Castro offically steps down

[sonicsamurai]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7252109.stm

just in.

i dunno what that will mean for cuba and the US....raul seems to be fairly solidly in charge. i like some of the things castro did - free education, free healthcare...i don't necessarily agree with ruling with absolute power, but if it works and the country remains fairly happy i guess its just another method...

[Learn Guitars]

Maybe we need to go invade Cuba and make sure they have an election!!! Seems to be our policy these day. Hell, it's way closer than Iraq. Our guys may even be able to simply swim there and keep transport costs down. Food for thought.

[Cygnus X1]

Meh.
Brother Raul is even crazier, from what I've heard.
Free elections would cause a mess as bad as Haiti.

[Drake S.]

Man Miami is gonna suck that much more now ! we have a heavy Latin community here mostly Cuban They're great people for the most part but something like this is gonna make shit Crazy down here !

[sl2lover]

Hopefully this will help end the embargo, and we can start importing cigars!!

[Drake S.]

You want cigars what kind they're all over Miami

[sl2lover]

You want cigars what kind they're all over Miami

Hook a brother up!!

[Spivonious]

Didn't we try to kick him out in the 60s and essentially get thrown out by the people we were "saving"?

[Alvin_Wilson]

You want cigars what kind they're all over Miami

Hook a brother up!!

+1

[yard dawg]

We should just arm the cubans in Miami and let them take there homeland back.

[fett]

By law, the embargo stays in effect as long as the Castros are alive.

[Cygnus X1]

The best cigar makers left cuba long ago.
The only question for them is protecting their brands.

[Norton]

The current system works for Cuba and they love Castro. People seem to be quite happy in Cuba(at least, they have their dignity), so there's noıthing else to say.

[fuel0707]

Didn't we try to kick him out in the 60s and essentially get thrown out by the people we were "saving"?

The "Bay of Pigs" fiasco.

[fuel0707]

By law, the embargo stays in effect as long as the Castros are alive.

That's not quite true according to this excerpt: Helms-Burton Act of 1996 Scroll down to Sec. 205, which discusses the conditions for lifting the economic sanctions against Cuba. But I don't think the conditions would ever be met even with Fidel's brother in power.