Friday, January 30, 2015

The Imaginary Islamic Radical

The Imaginary Islamic Radical



MY COMMENT.-

DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A RADICAL ISLAM TERRORIST AND A MODERATE ISLAMIC ONE??????

WELL, THE RADICAL WILL CUT YOUR THROAT WITH THE KNIFE AS IT IS AND THEN CLEAN IT.

WHILE THE MODERATE ONE...WILL CLEAN THE KNIFE BEFORE..AND AFTER...

LATEST FROM THE WHITE HOUSE...Taliban not a terrorist group!!!

LATEST FROM THE WHITE HOUSE: Taliban is NOT a terrorist group: it is an insurgency organization.     (Would someone explain the difference...really?????????????)
The slaughter of moderate Afghans, the gassing of girls schools, their brutal treatment of women, imposing the vicious sharia, bombing of markets, police stations and schools — what exactly is Obama’s definition of a terrorist? According to the United Nations, the Taliban and their allies were responsible for 75% of Afghan civilian casualties in 2010, 80% in 2011, and 80% in 2012. Didn’t the jihadist in the White House have Malala Yousafzai to the Oval Office for a private meeting? Who does he think shot her in the head for wanting an education outside of the Qur’an?
Obama campaigned on the war against the Taliban. Afghanistan was the right war, the good war. Remember? Further proof of the evil we have installed in the most powerful office in the world. Iran, Taliban, Muslim Brotherhood, Boko Haram… all enjoying the covert and overt support of this infiltrator.
“White House tells reporters that Taliban are not a terrorist group,” BizPac Review, Jan 28, 2015.  If any more proof was needed that the White House just doesn’t get it when it comes to Islamic  terrorism, Wednesday provided it.
At the White House regular daily nSgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was traded for five top-level Taliban commanders in May, compared to Jordan’s negotiations with the Islamic State for the release of a downed pilot.
News briefing, Principal Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz responded to a question posed by ABC’s chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl.  Karl pressed Schultz on the Obama administration’s negotiations for the release of Army 
“You say the United States does not give in to demands…does not pay ransom,” Karl said. “How is what the Jordanians are talking about doing any different than what the United States did to get the release of Bergdahl?”
Schultz’s response was telling.  “The Taliban is an armed insurgency and ISIL is a terrorist group,” Schultz said. “So we don’t make concessions to terrorist groups.”  When Karl asked if he considers the Taliban a terrorist group, Shultz thought for a moment then answered.  “The Taliban is an armed insurgency,” he said.  If the White House ever wants a theme song, perhaps it ought to consider “Out of Touch” by Hall & Oates.


See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2015/01/taliban-not-a-terrorist-group-white-house.html/#sthash.6DC4elaZ.dpuf

Thursday, January 29, 2015

BUENO QUE TE PASE HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!!

EN SUS ESFUERZOS POR ARRUINAR EL PAIS QUE "DESCONDUCE" AHORA, CON SU ACTITUD DE ENTREGUEGISMO-ANTI/UN AMERICANO, EL PRESIDENTE DE ESTE MI PAIS...TENDRA QUE COMPLACER A LAS AUTORIDADES CUBANAS QUE YA ESTAN PREPARANDO UNA AGENDA DE CONDICIONES A CUMPLIR POR EL QUE MAL-OCUPA LA CASA BLANCA. PERO A MI NO ME CULPEN...SIEMPRE HE ORGULLOSAMENTE VOTADO REPUBLICANO...ASI QUE A MI NO ME CULPEN DE ESTA DESGRACIA. 

QUE ME PENA ME DA PARA BO Y SUNNY....  


Raul Castro says U.S. must return Guantanamo to Cuba

Cuban president lists demands during speech at Community of Latin American and Caribbean States summit in San Jose, Costa Rica

Published On: Jan 28 2015 03:02:46 PM EST   Updated On: Jan 29 2015 12:00:35 AM EST

