Saturday, February 04, 2006

There's Always More Cuba News

Thanks to my student Jordan for sending this news link on the connection between Cuba and U.S. businesses, which are salivating over the possibility of drilling for offshore oil in Cuban waters.

The irony for Fidel is apparent. So I hate President Bush, the U.S. imperialists and their money-grubbing capitalist ways, but man, I love the cash they generate.

U.S. officials, meanwhile, can’t think of any response except to try and annoy Castro more, and to compare his allies—such as Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez—to Adolf Hitler. C'mon, can’t we come up with anything better than that?

2 comments:

Greg Weeks 4:37 PM  

OK, so they really blew it by meeting at a U.S.-based hotel...but it's a moot point, since no matter how much they talk, they can't strike a deal until U.S. policy changes.

Greg Weeks 3:01 PM  

Hola Narayan--point taken, but I think you are splitting hairs. I still see it as a clumsy attempt to put Chávez and Hitler in the same sentence and just link them together.

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