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Embargo? What Embargo?

Certainly the Cuban refugees have been a blessing in disguise for the US. As Castro systematically destroyed the framework of the Cuban economy, many Cubans manage to flee to the US shores and started to realize their dreams of a better future for their families. The American economy benefitted from their hard work, just like it has benefitted from the arrival of previous immigrant groups.
 
Castro ran off the people who could make Cuba grow, the people the nation needed to feed everyone else. These same cast-off exiles through their own efforts, blood, sweat and tears, turned Miami into a world-class bustling metropolis, a paragon of International business success and prosperity.
 
Cuban-Americans make up approximately 4% of the Hispanic population in the United States, yet own approximately 34% of Hispanic businesses. That savoir-faire, the initiative, the drive, the work-ethic and educational diligence, the determination to succeed exhibited by the Cuban exiles in America, could have been the bed-rock for a beautiful economically successful Cuban democratic republic. Instead, universal destitution, misery and starvation are Castro's legacies, his gifts to generations yet unborn.
 
If there is a case of successful assimilation that deserves to be studied with attention, is that of Cubans in the US. In five decades, Cubans in the US have integrated remarkably in American society. The Cuban Americans has two senators and four representatives in the U.S. Congress, and five active Ambassadors and seven retired.

According to the US census, the second generation of Cuban-Americans has a higher degree of education and income than the US average. The Cuban-Americans community own 138 of the 500 greater Hispanic companies in the United States, equivalent to 28% of those companies although only represent 3.4 percent of the Hispanic community. The number of enterprises created or owned by this group is one of the highest among all the ethnic groups studied by demographers and sociologists who study this branch of econometrics.
 
So can i bring back Cuban cigars?
Can i go to Cuba to visit?
Oh yea.. No
 
Under the old rules, you just need a Cuban American friend. A few of mine would visit the island to see family and they'd bring back cigars for me. The last thing we need are committed socialists visiting the island. Best only those who know damn well what the place is like go there. It is a disservice to humanity to allow extreme left wing hacks to visit the island - look what happened when Michael Moore went.
 
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Under the old rules, you just need a Cuban American friend. A few of mine would visit the island to see family and they'd bring back cigars for me. The last thing we need are committed socialists visiting the island. Best only those who know damn well what the place is like go there. It is a disservice to humanity to allow extreme left wing hacks to visit the island - look what happened when Michael Moore went.
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Freedom?
Oh yea i forgot...
 
The Cuban exiles have demonstrated by their unparalleled success in this country that there is no adversity which they can't overcome. It would have been easy for them to wallow in self-pity and literally "shut down" physically and mentally. But they didn’t, neither they forgot their roots and their past. This is why George Gilder wrote in “The Spirit of Enterprise", in the chapter on Cuban immigrants, 20 years ago: "Cuban-Americans are the most successful immigrants in the history of this nation of immigrants."

This is something for which neither the Progressive Anglo establishment nor the permanent Black/Latino underclass will ever forgive Cuban-Americans. It is and has always been politically correct for them to defame and ridicule Cuban-Americans, whom shattered the former's myth of superiority as well as disposing of all the excuses which the latter had for their endemic failures
 
The study, based on U.S. Census Bureau and survey data, considered assimilation as of 2006 on three fronts—economic, cultural and civic—and assigned each immigrant group a number ranging from zero to 100 that indicates how similar its members are to native-born Americans. The higher the number is, the more assimilated the group. Cubans born scored 43 well above the national average of 28 on Vigdor’s assimilation index.

Index------------Average------------Cuban born
Economic-----------87------------------100
Cultural-------------62-------------------63
Civic----------------41-------------------55
Composit------------28-------------------43
 
The unprecedented success of the Cuban immigrants is proof that communism does not work. If the Castro brothers tyranny hasn’t keep restriction on emigration, by now half of the population would have left Dr. Castro’s island. Those that were arrested for trying to escape, persevered, some escape and others died in the intent. Their great success in the US illustrate the grate lost suffered by Cuba. The problems in Cuba are due to a 52 year old Castros military dictatorship, who has deny the Cuban people their fundamental rights and the pursuit of happiness as they see fit.
 
If Castros’ military dictatorship weren’t in control of the country, thousands of Cubans wouldn’t need to risk ninety mile of dangerous and shark infested waters to come to the US since Cuba would be probably by now the most prosperous nation in Latin America, and one of the most prosperous in the world, based in previous accomplishment of the island. Instead Cuba is nowadays the most indebted nation and the second poorest in the Americas.
 
