Though he’s not totally reversing President Obama’s moves to end the Cuba embargo, President Trump did announce today that he is canceling what he called a “completely one-sided deal with Cuba,” insisting he would not be silent “in the face of communist oppression.”
The US and Cuban embassies will remain open, but this move is expected to seriously curtail US trade with Cuba, and also strictly enforce the long-standing ban with on US tourists visiting the Caribbean island nation. Cuba criticized the move as a return to the “coercive methods of the past.”
The big losers in this are US construction and travel companies, many of whom took Obama’s opening of the island as an opportunity to look into investment in what was once an extremely lucrative tourism market for the United States, and could be again.
The companies are complaining about the roll-back of US policy, insisting that cutting trade ties with Cuba actually lessens the pressure for them to make meaningful reforms, and also gives the business opportunities to be had to companies from other nations, which may not have the same interest in reform at all.
Yet another traiterous move by Trump.
It is quite obvious, at this point, Trump is not capable of leading this country in a ‘new’ direction. He’s using the same old road map to our eventual destruction. Haven’t the Cubans been through enough? Regardless of the ‘isims’ involved, Cuba belongs to the Cubans. If they do not like their government, let them deal with it. This is a bullshit move by a bullshit President. So much for his “anti-interventionist” campaign promise. Just more of the same old lies… (Pardon my French but I am becoming fluent…)
I voted for Trump to keep Clinton out of the Oval Office, but I will never vote for him again. . . . unless he starts to “drain the swamp” and gets the warmongering idiots out of DC! Wow President Trump it didn’t take you long to get on the war criminals list! Was Castro a war criminal or a genuine freedom fighter. I would go with the latter and the USA should too! Isn’t that what the Founding Fathers had in mind when it came to the USA’s stance on freedom and democracy?
Well I did not vote for Trump…or the other one…they are both evil and voting for the lesser evil is still voting for evil…and it turns out I was right…Trump is a little, pathological narcosis, with a vengeful temperament and a love for all things authoritarian…he is not going to drain the swap…what were you thinking…he is the embodiment of a swap…he just replaced a really fucked system with a really fucked up system and will probably get us all killed…like I said he is evil…
Punishing Cubans for charting their own course, by taking away the freedom for Americans to travel or invest where they want. I guess that makes as much sense as hurting German companies because of baseless allegations of Russian interference in the US election. Apparently Trump doesn’t like free markets after all. If only he applied his professed principles universally: “we do not want U.S. dollars to prop up a military monopoly that exploits and abuses the citizens…”
a billionaire real estate developer is NEVER in favor of “free markets.” Its a part of their DNA. They want rigged and controlled markets that gurantee them their profits. Free and unbridled competition gives them nightmares that keep them awake at nights.
This is a blessing in disguise for Cuba. Cuba needs a policy to reject “American” investment and the perversions of capitalist oligarchy. If they don’t, Wall Street billionaires will gobble it up, stripping the people of all ownership in their own land. Do the right thing, Cuba. Reject crony capitalism and turn to partners in the world who can protect you from the predators.
If there is any socialist government that would not go the route of once socialist Russia, Cuba would be it.
The Donald has problems with oppression, but apparently only the communist variety. Maybe if they were buying $110 billion worth of war toys, not so much.
Socialism is not oppression, quite the reverse. For look at the misery now going down in Venezuela, which is more capitalist then socialist, all because President Chavez refused to follow Cuba by nationalizing everything owned by the rich.
I only wanted to point out Trump’s hypocrisy. I’m a socialist myself.
“Socialism” or whatever will NEVER work in ANY nation as long as the USA covertly disrupts said nation! To think that the USA has embargoed a small nation like Cuba, which has made tremendous progress in many ways and has offered assistance to American tragedy victims many times only to be rebuffed, is ridiculous! And all for politcal standing and popularity! What a joke the USG has become!
Apparently its now “boiler-plate” text that whenever Trump wants to cancel a deal he calls it “one-sided.”
A US President could with equal truthiness announce that he is ending the “one-sided” blockade of Cuba.
James Early has a much more optimistic perspective.
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:19343:Trump-Cuba-Plan-at-Odds-with-75%25-of-Americans
Get cozy with the Russians or the Chinese, Cuba- it’s not the best solution, but it’s probably one of the few ways you’ll survive the ‘friendship’ of the US.
Like the history of Iran the USA has a long history of perverting the civil structure of Cuba. Cubans are not struggling against their government , that is a lie and it needs constant work from western media to keep the lie alive in the USA. Allowing tourism will not help the lie so this is what you get.
“Cubans are not struggling against their government”
Either there are Cubans struggling against their government, or Cuba has the most totalitarian government imaginable, because that is what it would take for there to not be anyone struggling against it.
There’s no such thing as 11 1/2 million people all agreeing with each other on politics.