Obama to speak today 12 noon CNN on Cuba policy

[Johnny-O!]

Alan Gross was released today from prison. Obama will speak at 12 noon on CNN on shift in Cuba policy. John

[avioli]

Obama has spoken.
Before he leaves office, guess what.
Any day Visa and MC will be accepted there.
How many people will go there the 1st year its legal again.

[WadeFillingame]

When/if it opens up there will be a big boom, for a while, but that regime is so anti-profit, and anti-free enterprise that it won't take long for lots of people to get jailed. 

The Castro government there now will go crazy as bats trying to keep their thumb on everything.  Before too long it will be Venezuela w/o oil.  The new will wear off and it will be a dirt poor Caribbean country with no embargo to blame.  No US company in their right mind will invest in infrastructure or capital assets there until there is  a different government.

[Gibson]

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When/if it opens up there will be a big boom, for a while, but that regime is so anti-profit, and anti-free enterprise that it won't take long for lots of people to get jailed. 

The Castro government there now will go crazy as bats trying to keep their thumb on everything.  Before too long it will be Venezuela w/o oil.  The new will wear off and it will be a dirt poor Caribbean country with no embargo to blame.  No US company in their right mind will invest in infrastructure or capital assets there until there is  a different government.

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Exactly, well said.

[avioli]

[quote author=XTR link=topic=31206.msg132681#msg132681 date=1418848867]
When/if it opens up there will be a big boom, for a while, but that regime is so anti-profit, and anti-free enterprise that it won't take long for lots of people to get jailed. 

The Castro government there now will go crazy as bats trying to keep their thumb on everything.  Before too long it will be Venezuela w/o oil.  The new will wear off and it will be a dirt poor Caribbean country with no embargo to blame.  No US company in their right mind will invest in infrastructure or capital assets there until there is  a different government.

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I agree, which is why I said the 1st year, after that it`ll be somewhere between
pre and post Castros.

[jimbobber]

[quote author=avioli link=topic=31206.msg132703#msg132703 date=1418869004]
the anejo sharks are all gone

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I guess that means it is safe to swim to Cuba now.

[burnem]

Will we may see some ease in various restrictions, I don't expect an embargo lift or any other drastic changes until a change in government in Cuba.  No way does the current House and Senate change anything major.

[avioli]

Did JFK need approval to impose the embargo???
Or did he do it all by himself???

[WadeFillingame]

The embargo has evolved over the yrs.  It was in place months before the missile crisis.  JFK created it with an Executive order; however, it's been codified by the congress several times, once in the 60s I think and again in the 90s.  So the reality is that pres can't change it unilaterally.

[hp123]

[quote author=XTR link=topic=31206.msg132735#msg132735 date=1418916411]
The embargo has evolved over the yrs.  It was in place months before the missile crisis.  JFK created it with an Executive order; however, it's been codified by the congress several times, once in the 60s I think and again in the 90s.  So the reality is that pres can't change it unilaterally.
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True... And theoretically the President would have to do it that way, but Obama hasn't always followed that line of thinking so who knows what to expect.