With all the issues surrounding President Barack Obama’s call for normalization of relations between the United States and Cuba, the “spy” swap and the “mysteriously” pregnant lady in Cuba, there is a real and disturbing mystery that the American media has shamefully ignored. The item was reported only once and then conveniently ignored and already […]
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Much of the recent discussion among both Democrat and Republican members of Congress regarding the need to lift the travel ban and end the U.S. embargo of Cuba has revolved around the possibility of selling millions of dollars in agricultural products to Cuba. These politicians conveniently forget that the Castro brothers are dictators of the
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Let me respectfully point out some major weaknesses in Doug Bandow’s article on Cuba (“Washington’s Inadvertent Support for Cuban Communism,” Ideas on Liberty, July 2002). Bandow, a writer whom I admire and whose books and commentaries I have always enjoyed, was misled by the likes of Ricardo Alarcon, a devious man characterized as a dog
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Regarding your editorials “Bush’s Cuba Pickle(1)” (May 9) and “Our Man in Havana(2)” (May 16): While the U.S. embargo has not forced Fidel Castro’s capitulation, since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, it has limited his capacity to subvert his Latin American neighbors, forcing him to liberalize economic policies in order to remain
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Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter’s recent visit to communist Cuba has renewed the calls for normalization of relations with the workers’ paradise from many quarters from statist politicians who have admired Fidel Castro for decades to exporting firms like Archer Daniels Midland, which salivates at the prospect of taking its agribusiness to Cuba
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The thorny problem of Cuba, 90 miles from the U.S. coast, refuses to go away. Like it or not, President Bush, like his predecessors, will have to deal with the inherited, persistent problem of the communist Caribbean nation. It has been said that Fidel Castro’s health is not what it has been in the past,
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