At least Cuba has good cigars.
Obama will use spring summit to bring Cuba in from the cold
US companies are queuing up as the president moves to ease restrictions on travel and trade, raising hopes of warmer relations and an end to the embargo
• Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent
President Barack Obama is poised to offer an olive branch to Cuba in an effort to repair the US's tattered reputation in Latin America.
The White House has moved to ease some travel and trade restrictions as a cautious first step towards better ties with Havana, raising hopes of an eventual lifting of the four-decade-old economic embargo. Several Bush-era controls are expected to be relaxed in the run-up to next month's Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago to gild the president's regional debut and signal a new era of "Yankee" cooperation.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/08/cuba-obama-administration

The promise of new markets and profits seems to cure a host of problems, eh?

If done properly (there's an oxymoron; government and properly) it could help the Cuban populace.

:shakehead

And socialistic Russia will have no problems coming at us through the back door while further broadening their sphere of influence in Latin America.

Next person he will suck up to is most likely Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. :bananadie


Cuba and Russia strengthen ties as Raúl Castro visits Moscow

The presidents of Russia and Cuba signed a strategic partnership and several other documents Friday aimed at rekindling their faded Cold War alliance, pledging to expand cooperation in agriculture, manufacturing, science and tourism but studiously avoiding a public discussion of military ties.

Link to Article (http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/30/america/cuba.4-419718.php)

Source: NYT International