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Cuba blockade (still today?)

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  Posted by vesturiiis (U13688567) on Friday, 10th April 2009

  Is the U.S.ofA. out of whack to be still at loggerheads with the current Cuban regieme. There is no military threat and just on compassionate reasons should not normal relations be developed or is the U.S. playing some outmoded cold war card?

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  Posted by Allan D (U1791739) on Friday, 10th April 2009

  Strange then how, despite the embargo, the US is the largest supplier of food to Cuba and its 6th largest trading partner:
  
  

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  Posted by cmedog47 (U3614178) on Friday, 10th April 2009

  It isn't a blockade. You can and do trade with them, it is an embargo. The US limits trade.
  
  But as you can see, where humanitarian issues are a direct concern, the US does trade.
  
  Of course if one were to postulate that free and open commerce is itself a humanitarian issue, that would be a direct contradiction of the Castro line the the Yankee Imperialist capitalist system is nothing but a plot to enslave the poor little Latin proletariat.
  
  On the American side there is the little compexity of how much does on want to do business with someone who didn't pay his last stack of bills, confiscated the private property of your citizens and his own, and uses whatever value he can wring from his terrified slaves to fund military adventures to repeat the sordid experiment elsewhere. Castro is at best a thief, and a rather beastly one at that. Why would one want to do business with someone like that and trust the snake that has already bitten you.

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  Posted by vesturiiis (U13688567) on Sunday, 12th April 2009

  Kurt
  I believe Castro is on his way out but didn't his crew also free Cuba from the pimps and gamblers in 1958. They had decent relations with the U.S. until forced into the USSR camp. Recently the CEO of Sherritt mining was commenting that he cannot go to U.S. because his company has substantial interests in Cuba. Canada's P.M. Trudeau was considered by many as being revolutionary just for meeting with Castro in the late 60's. The movie SICKO has a good part on Cuba's medical system. Visiting there as a tourist in 1978 I was quite impressed by the people and their way of life. Of course it is not all roses but I still say the U.S. philosophy with Cuba needs a revisit- they are not the bogeyman esp today.
  Adios IAN

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  Posted by Allan D (U1791739) on Sunday, 12th April 2009

  I believe Castro is on his way out but didn't his crew also free Cuba from the pimps and gamblers in 1958.Β 
  
  1959, I think, and which Castro? Special casinos have been reopened exclusively for foreigners of course and every male tourist is likely to be propositioned. So, after 50 years of the Castro brothers gambling and prostitution are once again the two biggest earners of foreign currency.

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  Posted by MB (U177470) on Sunday, 12th April 2009

  Doesn't the USA have higher infant mortality rates than Cuba?
  
  

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  Posted by Allan D (U1791739) on Monday, 13th April 2009

  So why do so many Cubans risk life and limb in order to get there?

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  Posted by Allan D (U1791739) on Monday, 13th April 2009

  The statement is not even accurate and the differences are due to the active intervention policy that prevails in the US with regard to premature births and the way that the statistics are collected as this site shows:
  
  

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