when obama announced it but now we want to see where it goes. you know jeb bush also so there are two floridians running for president on the republican side and jeb bush tweeted today, quote, it s insulting to many miami residents for hillary to come here to endorse a retreat in cuba s struggle for democracy democracy. what s your feeling about that? well, you know to her point, and i ll give her credit for this. she said, you know we ve had a policy in place for 50 years. the world has ignored our policy, so we have instead of isolating cuba we ve isolated ourselves. all of latin america is against our policy. and then the recognition, the realization that the people who are really suffering because of our policy are the cuban people the people we want to help. so here s an opportunity to help
the nation magazine and author of the book brazil s dance with the devil, the world cup, the olympics and the struggle for democracy democracy. you re not supervised. i ap not surprised. you mentioned some of the statistics. 250,000 people it is estimated displaced by stadium construction. there is an expression in brazil that statistics are like a man s thong. they show so much but they hide the most important parts. in this case the most important parts are an economic agenda of debt displacement and the militarization of public space that allowed soccer and the world cup to be used as a neo liberal trojan horse to push through infrastructure projects people would have otherwise rejected. the difference in brazil is in 2013 millions of people took to the streets to oppose this with a rather beautiful slogan. fifa, the organization that oversees fascial soccer says we want fifa-quality staid yups.