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -
Cuban President Raul Castro said Wednesday that in order to re-establish normal relations, the United States needs to return the Guantanamo Bay land -- where the U.S. Navy runs a base and detention camp.
The U.S. built the military base during the Spanish-American war and established a leasing agreement with Cuba in 1903. It was an important distribution point during World War II without protest. The Cuban government didn't start to complain about the "occupation" until the Cold War.
Now that the base is known worldwide for its global war on terror detainees, Fidel Castro's brother said "normalization" of the relationship with the U.S. will not be possible while "the territory illegally occupied" is not returned.
The 83-year-old Castro told heads of state in San Jose, Costa Rica, for the Latin American & Caribbean States summit that the U.S. also needs to "adequately" compensate Cuba for damages.
He added that the U.S. needs to remove Cuba from the list of states sponsoring terrorism. President Barack Obama's administration is reviewing that. Obama's use of executive power to loosen the embargo with a range of measures that would increase economic ties was not enough for Castro.
He demands that the U.S. lift the half-century trade embargo. But although only the Republican controlled U.S. Congress can do that, Castro suggested otherwise.
Obama "could use with determination his extensive executive powers to substantially modify the implementation of the blockade," he said. "This is something he can do even without Congressional approval."
In return, the Castro regime does not plan on changing its form of government. And if his list of demands isn't met, he said the "diplomatic rapprochement wouldn't make any sense."
Castro and Obama announced Dec. 17 that they would move toward renewing full diplomatic relations by reopening embassies in each others' countries, but after two days of negotiations in Havana last week, the delegations were unable to set a date.
Castro warned that in the U.S. there were "certain forces" that were going to try to derail a process that was just beginning. And he reported that there was some progress during the historic talks.
"It was possible to advance in the recent negotiations, because we treated each other with respect, and as equals," he said during his speech. "Future progress demands that this remains so."

EMBARGO:  "The main issue still stands unresolved. The economic, commercial and financial blockade causing enormous human and economic damages to our country constitutes a violation of International Law, and must cease."
"To the American people that recently manifested its growing opposition to the policy of blockade and hostility lasting more than five decades, I also reiterate our appreciation and friendly feelings."
"We are aware that the path to the removal of the blockade will be long and difficult and will require the support, mobilization and resolute action of every person of goodwill ...  the approval by the UN General Assembly ...  and, especially, the concerted action of our America."
CUBAN FIVE: "Last December 17th, we welcomed to our homeland the Cuban counterterrorist fighters Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino and Antonio Guerrero, who alongside Fernando González and René González are to us a source of pride and an example of determination."
HUMAN RIGHTS:  "There is little that many industrial nations can show our region in such areas since half their youths are unemployed, and the weight of the crisis falls on the workers and students they suppress. On the other hand, they protect bankers, prevent the organization of trade unions, pay women lower salaries for equal work and apply inhumane policies against immigrants."
VENEZUELA: "We want to express our strong condemnation of the unjustified and unacceptable unilateral sanctions imposed on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and of the continuous foreign interference intended to create a climate of instability in that sister nation."
COLOMBIA: "Cuba, as one of the guarantors and the venue of such negotiations [with the left-wing guerrillas) , shall continue offering the necessary facilities and contributing as much as possible to end the conflict and build a just and lasting peace in that fraternal nation."
ECUADOR: "We reiterate our solidarity with the people and government of Ecuador,and the demands of President Rafael Correa for reparations on account of the environmental damages caused by the transnational company Chevron in the Ecuadorian Amazonia."
GAZA STRIP:  The United Nations "should wait no more to secure the full membership of Palestine, whose people count with the solidarity of the Cuban people and government. The Security Council veto providing impunity to Israel’s crimes must cease."
Y SEGUIRAN PIDIENDO YA QUE HUSSEIN OBAMA, CON SU ACTITUD DE "GUATAQUERIA" DIPLOMATICA HA DEJADO LA PUERA ABIERTA PARA MAS DEMANDAS...
QUIERO MUCHO, ADORO A LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA...VENERO LA CONSTITUCION Y AGRADEZCO EL APOYO QUE LOS GOBIERNOS Y EL GRAN PUEBLO AMERICANO SIEMPRE NOS HAN BRINDADO A NOSOTROS LOS EXILIADOS CUBANOS,,,QUE PREFERIMOS COMO DECIA MARTI...VIVIR SIN PATRIA...PERO SIN AMO!!!  PERO,  FRANCAMENTE ME PREOCUPA ESTE TRIUNFO QUE HUSSEIN OBAMA LE HA DADO A LOS DICTADORES CUBANOS...UN VERDADERO PREMIO POR HABERSE REIDO DE LOS EEUU Y HABERLOS HUMILLADO POR TANTOS AñOS Y VEO QUE SE ESTA HACIENDO LO MISMO CON IRAN Y LOS PAISES MUSULMANES...D-OS BENDIGA A SU TIERRA AMERICANA EN ESTE MOMENTO TAN INCIERTO PARA ELLA...

