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JC Harvey's avatar

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. Sums up the history. Exploitation seems always our game in Latin America. Strange how Nixon could normalize trade and relations with China generations ago but Cuba is still cudgeled because of the Florida vote. I’m nearly an Octogenarian and never had a Che shirt, but maybe I will get one! Motorcycle Diaries! Oscar Romero. Salvador Allende. Liberation Theology!

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catfish rushdie's avatar

I have mixed feelings about Nixon's and Kissinger's trips to China. I was never in favor of America's hostile stance toward that country, but in the long term, the outcomes of that 1970's "normalisation" have not been good for us, i.e. the subsequent offshoring of most of or vital industries, which made us all the more vulnerable.

I sense that "normalising" relations with China was only a first step in the engineering of a vast transfer of wealth and power into the hands of a tiny super-rich global elite.

I doubt that it was even Nixon's idea in the first place.

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