Word: cubanism
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...Padgett's article "Cuba's Chance" made it abundantly clear that both Cuba and the U.S. have the opportunity to terminate 46 years of trade embargo and name-calling [March 3]. The people of Cuba deserve economic reform and the quality-of-life improvements that will come with it. Cuban Americans should also have the chance to return to the country of their birth whenever they so choose. U.S. leaders should open a dialogue with Raúl Castro to accelerate a change of course for Cuba. If the U.S. can trade with China, Saudi Arabia and other nations that...
...isolation. Uncle Sam's embargo provided Castro with the shield he needed to survive the demise of the communist bloc. The embargo denied Castro nothing he couldn't buy elsewhere, while his totalitarian communist system has destroyed entrepreneurial initiative, squandered wealth on weapons and brought abject poverty to the Cuban populace. Tony Gonzalez, Weeki Wachee, Florida...
...embargo against Cuba was a senseless act of revenge, and one administration after another in the U.S. kept the farce going to please those Cuban has-beens in Miami. The Cuban people want friendship with the American people, but it must be one of mutual respect as well. If the sanctions were revoked immediately, there might come an aura of friendship between Cubans and Americans. Now just drop this inane embargo and the rest will fall into place...
...less nuanced than we might think. Any geopolitical excuses we once had for this vengeful act of soft imperialism have disappeared with the downfall of communism; its harsh measures are today propped up only by stubbornness and spite. Any moral argument surely cannot justify the suffering of the Cuban people, which in some respects is no one’s responsibility...
...Bitterness dulled by time, fear tempered by reason, and pride overcome by opportunity, the U.S. is ready to end the nonsense. Agribusiness interests drool over the Cuban market, elections are won and lost on the refugee vote, and human rights activists cringe at the poverty caused by forced, senseless self-sufficiency. Fidel’s resignation is nothing more than the replacement of one Castro by another. But we should not and need not wait for Raul to make the first move. His ascent gives us at the very least an excuse—the best we?...