Saturday, February 17, 2018

End cruel, pointless 58 year Cuban embargo


I didn't like the US embargo of Cuba as a 15 year old in 1960. After an 8 day visit there I dislike it more at 73. America business interests, both legal (US Fruit among others) and illegal (Mafia) made billions between our 1898 land grab from Spain till Castro took over and began instituting reforms in 1959. The revolution was necessary and inevitable. The 6 million Cubans had suffered enough under 61 years of US imperialism and plunder. We could have helped Cuba transition away from exploitation to fair play. But Ike heeded the false call of US righteousness to trash any chance of a rapprochement, beginning 58 years of punishing the Cuban people. Not satisfied with an embargo, Ike and successor JFK greenlighted a US run invasion to restore rapacious capitalism. When that failed at Bay of Pigs, we simply tried to kill Castro before bringing mankind to the brink of nuclear annihilation in 1962. Brother Raul leaves office in two months, ending 59 years of Castro rule there. Let's work to keep 'el bloqueo' from reaching the same milestone.

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