[QUOTE]Cuba has come up with an unusual way to repay its multimillion dollar debt to the Czech Republic - bottles of its famous rum, officials in Prague say.
The Czech finance ministry said Havana had raised this possibility during recent negotiations on the issue.
Cuba owes the Czech authorities $276m (£222m), and if the offer is accepted the Czechs would have enough Cuban rum for more than a century.
However, Prague said it preferred to get at least some of the money in cash.
Havana's debt dates back from the Cold War era - when Cuba and what was at the time Czechoslovakia were part of the communist bloc.
Cuba now does not have much money but it does have lots of rum - hence this unusual proposal, says the BBC's Rob Cameron in Prague.
The Czech finance ministry said repayment was possible either with rum or pharmaceutical drugs.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38336922[/url]
Fuckers know true Czech person through and through.
If they don't top it off with cigars I'll be disappointed.
Rummunism is best system
[QUOTE=FinalHunter;51536016]It's gonna be LIT.[/QUOTE]
[quote]Cuba owes the Czech authorities $276m (£222m), and if the offer is accepted the Czechs would have enough Cuban rum for more than a century.[/quote]
100 years of drunkenness.
Fuck I'd take $276m worth of rum.
A rum-based economy is arguably more financially viable than an oil-based one, as long as you make really, really good rum.
Consumable currency that makes people happier when they use it.
Brilliant
[QUOTE=Birdman101;51536227]Consumable currency that makes people happier when they use it.
Brilliant[/QUOTE]
And it goes up in value as it gets older.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;51536269]And it goes up in value as it gets older.[/QUOTE]
Boy does it go up, too. I've personally seen bottles of rum priced at $3500 per bottle at a Costco in Tucson, so it's 100 times more valuable than oil, 0.75L for 0.75L.
[QUOTE=zombini;51536365]Boy does it go up, too. I've personally seen bottles of rum priced at $3500 per bottle at a Costco in Tucson, so it's 100 times more valuable than oil, 0.75L for 0.75L.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't say they're very comparable since Rum is commodity and Oil is a resource, with Oil ultimately being more valuable in the long scheme of things.
[QUOTE=InvaderNouga;51536459]I wouldn't say they're very comparable since Rum is commodity and Oil is a resource, with Oil ultimately being more valuable in the long scheme of things.[/QUOTE]
rum isn't exactly comparable since its already the processed end product, gasoline might be a better comparison
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