IN GOD WE TRUST!!!

     G-D BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!!



WE ARE A NATION OF JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES!!!


Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Monday, January 26, 2015

Monday, January 19, 2015

Russia Cuba USA relations...what

That would be our POTUS-in-Chief, pulling his-self-defined “right thing to do” out of nowhere (some would make a more anatomical allusion) at a time when Cuba has been busy doing exactly the wrong thing.
First, let us at least rejoice that Alan Gross has been released.  We can be glad for his sake that he is back home with his family.  The rest of the news is not so good.  Obama traded three Cuban spies for Gross and a U.S. intelligence agent, and will open up financial and banking relations to Cuba, besides authorizing travel and reopening a U.S. embassy in Havana:
American officials said the Cuban spies were swapped for a United States intelligence agent who had been in a Cuban prison for nearly 20 years, and said Mr. Gross was not technically part of the swap, but was released separately on “humanitarian grounds.”
In addition, the United States will ease restrictions on remittances, travel and banking relations, and Cuba will release 53 Cuban prisoners identified as political prisoners by the United States government. Although the decades-old American embargo on Cuba will remain in place for now, the president called for an “honest and serious debate about lifting” it.  The concern here is only partly the specific measures taken, however.  The context in which they are being taken is of even greater concern.
Context
Russian officials made two major announcements in the last six months: that Moscow would reopen the sprawling Cold War-era listening post near Havana, at Lourdes; and that Russian forces, now including strategic bombers (an unprecedented feature), wouldresume operating from Cuba to conduct patrols targeting the United States.
Russia has, in fact, been operating intelligence collection ships from Cuba and sending them on patrols off the southeastern U.S. coast.  Meanwhile, Cuba continues to engage in an illicit arms trade with North Korea, which facilitates the proliferation of arms to terrorist groups and bad regimes round the world.  (See here and here as well.)
Cuba also continues to be deeply involved in the repressions inflicted by Central America’s socialist caudillos on the people of Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua.  For more than half a century, Cuba has been one of the chief security problems of Latin America.
In the last five years, the nexus between the Castroites and thechavistas (Chavez, his successor Maduro, Evo Morales, Daniel Ortega) has expanded to include – increasingly overtly – Iran.  Cuba’s trade relations with Iran – always, for such nations, largely a cover for arms and intelligence cooperation – have been growing rapidly in the last several years.  (The more warehouses and heavy machinery are ostensibly involved in the commercial trade, the more military-strategic import it typically has.  The transportation sector is one of the best covers for military cooperation.)
China, moreover, has been cultivating increased military as well as trade ties with Cuba in the last few years (see here and hereas well), and is reported to have intelligence operatives manning a Cuban listening post in Bejucal.
These are some of the big, important things that have been going on with Cuba in the time period that ought to affect our decisions about Cuba.  If we’re going to go down the path of normalizing relations with Cuba, each and every one of these things should be on the table.   The payoff from pursuing this course should be – explicitly, and up front – a set of verifiable commitments from Cuba to not continue in these activities which are prejudicial to the United States and the security of the Western hemisphere.  Obama has obtained no such promises, nor has he outlined any program of pursuing them.  Given all that he should have been concerned about, he has simply caved and made a unilateral gesture that will benefit Cuba, but not the U.S.
Specific measures
In fact, Obama’s opening of travel and financial relations to Cuba will actively harm the U.S.  The first people on the plane to the U.S. from Cuba will be spies – and spies not just for Cuba but for Russia, China, and Iran.  The difference now will be the casual ease with which they can gain access to the United States by posing as mere Cuban businessmen, tourists, and workers on visas.
Opening financial relations with Cuba will create an even bigger vulnerability.  Cuba will have her feet in both worlds:  the global financial network in which the U.S. and our allies set the rules, and – beyond doubt – the alternative network which Russia is currently laboring to assemble.  (See more about how this fits in with Russia’s strategic intentions here, from an interview given by Russian Defense Minister Dmitry Rogozin.) Cuba is too dependent on Russia to avoid participating in the alternative financial network, and presumably, as long as the Castroites are in power, they will want to.
Members of the “BRICS” bloc might or might not be interested in joining Russia’s network; if some do so, the U.S. and allies like Japan and the EU will be faced with a serious, high-profile securitypolicy dilemma.  When North Korea joins Russia’s network, on the other hand, we can rejoice that our banking system is not connected to Pyongyang to begin with.
But it would be easy to minimize the concern Western observers would feel about little Cuba being a nexus between the two networks.  The New York Times editorial posture, for example, would no doubt dismiss the obvious concerns as “conspiracy theory,” at least until some American politician’s family member got caught with taxpayer-assisted commercial interests that were financing arms shipments to Hezbollah, ISIS, or Boko Haram through the Cuban financial-network nexus.
It’s going to be tough enough navigating a world in which Russia operates a separate international financial network, to which some nations will have an interest in belonging.  Everywhere there exists a nexus between the networks – a nexus that by definition is outside the control of the Western allies – the SWIFT participants will have to worry about vulnerabilities to shenanigans and skullduggery.  (Indeed, the very survivability of the Russian network is likely to depend at times on exploiting the opportunities in such a nexus.)
But we already know what the Castros’ Cuba is.  We know that the vulnerabilities created by this nexus in Cuba are inevitable.  Now is the dumbest possible time to fling the door open to networked financial transactions with Cuba.
What can Congress do about this?  Can it rein Obama in, at least on the matter of opening the banking system to Cuba?  That’s a good question.  Congress might be able to pass veto-proof legislation, but forcing Obama to implement it is another matter.  I don’t see the courts settling this one; foreign-policy powers are one of the least conclusive realms of constitutional law.
Obama has laid an egg, on several levels, and we’re going to see it hatch.  The Pandora’s Box his policies are opening looks minor and unserious only to the complacent eye: the eye that knows no history, and thinks the halcyon summer of the last 25 years is the normal state of mankind.  It’s not.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Pres Hussein Obama fires 9th General In His Purge

