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KY_EnviroGuy

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5. Hope someone more knowledgeable chimes in, but I think

Reply to rickyhall (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 11, 2020, 09:08 AM

Feb 2020

Republican motives are....

* Maintaining control of the Cuban vote in the Miami area (to keep Florida red), and
* To get Western business interests access to Cuba's resources: Oil, nickel ore and forest and farm products.

I personally admire Cuba's resilience to Western pressure although they have a long way to go with human rights issues, which right-wingers don't care about.

KY........

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Republican cruelty on the poor never ends; just gets worse. [View all] KY_EnviroGuy Feb 2020 OP

They cannot stand up TEB Feb 2020 #1

Looks like international class war as part of the one world order. Cuba's system could teach our ancianita Feb 2020 #2

Weird. I thought the Impeached 1 liked dictators & dictatorships.. rickyhall Feb 2020 #3

Hope someone more knowledgeable chimes in, but I think KY_EnviroGuy Feb 2020 #5

K & R Duppers Feb 2020 #4