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The Obama Administration appears to have granted a license to a U.S. company that allows it to facilitate the transmission of Cuban government programming in the United States. It will be difficult to secure all of the details of the arrangement, however, we can glean some information from materials released by Olympusat, [...]
The Obama Administration should take note, again, that the Cuban regime is not interested in reforming the system. The regime’s custom “fee” is more like a regime survival tax. It will teach folks who travel to Cuba to visit family, in a dramatic fashion, why the regime wants Americans to travel to [...]
And the Miami Herald Ignores Reality
As usual, this Miami Herald article seems more like a translation from Granma, the communist party newspaper, then a new report with both sides of the story. So long as Cuba remains under Communist rule, there can be no private jobs or enterprise on that island. [...]
Now that their quixotic oil quest has come to an end, at least for now, Cuba’s Communist Party (PCC) is busy looking for money. Any money.
So what do irrational governments desperate to cling to power do during tough times? Raise taxes and fees. If your planning to travel to Cuba to visit family, [...]
Although Pope-bashing by pundits on his recent trip to Cuba may have generated web traffic for the chattering class and headlines for the politicians, its time to move on to more constructive commentary on U.S.-Cuba policy matters. There are a few prickly issues that US-Cuba policy planners need to start discussing in a more focused manner. [...]
There is a battle brewing in the U.S.-Cuba public policy arena and no one in this town who can do something about it is paying any serious attention to it. If someone fails to take up this issue, U.S. taxpayers owed billions of dollars by the Cuban Communist government will, as usual, be left holding [...]
It is very easy to cast aspersions on political opponents when you have nothing to lose. Most of the time people do this when they have little, if any, logical argument to use against an adversary. Take the case of special interest groups in this town that support normalization of relations, without conditions, with dictatorial [...]
