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TRUMP has no hotels in Cuba. But his competitors do.
n making the shift, Mr. Trump is delivering on a politically potent promise he made to the Cuban-American exile community based in Miami, which backed him in last years election and was deeply opposed to the détente. The new policy was shaped in large part by Cuban-American Republicans in Congress, including Senator Marco Rubio and Mario Diaz-Balart, both of Florida, and both of whom wanted even stiffer American sanctions on the Castro government.
But many business leaders and human rights groups are profoundly opposed to the change. Even members of Mr. Trumps own administration have privately argued that the move toward normalizing relations between Washington and Havana had yielded national security, diplomatic and economic benefits for the United States that should not be sacrificed.
The internal conflict is evident in the new approach, which will be enshrined in a policy directive that Mr. Trump plans to issue on Friday, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid pre-empting the president.
Although Mr. Trump has repeatedly said that Mr. Obama made a bad deal with Cuba, his shift falls well short of the wholesale reversal that many hard-liners, including Mr. Diaz-Balart, were seeking.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/us/politics/cuba-trump-obama.html
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts)his stupid tacky ass piece of shit hotels there?
former9thward
(32,181 posts)When I was there most of the hotels that foreigners would stay in fit that category and were owned by Spanish and a few French businesses. Trump and any other Americans are prohibited from owning or building any hotels there because of current US law. I am not sure who the competitors are that are referenced in the OP.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts)former9thward
(32,181 posts)So if you think his are tacky so are they. I don't have any problems with how foreign owned Cuban hotels look and I don't have any problem with how Trump hotels look. I am not a pretend hipster.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts)things. Some of them not so good even. But at least I don't go around with some wannabe contrarian douchebag shtick.
BTW, feel free to post some examples of the similarities you saw between the hotels there and Capt. Bone Spurs'.
CousinIT
(9,279 posts)Volaris
(10,281 posts)That this EO is actually about national security (because these incompetent fuckers likely can't prove that the sun comes up every morning).
OnDoutside
(19,988 posts)Washington Hotel and then arranging for a lobbyist to offer a great location in Havana for a new Trump Hotel, for free..... Just sayin' like...
HAB911
(8,957 posts)Inside Marco Rubios campaign to shape Trumps Cuba crackdown
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/15/marco-rubio-donald-trump-cuba-plan-239597