Obama to announce sweeping changes in Cuba policy today!

[Simfan34]

As they say, "Only Obama could go to Cuba."

I'm not sure they would say that, and he hasn't been there... yet. Hopefully the things normalisation advocates say will happen- that trade and economic changes will comple political change- are correct, because they've won the day it seems, according to the BBC:

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Also, the embargo has apparently cost the Cuban economy $1.1 trillion since 1960. That's an enormous sum considering it's such a small country.

[Simfan34]

All I'll say is that I hope this doesn't end up being the proverbial thrust that undoes the advances of the socialist revolution in Cuba in the realm of property relations.

One hopes it will. But the best news of all:

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