Why exactly the Floridian Cubans - and it does seem to be mostly Floridian Cubans-, want to continue this act of lunacy against their own country is beyond me and any rational thinking man. This so called trade embargo has been in effect, in one form or another, since 1959. The international Community has condemned the embargo and blamed it for the suffering of the Cuban people. They have declared it ineffective, unjust, excessive and unjustifiably prolonged. We all know it has nothing to do with communist oppression or human rights violations. If that was the case…why are we dealing with the Chinese, the Vietnamese the Saudis the Libyans the Russians and the list goes on and on and on? American presidents have come and gone and Castro is still around. What don’t you get people? It hasn’t, it doesn’t and it will never work. Therefore suck it up and give it up. Let’s normalize relations with the people of this beautiful island and open up trade which will benefit both…Us and Them! Stop listening to the former Batista supporters who are the real traitors and cowards. They are the ones who fled like scared dogs to the safety of the USA. They are the ones who abandoned their country and families to the mercy of Fidel Castro and his fighters. They like to make political statements (stupid though they may be) and demand the embargo be maintained. Why? To what end? Fifty years have gone by what have they accomplished besides nothing? This is the embodiment of hypocrisy. While these Cuban Americans live in the luxury and comfort of their nice homes, taking advantage of the financial, social and political benefits and rights afforded to them by the USA government, the people of Cuba are suffering and struggling to survive on daily basis. How quickly they forgot the Batista Regime’s injustices and oppression… It makes one wonder why these people were so anxious and determined to abandon their country; leave behind their families, their homes and their friends to suffer, while they escaped to Florida with their tails between their legs. Why are they so resolute to keep their poor countrymen back in Cuba, suffering the poverty and misery from which they themselves escaped? Is it because they fear that normalization of relations between Cuba and the USA may ultimately expose their own connections to the Batista Regime - which though not communist, was as oppressive if not more so, than the current regime of Castro and company?
I pose the question you provide the answer.
This again is not news...It's Jungle Politics
From the Desk of Dr. Politikong...Over and Out!
I pose the question you provide the answer.
This again is not news...It's Jungle Politics
From the Desk of Dr. Politikong...Over and Out!
Right on the money!
ReplyDeleteI'm a Canadian living in Toronto and I have visited Cuba on holidays for the last seven years. If you venture away from the tourist "sun & club" spots you begin to realize the poverty and hardship imposed on these wonderful people as a result of US punitive policy.
Times have changed, Cuba is no more communist than China. Continuing to punish the Cuban people with a failed policy no longer makes sense. It's time to move on.
Sherry McDonald
I am also a Canadian and I have visited Cuba on two occasions and it is really a shame the human condition these people are forced to exist in is due to a combined oppression of both the Cuban AND USA governments.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that the continued embargo against Cuba has more to do with the ego of the USA government than issues associated with having relations with a communist government. If this were not the case, why does the USA so openly engage in economic trade with countries such as China, who in addition to having communist governments, infringe upon basic and fundamental human rights???
Love
Canada
Just so that my Canadian neighbors whom I respect for their progressive and humanitarian thinking do not paint all us Americans with the same brush, I am a Cuban American and I agree with the writer 100%. My family had suffered under Castro but by their own admission they had suffered more under Batista. I was born in the USA, but my parents lived under both regimes. If their only choice was Batista or Castro they would choose Castro at the blink of an eye.
ReplyDeleteIt is refreshing to see a blog that calls a spade a spade. Thanks whoever you are.
The problem with our governments is that they base their policies domestic and foreign on how these policies will influence the voting patterns of particular minority groups depending on their electoral size. Politics first country second. It has been this way for ever. It is part of our culture. But I do agree with the article.
ReplyDeleteAs a Cuban American I feel disgusted with my own people wanting the keep the embargo at a time when Washington finally wants to normalize relations. I don't understand why they would not want to have the freedom to travel to Cuba anytime they want. To send money to relatives, to invest and in general help the Cuban people live up to their potential. I really don't understand why they would rather see the Cuban people suffer. Remember Castro and his group have everything they need. The people of Cuba don't. Here is our chance let's not blow it.
ReplyDeleteA disappointed Cuban from Miami.
Thanks for the lesson in common sense. I hope all Cubans read this.
prediction
ReplyDeleteby the end of the year cuban people will be able to come and go to cuba freely as often as they want. The Batistani bastards cannot stop it now!
I have never read an article that says exactly what most of us Cubans and Americans feel.
ReplyDeleteThank you sir. Well said.
Hey monkey you are back....another good one
ReplyDeleteMr President lets forget these half-ass measures ie lifting the travel restrictions for Cuban Americans only, and lets lift the embargo in its entirety. Enough already. Believe it or not the majority of Cubans around the world do want the embargo lifted. Stop listening to the idiotic remnants of the Bay of pigs fiasco. They were stupid then and they are stupid now.
ReplyDeleteI am an Anglo American born and raised here and I like to be able to treat Cuba the same way as Mexico, Canada, Europe, China blah blah blah...Who gives you or the Cuban Americans or the Congress the right to tell me where I can travel and who I can do business with. I voted for you sir, don't make me lose respect and regret my vote.
Thank you
I am a Canadian and I go to Cuba with my husband and my friends twice sometimes three times a year. Believe it or not we see Americans there too. So there is a way around this stupid embargo anyway. If enough Americans start breaking the embargo and start traveling to Cuba the government will change this policy.
ReplyDeleteJoanne
Toronto.