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Obama Changes Direction Of US Military Command, Fires 9th General In His Purge

Have you been paying attention to all the changes that Obama has been making in the US Military? I mean beyond all the political grandstanding and doing stupid things like locking the chaplains out of their posts during the government shut down (for which a Catholic priest in now suing the president). It seems that Obama has been engaged in his own private ‘purge’ of generals and other leaders at the very top of the US Military.
On October 12th, this story was even noticed by Dianne Sawyer of ABC News. You see, there have 9 top level military leaders and commanders fired or relieved of duty since April. Is Obama preparing things for some sort of big event? Nine top-level generals and commanders could definitely be considered a purge of sorts. Perhaps Obama is thinking about some options that the majority of Americans would be loathe to even consider? Several Pentagon Officials have been trying to warn the people to expect radical changes very soon. The Chinese are also thinking about getting out of the dollar and forming their own currency alliance. There is even the strong potential for 16 US States being shut down and handed over to the federal government due to such high levels of debt. Could martial law be coming?
There have also been reports that seem to indicate Obama has a litmus test for military officers these days. Apparently, he only wants officers who do not have trouble firing on US citizens. Several of these now retired officers have come forward and said that they think Obama is preparing for war against the US. We have also heard Obama himself talk about ‘My Military.’ Whatever you think might be happening, it is certainly clear that Obama is looking to change and move things in a different direction.
By the way, these 9 top military officers and commanders were this that Obama has fired or replaced or relieved from duty just in 2013. It does not include a rather long list of those who were also relieved of duty last year (and the year before that). Even Dianne Sawyer felt that this is bizarre and wanted to try and get to the bottom of it.
Take a look at some of the nine who have been fired or relived of duty. General Carter Hamm, US Army, served as the head of the US African Command and in charge during the Benghazzi incident. After being extremely critical of Obama (calling him a liar about reinforcements in the area), he was ‘resigned and retired’ in April. Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette, US Navy, Commander of Carrier Strike Group Three was in charge of aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea on the night of September 11, 2012. He was fired and relieved of duty for ‘utterance of a racial slur.’ And there are plenty more examples, all within the year.
This is an incredibly alarming series of events. It is one of the largest and fastest purges of military commanders that has ever been recorded. These ‘purges’ even included two heads of nuclear strategic commands. This has even made veteran reporter Dianne Sawyer step up and public ask what is the next step that Obama is planning. This is something that every American should be asking themselves as we watch the evidence of what is happening.
What do YOU think? What is the reason for this purge of the military? Can the firing or relieving of duty of 9 top-level generals and admirals this quickly be considered a mere coincidence? What do you think Obama is planning? Why does he want to remake the military to HIS liking? 
Will the military some day be called upon to fire on US citizens?

