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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts) Fri Jan 16, 2015, 05:30 PM Jan 2015

Dems head to Cuba to explore 'greater cooperation'

Dems head to Cuba to explore 'greater cooperation'
Jan. 16, 2015 9.26am Pete Kasperowicz

Several House and Senate Democrats will travel to Cuba this weekend in order to discuss ways to enhance the U.S.-Cuba relationship, just hours after the Obama administration formally eased some trade and travel rules.

Sen. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) is heading the delegation — Leahy was the one who arranged for sperm from a Cuban spy that the U.S. was holding to be exported to Panama to impregnate the spy’s wife. That spy was later released in a controversial deal that allowed the return of one U.S. intelligence agent from Cuba, plus Alan Gross, who was held for five years in Cuba.

Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) will also be on the trip, as will Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Peter Welch (D-Vt.).

“We want to explore opportunities for greater cooperation,” Leahy said Friday.

“We have all been to Cuba before, and we strongly support the President’s new direction for our policy toward Cuba,” Leahy said. “We are going this time to discuss our expectations, and the Cubans’ expectations, for the normalization of relations.”

More:
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/01/16/dems-head-to-cuba-to-explore-greater-cooperation/

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Dems head to Cuba to explore 'greater cooperation' (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2015 OP

"explore opportunities for greater cooperation" = only if it beneifits US corporations & Wall Street Mika Jan 2015 #1

The excerpt you highlighted is so wildly familiar, isn't it? It's been done to DEATH! Judi Lynn Jan 2015 #2

Mika

(17,751 posts)

1. "explore opportunities for greater cooperation" = only if it beneifits US corporations & Wall Street

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 06:13 PM

Jan 2015

Ha.

Did you read the Granma op/ed I posted in this forum? Hits the nail on the head regarding the hypocritical "explore opportunities for greater cooperation" propaganda coming out of the US's single party membership.

Here --> http://www.democraticunderground.com/110836326

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More salient than ever ...

The Breckenridge Memorandum
http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/bmemo.htm

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When this moment arrives, we must create conflicts for the independent government. That government will be faced with these difficulties, in addition to the lack of means to meet our demands and the commitments made to us, war expenses and the need to organize a new country. These difficulties must coincide with the unrest and violence among the aforementioned elements, to whom we must give our backing.

To sum up, our policy must always be to support the weaker against the stronger, until we have obtained the extermination of them both, in order to annex the Pearl of the Antilles {Cuba}

Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)

2. The excerpt you highlighted is so wildly familiar, isn't it? It's been done to DEATH!

Reply to Mika (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 06:50 PM

Jan 2015

Evil blueprint. It was barbaric, when created and they've been doing it over and over and over again.

Glad you pointed this part out. I always have focused right on the one spot I mentioned, and I needed to see this again.

Thanks for the link to Progresso. Anyone who has known about the people there knows they have suffered mightily for their beliefs in justice. I need to visit that link often. They are valuable.

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