Castro brothers’ tyranny failed economic policies is relying on half economic measures and foreign subsidies to prop up the regime, instead of allowing the entrepreneurial spirit of the Cuban people to do the job of bringing prosperity to the island.

When the Cuban people get rid of the tyrannical regime, we will see the same transformation of the Cuban society that has happened in those nations freed from the communist tyranny in Eastern Europe.
 
Cuba Libre
http://outsideonline.com/travel/travel-ta-201010-cuba-diy-travel-sidwcmdev_151871.html

By Patrick Symmes
Outside Magazine

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By one estimate, more than a million Americans would visit Cuba in the first year after travel restrictions were lifted. (Chris Gordaneer/Gallery Stock)

PRESIDENT OBAMA is finally going to ease travel restrictions on Cuba—slightly—allowing more religious and school groups to visit. The last time we visited, in the fifties, we brought rum-running, corruption, and mobbed-up gambling. So if our travel embargo is fully lifted, Americans will wreck everything, right?

I hear this one a lot. At a bookstore talk in D.C., an old friend confided her need to see Cuba before hordes of us descend on the place. A week ago a Canadian acquaintance mentioned her favorite thing about Cuba: the absence of Americans. So we're all in agreement: The end of our travel ban will shatter the subtle graces of a timeless society and replace Cuba's delicate authenticity with an armada of Disney kitsch and Starbucks coffee.
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Millions of tourists that have visited the Island haven’t been able to influence a political and economic opening of Castro’s regime, nor will be the millions of American tourists that will visit Cuba. This article that support my view:

US tourists unlikely to bring democracy to Cuba
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/columnists/andres-oppenheimer/story/985047.html
 
If a flood of Americans are going to indeed provoke change in Cuba, they need to do lots more than see what the regime wants them to see.

Sanctions must be viewed holistically. Easing sanctions on Cuba, in whole or in part, runs the risk of legitimizing and emboldening only one Cuban family: that of Fidel and Raúl Castro
 
A column published in Juventud Rebelde, the daily newspaper of the Union of Young Communists, said that [the Castro regime in] "Cuba should reeducate the tourist in the benefits of the socialist system that United States has tried to undermine."

The Castros regime is telling us point blank that if such travel is allowed they will make a concerted effort to "reeducate" such tourists. They chose the Orwellian word "re-education". In a careless moment the regime has let the mask slip off its face for a second.
 
The regime's explanation that they want to re-educate American tourists, it just weakened the main argument for allowing American tourism to Cuba, which is to educate Cubans about the values of democracy. The mainstream media will ignore that remark and keep on repeating the mantra about American tourists being ambassador's of democracy to Cuba.
 
Big jump seen in U.S. travel to Cuba in 2010
Big jump seen in U.S. travel to Cuba in 2010 | Reuters

By Marc Frank
HAVANA | Mon Dec 6, 2010 4:23pm EST

(Reuters) -More than 1,000 travelers from the United States are arriving every day in Cuba on average, most of Cuban origin, making Havana's long-time foe its second source of visitors after Canada, travel industry and diplomatic sources said Monday..

U.S. charter companies flying to the Communist-ruled island say business has boomed since President Barack Obama's administration lifted restrictions last year on Cuban-Americans visiting their homeland, and also loosened curbs on academic, religious, cultural and other professional travel.
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U.S. charter companies flying to the Communist-ruled island say business has boomed since President Barack Obama's administration lifted restrictions last year on Cuban-Americans visiting their homeland, and also loosened curbs on academic, religious, cultural and other professional travel.[/B]Since the Obama administration relax travel restrictions to Cuba, a large number from the US are traveling to Cuba, making this country the second larger source of tourism and tourist dollars to the regime after Canada.
 
Is this conversation about sanctions, because I love sanctions. I love how violent acts are supposed to create peace.

I lol (in pain) that the US needs to punish Cuba in the sake of democracy and liberty. For ****s sake, let it go. Plus, it is us that is holding the unnecessary grudge.

/sarcastic rant.
 
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Let see what benefits this large increased in American tourist visiting Cuba have brought to the Cuban people. In October 2010 more that 1220 Cubans were arrested, detained, imprisoned, and beaten by Castros’ state security. I don't know how much more of this "benefits" the Cuban people can bear.
 
