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In reply to the discussion: Raul Castro: Cuba willing to sit down with US [View all]The Wizard
(12,483 posts)20. As long as Presidents
fear losing the electoral vote in Florida nothing will change. Cuban expatriates hold sway over the Florida elections and truly believe they will return to Cuba and get their property returned with Republicans in power because there's a better chance of military invasion and occupation under a Republican president. The record indicates that to be true, but only when oil is involved.
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if we ever get real democracy here...THEN we'll have the right to demand it for Cuba.
Ken Burch
Aug 2012
#43
maybe that's what they were TRYING to make when they came up with the pressed sandwich thing.
Ken Burch
Aug 2012
#54
Actually, if I still ate meat, I'd probably have a Cuban sandwich now and then
Ken Burch
Aug 2012
#71
Too bad she sees it all through the eyes of her sister-in-law, "exile" Maria Victoria Arias
Judi Lynn
Jul 2012
#16
Sure. But in this case Hillary brings her experience and the voice of her right wing
flamingdem
Aug 2012
#45
Like her aide brings the "terrists" and the Muslim Brotherhood into the tent, too?
MADem
Aug 2012
#57
I disagree. I am very up on the Cuba situation and I can tell you it's a full time
flamingdem
Aug 2012
#58
Yes, and President Obama is "too stupid" to figure it out, and can only manage if he takes blind
MADem
Aug 2012
#59
I think it is VERY CREEPY for Democrats to be saying that Hillary is influenced by her frigging
MADem
Aug 2012
#62
There's no doubt whatsoever that when Republican Presidential candidates, and senators, etc.
Judi Lynn
Aug 2012
#63
Interesting images from the Herald. Saw Alberto Ibarguen, Cuban "exile" who used to run the Herald,
Judi Lynn
Aug 2012
#66
I know, right? We deal with many authoritarian regimes that are worse than Cuba.
octothorpe
Jul 2012
#40
I think "Cuban Spring" means the re-taking of the island by the Batista descendants
flamingdem
Jul 2012
#14
are the authoritarian tendencies very evident when protestors are briefly detained in the US?
frylock
Jul 2012
#17
The truth about property is that it's mostly too late to recuperate property
flamingdem
Jul 2012
#22
They abandoned their homes 53 years ago. Why should the new resident be kicked out for them?
Mika
Aug 2012
#53
The Republicans will only talk on the condition that Havana be given back to Meyer Lansky's heirs.
Monk06
Jul 2012
#32
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) today issued her Gold Medal
mia
Jul 2012
#35
He was in charge in the sixties. Someone, somewhere has a serious grudge against the guy and it is
MADem
Aug 2012
#56