Embargo on Cuba should go!
By ALVIN CUMMINS | Wed, June 13, 2012 - 12:00 AM
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Why is it that the United States, in the forefront of those offering assistance to the “rebels” opposing Syria’s leadership, is still maintaining a trade embargo on Cuba?
The revolution of 1959 ousted a corrupt dictatorship and returned Cuba to the Cuban people. Isn’t it the height of hypocrisy that despite overwhelming support for Cuba in the General Assembly of the United Nations, over the past 18 years, this embargo by the United States still exists?
The Libyan rebels who eventually overthrew the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi got support from the United States and NATO. They were rewarded. Cuba and the Cuban people were punished and are still being punished for their courageous battle and victory by the embargo.
Why are successive American administrations afraid to take the bold steps to re-establish diplomatic relations with the Cuban people?
Claims of human rights violations are not sufficient reason, when regimes guilty of greater violations are considered to be allies.
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- Posted by Tony Webster 11 months, 1 week ago
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Be careful that you might get what you ask for! When the Cubans themselves shake off the Castro dynasty- a process already gaining force as private enterprise takes root- Cuba will present the single greatest danger to Eastern-Caribbean tourism, both land-based and cruising. If you think t'ings tight now, just wait until you see air-shuttles between Miami and Havana four times a day, filled with very happy folks who are headed over to enjoy an all-inclusive week in Cuba , airfare included, for $450 or so. Still smiling? Why do you think the Matalons et al in Jamaica have secured their own future, by having a "Plan B" many years back,viz, by taking stakes in Cuban hotels and other real estate? I have every ounce of sympathy for the millions of Cubans who have endured the Castro dynasty, but better times are clearly ahead as the old men are forced to relax their iron grip- to our chagrin here! Still smiling?
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