Re: Cuba's future

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:13 PM 11/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
>  The other is now that it increasingly looks like indeed
> that Bush will "triumph" (if that is the right word) in Florida,
> what will his presidency mean for Cuba's future?  The
> obvious expectation would be that it means a hard line,
> given both that Jeb is governor of Florida and how crucial
> that state has proven in the presidential election and the
> now likelihood that we shall see even more lackey-like
> bootlicking of the obnoxious Cuban-Americans in Miami.
>        OTOH, given the increasing pressure from a lot of
> American capitalists to loosen further the embargo, might
> we see the Dubya pulling a "Nixon in China" routine and
> ending the embargo?

I don't know where you get the idea that Gore would be any better in terms
of loosening the economic embargo of Cuba. Remember his stance on Elian.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine