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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