Puerto Rico is $72+billion in debt, and defaulted last month on a $422 million debt payment for the third time. Governor Alejandro García Padilla calls it “a humanitarian crisis,” continues to spend like crazy, wants Washington to bail him out, and won’t act to reduce the size of government, the cost of energy, or the cost of doing business in the island.
Instead, he goes to Cuba to praise Raúl Castro and intends to open a commercial trade office in Havana. Of murderous Raúl, AGaPito said,
“He’s very affable, very courteous, a pleasure to meet. He not only took the time to converse with me, but even showed deference by taking me aside so he could speak to me alone.”
Nice going, Skippy!
Historically, Cuba has defaulted on all its debts. I hope Carlos Eire doesn’t mind, but I must steal his photo:
Not all imbeciles are communists. Going by the evidence, I’d say AGaPito is a communist imbecile.
Two bankrupt entities trading with other. All they need to do is to send each other phony invoices and declare the trade a success.
Fausta, a question. I was wondering if the Spanish Republican refugees who ended up teaching at the University of Puerto Rico tended to be hard-core Commies or tended to consider Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia a masterful description of the Spanish Civil War. Do you have any inside information on that?
By the time I was at the UPR they had retired.
However, the UPR was very heavily leftist then.
However, the UPR was very heavily leftist then.
I can believe it. I knew someone who had taught at UPR in the 1950s. He later spent a sabbatical semester in Colombia. He was rather taken aback at the hostile reaction of many students to his being in Colombia- just another Gringo imperialist sent to indoctrinate us- you know the drill. “But I used Marcuse in my courses. How could they do this to me?”