Cuba: Cubans applaud U.S. bill easing trade, travel

[DanKellFla]

50 years of doing the same thing over and over with no result was crazy. I am glad to see a change in policy. Maybe an invasion of Levi Jeans and Coca-Cola will accomplish more in 5 years than the decades of the sanctions.
Many Europeans go to Cuba for vacation. It isn't like the place is isolated from the rest of the world. Although, the resorts are isolated from the Cubans who live there.

[abajan]

...Many Europeans go to Cuba for vacation...

So do many Canadians, I think.

[Aslkahuna]

Actually, it won't be Levi's and Cokes that will change Cuba, but Big Macs and Whoppers (and the jobs that will come with them).

Steve

[Aslkahuna]

The answer to the media question involves Politics, the discussion of which is verböten here.


Steve

[gtalum]

Actually, it won't be Levi's and Cokes that will change Cuba, but Big Macs and Whoppers (and the jobs that will come with them).

Steve

I've always thought it would be funny for McDonald's to air-drop a ready-built location by helicopter into the main square in Havana.

It brought down the USSR, so it could bring capitalism to Cuba.

[Ed Mahmoud]

Actually, it won't be Levi's and Cokes that will change Cuba, but Big Macs and Whoppers (and the jobs that will come with them).

Steve

I've always thought it would be funny for McDonald's to air-drop a ready-built location by helicopter into the main square in Havana.

It brought down the USSR, so it could bring capitalism to Cuba.

The USSR just took a vacation. The fact they want to put nuke bombers less than an hour from Miami, and recent aggressive behavior to their neighbors, the end of the anti-Putin press (including murders of particularly aggressive journalists), the Soviet Union is coming back as a Russian dominated totalitarian state, maybe with a few less republics, maybe with crony capitalism replacing pure Soviet Marxism, but they are coming back.