thanks for the article.