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With Fidel, trust
is the issue
Posted August 16 2004 in
The
Sun-Sentinel.
No less an authority than the Simpsons
TV series surfaced at a recent scholarly
conference to describe what's happening
with foreign investment in Cuba.
Turns out in a classic episode that Mr.
Burns and Homer arrive on the island in
hopes of investing a trillion dollars they
have.
They meet with Fidel Castro, who asks to
see the trillion-dollar bill. Homer reassures
Burns: "I think we can trust the president
of Cuba."
Castro pockets the cash, and when Burns
asks for it back, Fidel replies: "Give
what back?"
Next, the men are seen floating on a crudely
made raft in the ocean -- apparently on
their way back home.
Attorney Pedro Freyre, who sits on the
Free Cuba committee of the Greater Miami
Chamber of Commerce, invoked the episode
to show problems foreign investors face
doing business with Cuba's communist regime.
Castro authorized limited foreign investment
after the end of Soviet subsidies to Havana.
"Clearly, the Cuban government doesn't
like foreign investment," Freyre said.
"They tolerate it. But they don't like
it."
-- Doreen Hemlock
Copyright
2004, Sun-Sentinel Co. & South Florida
Interactive, Inc.
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