Wagging the dog

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Is it just me, but, doesnt that “Obama administration official arrested in Cuba for passingout laptops and cellphones” thing sound kinda “iffy?”

I mean, you dont have to be a rocket scientist to know that castro regime would have issues with a US government administration person handing out free technology in Cuba.

Methinks there’s much much more to this story.

12 thoughts on “Wagging the dog”

  1. If it looks like a duck, walks and quacks. Guess what? It is a duck!
    Somebody told me that a guy from DC university commented on CNN that we arrested Cuban spies for doing less, what an idiot and this guy teaches Latin American studies. Why doesn’t he go live in Cuba and make an avg. of $19.00 a month?

  2. Strange the “Pastors for Publicity”

    try to take electronic equipment to Cuba

    all the time

    Aha the difference seems to be that the PFP

    gives the stuff to the Castro government …

    I am more interested in what will happen in

    Caibarien, after a Castro goon was murdered there …

  5. Maybe both “goverments” want to create a “situation” that motivates an “exchange” of spies,release or early release of “spies”.Even can include political prisioners in Cuba.

    Both,Cuban regime and Obama’s administration have being getting meetings in secret for quite some time,so “anything goes” between these two.

    Get ready for any “surprise act” between both rats,i mean,both goverments.

    saludos

  6. I agree something is fishy. This is what I’ve come up with so far. According to news articles the unnamed arrestee is employed by DAI, an international development company contracted by USAID. What exactly are they doing in Cuba? I found this in a public USAID document titled, “Fiscal Reform and Economic Governance: Technical Leadership and Field Support
    Fourth Quarterly Progress Report Covering the period July 2007 through September 2007”

    At USAID’s request, DCOP Steve Rozner compiled various data on “the ease of trading
    across borders” in Central Asia and a selection of neighboring countries. Based on the
    data, Rozner prepared several slides for a presentation by USAID/EGAT at a meeting with the Office of the US Trade Representative highlighting trends in reducing trade obstacles in the region.
    As mentioned in the highlights section of this report, Fiscal Reform team will be
    assisting EGAT in developing a database and a macro-fiscal model of the Cuban economy. Ms. Christina Erickson, of DAI, will devote a few weeks to compiling data into a useful format that will then be used for the macro-fiscal model. The model will allow
    us to link macroeconomic variables to both government spending and revenues, link expenditure items to real outputs or amounts spent on subsidies of basic consumer goods. We will be able to express the financing need of the Cuban government based
    on various scenarios, and we intend to be able to express these needs also in terms of not just money but in amounts of commodities provided or subsidized, persons served,
    barrels of fuel imported, and services exported.

  9. Ziva, could this be they’re getting ready to give USAID money/programs/whatever to (c)astro? Obviously, with money taken from your paycheck and mine…?

  10. Don’t know Cubanita, but there’s a reason why it took a week for this story to break, and as Val said, what has been released seems iffy at best. The question is, how deep is this s**t pile?

  11. let’s be clear – timing in Cuba is always going to be suspicious. the program has been running for awhile and God knows something could have been done about it before. I think it is 2 things –

    1. when an olive branch is extended by the US, Castro Inc. always tries to slap back. this is kind of wimpy compared to past exploits (Brothers to the Rescue and Mariel, most prominent examples) but it is a possibility.

    2. this program while more symbolic than anything truly annoys Castro Inc. if they would have done it under W – he would not have stopped it, he probably would have expanded it just to spite them. Obama, however, will “suspend” to review effectiveness and that will be that.

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