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...United States has overlooked many of the positive aspects of the regime in developing its foreign policy with Cuba. With the coming changing of the guard, now is an opportune time for the United States government to rethink its Cuban trade policy and repeal the embargo. By re-establishing ties with Cuba, the United States can begin to encourage the government’s movement toward democracy and provide the country’s economy with a much-needed adrenaline boost. Increased American influence in Cuba will also motivate Cuban society to begin to demand more from their government, further...
...Consider Quebec: Separatists north of the border still agitate for a split from Canada, evidently believing that that now would be a great time to establish a Little France right next door to the United States, since Americans always react so happily to all things French - and what better tonic for a struggling global economy than another country that spends three-quarters of its work week threatening to go on strike and the remaining part walking off the job in a huff...
...departure is ramping up debate over whether the U.S. should free itself of torrid Cuban-exile politics, dismantle its 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba and establish the kind of diplomatic relations Washington has with other ironfisted regimes, like those in China and Saudi Arabia. The Bush Administration has steadfastly refused to even consider ending the embargo, a policy that may sway elections in Florida but has failed utterly to dislodge the regime in Havana. If the U.S. hopes to get more results, the President who takes office next January will need to change course and engage Cuba, allowing...
Lacking the vast charisma that enabled his brother to hold on to power for nearly a half-century, Raúl can go one of two ways to establish his legitimacy: he can return to his hard-line roots and use his security forces to crack down on dissent, or he can earn the affection of his beleaguered people by further loosening the economic and political screws--a path that may be easier to take if Washington drops the embargo. "If we don't," says Jake Colvin, director of the Washington-based USA*Engage, an arm of the National Foreign Trade Council...
...home a share for their affiliated museums and universities. Today the source nation keeps almost everything, despite the fact that a foreign museum or university is usually paying for the dig. "If archaeologists were to say, 'We're going to withdraw our expertise until you say you will re-establish partage,''' says Cuno, "it seems to me [source] nations would respond to that...