U.S. Businesses Head to Cuba

Newsday (The Associated Press) ^ | January 24, 2002 | ANITA SNOW

[Willie Green]

HAVANA -- Keen to do business, U.S. agribusiness and drug companies are coming to a Cuba that has signaled it may be ready to buy more products.

The high-profile visits Thursday come as Cuba courts Americans who oppose long-standing restrictions on U.S. trade with the Caribbean island.

While hopes for a trade opening between the two countries are high among Cuban officials and American firms, one trade specialist warned against excessive optimism. Most U.S.-Cuba trade is barred by a 40-year-old embargo, and Cuba bought American food for the first time in nearly four decades only after a November hurricane.

[Willie Green]

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[Dqban22]

In the commercial and political relations of the Cuban regime and the U.S. there are several points to be concerned with.

1st. Cuba is, and has been a terrorist state for 42 years, and counts with advanced chemical, biological and cyber warfare capabilities aimed against our country. The cooperation between the Cuban regime with Iraq and Iran in the chemical and biological research is well known. A few months before the September 11 attack Castro affirmed at the University of Tehran that their cooperation would put the U.S. down to its knees. Castro once tried to nuke our cities and he has the means and the will to fulfill his dream of destroying our country. If we are involved in a worldwide war against terrorism, Cuba at 90 miles from our coasts should be a prime target in that war; so, those involved in appeasement policies towards Castro and in the promotion of the lifting of the commercial embargo against Cuba are in fact aiding and abetting our worst enemy.

2nd. Cuba has defaulted in all his international financial deals and Castro encourages other Third World nations to follow his example. Why are we going to sell to someone without the expectation to ever be pay. The American taxpayers should be aware that they are the targets of the scam by which the multinationals sell to Castro whatever he needs and we, the taxpayers, end footing the bill. Castro for 42 years has been with commercial ties with over 150 nations. Now when he has exhausted the patience of nations fool enough to have given him credit, Castro’s puppets in the media, the congress in cahoots with some greedy commercial circles are trying that the American taxpayers shoulder the heavy burden of subsidizing his regime to the tune of 9 billions dollars.

3rd. The American companies can not made legally business with Cuba without violating several American laws.

A.- Trading with the Enemy Act.

B.- U.S. Commercial Embargo Against Cuba.

C.- Helms- Burton Law.

D.- Involvement in bribes in commercial dealings with another nation.

E.- Involvement in slave labor of foreign workers in connivance with the local authorities.

We have to wonder why there are so many American politicians promoting the violations of our trading laws and in the process; they are endangering the security of the U.S.? Why is the Treasure Department authorizing all those business trips and all kind of conventions in Cuban soil by which American citizens circumvent the U.S. laws?