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Lawmakers Seek to Open Trade With Cuba
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, June 21, 2007
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(06-21) 16:46 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- 
Lawmakers from both parties proposed opening up agriculture exports to
Cuba and ending travel restrictions, putting them at odds with a White
House adamantly opposed to easing a half-century-old embargo.
"Our policy is just so wrongheaded," said Senate Finance Committee
Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., who with other farm state lawmakers has long
pushed for ending the restrictions on trade with Cuba. His proposed
legislation, he said Thursday, is "a step toward restoring sanity to this
economic relationship."
The trade and travel embargo imposed on Fidel Castro's government comes up
almost every year in Congress, but the bipartisan drive to ease
restrictions has never been strong enough to overcome anti-Castro
lawmakers and White House veto threats.
"The administration opposes any weakening of sanctions on Cuba and
believes that these measures are essential until Cuba can realize its
rightful democratic future," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said.
Baucus was joined in his effort by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman
Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., and two farm-state Republicans, Rep. Jo Ann
Emerson of Missouri and Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho.
"The backwards American policy on Cuba hurts our U.S. producers a whole
lot more than it hurts Fidel Castro," Emerson said.
In 2000, during the Clinton administration, Congress passed a law allowing
cash sales of food and agriculture products to Cuba, and since then the
United States has sold some $1.5 billion in farm products to the island
nation. But trade has been hampered the last two years by a Treasury
Department ruling that Cuba must make advance payments before agriculture
and medical products can be shipped. It later allowed shipments after
third-country banks received payments.
The Baucus bill would remove prepayment requirements, allow direct
payments to U.S. banks, provide expedited visas to Cubans involved in
buying farm products from the United States, and lift a rule that requires
exporters to make onsite verification of the receipt of medicines and
medical equipment sold to Cuba.
It would lift all restrictions on travel to Cuba, which is now open to a
limited group including Cuban-Americans, religious groups, academics and
journalists.
Asked about the chances for success this year, the lawmakers pointed to
growing popular support in the United States for easing the embargo and
President Bush's foreign policy problems. "The president's credentials on
foreign policy are not at an all-time high," noted Rangel.
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 By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer
Speriamo che chiudano presto con questa cazzata, voluta dalle oscure forze dei 
lobbisti canadesi, sulla pelle del contribuente americano e pagata col sangue da 
ogni amatore dei puros habanos e della barbatiela da zucchero cubana.
Tb
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E la vecchia sign non c'è più

 barbatiela da zucchero cubana.
ORRORE! ERESIA!
Palmiro Pangloss

 House adamantly opposed to easing a half-century-old embargo.
Mah, speriamo davvero che riescano a vincere le resistenze ideologiche
e quelle politiche di chi ha cubani nella circoscrizione elettorale.
Palmiro Pangloss

 ORRORE! ERESIA!
Occazzo, vero.
Però senza embargo... magari... potrebbero anche provarci.
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Palmiro Pangloss wrote:
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Inutile. Tutti gli americani vogliono togliere l'embargo, lo provano i sondaggi.
Ma i due partiti, tenuti dall'oscura lobby del paese dei cedri, continuano a 
ignorare i bisogni primari dei poveri americani (zucchero a buon mercato) e 
persino dei ricchi (puros).
In più i tapini a stelle e strisce pagheranno la benzina il doppio, quando 
dovranno estrarla in Alberta.
Il che aumenterà il potere canadese nello strangolare gli USA con la vera arma 
segreta: lo sciroppo di cedro.


 Ma i due partiti, tenuti dall'oscura lobby del paese dei cedri,
Che c'entra il Libano? Mi confondi: prima i sionisti, poi ghli zotici
dell'Alberta, poi i libanesi... non ci si capisce piu' un cazzo. Chi
controlla gli USA, il gigante stupido?
Palmiro Pangloss

Palmiro Pangloss wrote:
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I libano-canadesi dell'alberta <g>.
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