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

REMEMBERING THE FALLEN

When visiting my mother’s grave site we noticed some pennies on some adjacent headstones and none of us knew the purpose.  Well I learned something new today – and here is the answer for those who were not aware of the tradition:
 
A coin left on a headstone let’s the deceased soldier’s family know that somebody stopped by to pay their respect.
 
Leaving a penny means you visited.
 
A nickel means that you and the deceased soldier trained at boot camp together.
 
If you served with the soldier, you leave a dime.
 
A quarter is very significant because it means that you were there when that soldier was killed.
 
So what happens to the coins after Memorial Day? They are collected and the money is used for cemetery maintenance, the cost of burial for soldiers, or the care of indigent soldiers.
 
Supposedly the tradition became popular here in the United States during the Vietnam war. It is believed it was a way to show respect without getting into an uncomfortable political discussion about a war that was very controversial during that time.
 
In general, however, this tradition can be traced to as far back as the Roman Empire. It was a way to give a buddy some spending money for the life hereafter.
 
Next time you make a visit make sure you have some coins with you !

Friday, January 2, 2015

CUBA - FRENTE AL 2015, 2016, 2017.... PATRIA O MUERTE...VENCIMOS????

ESTUVIERON 54 AÑOS QUEMANDO BANDERAS AMERICANAS. 
AHORA LA VENERAN 
BUSCANDO "EL RON Y EL PLATO DE COMIDA". 
QUE VENEZUELA YA NO LES PUEDE DAR.
LA VIDA TE DA SORPRESAS...
SORPRESAS TE DA LA VIDA...AY D-OS!!!


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 Raúl Castro prepara la 'entrega' de Cuba tras apuntalar el futuro de su familia.

(Como te decía, chico...paso que luego de sacrificarme unos añicos, no me queda mas remedio que sacrificarme y bueh... me rajo...)
Raúl Castro prepara la 'entrega' de Cuba tras apuntalar el futuro de su familia
Los Fanjul y los Bacardí ya no jugarán solos al dominó. El líder cubano, a través de su familia, controla el holding turístico GAESA y dirige la farmacéutica Labiofam.

Borja Bauzá / 20-12-2014 . 11:48
Hay quien analiza la normalización de las relaciones diplomáticas entre Washington y La Habana anunciada esta semana recurriendo a una sola frase: "La revolución ha dejado una familia más". Se refieren a los Castro y a la posición que ocuparán en el futuro de la mayor de las Antillas.

Raúl Castro, que ocupó el poder tras más de cuatro décadas esperando pacientemente la retirada por causas naturales de su hermano Fidel, no parece querer engrosar la lista de jefes de Estado que han terminado fusilados, encarcelados o exiliados. Fomentó, a los pocos meses de acceder al sillón presidencial, una apertura económica -discreta, pero histórica- que permitió el surgimiento en la isla de un pequeño sector privado llamado 'cuentapropista' que actualmente guía un antiguo inversor de Wall Street, Eduardo Mestre. Al mismo tiempo, ha dado la bienvenida a la creación de empresas mixtas con capital extranjero que empiezan a levantar proyectos en territorio cubano, tal es el caso de las instalaciones inmobiliarias vinculadas a campos de golf construidas en asociación con Beijing Enterprises Holdings Limited o la empresa británica Esencia Hotels and Resorts. Y, por supuesto, su relación con el Vaticano se ha mantenido cordial: en marzo de 2012 Benedicto XVI visitó La Habana siguiendo el ejemplo de su predecesor, Juan Pablo II.

De modo que, habida cuenta del clima aperturista propiciado por el menor de los Castro, no fueron pocos los entendidos que el pasado miércoles, mientras le veían anunciar el acercamiento de Cuba y EEUU en un discurso simultáneo al ofrecido porBarack Obama desde la Casa Blanca, se preguntaban por sus planes de futuro.

