Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democratic politicians can rarely afford the luxury of telling the truth to the people: witness the current and fruitless debate on Cuba. Both candidates support the indefensible American blockade of that country, and both know more about the situation than they are telling whistlestop crowds...
...Latin American nations. Since these nations are not about to sanction U.S. intervention of any sort (which would violate the letter and the spirit of the treaties they have induced the U.S. to sign), and since any U.S. threat would remind Khrushchev of his promise last May to defend Cuba, Kennedy is actually on safe, albeit blustering and ineffectual ground...
...would lose us friends in the hemisphere and provoke a Cold War crisis with Russia. But Nixon has also said that we should "quarantine" Castro politically and economically, which would be a violation of the same treaties he accused Kennedy of proposing to violate. Moreover, Nixon's comparison of Cuba with Guatemala is sinister indeed, since everybody, including Nixon, knows that what the Eisenhower administration did in Guatemala is exactly the same kind of action Kennedy appeared to advocate recently...
Thus the entire debate on Cuba is a sham, as divorced from reality as anything Fidel Castro has ever said. And while the spurious debate flickers on about what the U.S. should do (when it can do nothing) so does another sham--the American embargo on Cuba trade. This is a sham, because the major commodities in the once-flourishing Cuba-U.S. trade had already been closed off prior to the embargo, and because American shippers are already transferring the few essential items that Cuba still needs from this country through Canada, which has publicly stated that it will...
Embargo is a familiar spectre to Latin American politicians in nations dependent upon U.S. exports. Cuba is only one of many such countries which, up to now, have had to choose between being an American colony, a trade dependency of the U.S. enjoying political autonomy, or starving. If the embargo is continued, the United States will permanently alienate the people of Cuba, who, after all, are more enduring than any regime in Cuba. The United States will also alienate the people of those Latin American nations dependent upon us for their economic well-being...