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dameatball

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3. Not to mention that the trade embargo ended Cuban sugar imports and helped to f' up the Everglades.

Reply to Blue_true (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 1, 2019, 02:12 AM

Jan 2019

Lots of other contributing factors of course.
We had 50,000 plus Americans die in Vietnam but now we have decent relations. But a country 90 miles from Florida, which we never really went to war with....not so much.

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MLB, Cuban Baseball Federation reach agreement that will eliminate need for players to defect [View all] Eugene Dec 2018 OP

Don't we have Russians playing in the NHL and Chinese playing in the NBA? I don't follow either much dameatball Dec 2018 #1

Yeah. We have an embassy in Havana, why can't it process visas. Blue_true Dec 2018 #2

Not to mention that the trade embargo ended Cuban sugar imports and helped to f' up the Everglades. dameatball Jan 2019 #3

It is politics. Republicans need votes of old Cubans and some of their grandchildren. Blue_true Jan 2019 #4