Posts by: Jason Poblete
At our local car service station in Arlington, Virginia, a home-made political bumper sticker that sums up the sentiments of many in these parts. The homemade component of it is appropriate for these tough economic times:
The Miami Herald reports:
“Cuba’s dreams of an oil bonanza suffered a tough but possibly temporary setback Friday when the Spanish Repsol company confirmed it hit a dry hole when it drilled a well off the island’s northwest coast.”
What a shame …
One wonders why …
According to the Hill newspaper: “U.S. lawmakers have been unusually silent about federal regulators’ decision to allow a Chinese bank to take over 13 bank branches in New York and California, suggesting that they think American banks have much to gain.
Members of both parties usually relish the chance to bash [...]
Spain’s conservative government has called for an end to U.S. sanctions on Cuba. They’re wrong, however, with high unemployment and several Latin American leftist regimes expropriating Spanish companies, the announcement is not a surprise.
As a regional Western Hemisphere power, try as it may, Spain has been a nation in decline for decades. [...]
The Babalu Blog reports that a group pro-regime Cuban-Americans were in DC recently lobbying in favor of easing U.S.-Cuba sanctions. The eclectic group with a quixotic mission even recorded a (propaganda) video of the visit. Raul Castro’s nephew was among the participants.
The Left-wing Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) had a representative [...]
Prostitutegate aside, there were other, more pressing things that happened at the Summit of the Americas two weeks ago. We can tinker with a lot of things. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, for example, sideswipe of U.S.-Cuba policy: “The isolation, the embargo, the indifference, and looking the other way, have shown their ineffectiveness” and the policy [...]
