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***More fun in oil geopolitics | 14 comments (14 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: More fun in oil geopolitics (4.00 / 2)

You left off the best option: Casto dies, and Cuba holds a referendum to become the 51st state. Presto-chango, everything is cool: The U.S. gets a brand new tropical tourist paradise--like Hawaii but within reasonable travel distance. New oil supply. Troublesome Cuban Republicans in Florida move "home." Friendly Cuban Democrats move from Cuba to Florida (but not enough to counterbalance remaining leftist Cubans still in Cuba, voting for Democrats). Economy of Cuba blossoms. Banana, sugar, and coffe prices plummet.

What's the down side?

by asdf on Tue Aug 1st, 2006 at 10:44:32 PM EST

Re: More fun in oil geopolitics (none / 0)

The down side is Guantanamo Bay is now US territory, so the Constitution applies there.

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sapere aude

by Number 6 on Wed Aug 2nd, 2006 at 05:04:02 AM EST
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Re: More fun in oil geopolitics (none / 0)

If you get to the referendum without mass murdering that's great indeed!

Now if you reach a fair voting system in Cuba, I don't know what are the arguments for and against joining the USA from the average Cuban perspective.

Joining the USA will probably means major legal property disputes though.

by Laurent GUERBY on Wed Aug 2nd, 2006 at 06:27:58 AM EST
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Re: More fun in oil geopolitics (none / 1)

Puerto Rico has had the option discussed at great length, and there is not much support for it. The chance of Cuba becoming an American state is about as much as the chance of France becoming one. (Although that would be fun!)

by asdf on Thu Aug 3rd, 2006 at 09:21:39 AM EST
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