La clave probablemente se encuentre en su entorno familiar, y concretamente en la posición que ocupa su yerno, Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Callejas. Aunque el matrimonio de Luis Alberto con la hija mayor del presidente cubano, Deborah Castro, no ha sido especialmente exitoso, en algunos mentideros diplomáticos se explica que el yerno sigue contando con la confianza de Raúl. Así parece demostrarlo el hecho de que fuese ascendido a general de brigada el año pasado o su puesto al frente del gran holding turístico de las Fuerzas Armadas: el Grupo de Administración Empresarial de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (GAESA).

La relación de Raúl y Luis Alberto se ve reforzada, además, por el hijo de este último: Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro. Es el nieto favorito del presidente y de hecho ejerce como su secretario personal, amén de guardaespaldas.

GAESA es una empresa tan gigantesca como rentable: controla, entre otras, a TRD Caribe, Gaviota, Aerogaviota, Cubanacan, CIMEX o Habanos y las estimaciones apuntan a que factura varios miles de millones de dólares por año. A la cabeza del holding se encuentra el Grupo de Turismo Gaviota, que cuenta con varias decenas de hoteles repartidos por toda la isla. Creado en 1988, este grupo promociona y comercializa el producto turístico Cuba en el mercado internacional con servicios de hotelería, agencia de viajes, restaurantes y tiendas.

Luis Alberto no es, sin embargo, el único gran asidero económico de la familia Castro. Tampoco hay que perder de vista al sobrino de Raúl y de Fidel, José Antonio Fraga Castro. Hijo de Ángela Castro, la hermana mayor de ambos ya fallecida, José dirige Labiofam, una empresa importante dentro del sector farmacéutico y que cuenta con gran proyección internacional debido a la potencia biotecnológica de Cuba.

De modo que los Castro parecen estar bien posicionados para mantener la industria del turismo en la isla -una de las más rentables- y al menos una parte de la farmacéutica. A cambio dejarían regresar a la mayor de las Antillas -si finalmente la normalización de las relaciones con EEUU sigue su andadura y los republicanos más recalcitrantes no se interponen- a otras dos grandes familias que tuvieron que abandonar Cuba tras el triunfo, en 1959, de la revolución cubana: los Fanjul y los Bacardí.

Los Fanjul -son cuatro hermanos: Alfonso, Alexander, Andrés y Pepe- han sido durante décadas parte del anticastrismo duro de Miami. También unos magnates reconocidos en el mundo entero gracias al negocio azucarero que han desarrollado en Florida y Centroamérica. Con claras intenciones de extender su negocio a la isla que los vio nacer, en los últimos tiempos se han unido a la corriente cubanoamericana que pide a Washington un acercamiento con La Habana. De hecho Andrés figuraba como uno de los 44 firmantes de una carta que recibió el pasado 19 de mayo el propio Obama, y en la que se pedía una normalización de las relaciones con la mayor de las Antillas.

La familia Bacardí, actualmente liderada por Daniel Bacardí, ha seguido una evolución parecida a la experimentada por los hermanos Fanjul. Aunque los dueños del famoso negocio ronero en todo momento han mantenido su distancia con los Castro, en los últimos tiempos han suavizado su postura anticastrista pidiendo a la Casa Blanca una política más flexible en el embargo.

De todos modos, habrá quien se pregunte por qué Raúl Castro ha decidido abrir la mano precisamente ahora. Por qué no ha esperado algo más. La explicación a esta pregunta parece residir en la cuestión económica. Una de las principales fuentes de financiación de Cuba es Venezuela. El país bolivariano, además de haber intercedido en los conflictos diplomáticos a su favor, también provee a la mayor de las Antillas con petróleo. Sin embargo, a raíz de la brutal caída experimentada en los últimos meses por el precio del crudo, la rentabilidad aportada por ese vínculo se ha visto severamente golpeada. La salvación se encontraría en una de las promesas hechas por Obama en su rueda de prensa del miércoles: retirar a la isla de la lista de países que financian actividades terroristas elaborada por el Departamento de Estado. Con su nuevo estatus de 'país limpio' los grandes bancos estadounidenses ya podrían entrar en Cuba sin temor a sufrir sanciones económicas.