Posted on 11/01/2024 1:43:08 PM PDT by Freeleesy
Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology Sattar Hashemi is set to visit Havana next week.
The United Nations General Assembly voted by a large margin on Wednesday to denounce the decades-old American embargo against Cuba for the 32nd time since 1992, with only Israel (and the United States) opposing the resolution, and Moldova abstaining, the AP reported.
While General Assembly resolutions are not legally binding, the annual vote gave Havana a stage to slam Washington’s 64-year-old embargo on the Caribbean island nation.
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Just out of curiosity, why do we still have an embargo? It’s been going on for 66 years now.
Before my time, but, my understanding was that we imposed the embargo because Cuba went communist, and because Castro expropriated American business interests in Cuba.
It started in 1958. Since then we have normalized relations with Russia, and them blew them up again. We warmly embraced Communist China. We trade with Nicaragua, the Saudis who attacked us on 9/11. Vietnam trade resumed about ten years after we left. Hell, we -give- money to Afghanistan to this day. We fund and arm Palestinians.
You name the filth on earth and we are good.
Only the Cuban embargo remains. We even buy oil from Venezuela. It’s weird.
Yeah, during the Eisenhower administration. I get that communism and stealing from US businesses. That makes sense until you look at China. Openly communist and steal every patent and product they want... no problem.
Venezuela is communist and nationalized our oil interests there... we still buy oil from them.
I thought obama lifted that.
I think the “fatal hug” would be the way to fix things there.
Open up travel for Americans again. Let US airlines fly there. Let cruise ships stop in.
Then laugh as American women ruin their beloved communism. Karens bitching with an endless stream of complaints about their hotel rooms, demanding room service, leaving yelp reviews, complaining about the food etc. Hordes of drunken “woo hoo” women waving credit cards and tryin to find senor frogs. Spring breakers fighting with the cops, posing for naked duckface selfies on Che’s and Castro’s graves, flooding their vaunted healthcare system with sunburns, alcohol poisoning, scooter wrecks etc.
I say inside of a year the Cubes will be begging for the embargo to be reinstated.
I considered that, but the CIA killed him by helpfully letting the Cuban exiles and the Mob know that old Cuba would return only when JFK was gone. Then they turned their head for a little while.
“Just out of curiosity, why do we still have an embargo? It’s been going on for 66 years now”
There are a lot of other countries whose government has been at least as bad as Cuba’s over the last 60 years that we did not have an embargo with.
It has been totally counter productive.
“I think the “fatal hug” would be the way to fix things there.
Open up travel for Americans again. Let US airlines fly there. Let cruise ships stop in.”
The various loosening of restrictions in Eastern Europe in the late 80s played a big part in the final fall of the communist governments there.
Until they return the casinos to Mayer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, and the rum distilleries to Joseph Kennedy, there is nothing to discuss!
I remember that. It did....
I understand the concept back when Castro took over, missile Crisis, etc. Back during those virulent days made sense.
But when the USSR collapsed, only Cuba kept on being sanctioned.
There was probably a huge missed opportunity there.
And it’s never discussed. Almost the entire planet thinks it’s retarded. And anything you can say about Cuba is a hundred times worse with China. But DC and Wall Street can’t get enough “China”. They adore them.
But I guess I am trying to make the DC occupation government make sense.
It’s my understanding Argentina was also supposed to join us in support but their foreign minister defied orders, Milei promptly fired her.
Maybe fear that if they start to do well economically, there are many countries not too far away that they would help in their quest for communism?
I know being close to other countries geographically doesn’t matter nearly as much as it did once...things move pretty fast today.
Just throwing an idea out there :)
I’m already seeing the flaws in my own post though :)
Well, maybe not. There is a certain logic about not wanting it to spread over to Central America and around the Caribbean. I really don’t know and was hoping somebody had a precise answer.
All of the answers make sense to me, until I look at how we are with China, Vietnam, Venezuela, the Saudis, etc.
Also interesting that Israel is all in to keep the embargo going... and Israel is about the only country out there experiencing the same BDS boycotts.
Guess I should mind my own business!
Cuba was a big exporter of sugar to the US. After the embargo we switched to born syrup for most commercial applications. The corn industry would stand to lose billions of sugar became cheap and plentiful again.
Interesting... and true.
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