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To: MplsSteve

I voted NO.

I do believe the embargo has failed and there needs to be a change there. I’m totally against the way Obama is dealing with Cuba.


11 posted on 12/17/2014 9:52:59 PM PST by tsowellfan (www.cafenetamerica.com)
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To: tsowellfan

The embargo isn’t the problem. Cuba and Cubans have no money to buy anything in the first place from us or from anybody else. Castro has turned a formerly prosperous country into a place of near starvation, where he “allows” the average people to have two eggs a week.

I was at a shipping company that sends stuff to Cuba (gifts from family members, which are permitted) and several people there were holding bags of that Latin American expresso coffee that is sold in bricks. These were Christmas presents for relatives...but no individual in Cuba was allowed to receive more than two pounds of it, at the orders of the Cuban government. (Remember that Cuba used to produce coffee...) So the embargo isn’t the problem, it’s the cruel dictatorship, which is going to remain in place and be even stronger now.


22 posted on 12/18/2014 2:20:48 AM PST by livius
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