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Embargo? What Embargo?

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.
 
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.
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.
 
The calls for lifting the embargo are coming from all angles and all sides

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.
 
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.
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.
 
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