First legal Cuban cargo in more than 50 years arrives in US

First legal Cuban cargo in more than 50 years arrives in US

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/first-legal-cuban-cargo-in-more-than-50-years-arrives-in-us/2017/01/24/2bd23b44-e28f-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html?utm_term=.3f79fc6b8f4c

I wonder if President Trump will backtrack on Cuba? Trade between Florida and Cuba seems to be starting.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:First legal Cuban cargo in more than 50 years arrives in US

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/first-legal-cuban-cargo-in-more-than-50-years-arrives-in-us/2017/01/24/2bd23b44-e28f-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html?utm_term=.3f79fc6b8f4c

I wonder if President Trump will backtrack on Cuba? Trade between Florida and Cuba seems to be starting.

Hopefully!!

Markle wrote:

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:First legal Cuban cargo in more than 50 years arrives in US

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/first-legal-cuban-cargo-in-more-than-50-years-arrives-in-us/2017/01/24/2bd23b44-e28f-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html?utm_term=.3f79fc6b8f4c

I wonder if President Trump will backtrack on Cuba? Trade between Florida and Cuba seems to be starting.

Hopefully!!

You mean to say hopefully trade will flourish between Cuba and Florida, creating many jobs for our citizens and helping our state's economy! I knew you had it in ya!  

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

Markle wrote:

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:First legal Cuban cargo in more than 50 years arrives in US

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/first-legal-cuban-cargo-in-more-than-50-years-arrives-in-us/2017/01/24/2bd23b44-e28f-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html?utm_term=.3f79fc6b8f4c

I wonder if President Trump will backtrack on Cuba? Trade between Florida and Cuba seems to be starting.

Hopefully!!

You mean to say hopefully trade will flourish between Cuba and Florida, creating many jobs for our citizens and helping our state's economy! I knew you had it in ya!  

Thank you, I try to be clear but I failed in this case.

Florida gains nothing from trade with Cuba. The citizens of Cuba gain nothing. The only ones who win is the brutal dictator and their cabal.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:First legal Cuban cargo in more than 50 years arrives in US

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/first-legal-cuban-cargo-in-more-than-50-years-arrives-in-us/2017/01/24/2bd23b44-e28f-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html?utm_term=.3f79fc6b8f4c

I wonder if President Trump will backtrack on Cuba? Trade between Florida and Cuba seems to be starting.

While the market will be small since their exports are so limited anything is a start. It would be nice to see Cuba open up completely - I want to go back and see the whole place instead of just GITMO. Besides it's always better to have a nation only 90 miles away "friendly" to you. I know the reasons given but still wonder why BHO waited until the last minute to discard the feet wet/feet dry policy.

gatorfan wrote:

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:First legal Cuban cargo in more than 50 years arrives in US

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/first-legal-cuban-cargo-in-more-than-50-years-arrives-in-us/2017/01/24/2bd23b44-e28f-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html?utm_term=.3f79fc6b8f4c

I wonder if President Trump will backtrack on Cuba? Trade between Florida and Cuba seems to be starting.

While the market will be small since their exports are so limited anything is a start. It would be nice to see Cuba open up completely - I want to go back and see the whole place instead of just GITMO. Besides it's always better to have a nation only 90 miles away "friendly" to you. I know the reasons given but still wonder why BHO waited until the last minute to discard the feet wet/feet dry policy.

Because he knew it was terrible for Cuban Citizens and great for the Castro Cabal.

Since now everyone has to be forcefully returned to Cuba, what does anyone think the fate of those returned to Cuba?

Hopefully this policy will be reversed by President Trump.

What's incorrect? Follow the money... who is benefited?

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:Please pardon Lame Dork poster Markle's one-dimensional thinking!

He doesn't know how to think outside of the box, of rocks.

What's incorrect? Follow the money... who is benefited?


Everybody. Sugar cane bio mass for ethanol instead of corn means American farmers can sell more corn, and we are not burning food to make energy. With trade the fruit, and vegetable winter market will allow massive agricultural trade which will mean better tractors and farm implements improving Cuban productivity. We get all kinds of fruit in the winter from Chile and South America, but the transportation cost savings, and the timing of fresh vegetable and fruit is huge. The opening of trade with China and Viet Nam started with the proposition that we were supporting communists.......stupid. Trade benefits everybody if it is fair and there is no dumping.

2seaoat wrote:What's incorrect? Follow the money... who is benefited?


Everybody.  Sugar cane bio mass for ethanol instead of corn means American farmers can sell more corn, and we are not burning food to make energy.   With trade the fruit, and vegetable winter market will allow massive agricultural trade which will mean better tractors and farm implements improving Cuban productivity.  We get all kinds of fruit in the winter from Chile and South America, but the transportation cost savings, and the timing of fresh vegetable and fruit is huge.  The opening of trade with China and Viet Nam started with the proposition that we were supporting communists.......stupid.   Trade benefits everybody if it is fair and there is no dumping.

Doesn't help the Cuban citizen.

With alcohol no longer required to lower our mileage, we won't need as much sugar. My guess is that CAFE standards will be reduced too.

He knows the reality of the Cuban autocracy... and ignores it. He plugs his ears and yells lalala.

He knows the reality of the Cuban autocracy... and ignores it. He plugs his ears and yells lalala.


I am the only academic on this forum who has written papers on Cuban history and Latin American trade.  Stupid people saying stupid things and pretending that academic standards and facts do not matter, are why fascist gain in this world and democracy and truth shrink.  All people in Cuba will gain with open trade.   Again, Stupid is hard to fix.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Cuba

In 2014 Cuba’s economic freedom score was 28.7, making its economy one of the world’s least free. Its overall score was 0.2 point higher than last year, with deteriorations in trade freedom, fiscal freedom, monetary freedom and freedom from corruption counterbalanced by an improvement in business freedom. Cuba ranked least free of 29 countries in the South and Central America/Caribbean region and its overall score was significantly lower than the regional average. Over the 20-year history of the Index, Cuba’s economic freedom remained stagnant near the bottom of the “repressed” category. Its overall score improvement was less than 1 point over the past two decades, with score gains in fiscal freedom and freedom from corruption offset by double-digit declines in business freedom and investment freedom.

Despite some progress in restructuring the state sector since 2010, the private sector remained constrained by heavy regulations and tight state controls. The Heritage Foundation states that open-market policies were not in place to spur growth in trade and investment and the lack of competition continued to stifle dynamic economic expansion. A watered-down reform package endorsed by the Party trimmed the number of state workers and expanded the list of approved professions, but many details of the reform remained obscure.[64]