Cuba Passes Sweeping Free Market Reforms

Now all they need is something to put in the market

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-20 10:21 AM | Reply

Nice place for a Trump Hotel and Golf Course.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-06-20 11:06 AM | Reply

Now all they need is something to put in the market

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-06-20 10:21 AM | Reply

Start importing goods for a traditional Chinese market, supplying the staff of the CDAA systems. They'll have money.

#3 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2026-06-20 11:13 AM | Reply

Had a driver the other day, young kid from Cuba who told me he crossed the 90 miles in a boat (illegally) to get here.

He said that the people get paid in pesos, but everything they buy is for dollars; he was making 16 dollars a week there.

We talked about how the State was like Russia and China, in that even the local Police work for the State, not the People... so corruption was rampant there just as in Russia and China, who have increasing presence in Cuba for years he said.

He talked about how Marco Rubio's father is (was?) Cuban, so he hopes that there will be 'regime change' there, in another place in the world that badly needs it.

His Mom is still there, and he's saving money to get her across. Asked him his name, and he told me... it was the Spanish of my name. We had a good laugh at that.

Regime change is hard werk once there's an Authoritarian Regime in place; something we should be more mindful of in this country.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2026-06-20 11:44 AM | Reply

@#2 ... Nice place for a Trump Hotel and Golf Course. ...

Yeah, that may be the end goal for Pres Trump in his blockade of Cuba -- personal enrichment.

Donald Trump Told Kim Jong Un He Envisions 'Great Condos' in North Korea: 'Boy, Look at That View' (2018)
people.com

... He may be the president now, but when Donald Trump met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un in Singapore, the mogul couldn't resist returning to his real estate roots.

While many Americans at home were still asleep in their beds in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Trump, 71, reflected on the historic summit " and North Korea's real estate potential " in a press conference in Singapore.

"North Korea has great beaches," Trump told reporters. "You see that whenever they're exploding cannons into the ocean. I said, Boy, look at that view. Wouldn't that make a great condo?' " ...

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-20 09:06 PM | Reply

Trump Saved This Vietnamese Real Estate Mogul's Fortune. Now They Are Opening A Golf Resort Together (2025)
www.forbes.com

... In May, Donald Trump's son Eric, the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, traveled to Vietnam to unveil a new Trump-branded real estate project: the $1.5 billion Trump International Hung Yen. The sprawling project is set to feature a 5-star hotel, luxury villas and two golf courses designed by two-time U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau on nearly 2,500 acres of land.

The groundbreaking ceremony, set in a white tent with rows of tables and plastic chairs in a field 37 miles south of the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi, was much less glamorous than the sleek Middle Eastern offices Eric had visited to cut a similar deal in Qatar just three weeks earlier.

But to this Southeast Asian country and Dang Thanh Tam, the Vietnamese entrepreneur behind this deal, it is a huge win. Sandwiched between Eric and Vietnam's prime minister Pham Minh Chinh, Dang, 61, beamed for the cameras as golden confetti rained onto the stage. ...

... and, miraculously, Pres Trump's approach to tariffs on Vietnam goods seemed to have changed.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-20 09:13 PM | Reply

Lamp... I can't wait for the Trump Tehran Casino Hotel Golf Course and Mosque!

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2026-06-20 09:48 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#7

I'm not yet there regarding the Trump Mosque, but the Trump Tehran Casino Hotel Golf Course ... well yeah.

Iran has waterfront property, and no wind turbines in sight.

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-20 09:57 PM | Reply