CUBANOW RECAP: FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS

[Mika]

CUBANOW RECAP: FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS

{snippet}

When changes to our US-Cuba policy were announced last December, status-quo advocates warned of political hell-fire and brimstone. Some called it a “major setback” to the cause of Cuban freedom that inflicted “even greater damage…to American leadership in the world.”

The facts, however, are telling us a drastically different story...

Rest of article here.

[Judi Lynn]

1. It's especially funny seeing local papers in Florida, New Jersey, and Texas all advocate the change.

Home state journalists of the three foaming-at-the-mouth anti-revolution Cuban "exile" legislators. Funny!

Love the news the Minnesota Orchestra will be going there very soon. Of course we remember Minnesota was maybe the first state sending agricultural experts to Cuba when the Congress opened exceptions for certain forms of trade with Cuba after Hurricane Michelle completely wiped out Cuba's food reserves during the Clinton administration.

Who doesn't remember Gov. Jesse Ventura's announcement he would be accompanying his trade delegation to Cuba, and that fetid Cuban "exile" Otto Reich, in his public admonition that Jesse Ventura should not go to Cuba as a "sex tourist," trying to smear him as some kind of pervert, rather than Minnesota's governor?

So right-wing, isn't it? Just what you'd expect. Mrs. Ventura, who was going along, wasn't all that impressed by Otto Reich's dirty smears, either.

The Minnesota Orchestra will no doubt be well received. Cubans love music, and have fantastic classical musicians there, new ones coming up every single year.

Thank you, Mika!