Uncertain. With resources scaling back their influence to generate exports in general. So they will continue to be more aggressive with the cuban internal demand is 40,000 pearls they have been getting 100,000 using the rest. But we see them renegotiating terms with china. Exporting around 330,000 Barrels Per Day with china the import figures show that those numbers are down at 200,000 barrels and that is additional cash they have to work with. The government right now is very short term protest for the cash generating exports is the goal but that domestic subsidy is architect the with the National Assembly elections. But it will is 0. 9 per gallon. They do generate 13 million per year. That this is a government that is terrified to do anything with political ramifications and that is potentially destabilizing. That is off the table for now as officials told me that. May be you will see a domestic fuel subsidy in 2017 maddow also expected to be gradual theyre not just to eliminate outr
Not just a southern thing. Omaha, nebraska. St. Louis, chicago, illinois. All erupted in race riots. Millions of workers, about 4 million workers are going to go on strike in 1919. And this wave of labor unrest then fed into this conservative mood. It seemed to spark hysteria. This is a time when we are dealing with the red scare. The red scare with the bolshevik revolution being so fresh, that americans now determined that perhaps bolshevism had come to the american shores and were undermining the capitalist system as we speak, right . So in this climate there is a very harsh reaction to labor unrest in 1919. There were accounts of violence that seemed to be tied to the labor unrest. The u. S. Post office during 1919 intercepted dozens of bombs that were being mailed to prominent americans. They did not intercept all of them. One of them blew up on the front door of mitchell palmers house. Mitchell palmer was the attorney general of the United States. Heres the thing about the red sca
A divisive and polarizing effect on the population very unlike the perfect harmony and civility of our present day. So over a period of 13 days as lincoln is making his way by train from his home in springfield, illinois, to washington, d. C. For his inauguration as president , the air is filled with rumors of an assassination plot. In maryland where his train will pass below the Mason Dixon Line for the first time, there are rumors that hell be shot or hell be stabbed, or his train will be blown up at a whistlestop appearance in baltimore. Allen pinkerton of the legendary Pinkerton Detective agency is on the scene. Hes already there in baltimore x he has just or and he has just under two weeks to uncover hard evidence of this looming plot before time runs out. What makes the situation even more difficult and more dangerous is that theres no good way to get from springfield to washington at this time. Americas railroads are expanding at a fantastic rate, but theres no single, direct ra