Cuba & USA about to kiss and make up

[SerenityNigh]

Announcement on resumption of full diplomatic relations to be announce at 5.00pm apparently. Tea party about to explode no doubt.

Pretty sure this means we can start posting images of Cuban sandwiches in the American food thread

 

[davidloach]

Now I don't have to smuggle Cuban cigars home from Greece in my socks when I come home! Thanks Obama!

 

[ToffeeDoug]

He was treated scandalously after his execution/death in my opinion

I know, hands lopped off by the CIA and sent to Argentina for the finger prints to be checked against his records as a medical student. The hands stayed there for years on end in a jar on a laboratory shelf but were eventually re-united with Che's remains when his body was found and moved from Bolivia to the mausoleum in Cuba.

 

[Billy Dean]

Hopefully but I doubt it.. They'll all be eating MacDonald's, drinking Coke and driving Fords within a week!

No more beat up old caddies. That would make me sad.

 

[Garrick]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[steken1]

Hopefully we'll see some of their boxers going pro.

 

[Prevenger17]

The shitty raft industry are gonna be gutted

In all seriousness though, I can't believe that they are normalising relations with a country that has such an appalling human rights record, what are Cuba thinking of?

Top stuff, fellas.

 

[peteblue]

This probably

I don't care how often I view this, it's still my favourite gif.........

 

[peteblue]

Oh and back on topic, just bomb the crap out of them........

 

[sd_1992]

Obama doing everything he can to annoy the Republicans is very amusing (and in the process will probably win Hilary the election)

 

[mezzrow]

Recommended read.

When the ailing Fidel Castro ceded power to his less doctrinaire younger brother Raúl in 2008, the quasi-capitalist bubble expanded, but the economy remains heavily socialist. In the United States, we have a minimum wage; Cuba has a maximum wage—$20 a month for almost every job in the country. (Professionals such as doctors and lawyers can make a whopping $10 extra a month.) Sure, Cubans get “free” health care and education, but as Cuban exile and Yale historian Carlos Eire says, “All slave owners need to keep their slaves healthy and ensure that they have the skills to perform their tasks.”

Even employees inside the quasi-capitalist bubble don’t get paid more. The government contracts with Spanish companies such as Meliá International to manage Havana’s hotels. Before accepting its contract, Meliá said that it wanted to pay workers a decent wage. The Cuban government said fine, so the company pays $8–$10 an hour. But Meliá doesn’t pay its employees directly. Instead, the firm gives the compensation to the government, which then pays the workers—but only after pocketing most of the money. I asked several Cubans in my hotel if that arrangement is really true. All confirmed that it is. The workers don’t get $8–$10 an hour; they get 67 cents a day—a child’s allowance.

http://www.city-journal.org/printable.php?id=10207