Excerpt: A few weeks after Ashton Kutcher’s latest comedy “Killers” premiered in the United States, the movie was already entertaining the masses in communist Cuba. For two pesos, the equivalent of nine U.S. cents, the state-owned Yara movie theater in the heart of Havana offered Cubans a washed out and pixilated copy of Kutcher’s adventures as a CIA assassin who is himself targeted for a hit. “It’s a very good flick. We just got it on DVD,” says a woman in the ticket office. The problem is that “Killers” will not be officially released on DVD in the United States until Sept. 7 and even then Cuba will be off limits due to the 48-year-old U.S. trade embargo against the Caribbean island… “The reality is that U.S. products and services are down there whether the companies that make them sell them or not,” said Jake Colvin, Vice President for Global Trade Issues at the National Foreign Trade Council in Washington. “The frustrating thing is that U.S. companies are getting nothing for it,” he told Reuters… The National Foreign Trade Council says the current lack of formal diplomatic relations between the two nations makes it difficult for U.S. companies to raise these issues with Cuban authorities. “Until we fix the relationship, until we have governments that talk to each other and have a better official relationship and we have rules that allow companies to interact and do business in Cuba we are not going to be able to address the problem,” said Colvin. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0222000820100902
