US prepares measures to help Cuban small businesses -source

[Judi Lynn]

Reuters
Mon, September 18, 2023 at 12:07 PM CDT

WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The Biden administration is preparing to unveil new regulatory measures to allow more U.S. financial support for small private businesses in Cuba, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.

The move, expected as soon as this week, is seen as a long-promised but limited step to ease restrictions to help Cuba’s budding entrepreneurs cope with fallout from the Communist-ruled island’s troubled economy. (Reporting By Matt Spetalnick Editing by Chris Reese)

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-prepares-measures-help-cuban-170712304.html

(Very short article, no more at link.)

[Marcus IM]

1. What a fukkin bullshite piece of swill that story is.

The US will only "help" Cuba(ns) when that help is intended on undermining/dismantling Cuba's hard won system.

" ... help Cuba’s budding entrepreneurs cope with fallout from the Communist-ruled island’s troubled economy."

The reason that Cuba has a "troubled economy" is because the USA has created, over decades, extraterritorial economic sanctions with the specific intent on destroying Cuba's economy.

The US will now "help" those suffering from US abuse, but ... only if it undermines their economy.

What a pant load of doggerel that brief and stinking piece of "journalism" is.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Yup! It's been their yarn all these nasty years. The pre-Trump idiots always bought it.

Their most persistant claim is that it's been proven that socialism never works. They don't seem to have any grasp of history, or bother to learn.

They're profoundly ignorant of to what Washington has spent of the public's treasury investing in destroying socialism, year after year after decade after decade, and the grotesque toll it has taken upon the human race in the targeted countries, not to mention the side-effect of forcing US taxpayers to have to pay far more in taxes financing this massive investment of their own earned salaries (minus the vast chunk-a-change never required in taxes of corporations and the wealthiest, of course).

Ignorance and apathy. They don't know and they don't bother to learn.

I suspect I had a very similar reaction to yours, but felt it was appropriate to get the message through that at least, Biden is moving to assist someone in Cuba, even though the public believes the wild crappola propaganda which has been flowing around continually, as in every day, since at least 1954, when Eisenhower overthrew the Guatemalan elected progressive President with the help of the Dulles Brothers, one the head of the CIA.

In time, people will ALL know, no matter how long they've believed the bogus stuff fed to them their whole lives for the sake of power and politics. More would know now, if they ever bothered to take their heads out.

[Marcus IM]

3. I believe that much of the US's positions on Cuba is anti-hispanic ...

... before and after the 1959 Revolution.

[Judi Lynn]

4. I have no doubt that's true. They could barely wait to remove Spain from any part of Cuba.

More than happy to shed the blood of US soldiers and sailors to do it. They seemed to relish the Spanish-American war, didn't they?

It can't be that they wanted to save "Cubans" from Spanish brutality, because the Washington
attitude never seemed to have any real inhibitions against a lot human rights violations, in perspective.

[Marcus IM]

5. Cuba was literally known as the "Whorehouse of the Caribbean" when under US gangster rule.

Now, the whorehouse of the Caribbean is Calle Ocho (little Havana), Miami.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Definitely heard about that. I have wondered if it started when the US Navy

used Havana as a Rest and Recreation stop for US crews. That may have even been going on at the time of the Spanish-American war, now that I think about it. They did take Guantanamo over a hundred years ago, too.

US military used to take a lot of photos of themselves in Cuban bars with women they picked up for some quality time. Maybe they saw that as their only alternative to drinking torpedo juice in the engine room on the ships.

Calle Ocho! Wow. Oh, I remember hearing wealthy exiles all started fanning out to much more expensive neighbors years ago.

From Wikipedia:

As the new hotels, nightclubs, and casinos opened, Batista collected his share of the profits. Nightly, the "bagman" for his wife collected 10% of the profits at Santo Trafficante's casinos, the Sans Souci cabaret, and the casinos in the hotels Sevilla-Biltmore, Commodoro, Deauville, and Capri (partly owned by the actor George Raft). His take from the Lansky casinos—his prized Habana Riviera, the Hotel Nacional, the Montmartre Club, and others—was said to be 30%.[56] Lansky was said to have personally contributed millions of dollars per year to Batista's Swiss bank accounts.[57]

More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista


(Batista and 2 Americas. You have to guess which one is Batista.)



By Harris & Ewing - Harris & Ewing photograph via Library of Congress, Public Domain

(Pull my finger times 3)

At the beginning of 1959 United States companies owned about 40 percent of the Cuban sugar lands—almost all the cattle ranches—90 percent of the mines and mineral concessions—80 percent of the utilities—practically all the oil industry—and supplied two-thirds of Cuba's imports.

— John F. Kennedy[44]