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Latin America

Judi Lynn

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4. I have no doubt that's true. They could barely wait to remove Spain from any part of Cuba.

Reply to Marcus IM (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 18, 2023, 10:41 PM

Sep 2023

More than happy to shed the blood of US soldiers and sailors to do it. They seemed to relish the Spanish-American war, didn't they?

It can't be that they wanted to save "Cubans" from Spanish brutality, because the Washington
attitude never seemed to have any real inhibitions against a lot human rights violations, in perspective.

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US prepares measures to help Cuban small businesses -source [View all] Judi Lynn Sep 2023 OP

What a fukkin bullshite piece of swill that story is. Marcus IM Sep 2023 #1

Yup! It's been their yarn all these nasty years. The pre-Trump idiots always bought it. Judi Lynn Sep 2023 #2

I believe that much of the US's positions on Cuba is anti-hispanic ... Marcus IM Sep 2023 #3

I have no doubt that's true. They could barely wait to remove Spain from any part of Cuba. Judi Lynn Sep 2023 #4

Cuba was literally known as the "Whorehouse of the Caribbean" when under US gangster rule. Marcus IM Sep 2023 #5

Definitely heard about that. I have wondered if it started when the US Navy Judi Lynn Sep 2023 #6