Obama handles Cuba blockade

[joe1joe1]

End the embargo!

[myxamycotum]

The U.S. is one of the only western countries that doesn't have trade relations with Cuba. So apparently it will take the U.S. to help them, makings critics seem unjustified. I would say, If we are so bad, why depend on us?

[xxmcneilxx]

what is your guys take on the embargo

[TheMadonna34]

The blockade in Cuba is between the goverment and his people, the goverment in Cuba is rude and tiranic and the people are living in absolutely misery.

[eoghan93]

the trade embargo is causing people to die in cuba and a disgrace. it just shows that the usa still has a fear of anything assocaited with communism

[BlackNeon9]

america has no justified reason to have the blockade in the first place... its largely due to this that cuba cant feed its people... I only know a little on castro but america are bullies too..

[BlazzingSun]

raul no accetes estados unidos...

mantente con los aliados a russia y china. es mas los dejes entrar a cuba...

mucha suerte con tus amigos.

[BlazzingSun]

ban a infectar a cuba.

[YHChickita]

Its digusting that the US can follow this Embargo. . The only way to bring change is to extend an olive branch. So stop this trade embargo, except for military weapons, on the condition that Cuba allows free elections, freedom of the press, and basic democratic rights to all its citizens. The rest will come naturally once the Cuban government sees that its people are benefiting. And get these Cubans some new vehicles. The Cubans people are good people, so do the right thing.

[Frogstomp121]

Cuba does not have to be forced to make any concessions except under their own free will, least of all by a country like the U.S., the all but self-proclaimed messiah of all mankind's ills.

[mopsius]

"Obama said a relationship frozen for 50 years "won't thaw overnight," and that Cuba can show it wants to move forward by lifting its own restrictions on Cubans' ability to travel and to voice their opinions...."(AP April 16, 2009)

Gee, maybe the US can show in return that US torturers and war criminals like Cheney and Bush are prosecuted, and that Obama is moving forward to end the prison industrial complex that Angela Davis has described in great detail.

[grungefuck]

I'm starting to learn more about Fidel Castro.I think the guy is great and he's a smart man.

[xxmcneilxx]

@grungefuck why

[Gurra88]

@grungefuck

You made that comment a year ago. Have you learnt anything about Castro? I'm a bit interested in him as well. I don't believe the American media about him.

[Monger4142]

Just allow Cuban cigars

[Squirelbutt]

Its all a scam so the US government can wiretap cubans. Job security.

[VictorWasechkin]

Cuban domestic politics is Cuban domestic politics. No country has the right to interfere the domestic politics of the sovereign country.

Maybe I consider american type of corporate fascism and mediacracy as not having any democratic references, but this is not the reason to impose economic sanctions on USA.

Who are Americans to judge others and try to install the democracy that they themselves never had?

[zekes1985]

yea... but who is gonna stop them??

[dancecosmic]

To wait day of their disintegration

[zekes1985]

if i understand you correctly ....

we all hope ...

:)

[charlessmyth]

If Fidel had taken up Austrian economics instead of communism, and applied it rigorously, Cuba under capitalism, would now be outperforming the US.

[VictorWasechkin]

if not for stupid sanctions adopted when johny Kennedy was overfrightened by soviet rockets deployed as a response to american rockets in turkey, then Cuban economy would be also fine.

[charlessmyth]

There is a degree of truth in that. The Kennedy administration achieved very little by their response towards the 'Cuban Missile Crisis', Eisenhower could have taken Fidel more carefully so as not to push him into an inevitable corner, as Roosevelt achieved with Mao. Nevertheless, my comment is still sound.

[tony609]

viva cuba viva la revolucion viva el che viva zapata basta ya de capitalismo !!!

[yahazif]

America is seen as the bully because it won't trade with Cuba.  But the Cuban government will not allow trade unions, will not allow political parties and will not allow free elections. Who is the bully?

[minatorus]

Still America, free election= US puppet wins

Tzar / Saddam Hussein / chiang kai sek / and all nato leaders are us puppets / Suharto / former king of Iran

all puppets of the US, they enslave the people and torture them

[EAGLEMAN10001]

@minatorus U R MISSING ZARDARI OF PAKISTAN

[VictorWasechkin]

Cuban domestic politics is Cuban domestic politics. No country has the right to interfere the domestic politics of the sovereign country.

Maybe I consider american type of corporate fascism and mediacracy as not having any democratic references, but this is not the reason to impose economic sanctions on USA.

Who are Americans to judge others and try to install the democracy that they themselves never had?

[yahazif]

@victorwasechkin "Cuban domestic politics is Cuban domestic politics. No country has the right to interfere"

Very true. And also no country is obligated to trade with another country. Cuba would like the US to lift the trade embargo but America has an obligation to the millions of refugees it has take in since Castro confiscated their property and drove them from the Island. America is a sovern country and it has the right to choose who it will trade with.

[VictorWasechkin]

you are misleading the audience, narrowing the significance of sanctions. When USA imposes trade embargo and economic sanctions, it means that USA can impose sanctions on any American company or U.S. bank that is involved in trading with Cuba or transferring funds, as well as impose limitations on trade with those foreign companies that have contacts with the 'rough state'. So this turns out to be not only American trade, but gov-t involvement, while claiming own importance in world economy.