“Castro wrote: “Cuba is owed compensation equivalent to damages, which total many millions of dollars, as our country has stated with irrefutable arguments and data in all of its speeches at the United Nations.”
He did not go into detail on precisely how much money he reckons Washington owes Havana.
The Americans are also claiming compensation for US-owned property, such as real estate, that was confiscated when Castro took power.”
We don’t know if Fidel is on his own or speaking for Raul. We do know that there are people in the left who will buy this nonsense that Cuba is a victim of the US.
Never mind that the USSR subsidized Cuba for 30 years or that the embargo does not stop countries from doing business with the regime.
This is what happens when you give away everything. In other words, this is what results from “one way street” negotiations.
Can you blame the Cubans for asking for billions? They’ve gotten everything else from the Obama team!
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When he was a kid, Fidel sent a letter to FDR asking for $5, even though his father was quite well off. In other words, the bastard’s been at it since childhood.
April 11, 1960 Bridgeport Post……But even among that group there are rumblings reported from Havana. Food is lacking, and there is a shortage fo raw materials as a result of the policies of his Argentine-born communist economic commissar, Ernest Guevara. Unless parts and materials are soon available, the Island’s small but essential industrial machine may come to a standstill…….While this economic change develops, Castro continues to earmark fund for military equipment. He already has a bigger military establishment than Batista ever had…..Small businesses are reported closing; meat is scarce and of poor quality; butter is a dollar a pound in Havana, Castro has more to fear from these facts than from all the “enemies” he see hiding behind trees. A breakdown in Cuban economy means that the people will be hungry and poor, and if that occurs, the hungry and the poor will realize what a fake the bearded Castro Really is.