Chickens for Cuba
Southern states are eager to boost trade with Cuba
THE docks in Mobile, Alabama's only seaport, are crammed with lumber, steel coils, frozen chickens, coal and much else. But few of these products are bound for Cuba, just 550 nautical miles (1,000km) away. The state port authority's director, James Lyons, hopes this will change. “We're trading with Vietnam, we're trading with China. These are both communist states,” he says. “It's silly to have tense relations with a neighbour that close.”
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Chickens for Cuba”
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