The fact that disgruntled Cuban exiles in South Florida has elected several Republicans as President may be ending and it can’t be too soon. The Democrats were blamed for Nixon’s Bay of Pigs failure and they never countered the argument that it was a Republican plan carried over from the Eisenhower administration. These nasty Cuban, easy to see why Castro kicked them out, became America’s problem and they have dominated American politics for some 40 years. Castro’s revenge sending them to the USA to cause trouble and they did. They elected Bush2 twice, how’s that working for us American, Nixon in 1968 which eventually lead to his 1972 re-election. The Democrats were afraid of loosing Florida in elections which is why they never changed the boycott of Cuba which hopefully now may may be the biggest blunder, aside from wars, in decades. I hope they have 20 billion barrels and that the USA doesn’t get a drop. It may be Cuban turn to boycott America. President O’bushama doesn’t have the cojones to change the Cuban policy despite the reality of oil, for fear of being coined a coward by, of all people, Cheney.

The fact that the U.S. STILL hasn’t lifted the blockade on Cuba, just for the sake of a few votes from 80-year old exiled Cuban grandmothers and ex-gangsters, just shows Obama lacks what they call down South COJONES.

I’m so happy for the Cuban people. I only hope the oil extraction is done with environmental sensitivity. Cuba is a remarkably unspoiled environment for an island with millions of people. Otherwise, viva Fidel et la revolucion de Cuba!

hello. so where was our absent diplomatic secretary of state during this reemergence of Russia as a superpower? when are we all going to break this stranglehold of addiction to gasoline and fossil fuels? the wave energy alone surrounding Cuba could supply it with energy. it is really about revenues, and currently petrodollars are better than cash. we have to aggressively advance all forms of solar energy, and send these oil barons the way of the dinosaurs, before they kill us all with their cancer causing fuels.

We should of tried to make Cuba a territory as soon as dumb-ass left office. BIG MISTAKE!! now we will pay the Russians to use the beaches 90 miles off our coast. Idealogues are such fools…...

Just think, if we weren’t so preoccupied with fighting the “cold war”, we could have been the country that Cuba chose to do the drilling.  Why are we so dumb?
Nobody has taken the embargo against Cuba seriously, for years, only us, the great protector of democracy who is in debt to the communist Chinese up to our eyeballs.
What a laugh on us.

If Russia strikes oil for Cuba, won’t that change just about everything. Hell, the U.S. will have to go back to waging war in our hemisphere.

5-10-20 billion barrels…“what’s a few billion barrels”

if 20 billion barrels were actually extracted (which is unlikely due to a documented maximum recoverable amount that is not usually more than 60-80%) at current consumption rates (80+ million barrels a day globally) that would run the world for… drum roll please…

approximately 235 days!

“The world is already in a position where we are not fighting over major oil reserves; we’re fighting over scraps.” -Michael Ruppert

The US Geological Survey (USGS) recently estimated that as much as 9bn barrels of oil and 21 trillion cubic feet of natural gas could lie within that zone, in the North Cuba Basin.

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Havana says there may be some 20bn barrels of oil of its coast but the US puts that estimate at five billion.

So whats four billion barrels or so…fact check your articles please.

I am glad to see Cuba may be gaining some desperately needed revenue. The embargo we place upon them is stupidity itself.