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CUBA EMBARGO: LEAN MEAT

27 March 2007

The Palm Beach Post

Few U.S. foreign-policy initiatives have come with more contradictions than
the trade embargo against Cuba, and even fewer have been more ineffective.

For 45 years, the United States has tried to bring down Fidel Castro through
economic isolation. Castro has remained in power because, almost since its
inception, the embargo has been a political prop that empowers American
politicians, not the Cuban people.

While the embargo has remained a failure, it has grown as a fraud. Most
Americans probably had no idea, before reading the story in Monday's Post,
that the United States is Cuba's No. 1 food supplier. This year, American
farmers will ship more than $300 million worth of beans, rice, corn, canned
foods and chicken to the island. Corporate executives, lawmakers and state
governors have streamed in and out of Havana looking for deals since 2000,
when Congress authorized cash-only sales of food.

The Bush administration has done its part to play the Cold War charade by
toughening restrictions on travel and cargo. Cubans can buy more Coca-Cola
than ever, but they can't see their exiled relatives as often. Forget
soybeans. Our biggest export to Cuba is hypocrisy.

Now that you are done venting, do you have a point that you wish to make?

I think she's posting on the embargo. We often have this topic come up.

This area is Cuba in the news. She posted from the Palm Beach Post. I see no problem here Dave...do you??

Don't make me take away your "Lifetime" pass on the Ferry.

We old friends no ??

Why did they drop the food portion of the embargo?

Pepin Gatiesa Wrote:I think she's posting on the embargo. We often have this topic come up.

This area is Cuba in the news. She posted from the Palm Beach Post. I see no problem here Dave...do you??

Don't make me take away your "Lifetime" pass on the Ferry.

We old friends no ??

Good grief. You are right! How foolish of me. I humbly apologize and sincerely regret any deviant thought I may have momentarily entertained.

My lifetime pass on the pheraie has a more than passing value.

Phriendship is phorever!

Canadaianbird Wrote:Why did they drop the food portion of the embargo?

There was never an embargo on food or medicine, only on other goods and borrowing money from international and US banks, and US companies investing in Cuba.
This is something must people don't know about the embargo.

The embargo is unilateral, Cuba has been able to buy goods from othere countries at better prices than in the USA.
All the embargo has done is give Castro an excuse to create an invisible enemy to keep the cubans in fear.
Castro himself knows the day the embargo is lifted they won't last long in power, and the US also knows this and they don't want 1 million cubans coming all at once.

Quote:There was never an embargo on food or medicine

Best head on over to wikipedia and start editing because it says food and medicine was embargoed until 2000.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Stat...ainst_Cuba