NickSCFC wrote:Alvin Flummux wrote:Lagamorph wrote:Corbyn praising Castro as a hero
He did raise his people out of the crippling poverty that so many Caribbean island nations have been afflicted with. Granted, they didn't live well under him, but they were spared the extremes other counties have gone through.
Nothing to do with them being hardline communists then.
Well... shut up!
Anyway, the American embargo of Cuba shouldn't last much longer now, since the iconic "villain" who brought about it and the face of the revolution is now out of the picture forever. Plus, Trump, as we learned during the election, commissioned at least one exploratory business expedition to Cuba, so if he thinks his business will gain from the embargo ending, he'll almost certainly push for it to go. Another White House-Congress flash point in the making?