Wikileaks Vindicates Cuba “Embargo”
Wikileaks Vindicates Cuba

By Humberto Fontova
December 29, 2010

The Wikileaks cables have revealed that nations that sell to Cuba on government credit get stiffed. In other words, we have a confirmation of what has been evident — for those with eyes to see — for a long time: Castro does not pay his debts. This explains why the so-called “U.S. embargo” of Cuba has saved the American taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars — because it has saved him from being cheated by Castro.

The embargo on Cuba is a “so-called” embargo because this unilateralism in U.S. foreign policy does not prohibit commerce with Cuba, as would a genuine embargo. In fact, for going on a decade now, the U.S. has ranked as one of Cuba’s top food suppliers and its fifth biggest trading partner. In 2008, for example, the U.S. sold $710 million worth of products to Castro’s fiefdom and has transacted more than $2 billion worth of business with Cuba in the last decade. The key here is that, since 2001, the so-called U.S. embargo has merely stipulated that the Castro regime pay cash up front through a third–party bank for all U.S. agricultural products; no Export-Import (U.S. taxpayer) financing of such sales is allowed.
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Fidel Castro in 1983 called on all of the world's debtor nations to default on international loans and credit. Castros’ regime has done that, it defaulted on its creditors and it has a staggering debt of over $90 billion. The progressives continued infatuation with Castro blinds them to these actions. Castro is and always will be a thief and panhandler.
 
What's the best way to end Communism in Cuba? Fill the island with tens of thousands of yearly American tourists, with their fancy clothes, free-thinking mindsets, and stories of liberty from home.

The Cuban embargo may have actually PRESERVED Communist rule in Cuba.
 
Thunder said:
What's the best way to end Communism in Cuba? Fill the island with tens of thousands of yearly American tourists, with their fancy clothes, free-thinking mindsets, and stories of liberty from home.

The Cuban embargo may have actually PRESERVED Communist rule in Cuba.
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Mora than 15 million tourists have gone to Cuba in the last 10 years, mainly from Canada and Europe, haven’t been able to influence a political and economic opening of the Castros' regime, except for providing hard currency to it. How could you maintain the illusion that tourism and trade with the United States can do it?

If the island is filled with American tourists, the Castros regime will follow the same practices of the communist countries in the past. Their travel would be controlled and channeled into the tourist resorts built in the island away from the major centers of population, and they will be screened carefully to prevent "subversive propaganda" from entering the island, like they do with tourist from Canada and Europe. They will have limited contact with Cubans thus their influence would be limited.

Castros’ security forces tightly controls most of the tourist resort areas. They are off-limits to the average Cuban. Employees in these resorts are carefully screened by the regime and programmed to tell the visiting tourists the regime propaganda line.
 
This is nothing new with regard to the regime financial practices. Che Guevara, has far back as 1958, in a letter to Enrique Oltuski wrote: “The struggling masses agree to robbing banks because none of them has a penny in them…” Later on, as Minister of Industries and president of the Cuban National Bank, his ideas of the economy were based on “printing money and refuse to pay your debts” (“Fidel Castro”, by Robert E. Quirk, W.W. Norton, 1993).
 
Cuban embargo: Castros need attitude adjustment
Cuban embargo: Castros need attitude adjustment - Sun Sentinel

By Frank Calzon
January 16, 2011

It was more than 50 years ago, October 1960, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower imposed a trade embargo against Cuba. Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl, already designated as Fidel's successor, had been in power less than two years but already had confiscated American and Cuban companies, welcomed the Soviet Union into Havana, initiated subversion against neighboring countries, executed many protesting Cubans, blamed the United States for the island's misfortunes, and led mesmerized masses in chants of "Yankee, Go Home!"

"There is a limit to what the United States … can endure. That limit has now been reached," Eisenhower said when Washington severed diplomatic relations. Havana saw it differently: "Now the Yankees will learn to drink bitter coffee," Ernesto "Che" Guevara said when the United States, which had paid Cuba prices higher than the world market, stopped buying Cuba's sugar.
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What the Castros' regime really wants are loans and lines of credit guaranteed by the U.S. Treasury Department, since it doesn’t have hard currency to pay the interests on the lines of credit for the importation of merchandise.

These credits will not be paid and the American taxpayers will be the losers, the ones to pick up the debt, as it happens at the present time with the taxpayers of Venezuela, Spain, Argentina, Canada, and other countries. Cuba currently owes $22 billion to the countries of the old socialist campus, 31 billion to the European Union, $15 billion to Venezuela and another $12 billion to other countries for a staggering debt of $80 billion.
 
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