Cuba’s purchases of U.S.agricultural products are down about 32 percent this year, a time when Cuba’s overall trade volume was down 36 percent (AP, Reuters). These figures were discussed at a Havana trade fair where, La Jornada reports, a Cuban minister made the first tacit admission that it had frozen the Cuban bank accounts of foreign businesses; the minister also said Cuba took the measure temporarily and will meet its obligations. The head of Cuba’s food purchasing company told AP that changes in U.S. policy are likely to generate increased volume of purchases from the United States, a topic I discussed in this article.
What changes to US policy are likely to increase food sales? The only Obama change I can think of relating to food is making it easier to travel there for the purpose of food sales. That, however, was never the problem.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you can link to the AP piece referenced?
The Castros will never cease pressing for their ultimate goal: maneuvering U.S. hayshaker-Congressmen into passing legislation providing Cuba with unlimited food on credit. Needless to say, the Brothers Castro have neither the intention or the ability of ever paying the U.S. taxpayers for the money to be extracted from their wallets and poured down the bottomless Cuban rathole.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Phil.
Let 'em eat the abundant food cornucopia promised by El Supremo since 1959.
ReplyDeleteIf snow was worth its weight in gold, and if the Castros seized control of Canada, snow would immediately disappear in the Great Frozen North.
anon 1102; really, can't you guys get anything straight? the cubans have had to pay up front for the food purchases from USA; no other conditions allowed.
ReplyDeleteyou people aren't even good any more as useful idiots. the CANF is going to ask for their money back from just morons.
more than half of american children use food stamps, clean up your own house before you shit in someone elses.
ReplyDeletepeters -- you're joking about those examples you gave of bush's offers to 'engage' cuba. since when did blackmail equate to engage?
Needless to say, the Brothers Castro have neither the intention or the ability of ever paying the U.S. taxpayers for the money to be extracted from their wallets and poured down the bottomless Cuban rathole.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the US taxpayer would not be giving Cuba a thing if US companies and farmers were one day allowed to sell their wares in Cuba. And of course, it is up to a company to decide who to sell food to under blessed US capitalism, not the Government.
"the cubans have had to pay up front for the food purchases from USA..."
ReplyDeleteYou just don't get it, Anon 1:03. The Castros want CREDITS, not the current rules which require them to play it honest by paying cash for what they buy.
The hayshaker-Congressmen are only too happy to fall for the Castro's scam by lavishing the taxpayers' money on the Castros in the form of credits, which the tyrants have neither the intention or the ability of ever paying back.
If this fiasco occurs, the Castros will be laughing at us, just as they are laughing now at the airhead European businessmen who foolishly "invested" in Cuba, only to have their bank accounts grabbed by the regime. The Europeans will never see their money again either. The human comedy continues.