US Recognition of Cuba

El secretario de Estado norteamericano, John Kerry, pidió al Kremlin distender la crisis en la república autónoma ucraniana de Crimea y “devolver las tropas a los cuarteles” porque, si no lo hace, a Estados Unidos y a sus aliados no les quedará otra opción que “aislar política, diplomática y económicamente” a Rusia.

Desde Kiev, epicentro de las protestas que derivaron en la caída del presidente pro-ruso Victor Yanukovich y el asenso al poder al sector pro-occidental que puso en el poder a Arseni Yatseniuk pero que es liderado por Julia Timoshenko, el jefe de la diplomacia norteamericana volvió a condenar la “agresión” rusa por enviar tropas a Crimea y expresó su apoyo al actual gobierno ucraniano.

Kerry sostuvo que Rusia “está buscando crear un pretexto” para intervenir en Ucrania, subrayó que la crisis de ese país debe ser resulta por la vía diplomática y enfatizó que Estados Unidos “no quiere la confrontación. Luego anunció que la Casa Blanca está dispuesta a conceder un crédito de mil millones de dólares a Ucrania.


RUSIA NO ES CUBA MUCHACHOS SI PASA ESTO VAYAN BUSCANDO LA LLAVE DE LOS BUNKERS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 1982 — It has been 22 years since the revolutionary Government in Cuba expropriated 11 branch offices of the First National City Bank, since renamed Citibank.

A 21-year-old lawsuit growing out of that action finally reached the Supreme Court today as the Justices decided to hear the case. The Court's decision could determine not only Citibank's legal rights, but also those of other American companies faced with nationalization of their assets in other parts of the world.

The case is an appeal by Citibank from a decision by the Federal appeals court in New York. That court ruled that Cuba's Bank for Foreign Trade, which sued Citibank over a relatively minor commercial dispute in 1961, was not the ''alter ego'' of the Cuban Government and therefore could not be countersued by Citibank for the value of the expropriated bank branches.

it was Nixon, in a debate with Kennedy, regarding Kennedy's proposal to depose Castro directly. Nixon decried the idea, saying that it would result in disastrous consequences for US relations with other nations, and would likely get us kicked out of the UN.

Get ready for the Castros to unlock the prisons as they did during the Carter years, and to export millions of uneducated,poor, government-dependent future Democrat voters, which the taxpayer will be on the hook for. Get ready.

Why should it be dictated by the former elites of a failed nation?

On what?

By putting a few more pesos in the peoples' pockets it may
well prolong his tenure.

I question Obama's timing of diplomatic recognition.

Survival, I made NO value judgement about Obama's move.

Cuba is clearly in the bottom half of the distribution but its record has improved somewhat over the past two decades. The graph also highlights two Communist countries with whom the United States has had troublesome relations. Critics of the policy change highlight North Korea, which has a much worse record than Cuba, which has gotten even more atrocious in recent years. Vietnam, emphasized by President Obama in his speech, is a better comparison. Indeed, the two countries have a nearly identical human rights record according to this measure (it may be different if we would focus on other rights than physical integrity rights, which include torture, political imprisonment, government killing and other forms of repression).

“To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”
― Sun Tzu

A truly sad day for the poor enslaved Cuban people.

Prison is good for longevity.