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Freep this poll: Cuba
http://www.hdnews.net/ ^

Posted on 12/03/2003 5:48:52 AM PST by FreeRep

To help farm exports, should the United States lift the trade embargo on Cuba?

http://www.hdnews.net/


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Cuba; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cuba; poll
Hi, I got a email from an out-of-state friend, who said he needs help to Freep this poll. He asks me to vote NO, if not skip.

Thanks all.

1 posted on 12/03/2003 5:48:52 AM PST by FreeRep
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To: FreeRep; All
Thanks all. Local communist/rats/liberal news, behind this poll. thank again. FreeRep
2 posted on 12/03/2003 6:06:11 AM PST by FreeRep
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To: FreeRep
I voted no. I wouldn't support trade with any nation that lacks civil rights.
3 posted on 12/03/2003 6:07:04 AM PST by m1-lightning (A pure capitalist society would be one ruled by many aristocratic dictators.)
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To: m1-lightning
As long as Cuba puts up a letter of credit.
Oh, I forgot, their money's worthless...
4 posted on 12/03/2003 6:11:15 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: FreeRep
Voted yes.
5 posted on 12/03/2003 6:28:09 AM PST by ClintonBeGone
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To: FreeRep
Just Freeped. Looks like we need more help, yes 51% no 47%
6 posted on 12/03/2003 6:28:29 AM PST by gakrak
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To: FreeRep
That's one reason the embargo should be lifted.
7 posted on 12/03/2003 6:28:52 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: FreeRep
FReeped

To help farm exports, should the United States lift the trade embargo on Cuba? Yes  50% 41 No  50% 41 No Opinion  0% 0

8 posted on 12/03/2003 6:31:07 AM PST by Temple Owl
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To: FreeRep
Voted "no".
9 posted on 12/03/2003 6:35:15 AM PST by stevio
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To: FreeRep
Freeped.

No = 55.8%
Yes = 44.2%

10 posted on 12/03/2003 6:59:44 AM PST by mitchbert (Facts are Stubborn Things)
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To: mitchbert
To help farm exports, should the United States lift the trade embargo on Cuba?

Yes 44.3% 58
No 55% 72
No Opinion 0.8%


thanks all
11 posted on 12/04/2003 1:12:02 PM PST by FreeRep
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To: FreeRep
Not only "no," but "hell no."
12 posted on 12/04/2003 1:13:54 PM PST by dfwgator (Are you blind with an IQ under 50? Then you too can be an ACC football referee.)
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To: dfwgator
I agree double 'no'
last day for this poll is 12-5-03
thanks
13 posted on 12/04/2003 1:21:37 PM PST by FreeRep
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To: ClintonBeGone
VOTED "NO"!!!

DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH THE HOSTAGE TAKERS OF THESE PEOPLE...


José Luis García Paneque
Sentence: 24 years
Status: Villa Clara , Santa Clara Provincial Prison

José Luis García Paneque is a plastic surgeon and a director of Libertad agency (Las Tunas),
sentenced in Las Tunas province. Prosecutors had asked for 18 years but the court raised the
sentence to 24 without explanation. In July 2000, Paneque wrote an article titled “Doctors or slaves?”,
which was highly critical of the official practice of imposing internal exile on any physician who asked
to leave the country legally. Married, Paneque has four children.



Oscar Elias Biscet
Sentence: 25 years
Status: Ciudad de la Habana

Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet was one of the last to be tried. Dr. Biscet is a medical doctor by profession and
had been jailed since the December 2002 protest.



Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello
Sentence: 20 years
Status: Ciudad de la Habana

Marta Beatriz Roque - the only woman detained - is an economist and the director of
the Cuban Institute of Independent Economists. Roque, age 58, had previously served nearly
three years in prison. Along with three other dissidents, she was prosecuted after publishing
an analytical paper titled "The Homeland Belongs to All," which discussed Cuba's human rights
situation and called for reforms. She is a recipient of the 2002 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights of
Scientists Award of the New York Academy of Sciences. In April of this year, she was sentenced
for her opposition activity to 20 years in prison.



Jorge Olivera Castillo
Sentence: 18 years
Status: Guantánamo , Chafarina

Jorge Olivera Castillo was the head of Havana Press agency (Havana) and later its interim director
and a former reporter for New Cuban Press. In a 1997 crackdown on independent journalists he was
denounced by Cuban authorities for ''consorting with the foreign media.'' Neighborhood vigilante groups
ordered him to leave his Havana home and he was forced to sleep on park benches for a while.
In November 1999, he was denounced by name by Fidel Castro as one of the dissidents who allegedly
planned to disrupt the Ibero-American Summit in Havana. Married, he has a 10-year-old daughter



Omar Rodríguez Saludes
Sentence: 27 years
Status: Camagüey, Kilo 8

Omar Rodriguez Saludes received the second longest sentence of 27 years.
He is an independent journalist and the head of Nueva Prensa agency (Havana).



Miguel Galván Gutiérrez
Sentence: 26 years
Status: Matanzas, Agüica

Miguel Galván is a journalist for Havana Press agency (Güines).



Victor Rolando Arroyo
Sentence: 26 years
Status: Chafirina, Guantanamo

Victor Rolando Arroyo is a journalist for the UPECI agency (Pinar del Río).



Normando Hernández González
Sentence: 25 years
Status: Santiago de Cuba, Boniato

Normando Hernández is the head of Independent College of Journalists agency (Camagüey).



Manuel Vázquez Portal
Sentence: 18 years
Status: Santiago de Cuba , Boniato

Manuel Vazquez Portal is a journalist with Grupo de Trabajo Decoro agency (Havana).


Plus thousands more...

14 posted on 12/05/2003 6:45:06 AM PST by The Bronze Titan
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To: FreeRep
To help farm exports, should the United States lift the trade embargo on Cuba?

Yes 43.4% 63
No 55.9% 81
No Opinion 0.7% 1

As of Dec. 5 - 9:47 am EST
15 posted on 12/05/2003 6:47:34 AM PST by The Bronze Titan
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To: The Bronze Titan
Plus thousands more...

No country was more evil than Russia, yet we were able to tumble the communists with a good dose of capitalism. It's time we try that with Cuba.

16 posted on 12/05/2003 6:55:42 AM PST by ClintonBeGone
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To: The Bronze Titan
Never!
17 posted on 12/05/2003 6:57:35 AM PST by bmwcyle (Hillary's election to President will start a civil war)
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To: ClintonBeGone
Introduction of CAPITALISM did not topple the Soviet Union. BANKRUPTCY toppled them. Their bankrupt communist/socialist government did not have sufficient revenues to even keep a minimal level of subsistance for their population, so they lost the support of the people.

The same is happening in CUBA, and you now want to "DO BUSINESS" with the GOVT that is repressing the people?

These people are IN JAIL!!!! and they are pleading with other nations NO TO DO BUSINESS WITH THEIR JAILERS!!!!
18 posted on 12/05/2003 7:19:50 AM PST by The Bronze Titan
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To: FreeRep
I'd vote yes to lift the embargo (but what the farmers want is not only to lift the embargo, but they want the US Taxpayer to foot the bill when Cuba defaults, and I'm against that).
19 posted on 12/05/2003 7:33:51 AM PST by Guillermo (Go Dawgs, Sic 'em!)
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