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Embargo? What Embargo?

Fuentes: Cuban regime hates freedom. Keep the U.S. embargo. (palmbeachpost.com)

Ileana Fuentes
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Palm Beach Post

Jan. 22, 2024

Llewellyn King’s Opinion column Jan. 9, “The fault is Cuba's system but our embargo just worsens the suffering”) trivializes conditions in Cuba by joking about shopping lines, running out of toilet paper, plentiful 1950s cars, “people picking over garbage,” pedal carts, surviving on a diet of rice and beans, and “taxi drivers and waiters making more money than doctors and engineers.” His column also misinforms your readership.

Mr. King errs when he says the embargo dates back to 1962. Actually, it was president Dwight D. Eisenhower who, on July 6, 1960, ordered that all purchases of Cuban sugar be suspended as a response to the June 29 expropriation of the Texas Oil Company, Shell and Esso Standard Oil refineries by the Castro regime, which was followed by the expropriation of the electric and telephone companies and American-owned sugar mills, on Aug. 6. Finally, on Oct.. 30, Washington prohibited all exporting to Cuba, except for food products and medicines.
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The U.S. is one of the Castro’s communist regime main trading partners. Proof of it, is that in 2022, the regime purchased $295 million worth of U.S. agricultural products. The regime buys $100 million worth of chicken from the U. S. annually and sells it to the Cuban people at double the cost and pocketed $100 million.
 
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The U.S. is one of the Castro’s communist regime main trading partners. Proof of it, is that in 2022, the regime purchased $295 million worth of U.S. agricultural products. The regime buys $100 million worth of chicken from the U. S. annually and sells it to the Cuban people at double the cost and pocketed $100 million.
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Cuba is a wonderful place to visit. Cuban people are very friendly and eager to engage with visitors.
 
In January 2021, the Castro’s regime introduce mayor currency and price reforms. They include a gradual reduction in price subsidies and opening to private businesses. By the end of 2023, the inflation rate reached 30%, and the Cuban peso lost 50% of its value against the dollar. The regime control measures in reality restricted production.
 
The regime measures announced on December 2023 include a 500% fuel prices increase, a 25% increase in electricity rates an d higher prices for propane gas. This will affect the Cuban population, which already has suffered a significant decline in its purchasing power.
 
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The calls for lifting the embargo are coming from all angles and all sides
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And as long as fanatics like you continue to associate Democrats with communists, you'll continue to be stuck in Hell.
Republicans despise Cuba and will tighten restrictions as far as possible, so you're going to have to unlink your red-bait commie paranoia and accept that US Democrats want to restore or normalize Cuba relations. Cuban Americans need to vote Democrats in so that they can ease contact with friends and loved ones still on the island.

Republicans are not your friends, but your wall to wall commie paranoia and John Birch level red-baiting of Democrats is what keeps Cuba stuck in the past.
 
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The regime measures announced on December 2023 include a 500% fuel prices increase, a 25% increase in electricity rates an d higher prices for propane gas. This will affect the Cuban population, which already has suffered a significant decline in its purchasing power.
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The regime did not supported the development of private small and medium-sized businesses approved in 2021. Cubans now face daily blackouts and shortages of transportation, fuel, food and medicine. The Cuban people have lost all hope, and the regime has lost all credibility.
 
Rubio: Cubans Aren’t Protesting Because of an Embargo — They Want Liberty | Senator Rubio (senate.gov)

JUL 20, 2021 | PRESS RELEASES

Washington, D.C. —
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U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) spoke on the Senate floor about the Biden Administration’s decision to review remittances to Cuba following historic organic protests on the island against the Díaz-Canel/Castro Communist dictatorship. Watch the full speech via Youtube here.

Rubio is the Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues.

A broadcast-quality version is available for download here.

Rubio: We’ve heard more about Cuba in the last week than probably the ten years I’ve been here combined. And yesterday, we heard from the White House. And the White House, after having some sort of meeting or conference call, came out and said that they are going to be looking at remittances and increasing and making it easier to get money to relatives in Cuba. That’s not surprising – the people in charge of Cuba policy at the White House, at the National Security Council, and at the State Department, have long been advocates for dialogue with the regime and an economic opening to the regime, they’ve been for getting rid of the embargo and that sort of thing. I think it’s important, given the fact that I recognize that most people in this country and in the Senate don’t follow this issue on a regular basis, that we address that, because the fundamental question being put to us is: so the people of Cuba are suffering, the people of Cuba are going through a difficult economic time. I would argue that they’ve done so for 62 years. Why don’t we get rid of the embargo? Why aren’t we getting rid of the embargo? It would make life easier for them. And I want to address it. I want to address it, especially to those that are not as familiar with this issue.
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The Cuban people have been suffering for 64 years due to the disastrous economic policies of the Castro’s regime. In reality Cuba does not have an embargo. The regime trades with most of the countries in the world, it trades even with the US, from whom it imports around $280 million dollars a year.
 
The regime import 66% of the chicken that’s eaten in Cuba, from the United States. 50% of the soybeans are imported from the US too. There are no American ships blockading Cuba. The only embargo in Cuba is the one imposed by the communist regime on the Cuban people.
 
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