NationStates Jolt Archive

With Fidel Castro unwell and his brother Raoul in charge, how long do people think it will be before Bush take advantage of the opportunity? What direction will Cuba go in if and when Fidel dies?

Bush is busy, he won't do jack.

But the people of Cuba might be asking for more, and Raul is not the charismatic type who can change public opinion easily. Which will leave him only with brute force (bad idea, the world will be watching and making the noises) or giving up a bit of control.

Orange Revolution Light, I reckon.

Why do Americans care so much about that little country?

the odds are nothing will change

But hopefully Raoul will realise the dictatorship of Cuba is at an end or at least not let the country become a communist monarchy. Its all down to a little man I know nothing about:)

Why do Americans care so much about that little country?
We don't. We just like the cigars. I don't think I know anybody who thinks we should still have the stupid, dinosaur embargo. The problem is so many of our politicians are too old to remember the Cold war is over and too many young people don't vote so we get a brontosaurus for senator and a triceratops for rep.

Its all down to a little man I know nothing about:)
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/8/15/224049.shtml
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/8/22/213013.shtml

EDIT:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,430622,00.html
Fidel's Hardest Battle

Four weeks ago, on a hot July morning in Washington, America laid out its latest plan to liberate Cuba. The 93- page treatise, titled "Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba Report to the President," was presented in a windowless, bunker-like room at the US State Department. The temperature in the room was about 50°F.

The awkward, self-important title could just as well have been conceived by the Cuban politburo. But that isn't surprising. American and Cuban propagandists have been dealing with one another for so long that certain similarities are practically par for the course. In their war of ideas, they sometimes forget whose heads they are, in fact, trying to get into.

My parents are convinced that Castro's rule was just and fair--or as fair as you can get under a communistic dictatorship--and that the Cubans who left were mostly those rich elites and their children who were fed up with the system that disenfranchised them. Naturally, I think that's utter bullshit. They do have a damned good healthcare system though.

My parents are convinced that Castro's rule was just and fair--or as fair as you can get under a communistic dictatorship--and that the Cubans who left were mostly those rich elites and their children who were fed up with the system that disenfranchised them. Naturally, I think that's utter bullshit. They do have a damned good healthcare system though.
I don't see why it's natural that your parents' beliefs are utter bullshit. In fact, they sound like people I would like to know better.

Why do Americans care so much about that little country?
It's fifty miles south of us. Roosevelt Corollary and whatnot. That's pretty much it.

Why do Americans care so much about that little country?

Google Cuban Missile Crisis. Then get back to me.

Google Cuban Missile Crisis. Then get back to me.
Maybe I should have said. I can understand Cuba being a great concern during the cold war, but nowadays I can't see how Cuba is anything more than an irrelevancy to America.

Maybe I should have said. I can understand Cuba being a great concern during the cold war, but nowadays I can't see how Cuba is anything more than an irrelevancy to America.

Google Chavez, then get back to me.

Google Chavez, then get back to me.
Chavez is even considered a threat to the US?

Chavez is even considered a threat to the US?

He does have his eye on Cuba.