Cuba could cut back on energy cost associated with short wave broadcast's to America, telling us what bad people we are. (Radio Havana, English and Spanish, 6000kHz)

Use some of that energy cost to feed their people.

So they eat their own when it comes down to it, or as Glenn Reynolds would say “from the annals of leftist autophagy”

Shame there’s no system that could solve these supply problems.

How do you spell irony??

Being assured that supplies of cooking oil will remain stable, but chicken and eggs and items to cook in oil are in short supply.

Well, you can still make salad dressings so there's that.

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Originally posted by Neel:
How do you spell irony??

Being assured that supplies of cooking oil will remain stable, but chicken and eggs and items to cook in oil are in short supply.

Well, you can still make salad dressings so there's that.

Ironia.
"...As any semifluent Spanish speaker visiting Cuba will attest, irony is the spice of life in Cuba...." quote I just found when reviewing ironic spelling.

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Originally posted by 71 TRUCK:
This my be a dumb Question but is the United States the only country that has trade and travel restrictions with Cuba.
What about the rest of the world.
I remember years ago talking to people that were from other parts of the world vacationing in Cuba.
Their economic problems always seam to be the United States fault because we cant travel there or trade with them.

Their biggest issue is the lack of hard currency. Theirs isn't worth the paper it's printed on and they don't have access to others. This is all because they don't produce enough to take care of themselves let alone extra for export. Of course there are minor exceptions like cigars but in total they fall way short.

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Originally posted by Leemur:
Shame there’s no system that could solve these supply problems.

The Cuban government can buy these so called items from anywhere they want to.....ie. Mexico or any other country except from the U.S. Mexico has PLENTY of chicken, eggs and other staples it could sell them. BUT, you need money to pay for them.

What surprises me, is they've seen a huge uptick in tourism and revenue. Several cruise ships a week are going there with American Tourists spending money there within the last 2 years or so.