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Cubans Allowed To Export Software and Software Services To the US

Posted by samzenpus on from the getting-out-there dept.

lpress writes In an effort to support Cuba's nascent private sector, the Treasury Department announced on Friday that Americans can now import goods and services produced by "independent Cuban entrepreneurs." Will the Cuban government allow that? Cuba is a communist nation, but they have a list of 201 job categories in which self-employment is permitted. Most of those jobs are goofy things like magician and pedal-taxi driver, but one is not – computer programmer. Will the Castro regime let private individuals and organizations export software and software services to the United States and the rest of the world?

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  1. Re:You hit the nail on the head... by ganjadude · · Score: 3, Informative

    by the looks of it no, none of their relatives in the states seem to know it

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  2. Re:Helping Castro by Strider- · · Score: 5, Informative

    That gasoline in your car most likely comes from Saudi Arabia, and we are openly allies with other Gulf Arab states.

    I've seen this repeated a bunch of times, but it's simply not true. Canada was far and away the largest source of foreign oil to the United States. In November 2014, the USA imported an average of 3.443 million barrels per day from Canada, and only imported 1.014 million barrels from Saudi Arabia. If you add up all the gulf states, and other less friendly nations, that the total imports to the US total 2.630 Mbpd (I totalled Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Iraq, Angola, Russia, Kuwait, and Algeria in that). Additionally, the United States extracts 9.020 Million barrels per day of crude.

    The long and short of this is that the gasoline in your car most likely came from domestic crude, followed by Canadian crude, or crude from other friendly nations, and not from Saudi Arabia, or other less friendly nations.

    Sources:

    http://www.eia.gov/petroleum/i...
    http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pe...

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  3. Re:Helping Castro by teg · · Score: 4, Informative

    I still think they are not as bad as some countries we consider allies

    And who would that be? I can only think of North Korea, who are worse than Cuba...

    Countries worse then Cuba? Most Arab allies is a good start. Cuba is a far better place to live than Saudi Arabia humans rights wise, to give one obvious example. The US has had close ties to countries and dictators far worse or equal to Cuba - historically, the US has supported some pretty bad dictators in Latin America.