Reasons to keep the embargo on Cuba’s Castro dictatorship: Part I of IV
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October 31, 2018 by Honored Guest
The first installment in a four part series written by Cuban American engineer Humberto (Bert) Corzo:
Reasons to keep the embargo on Cuba’s Castro dictatorship: Part I of IV
In this article I analyze the arguments of lifting the Cuban Embargo, which are more rhetorical than real, answering each one of the specific considerations of those that support the end of it.
The book “Fidel Castro and Human Rights,” published by the “Editora Política” of the Castro regime in 1988, states in the introduction that it reflects the philosophical thought of Fidel Castro. The book is without doubt a “self-accusation,” where Castro affirms: “It is necessary to impose financial, economic and material restrictions to dictatorships, so that they will not take roots for long years… Diplomatic and moral measures do not work against dictatorships, because these make fun of the Governments and the population.” What better justification of the embargo than his own words.
Economic Embargo Timeline 1960-1979
Castro, on January 4, 1960, said that he hope relations with the U.S. would improve during 1960. On January 8 the Castro regime expropriated 70,000 acres of land owned by US sugar companies.
President Eisenhower publicly announced on January 26, 1960, that the United States would observe a policy of nonintervention, refrain from reprisals and respect Cuba’s right to undertake a social revolution. The same day Bonsal, U.S. Ambassador in Havana, asked the Argentinian ambassador Dr. Julio Amodeo to mediate between the U.S. and Castro. Amodeo met Castro and suggested an end to the campaign of insults and search for a way to solve the differences; in returned the U.S. offer assistance “in financing of the agrarian reform as well as other economic and social matters.”1 The next day President Dorticos announced the willingness of the Cuban government to resolve the differences with the U.S. diplomatically, and the campaign of insults ceased.
On February 13, 1960, the Castro regime signed a trade pact with the Soviet Union, by which the Soviets agreed to purchase 425,000 metric tons of sugar during the year1960, committed itself to buy a million tons a year during the next four years and the regime to buy Soviet crude oil and industrial machinery. It also granted a $100 million loan to the regime.2
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