Word: embargoes
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...battle last spring with Bush's economic and foreign policy advisers over steel tariffs. Rove was for imposing the duties--favored by steel companies and unions in Mid-western swing states--and he won. It was Rove who in July warned Republican lawmakers who wanted to lift the trade embargo on Cuba that the White House would never go along. Bush's position was based on policy, not politics, Rove promised, but the Congressmen didn't buy it. The Cuban-American lobby is key to Bush's hope of winning Florida in 2004, not to mention his brother's tough...
...battle last spring with Bush's economic and foreign policy advisers over steel tariffs. Rove was for imposing the duties-favored by steel companies and unions in Mid-western swing states-and he won. It was Rove who in July warned Republican lawmakers who wanted to lift the trade embargo on Cuba that the White House would never go along...
...based on policy, not politics, Rove promised, but the Congressmen didn't buy it. The Cuban-American lobby is key to Bush's hope of winning Florida in 2004, not to mention his brother's tough re-election bid in November to be the state's Governor. Says anti-embargo Republican Jeff Flake of Arizona: "Everyone recognizes there is a political element to this...
...Governors from agriculture states - especially Minnesota's flamboyant Jesse Ventura - were in full force at the expo, and all called for an eventual end to the embargo. And ironically, Florida, the seat of the embargo's staunchest Cuban exile support, was the most heavily represented - at least by business if not by Gov. Jeb Bush, who had publicly chastised Ventura for attending the event. "This trip has been an emotional roller coaster for me," said Carlos de Quesada, 34, the son of Cuban exiles who represents a Tampa livestock shipment firm, Cuba-Florida Cattlemen, and who was himself making...
...Cuba really become a lucrative thing for U.S. business? Congress, claiming it was time to end Washington's cold-war Cuba policy, softened the embargo two years ago by allowing food and medicine sales to the island - but anti-Castro pols worked in a condition that Castro would have to pay in cash. With no access to U.S. credit, they reasoned, Castro would never be able to buy. As he so often does, he called their bluff late last year and purchased $30 million worth of U.S. grain, poultry and other foods - with cash - the first such shipments to Cuba...