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...Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter waded into the delicate area of U.S.-Cuba relations during the first visit by a U.S. leader since 1959. In a speech broadcast live from Havana University, Carter called for an end to the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba, but he also urged leader Fidel Castro to initiate political reforms. The former President said he had come to "extend a hand of friendship" to Cuba's people. But the White House saw things differently, saying the four-decade-old economic and travel embargo was a "vital part of America's policy...
When U.S. Congressman Jeff Flake visited Havana recently, promoting legislation to let Americans travel freely to Cuba, Fidel Castro had his top aides meet with Flake to ask whether the measure could really pass. "Yes," Flake said, "and tell Castro that if he doesn't behave, we're going to bring down the whole darn embargo...
...president since Calvin Coolidge to visit the nearby island. This diplomatic isolation of one of America’s closest neighbors results from an embargo imposed in 1960, which bans all trade and travel to the country. But the embargo has failed to accomplish its objective of forcing Fidel Castro out of power, and now does more harm than good. The sanctions should be lifted in an attempt to work cooperatively with Cuba and give its people a better life...
...long as Fidel Castro’s dictatorship blatantly violates and constricts the human rights and civil liberties of Cuba’s people, the United States should not lift its trade embargo. Castro and his military regime silence political opponents and dissidents by lengthy imprisonment and execution. They have reduced the majority of the population to a state of abject poverty. They have provided lavish services, hotels and amenities to tourists, yet do not permit native Cubans the right to even access some of these areas. Castro has not stopped these appalling practices; we must not be snowed into...
...inspections, no one may ever know for sure if Cuba has been producing biological weapons for sale to rogue nations such as Libya and Iran, as Undersecretary of State John Bolton recently alleged. Time was recently among the few foreign publications to get an inside look at some of Fidel Castro's most sophisticated biomedical plants - including the Center for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, which the Bush administration has cited as the locus of Cuba's bio-warfare capabilities, and the Finlay Institute, where many of Cuba's vaunted vaccines are produced...