AP: US and Cuba to normalize relations

**baseline bum** · 03-23-2016

No. I'm a McVeigh man.

They were selling your

**boutons_deux** · 03-30-2016

Cuba's Sustainable Agriculture at Risk in US Thaw

in agriculture, U.S. investment could cause harm instead.

For the past 35 years I have studied agroecology in most countries in Central and South America. Agroecology is an approach to farming that developed in the late 1970s in Latin America as a reaction against the top-down, technology-intensive and environmentally destructive strategy that characterizes modern industrial agriculture. It encourages local production by small-scale farmers, using sustainable strategies and combining Western knowledge with traditional expertise.

Cuba took this approach out of necessity when its economic partner, the Soviet bloc, dissolved in the early 1990s. As a result, Cuban farming has become a leading example of ecological agriculture.

But if relations with U.S. agribusiness companies are not managed carefully, Cuba could revert to an industrial approach that relies on mechanization, transgenic crops and agrochemicals, rolling back the revolutionary gains that its campesinos have achieved.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/3...isk-in-us-thaw

Will Cuba agriculture become enslaved to US/EU BigChem, poisoning its food, land, and water, denaturing its produce, as BigChem does everywhere else?

**Winehole23** · 11-27-2016

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-38114953

**Bender** · 11-28-2016

a ripe old age.

guess I'll stop worrying about my cigar smoking and my health.

edit: I just read that he stopped smoking in 1986, and he started when he was 15, so about 45 years of cigar smoking.

**boutons_deux** · 11-30-2016

Trash says the Obama-Cuba deal is off unless Cuba gives Trash a "better deal", which must include Trashs "artfully" DICTATING social/political changes.

**tlongII** · 11-30-2016

Trump is just treating Castro like the brutal dictator he was. Castro was a piece of .

**hater** · 11-30-2016

Originally Posted by tlongII

Trump is just treating Castro like the brutal dictator he was. Castro was a piece of .

Fidel was a saint next to the mass murderers Reagan, Bush Sr. Clinton and Bush Jr tbqh

Not to mention he was a damn pimp. The american CIA agent that was supposed to assassinate him ed him and fell in love to the point of canceling her mission

Thats some James Bond Sean Connery rigt there

RIP commandante

**boutons_deux** · 11-30-2016

Originally Posted by tlongII

Trump is just treating Castro like the brutal dictator he was. Castro was a piece of .

Castro and his revolutionaries overthrew the totally corrupt Batista regime (I expect Trash's regime will be fully corrupt), and refused any help from capitalism (capitalists were fully involved in Bautista's regime), stood up to, faced down the American Empire, which REALLY pissed off USA.

**hater** · 11-30-2016

I dont remember Fidel droning weddings or mass murdering housands of Iraqi children tbqh

**hater** · 11-30-2016

Was it Fidel who bombed the hospitals in Afghanistan? Or gave satellite
Imagery to Saudi airforce to obliterate Yemen?

Dont think so

When its all said and done Fidel will be sitting next to Gandi and Lord Jesus watching from above as the entire Clinton/Bush/Obama clans fry in the eternal fires

**CosmicCowboy** · 11-30-2016

Originally Posted by hater

Was it Fidel who bombed the hospitals in Afghanistan? Or gave satellite
Imagery to Saudi airforce to obliterate Yemen?

Dont think so

When its all said and done Fidel will be sitting next to Gandi and Lord Jesus watching from above as the entire Clinton/Bush/Obama clans fry in the eternal fires

That's some of the dumbest i've ever read on Spurstalk.

**hater** · 11-30-2016

Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy

That's some of the dumbest i've ever read on Spurstalk.

Splain or stfu

**boutons_deux** · 11-30-2016

Batista's increasingly corrupt and repressive government then

began to systematically profit from the exploitation of Cuba's commercial interests,

by negotiating lucrative relationships with the American Mafia, who controlled the drug, gambling, and pros ution businesses in Havana, and

with large U.S.-based multinational companies which were awarded lucrative contracts.

For several years until 1959, the Batista government received financial, military, and logistical support from the United States government.

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

Sounds like another "strong man" whom Trash would respect and befriend.

**tlongII** · 11-30-2016

There have been a lot more Cuban refugees getting on rafts and paddling to Florida than there have been Americans getting on rafts and paddling to Cuba. Why do you think that is?

**hater** · 11-30-2016

Originally Posted by tlongII

There have been a lot more Cuban refugees getting on rafts and paddling to Florida than there have been Americans getting on rafts and paddling to Cuba. Why do you think that is?

Ever heard of the American Empire. Of course refugees will try to flee an island oppressed by Uncle Sam for 50+ years.

Plus u miss my point. Fidel has probably killed about .01% of the number of civilians killed by US presidents in the same time frame

**boutons_deux** · 11-30-2016

Originally Posted by tlongII

There have been a lot more Cuban refugees getting on rafts and paddling to Florida than there have been Americans getting on rafts and paddling to Cuba. Why do you think that is?

why didn't ALL the Cubans leave?

From what I find, Cuba has 20M+ people, but only about 1M left. The first wave was of wealthy people enriching themselves from Batista's corruption. Pretty clear why they left.

btw, there are about 10M non-military Americans living outside of USA.