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Obama Lands In Cuba As First US President To Visit In Nearly A Century (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Barack Obama descended on Cuba with a pomp unmatched by the Pope on Sunday, becoming the first American president to visit Cuba in nearly a century, and the first since a revolution led by Fidel Castro toppled a U.S.-backed strongman in 1959. As he arrived, Obama used a Cuban phrase meaning "what's up?" when he tweeted: "Que bola Cuba? Just touched down here, looking forward to meeting and hearing directly from the Cuban people." "This is a historic visit," Obama said as he greeted U.S. Embassy staff and their families at a Havana hotel. "It's an historic opportunity to engage with the Cuban people."
One of the many results of the new diplomatic relations between the two countries is the ability for Cuban residents to become more connected to the internet. Reuters is reporting that Alphabet Inc's Google is poised to expand internet access in Cuba. "One of the things that we'll be announcing here is that Google has a deal to start setting up more Wi-Fi and broadband access on the island," Obama said in an ABC News interview that aired on Monday. The U.S. Treasury Department has even authorized San Francisco's Airbnb service to expand its home rental listings in Cuba to non-U.S. travelers.
But they are required to at least implement the law. They take an oath that it be faithfully executed.
Yeah, but Shrub showed us how to get around that. See "signing statements".
from coherentbabble.com...
...for reference...
George W. Bush issued 161 signing statements affecting over 1,100 provisions of law in 160 Congressional enactments.
From his inauguration through February 24, 2016, President Obama has issued 32 signing statements affecting 102 specified provisions and making seven mentions of unspecified provisions of law in 32 Congressional enactments.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
More than that. If Cuba had McDonald's and Starbucks and the majority of the people could only stand and stare in the windows, how long before the counter-revolution?
In the USA, probably about 15 minutes.
American consumerism is more corrosive to the Communist system than any blockade.