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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 02:25 PM Original message |
Brazilian president to meet Fidel Castro in Cuba |
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protocol rv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
1. I wonder what Lula's selling to the Cubans |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-19-10 09:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Do you have any examples, links? It would be good to see some substance. We're all ears. n/t |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-20-10 11:18 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Cuba can't be buying anything from Brazil. Cuba has no money. |
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protocol rv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 08:17 AM Response to Reply #3 |
20. Cuba does get money - from Cubans in the US and from Venezuela |
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protocol rv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 12:33 PM Response to Reply #3 |
44. Lula's visit is about doing business for Brazilian business |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 06:46 AM Response to Original message |
4. Good for Lula & Castro! |
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protocol rv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-21-10 08:47 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. nah, Good for Brazil |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 09:46 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Fidel has outlasted 11 hostile US presidents' efforts to oust him. If not for our |
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Bacchus39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 10:35 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. they get tossed, just a year or so ago some of the younger leaders |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 10:56 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. The article you link does not support the claim you made. |
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Bacchus39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 01:56 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. here you go |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 11:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. That's an improvement. At least the charge is there. |
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Bacchus39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 09:06 AM Response to Reply #17 |
21. me too, or do you have an alternative theory why they were fired?? n/t |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 11:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Once again you reveal your near total ignorance of Cuba. |
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Bacchus39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 01:58 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. did you know Ecuador uses the US dollar??? n/t |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 05:10 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Yes I do. |
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protocol rv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 02:26 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Interesting CIA factbook comment about Cuba |
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Bacchus39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 02:29 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. we certainly don't want Cuba to be a land of sweat shops where the people only earn $20 per month |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 04:12 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Wow. You're a Cuba 'expert" and didn't know about the CIA Factbook on Cuba? |
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protocol rv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-22-10 06:33 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Well, that's not the CIA website is it? |
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protocol rv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 06:48 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Cuba's Sweatshops |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 12:04 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. And Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, according to that same CIA. |
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protocol rv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 10:41 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. I don't have the details in the US, but.... |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 11:05 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. We don't have democracy here. |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 07:32 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Democracy in the US might be broken |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 08:04 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. And you know this, how? |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 09:18 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. What the heck do you mean? |
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protocol rv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 08:41 PM Response to Reply #23 |
30. A little off topic |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 12:06 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. You haven't seen Cuba. So, you don't know. |
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Wilms (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 12:12 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. I provided him with a link but he may prefer ignorance. n/t |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 12:25 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. A glaring omission from the Wiki page. |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 07:17 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. You apparently haven't seen it either. |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 03:48 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. I've only been there several dozen times, and have lived there for over a year. |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 03:57 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Mika, it was all a DREAM! It may have seemed like real life, but it was only an illusion. |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 08:04 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. Why do you say I am anti-Cuba? |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 08:17 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. You jumped in and claimed he had not seen Cuba. |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 09:01 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Obviously I stand corrected but |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 09:12 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. OK. |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 10:01 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. I don't see much democracy anywhere either but... |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-24-10 10:33 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Otherwise apparently reasonable people disagree strongly about Castro and Cuba. |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 09:23 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. I don't disagree with normalizing relations and opening things up |
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Mika (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 11:32 AM Response to Reply #37 |
42. I've not just "seen" Cuba. I've lived there - during an entire election cycle. |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 01:23 PM Response to Reply #42 |
46. Shutting up dissidents in a dictatorship 101: |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 01:36 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. You intend to keep going over and over this? Is it your intention to somehow force Mika to surrender |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 02:18 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. This is a message board where we can disagree and question people's assertions |
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protocol rv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 12:29 PM Response to Reply #33 |
43. There's no democracy in Cuba |
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protocol rv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-23-10 09:22 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. Since candidates aren't selected by any party |
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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
45. Brazil's Lula says Fidel Castro is 'exceptionally well' |
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protocol rv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-25-10 03:29 PM Response to Reply #45 |
49. And Lula's very happy doing business in Cuba |
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