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President Trump has placed some restrictions on travel to Cuba, but has not entirely undone the changes that former President Obama made in his second term:
In an overhaul of one of his predecessor's signature legacies, President Donald Trump will redraw U.S. policy toward Cuba on Friday, tightening travel restrictions for Americans that had been loosened under President Barack Obama and banning U.S. business transactions with Cuba's vast military conglomerate.
Trump's changes are intended to sharply curtail cash flow to the Cuban government and pressure its communist leaders to let the island's fledgling private sector grow. Diplomatic relations reestablished by Obama, including reopened embassies in Washington and Havana, will remain. Travel and money sent by Cuban Americans will be unaffected, but Americans will be unable to spend money in state-run hotels or restaurants tied to the military, a significant prohibition.
Editorials for and against the rollback.
Previously: Deal Will Allow Up to 110 U.S. Flights to Cuba Daily
President Obama Visits Cuba
USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants
(Score: 5, Informative) by ikanreed on Friday June 16 2017, @08:32PM (6 children)
Man, that reason article is fucked up and dishonest.
I don't like to get into Mao or Stalinist apologist bullshit(of which the internet contains fucking plenty). They were terrible and holomdor was a goddamn barbaric disregard for his Stalin's own citizens. But "All the famines of the 20th century were under communism" is pretty fucking dumb, several hundred Americans died prematurely at least in part due to the dust bowl.
2-3 million Indians died in the bengal famine. The Indian famine of 1974 killed 1.5 million, If you count 1900 as the 20th century(I know it's not), another million indians died in the famine of 1900.
The great Persian famine had close to 10 million die.
Approximately a million died in the Vietnamese famine of 1945.
The Great Chinese famine of 1928(predating the evils of communism) killed an unknown number best guessed in the low millions.
Africa has had numerous famines, and the colonial powers controlling Africa for much of the 20th century didn't even bother documenting them. Ethiopia alone had a half dozen in the 20th century. They sure as hell weren't commies.
Europe faired better, with most of their famines clocking in at under a million deaths, but still included hundreds of thousands in: Greece and the Netherlands(caused by WW2).
Again, I'm not trying to absolve Stalin and Mao for their crimes in actively causing famine, but fuck reason and their complete lack of research.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @08:39PM (5 children)
The reason article uses a low estimate. [scottmanning.com]
How many other famines were because the government deliberately murdered, relocated and imprisoned successful farmers (kulaks)? [wikipedia.org] You cannot separate the famine from the ideology when it is a direct consequence of that ideology.
(Score: 4, Touché) by ikanreed on Friday June 16 2017, @08:45PM (2 children)
Again, not apologizing for stalin's evil shit.
Just excoriating a shitty article that contains outright lies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @09:01PM
Fair enough. In defence of the article, it merely documents the presented infographic which cites references from the estimates it uses. While we don't have accurate figures, the estimates are quite horrifying enough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @09:01PM
But but muh false equivalence!
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Friday June 16 2017, @09:40PM (1 child)
Purposeful inefficiency and totalitarianism are not ideological tenets of communism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @10:27PM
That very much depends on which side of the lie you are on.