Posted on 12/29/2001 2:23:37 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Why Cuban embargo matters
Re several recent Readers' Forum letters in support of lifting the U.S. embargo against Cuba:
The 1962 imposition of the embargo against Cuba during the Kennedy administration was because the Cuban goverment took American citizens' property without compensation.
From 1962 to 1989, the Cuban government received billions of dollars in subsidies from the Soviet Union, without any comfort going to the people of Cuba.
That money was used to buy weapons for incursions by the Cuban military into Grenada, the Congo, Ethiopia and to support the lethal guerrillas in Latin America.
The Cuban government doesn't have foreign credit because it doesn't pay its debts.
Yet, some people are asking for the embargo to end, but they never ask for payment for the stolen U.S. property.
The problem with the Cuban economy is its goverment's economic system, which failed in the Soviet Union and will do so in every other country where they don't allow free, individual exercise of human potential through private enterprise.
In 1958 Cuba had one of the world's best fed populations, not only because of its rich soil and long coast line, but because of the high productivity of its people. This productivity is reproduced by Cuban exiles in the United States and every country where they find refuge.
The fact that this letter with its opinion can be published in a newspaper in this country but not in Cuba shows only a small part of the Cuban tragedy.
DARIO MIYARES
Miami
Castro would not be there if it wasn't for Kennedy's unfathomable refusal to send in air support at the Bay of Pigs.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was his thank you from that miserable bearded SOB who has remained in power since then by opening up a big mouth every time a demonratic President is in office and keeping a low profile when the GOP is in power.
His cult of personality will die with him and I am looking forward to vacationing there when that country once again is free.
We agree.. that was a bad, bad move..
If anyone would ever actually tell the American people the truth, that Castro is about to become the benefactor of our tax dollars, the embargo would stay in place.
Maybe it is time that those radical ultra right wing Miami Mafia types, hit the streets and refuse to pay taxes because we object to our taxes being used to prop up the continuing oppression of the totalitarian, terrorist government of Cuba.
You guys in?
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