Talk about insider trading, huh? JFK got his before he slammed the door shut with the Cuba embargo...
President John F Kennedy ordered an aide to buy him as many Cuban cigars as he could just hours before he authorised the U.S. trade embargo - which subsequently made them illegal.
Kennedy asked his head of press and [...]

Wow! Must really suck having your best ballplayers defect to other countries so that they can actually be paid for busting their asses to perfect their skills and talent on the diamond ... and count their professional contract and paycheck as their own in a professional league as free men in a free market system. [...]

(In this Dec. 16, 2010 photo, Wilfredo Martinez Jr. of Miami writes the word 'Fragile' on a television set he is taking on his flight to Cuba at Miami ... More photos @ AP including worship at the Shrine of Saint Lazarus 2010)

Cuban-Americans visiting Cuba are hauling in the mother lode of goods ...
HAVANA [...]

Yes, the entire 2:21 clip from The Thing fits perfectly as a metaphor for what follows below ... God help us:
The Obama administration got a new “shellacking” this morning, this one entirely voluntary. In the name of improving America’s image abroad, it sent three top officials from the State Department to Geneva’s U.N. Human Rights [...]

AFP: Cuba to allow first US dollar home rentals in 50 years
Cuba is to allow some houses to be rented in US dollars for the first time in 50 years as well as the opening up of small businesses as it seeks to shed 500,000 public jobs, state media said Friday.
"From October, the ban on [...]

Let me count the ways  money hungry anti-embargo activists can say Human Rights for Cubans do not matter. Brig. Gen. John Adams and David Jones are pigs.
From Capitol Hill Cubans:
How About Reconciling With Hitler's Germany?
In today's Roll Call, retired Brig. Gen. John Adams and David Jones, a former fundraiser for Congressman Charlie Rangel of New [...]

 The first thing that caught my eye in today's Cuba news feed is a speculative article about Hillary Clinton traveling to Cuba to help gain the release of Alan Gross. You can bet this rumor is just a tickler put out to ensure that when the actual event takes place it will have the correct "buzz," and you know [...]

I do not support dialog with, negotiation with, or any action that aids or appeases the castro regime. I personally do not knowingly engage in any activity that supports or finances the dictatorship. I do not travel to Cuba, I do not spend money on movies, music, art, or attend concerts or cultural events that [...]

It seems that the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is the constant thread of the narrative here at Babalu Blog and wherever the issue of Cuba and its dictatorship is discussed. It feels like every day someone new comes along and says, “well it hasn’t worked in fifty years so isn’t time to try something [...]

Capitol Hill Cubans straighten out Senator Kerry's twisted thinking:
How can Senator Kerry boldly state that U.S policy has "manifestly failed" for nearly 50 years, then qualify the Clinton Administration's travel and engagement initiatives as "successful"?

Wasn't Bill Clinton's presidency within the last 50 years?

Wasn't Jimmy Carter's presidency -- when tourism and all other travel transactions between [...]

It was only a matter of time with these wankers in control of the government .... and look whose name pops up again....
By Fabiola Moura
Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Legislation to end a ban on Americans traveling to Cuba has enough support in the U.S. House of Representatives to win approval by year-end, said Representative Sam [...]

The AFP  informs that Thursday's State Department easing of remittance and family travel restrictions  didn't go far enough for the Cuban dictatorship.   The tone of the denunciation decrying the move as a "cosmetic coat of paint," something they know a thing or two about, would seem to strike a harsh note. 
Of course, it is not unusual for an American President [...]

Amnesty International released a report earlier this week indicating that the U.S. and its embargo is responsible for the deterioration of health in Cuba. I was going to post some personal thoughts on this, but after reading this piece by Sylvia Longmire at Dallas-based Examiner.com, I figured I'd let her explain instead:
Unfortunately, the Amnesty report [...]

There are a two must read posts about the embargo up at Capital Hill Cubans. One debunks the long held belief by many, that the majority of Cubans blame the embargo and not the regime for the shortages and hardships they suffer. The other is this excellent reminder of the embargo's original purpose, which it [...]

PBS WIDE ANGLE correspondent Aaron Brown will host a live debate on Blog Talk Radio today at 11:00 a.m. EST. The topic: should the U.S. lift the trade embargo on Cuba? Brown will moderate a discussion between Phil Peters, author of the blog The Cuban Triangle, who advocates lifting the embargo, and Mauricio Claver-Carone, author [...]

I just received an invitation to participate in PBS's Wide Angle Blog Talk Radio Show this Thursday at 11 a.m. EST. Correspondent Aaron Brown will host a live debate, the topic: should the U.S. lift the trade embargo on Cuba? Brown will moderate a discussion between Phil Peters, author of the blog The Cuban Triangle, [...]

The Cuba Research and Analysis Group (CRAG) recently initiated a letter to President Obama  requesting an end to the "Cultural Embargo" against Cuba. The esteemed Paquito D' Rivera, exiled Cuban musician and author responds; published with the authors permission:
Music can Wait
by Paquito D'Rivera (English / Español)
It’s been more than 5 decades since Fidel Castro jumped to [...]

Leading Cuban dissident Darsi Ferrer is now in a maximum-security prison, supposedly for illegally purchasing construction material, iron bars he was planning to use to secure his home.
Are we still supposed to believe that it is the U.S. embargo against Cuba that is hurting the people? Because it looks to me that it is [...]

Obama has said no talk just for the sake of talking, but that's exactly what any dialogue with Cuba will be until Cuba is free of the communist dictatorship that has ruled the island for 50 years.
A few years ago Babalu published a letter stating what we believe are the minimum requirements that [...]

Read it here.
And he ain't a right wing intransigent .... so what's wrong with the rest of the hard left?  Too much time on the bong?
Well what do you expect from a bunch of wankers who seem to be more interested in the President's new dog.

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