U.S.-Cuba diplomatic team reshuffled; some see tighter sanctions

No sooner did the UN General Assembly vote against the embargo against Cuba for the 14th year in a row than the USSA reshuffles it's US-Cuba team giving credence to Cuban Foreign Minister Perez-Roque's claim that ``the U.S. government is delusional with the idea that it can overthrow the Cuban revolution.''

The MiamiGusanos wanna enforce Article III of the Helms-Burton. These sadistic pukes take pleasure in starving their poorer island brother. Don't miss the Herr REICH comments. :puke:

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WASHINGTON - Four new Bush administration appointments to positions that affect U.S. policy on Cuba, plus a pledge to restart a presidential commission on the island's future, are stoking hopes among some Cuban-Americans for a further tightening of sanctions on Havana.

Among their hopes are a revision of the 1995 immigration agreements with Havana that led to the wet-foot, dry-foot policy for Cuban migrants and the full implementation of Helms-Burton sanctions against some foreign investors in Cuba.

The personnel changes on Cuba policy are part of the biggest reshuffle of the State Department's Latin America team since President Bush took office in 2001. Chief among them is the arrival of Thomas Shannon as assistant secretary of state for the Western Hemisphere, the region's top diplomatic post.

Shannon's previous post running the Latin American team at the White House's National Security Council went to Dan Fisk, a former aide to retired Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., who helped draft the Helms-Burton Act in 1996 and has consistently advocated for hard-line positions on Cuba.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/13125252.htm

china will be more than glad to help cuba out and let`s not forget chavez! china will lend us currency to cuba to buy our agricultural products. these guys are fuck`n amateurs compared to china

Trust the fools in Buckaroo Bush's Duck Soup Posse to do the stupid thing. If the US manages to anger the Europeans enough, the Europeans might happily stand by and let the dollar go down the toilet or in turn impose sanctions on the US.

I wonder if even the Florida Republicans who aren't of Cuban extraction are beginning to dimly perceive that the Executive Branch is a bunch of fools.

Whatever move they make it is designed to push the Cuban people to support their socialist system even further.

US politicians (both Dem and repuke) need Mr Castro to demonize in order to have a platform that the exiles can relate to (and therefore contribute to). As one can see, the Dems play this game very well.

Ex:
charts from opensecrets.org





CANF founder and Clinton fundraiser Jorge Mas Canosa & Bill Clinton

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Don't ask questions!

A recession caused by European Union trade sanctions and/or economic retaliation (Not because the Europeans love Mr. Beard THAT mcuh, but because they don't care to have their chains yanked that hard by the US) might annoy enough voters in Florida and elsewhere that it wouldn't much matter what the Florida exiles think.

Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if Hugo Chavez suddenly notices that the Venezuelan oil distribution network has to shut down for inspection and repairs in late September, 2006.