Thursday, January 20, 2011

UM: Cuba's "economic warfare" on the United States

This is really something to behold: an allegation from the University of Miami’s Cuba Transition Project that the Cuban government is to blame for Miami’s status as the Medicare fraud capital of the United States.

“Possibly,” the paper states, this constitutes “economic warfare on the United States.”

Possibly it’s something else too, but why hold back?

What it most definitely is, is vague. What with the paper’s many qualifiers and anonymous sources who don’t make specific charges, we are left wondering just how Cuba has “found ways to capitalize on large-scale Medicare fraud.”

As for the lack of an extradition treaty, that’s technically untrue. We have a century-old treaty that has been in disuse for a half-century, and we have occasional ad hoc arrangements where Cuba renders fugitives to the United States. Given the state of relations and U.S. distrust of the Cuban judicial system, it’s probably out of the question to expect a normal extradition arrangement. Such a pact would involve a presumption that both governments would deliver fugitives to each other, something to which the University of Miami would surely object.

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Anonymous said...

If the Cuban regime has been involved in the business of drug-trafficking to the U.S. (even Raul Castro himself is named in an indictment of the 1980's)just to get "resorces" for the guerrilla warfare, why does refuse the possibility of their involvement in the less risky business of medicare fraud?

Anonymous said...

Que loco son Uds de verdad no pueden ver que las cosas estan cambiando in front of your eyes, deben ser felices porque esta claro que cuba ya esta dejando el socialismo, de verdad que estan pensando que el ano 1958 sigue hasta ahora que loco. Yo personalmente apoyo a Cuba, mando dinero a Cuba como el mismo Posada Carrilles, y apoyo a Obama y no a los mas extremos del exilio cubano