If Bush seeks a wise path on Cuba .….. Pressure EU and OAS

Orlando Sentinel ^ | May 17, 2003 | Myriam Marquez

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The hard-liners in the exile community want the Bush administration to end direct flights and put a stop to $1 billion a year that Cuban-Americans send to their relatives on the island. The moderates want to leave the family contacts alone and offer more help to what's left of the dissident movement and expansion of Radio and TV Marti, whose signals constantly get jammed by the Cuban government. The liberals and farm-state conservatives in Congress are actually talking about ending the travel ban on Cuba as if the communist government should be rewarded with tourists after this latest crackdown on dissent.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The Europeans and Latin Americans wield the big stick of trade if they care to use it. If not now, then when?

[Dutch Boy]

We could get rid of Castro easliy. If we lift sanctions and flood them with US goods, food, MTV and medicine Castro would lose control in months. When the young see what they've missed and get a taste of it the tide will turn on communism.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!