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December 18th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
After more than a year of secret talks, Obama announced today that he’s ending the fifty-four year Cuban embargo to re-establish diplomatic ties. According to the President, the move was conditional on Cuba’s release of USAID contractor Alan Gross. Gross was arrested in 2009 and sentenced to fifteen years for distributing banned technology and trying to set up an Internet service.
In addition to releasing Gross, the Cubans also released an unnamed CIA agent imprisoned in Cuba for nearly twenty years. President Raul Castro also agreed to release fifty-three Cubans the US regards as political prisoners. In return, Obama released three Cubans in US prisons on espionage charges.
Additional measures, according to the fact sheet put out by the Obama administration, include re-opening the US embassy in Havana and relaxation of trade restrictions to allow American businesses to export telecommunication equipment, agricultural commodities and construction supplies. American travelers to Cuba will be allowed to use American credit and debit cards, and US owned companies will be allowed to provide services and engage in financial transactions. This is in addition to a gradual reduction in travel restrictions Obama first introduced in 2009.
Emphasis on Internet Technology
The fact sheet heavily emphasizes the export of telecommunications and Internet technology by US companies. Prior to June 2013, Home Internet connections were illegal in Cuba. Despite this recent liberalization, Internet services remain limited, slow and expensive. Only 5% of the Cuban population has reliable Internet access.
The prospect of opening Cuba up to American Internet providers and specialized services such as Google, Facebook and Twitter offers limitless opportunities to bombard the Cuban population with American advertising and propaganda, as well as introducing them to the same NSA surveillance Americans enjoy.
Embargo Purely Symbolic
The unilateral US embargo of Cuba has been purely symbolic, as it has limited economic impact. Because the vast majority of the developed world trades with Cuba, US businesses routinely bypass the embargo with help from other countries.
There is strong international pressure for the US to end the Cuban embargo. On October 28, 2014 the UN General Assembly voted for the twenty-third time to condemn the economic boycott. As usual, the only two countries opposing the declaration were the US and Israel.
Pope Francis, another strong advocate for lifting the embargo, has been instrumental in the secret negotiations.
Waning Influence of Cuban-American Lobby
Until recently, Obama and the Democrats have bowed to pressure from a powerful Cuban-American lobby to keep the embargo in place. In the last two presidential elections Florida’s Cuban American voted Democratic, securing the key state of Florida for Obama. However, according to the New York Times, the influence of Florida’s Cuban-Americans over national politics is rapidly diminishing. The Hispanic population of Florida is increasingly Puerto Rican, and younger Cuban-American voters with no direct memory of Castro’s Cuban takeover are more willing to support Democrats.
Republican Opposition
Obama has enacted all these changes via executive order. Only Congress can fully repeal the Cuban embargo enacted in 1961. Speaker John Boehner and other Congressional Republicans have vowed to block legislation lifting the embargo.
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Normalize?
Nothing they do is normal.
There is always a secret agenda in store.
To re-open an embassy there means having a base to create havoc and mayhem with all their normal goals of civil upheaval and infiltration.
After 50 years of isolation and the intelligence community,s obvious lack of love for Cuba, they had better watch their back.
Q. What,s the only thing you cannot get from Washington?
A. The truth!
Against all odds, a young, brash, intelligent, lying lawyer, Fidel Castro, with good intentions, overthrows US puppet tyrant Batista in 1959, betrays his top aid Huber Matos by jailing him for 20 years, then suddenly realizes only a deal with the devil can save his rule. He puts the former Soviet Union 90 miles from our shore, turns himself into a dictator and gives the US paper tiger the middle finger for 50 years. Isn’t this a David and Golliath story to top them all? Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. What has 50 years of feuding neighbors accomplished? America is more like Cuba every day especially with NDAA passed by both parties. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/castro/peopleevents/e_moderates.html Maybe it is time to join them. Obama’s dictum: Forgive and forget. Why not?
I feel sorry for the VT readers who have never dated a Cuban fire brand, they will just have to settle for listening to Ricky Martins – Livin’ La Vida Loca, but its just one more thing Americas commanding sadists have deprived them of. Hey we can always bash our heads into fleshy meatballs and call it a national sport…
Leave it to Boehner and fellow Republicans to restrict US citizens
to freely travel to CUBA ???
The cigar prices will be outrageous during the first year or so then they should come down. They will also have to figure out what to do about the Cuban brand names, many of the Cuban growers carried the same names to the Dominican, Honduras, and Nicaragua when they left.