Old Guy, the USA won't try to tip Cuba toward being a "democracy", they will try to tip it toward being a lucrative corporate marketplace! ;-) Oh, I'm sure they will set up a couple of bogus parties, and hold a bogus election, but it won't mean diddly-squat. The important activities will be moving in McDonalds, Burger King, Microsoft, WalMart, etc....and providing a whole lot of cops to monitor the situation when 3/4 of the population finds out that their rent has gone up 800% and they no longer can afford to buy anything.

As for Puerto Rico, I don't know a damn thing about Puerto Rico, so I will listen with interest to whatever there is to say about it. ;-)