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Post #6,272
by boxley
8/22/01 9:51:42 AM
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New The only reason embargo is in place US Sugar Company
sure the exiles are load but the US Sugar Company got 18 million in subsidies last yer and put a lot of cash into the pols pockets on a regular basis.
thanx,
bill
Our bureaucracy and our laws have turned the world into a clean, safe work camp. We are raising a nation of slaves.
Chuck Palahniuk
Post #6,431
by Fearless Freep
8/23/01 8:57:18 AM
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New Not only...
The Bacardi family in exile very much wants to get its hands on its old Rum distillaries that Castro took over a few decades ago. They are looking to a post-Castro day when they can reclaim them. They have a lot of money, which they feed into politics, especially in lending financial support to the Cuban exiles in Florida, which in turn gives them political clout.

There was a bill passed a few years that barred companies from selling stuff from Cuba in the US. This was primarily targetted at the Cuban rum company, and their European distribution partner, from selling Cuban rum in the US. This bill was heavily pushed by the Bacardis
Jay O'Connor

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     Helms to retire from Senate. Elizabeth Dole to replace him? - (Another Scott) - (27) - Aug. 21, 2001, 07:16:05 PM EDT
         uh, who's fault is that? -NT - (boxley) - Aug. 21, 2001, 10:54:39 PM EDT
         Re: Helms to retire from Senate. Elizabeth Dole to replace - (addison) - (25) - Aug. 22, 2001, 01:37:10 AM EDT
             Excuse me, but... - (jb4) - (24) - Aug. 22, 2001, 09:43:39 AM EDT
                 The only reason embargo is in place US Sugar Company - (boxley) - (1) - Aug. 22, 2001, 09:51:42 AM EDT
                     Not only... - (Fearless Freep) - Aug. 23, 2001, 08:57:18 AM EDT
                 You're excused. - (addison) - (21) - Aug. 22, 2001, 10:41:48 AM EDT
                     Those poor companies... - (jb4) - (20) - Aug. 22, 2001, 12:14:55 PM EDT
                         I'm not entirely sure where to start. - (addison) - (19) - Aug. 22, 2001, 03:25:21 PM EDT
                             many other countries in the world - (boxley) - (14) - Aug. 22, 2001, 10:40:43 PM EDT
                                 One other thought... - (inthane-chan) - Aug. 22, 2001, 10:50:57 PM EDT
                                 Re: many other countries in the world - (addison) - (11) - Aug. 22, 2001, 10:56:51 PM EDT
                                     bay of pigs was not American Military Units - (boxley) - (2) - Aug. 22, 2001, 11:26:49 PM EDT
                                         Semantic difference. - (addison) - (1) - Aug. 23, 2001, 11:55:30 AM EDT
                                             waal he is a lifeguard on the beach and is "connected" - (boxley) - Aug. 23, 2001, 08:46:43 PM EDT
                                     Please draw your inferences more carefully. - (Another Scott) - (7) - Aug. 23, 2001, 11:16:11 AM EDT
                                         Re: Please draw your inferences more carefully. - (addison) - (6) - Aug. 23, 2001, 11:35:59 AM EDT
                                             Agree about after Castro - (boxley) - Aug. 23, 2001, 08:53:42 PM EDT
                                             Wrong. - (CRConrad) - (4) - Aug. 27, 2001, 11:38:11 AM EDT
                                                 Re: Wrong. - (a6l6e6x) - Aug. 27, 2001, 11:47:15 AM EDT
                                                 CRC == GWB? - (pwhysall) - Aug. 27, 2001, 11:56:47 AM EDT
                                                 No, CRC. And you even quoted the important disclaimer. - (addison) - (1) - Aug. 27, 2001, 12:19:21 PM EDT
                                                     Umm 'not morally correct' to return kid to father? - (Ashton) - Aug. 27, 2001, 04:09:25 PM EDT
                                 Wrong - (Fearless Freep) - Aug. 23, 2001, 09:06:10 AM EDT
                             Start maybe with.. the US mobster-run whorehouses, - (Ashton) - (3) - Aug. 23, 2001, 07:43:36 AM EDT
                                 Ah so... - (Ric Locke) - (2) - Aug. 26, 2001, 12:26:46 PM EDT
                                     Nice analysis of the earlier hostility.. - (Ashton) - Aug. 27, 2001, 01:30:18 AM EDT
                                     He does have a younger brother, doesn't he? - (wharris2) - Aug. 27, 2001, 12:44:54 PM EDT

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