While never mentioned in the MSM, Cuba has been free to trade with almost every country in the world for the last 60 plus years and their brand of Marxism has net them nothing except poverty and want. This is what Obama and Hillary and their Marxist enablers want for the USA too as it seems, the GOPe!
Fidel and his nomenklatura made out like bandits, though. Fidel is supposedly worth over $100 million. Sounds very communal, doesn’t he?
Yep yes si... Too few know that.
Let's not ignore that Cuba is small and irrelevant enough to make it an easy choice - while politicians and others enjoy the occasional Havana Cigar. We do business with the larger and more dangerous nations because it is convenient and there's money to be made by the politicians and their backers - we run a half a trillion trade deficit with China - supporting them under the guise of cheap products (price Nike sneakers lately?) while the People pay for it via the IRS and the companies that use China rake it in by not passing much of their savings along to the consumers. If we were "principled" we wouldn't just shove Cuba out but would actually act principled.
The politicians have done a great job obfuscating and brainwashing.
What also isn't mentioned is that the areas where the tourists tend to visit are considered "green zones" (for lack of a better word) which are only accessible to Cubans with proper ID who work there.......