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Article: Opening to Cuba. (Comment).(U.S. Food and Agribusiness Exhibition, Havana)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- October 21, 2002
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"I am here in the hope that we can do business," Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura told a Cuban audience after cutting the ceremonial ribbon with Fidel Castro to open the recent US Food and Agribusiness Exhibition in Havana. Ventura was perhaps the most recognizable personality among some 700 US civic leaders, farmers and businessmen who brought everything from California wine to Michigan corn flakes to a three-day food fair in September. He symbolizes the new and growing middle-American political effort to, as he put it, "bring the United States of America and the Republic of Cuba to a more civilized level of cooperation and communication."
After forty years of ...