Wordslinger wrote: Markle wrote: 2seaoat wrote:The Castro brothers are two dead men walking......they have little or no relevancy to opening the Cuban and American markets to historical trade. The benefits to both countries will be simple comparative advantage analysis. In five years the average Cuban will see real change in their median income, and America will see our GDP grow because of the sale of our manufactured products......again only a fool would find any relevance in two old men whose time has passed.
You really believe that another Communist Dictator will NOT step in to fill the void left when both the Castro buy the farm. Russia will assist the next dictator. The possibilities are strong that the next dictator will be worse than the Castro brothers. He will move quickly to establish his strength and power.
Russia is the most hated foreign country in Cuba.
Oh I'm sure, especially coming from the forum's Cuba/Russia relations expert.
Cuba–Russia relations (Russian: Российско-кубинские отношения, Spanish: Relaciones Ruso-Cubanas) reflect the political, economic and cultural exchanges between Cuba and Russia. These countries have had close cooperation since the days of the Soviet Union. Russia has an embassy in Havana and a consulate-general in Santiago de Cuba. Cuba has an embassy in Moscow and an honorary consulate in Saint Petersburg. Around 55,000 people of Russian descent live in Cuba.
Cuba and the Russian Federation[edit]
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Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Cuba and Russia have maintained their diplomatic relations. After Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, relations between both countries increased. In December 2000, Putin visited Cuba and he along with Fidel Castro called for the lifting of the embargo on Cuba. Russia is still Cuba's leading creditor and the two countries maintain close economic ties with each other. Cuba strongly supported Russia's position in the 2008 South Ossetian war. In the fall of 2008 Cuba and Russia increased joint cooperation with each other in the field of economics. Russian deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin visited Cuba several times in 2008 in order to increase economic and political ties. Russia was the first country to provide aid to Cuba after three hurricanes devastated the country in the fall of 2008. The assistance provided by Russia included four planes of food, medical supplies and construction supplies.
In November 2008, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited Cuba to strengthen economic ties and to allow Russian companies to drill for oil offshore in Cuban waters, and to allow Russian mining companies to mine nickel in Cuba.[1] Raul Castro traveled for a week-long visit to Moscow from January 28, 2009 to February 4, 2009. The talks included $20 million worth of credit to Havana, and 25,000 tons of grain as humanitarian aid to Cuba.[2]
In July 2009 Russia began oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico after signing a deal with Cuba. Under the new agreement, Russia has also granted a loan of $150m to buy construction and agricultural equipment.[3] In 2013, Medvedev again visited Cuba in which he signed agreements on education, health, hydrometeorology, aeronautics and space technology.[4]
In July 2014, Vladimir Putin also visited Cuba, where he touted a decision to wipe clean 90 percent of the island's $35 billion debt to Moscow and announced deals to invest in Cuba's offshore oil industry.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba%E2%80%93Russia_relations
Obviously Lame Duck President Obama HATES to be "outcomunisted" by another Communist.
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