“I have two bits of news for you: one good and one bad.”
Those were the first words Elena Garcia, a 28-year-old web designer, heard when she woke up on the morning of January 3, hours after a United States military operation abducted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
“The good news is that the water has arrived,” her boyfriend continued. “The bad news is that they kidnapped Maduro, and that means that this year we will surely have blackouts.”
By January 11, US President Donald Trump announced Venezuela would no longer supply Cuba with oil or money.
The threat of ending Venezuela’s support is expected to further devastate the Cuban economy — and possibly trigger unrest.
So far, since the US attack on Venezuela, the streets of Havana have been calm, and the Cuban government has pledged to maintain ties with Venezuela.
The Cuban government has indicated a willingness to establish better relations with the US, and in 2014, then-leader Raul Castro struck a brief detente with his US counterpart Barack Obama.
But Trump’s first election in 2016 put an end to that rapprochement. Since his first term, the US has pummelled Cuba with increased economic restrictions, leading to one of the worst economic crises in the island’s history.
I’m guessing the libs don’t want to risk retaliation by the US, as well as they don’t want the anti-communist part of the party to see them as supporting commies.
At some point in time we are gonna have to poke that bear HARD and it should be done to help another nation less fortunate than us.
This pussy-footing around that rapist has gotta stop sooner rather than later.