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RantCrush Top 5: December 16, 2016
Happy Friday everyone! Last night, Trevor Noah came up with a pretty good summary of the year, saying: “2016 started with Zika and then turned bad.” But satire is the best medicine, so watching Noah’s clip could help. Hope you have a great weekend and see you on Monday! Welcome to RantCrush Top 5, where we take you through today’s top five controversial stories in the world of law and policy. Who’s ranting and raving right now? Check it out below:
Cuba doesn’t have much money, but it does have a ton of rum. So the government figured, why not pay off some of that old Cold War-era debt to the Czech Republic in rum? After all, the Czechs already import around $2 million of Cuban rum every year. Cuba owes the Czech Republic $276 million, so the Czech Finance Ministry spokesman Michal Zurovec said that the government is considering the offer, but would like to have at least part of the payment in cash.
Cuba is burdened by a huge debt: at the end of 2014 it totaled an estimated $24.7 billion, but it has recently reached agreements for debt forgiveness with some countries. If the Czechs accept the offer of rum, that would help the Cubans reduce their debt further, and the Czechs wouldn’t have to worry about what to buy for happy hour for a few decades.
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