Converting Castro

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Out of the three presidential nominee contenders, Clinton, Obama and McCain, whose campaign language suggests a willingness to embrace Cuba and begin a dialog?

Answer: Barrack Obama.
Cupidity? Mere personality? Emptiness on policy? People believe the politiicians and pundits attacks without truly investigating the candidates. There's more merit there in that suit than the status quo wants you to believe. Objective analysis will tell you otherwise.

Though I am not an expert in these matters, I can see where this argument is justified. All embargos and other forms of punnishment like invasions do is punnish an innocent populous. The only way for a government to truely change is to change from within. This is part of the problem in Iraq. If the people don't want to change, nothing we do from the outside is going to help. Instead of penalizing people who can't move out of the country, we should be helping them to see that now is a good time to start changing it.

Sailing to Cuba sounds wonderful. I'm making arangements with USCubanTravel.com I want to enjoy the nightlife and walk on the sandy beaches, and my husband want to smoke hand rolled cigar.

Wouldn't it be ironic that the US lifts the embargo and the Cuba rejects it?....After all, the US is the enemy...and according to Cuban politics, the US should not be dealt with.....After all these years, who would thay have to blame for their deplorable conditions then?

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Cuba looks to be a great place to visit when I start sailing in the years to come....Hopefully Dictator #2 will have the sense enough to see the economic advantages they have in the tourism industry and make good with the U.S. and other rational nations. Its a shame that beautiful island is going to waste because of ignorant politians on both sides.

Enter Your Comment ENOUGH IS ENOUGH 50+YEARS THE CUBAN PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO ENJOY LIVING THE UNITED STATES MUST ALLOW CUBA TO BE. IT'S TIME TO LIFT THE EMBARGOS---- TIME TO CHANGE. WE CAN NOT RULE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. LESS IS MORE.................................

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It is absolutely true that his revolution overthrew a regime that was power hungry and vastly corrupt and it is also true that the USA helped (and we did help) Fidel overthrow that regime, it is also true to say that Fidel then chose to appropriate some of the worst excesses of power of the old regime to himself. The dream was good -- great even, the execution was not.

History will label this bastard as a jungle hoodlem, not a president of benevolant dictator, stealing the physical and intellectual cuban resources to support a few other piss poor cubans, canadians and russians. Just leave your home with just the shirt on you back.

I've always dreamed of watching the girls roll cigars on there laps and travelling and exploring cuba. With Castro resigning I think my dream will come true. I've booked with USCubanTravel.com
They have great programs for Non US citizens too!

Castro unilaterally created and sustained the mess in Cuba with no help from the U.S. I vividly remember the Cubans coming to the U.S. to escape his aggressive social policies that "redistributed" all of the island's wealth to him and his cronies. There was also the "Peter Pan" episode where desperate parents sent their young children to the states to live in orphanages until they could escape to be with them. And let's not forget the tens of thousands of troops he sent to Angola to provide support to the MPLA for the slaughter in West Africa and the his ready contribution to the destabilization of Central America, notably Nicaragua and El Salvador. The Russians paid him millions of dollars a day to keep his failed economy upright and now that they're gone - he has finally succumbed to alowing tourism, but the money never makes it to the poorest segments of the population. A Colombian doctor who attended a conference in Cuba said that married women were engaging in prostitution to support the families - sometimes with the husband's knowledge. And the writer of the above article reflects the contemporary point of view that somehow all the problems in Cuba is the fault of the American people. He has also failed to mention the horrible human rights record that the Cuban Regime has maintained for the past 50 years. Based on his record, and the fact that he has used the U.S. as the evil image to rally his supporters, it is an absolute stretch to leap to the conclusion that lifting the embargo will provide any significant channels of assistance to the Cubans who really need it. We can only hope that Castro lapses into a physical or mental state where he won't have any significant control and that a new government relaxes controls, encourages international investment and trade from the U.S., and throttles back on the state security apparatus. I am sure that there are legions of exiles in Miami who could provide substantive assistance, proposals and drafts for workable Constitution, and wise counsel to a cooperative new government when the dictatorship finally crashes into the dust.

Dickhead, if you are so damned erudite, why are you not ruling the universe?