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Demeter

(85,373 posts) Fri Mar 15, 2013, 05:53 PM Mar 2013

Weekend Economists Escape to Cuba March 15-17, 2013 [View all]

If I were to slavishly follow the calendar, this weekend we would rhapsodize on St. Patrick and Ireland and such. I'll save it for a year that seems more whimsical, or needs that spirit.

Instead, since it is still going down to single digits around Michigan at night, let's imagine we are basking in the Carribean, where temps. today are ranging between 70 and 82F and humidity is only 50%...in Cuba!

Cuba would also be the logical follow up to the death of Chavez. Chavez sought help there for his cancer. Why?

Maybe because he felt no one would try to take him out, there. The USA considered him a major impediment to our growing Corporate Kleptocracy. The relations between the US and Cuba are complicated, and worth exploring. After all, there may be another state funeral soon, with the Castro brothers both advanced in age...

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