Oils Well that Ends Well for Good Ol' Fidel

It seems that Ol' Fidel has a lot to smile about these days. He is up and out of the hospital, still the big cheese in Cuba, making friends and influencing fellow big cheeses throughout South and Central America, and now he is sitting on a gold mine...well an oil field actually









According to an article on the BBC website :
"A US Geological Survey report published last year estimates that 4.6 billion barrels of oil and 9.8 trillion cubic feet of natural gas could lie within that zone, in the North Cuba Basin." That's quite a bundle for the Cuban coffers ($75.00 a barrel).

It would seem that oil companies from China, India, and other countries not bound by the US economic embargo, are lining up and signing up to purchase pieces of this off-shore bonanza. No wonder that Hugo Chavez, the big cheese of Venezuela, was at Castro's bedside during his recent hospital stay. Venezuala is itself a rather large player in the oil producing game, and also finds itself on America's shitlist.

The article goes on to state that some members of the US Congress are putting forward the idea that American oil companies should be allowed "exemptions" from the economic embargo so that they may be able to take advantage of this oil field. So much for the moral highground.

I'll bet George and Co. are already busy sticking pins in Castro dolls, hoping for his quick demise, so that they can finally bring "Democracy" to the Cuban people and, like they did in Iraq, secure the oil fields. At the end of the day..it's all about moola, bread, cash, dough, scratch, dosh, dinero, and of course those other two great motivators...Democracy and Freedom (yeah right).