At 02:13 PM 11/17/00 -0500, you wrote:
> The other is now that it increasingly looks like indeed
>that Bush will "triumph" (if that is the right word) in Florida,
>what will his presidency mean for Cuba's future? The
>obvious expectation would be that it means a hard line,
>given both that Jeb is governor of Florida and how crucial
>that state has proven in the presidential election and the
>now likelihood that we shall see even more lackey-like
>bootlicking of the obnoxious Cuban-Americans in Miami.
> OTOH, given the increasing pressure from a lot of
>American capitalists to loosen further the embargo, might
>we see the Dubya pulling a "Nixon in China" routine and
>ending the embargo?
I don't know where you get the idea that Gore would be any better in terms
of loosening the economic embargo of Cuba. Remember his stance on Elian.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
