Another step in the right direction from the Obama administration: He has relaxed the sanctions against interaction with Cuba.<\/a> <\/p>\n

This is another of those tangents I often strayed into during my last blog (I swear, I will link to it!). I continue to fail to understand why we have for so long not been allowed dealings with Communist Cuba, but we can outsource practically our entire blue-collar workforce to China, which, in case you were wondering, continues to be Communist. Oh but wait. This article does state that: <\/p>\n

The changes do not alter the Cuban government’s long-standing efforts to hinder foreign companies operating on the island.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I get it. We can’t exploit the Cuban workers the same way we’re exploiting the Chinese. Makes perfect sense now. <\/p>\n

I’m very interested to see what sort of changes these loosened restrictions will bring, both to Cuba and to the United States. Perhaps Cuba will reinstate the sanctions themselves once the infection of American stupidity starts to seep into their culture. After all, there is talk that soon they may be subjected to utter tripe such as Howard Stern. I don’t know about anyone else, but I would consider that to be more punishment than positive…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another step in the right direction from the Obama administration: He has relaxed the sanctions against interaction with Cuba. This is another of those tangents I often strayed into during my last blog (I swear, I will link to it!). I continue to fail to understand why we have for so long not been allowed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobablanca.com\/blog09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}