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For U.S. Exporters in Cuba, Business Trumps Politics
Jose Goitia for The New York Times
John Parke Wright, a Florida cattle farmer, rode with a Cuban farmer, one of the diversions for visitors to the trade fair in Havana last week.

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By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: November 12, 2007
"HAVANA, Nov. 11 — A trade fair in Communist Cuba is perhaps the last place you would expect to find a Republican governor from the American heartland. Yet last week, Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska was here to sign a deal to export $11 million worth of his state’s wheat to the island.

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Jose Goitia for the New York Times
Gov. Dave Heineman, Republican of Nebraska, center, with Pedro Álvarez Borrego, who is in charge of Cuban food imports, below, signed an $11 million deal with Cuba. Expanded trade is “good for America,” Mr. Heineman said.
Asked the obvious question about whether longstanding American trade sanctions should be lifted, Governor Heineman ducked and weaved like a professional boxer. “Well, I try not to get into that, because that’s up to the president and the Congress, but I will say expanding trade relationships is good for Nebraska and altogether good for America,” he said.

Just weeks after President Bush delivered an address calling on the world to isolate Cuba, officials from Minnesota, Alabama and Ohio — and more than 100 American businesses — were working the giant Havana International Fair, trying to secure part of the $1.6 billion the Cuban government spends each year to import sugar, wheat"

God bless the child who has his own.Grangou fè makak manje piman.The President of the United States is asking the world to isolate Cuba ;.Geroges Bush wants to impose sanctions on foreign governments and companies that have a trade agreement with Cuba,yet the governors of the states are doing billion dollars deal with the communist governments of china ,Russia and Cuba ;try to understand this non sense if you can. The hypocrisy of these politicians is really repugnant.

They praise those who die in wars ,but their children,nephews and nieces are safe home,enjoying the good life: taking drugs and drinking their wines and beers.