End the Cuban Embargo

Cuban Ambassador to The Bahamas, Mr. Felix Wilson, calls for continued support from the Caribbean in the call to end the decades old U.S. led embargo against the island of Cuba.

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News & Politics

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• Cuba
• Embargo
• Bahamas
• Blockade
• Caribbean

[THESTAFFIECHANNEL]

@MONTESWEDEN2007 I have just come back from Cuba too and I have had many frank and open conversations with cubans in Varedero and Habana.And I have to say...Your abusing your liscence to comment by laying it on a bit to thick.. You cant say someone on tv having a different view from you is because they are repressed just like I cant say that you was just having a conversation with someone who was just telling you what you wanted to hear....

[THESTAFFIECHANNEL]

@br0nzepen Nooo they cant trade past American waters,and they cant access their foreign bank accounts cos they are frozen.Theres billion and billions in em. Even my country only restricts me to 2 litre bottles of rum and 50 cigars its unfair.

The world is missing out on the best Rum on the planet.

[br0nzepen]

@Tsukae The rest of the world is trading and investing in Cuba. Because one country refused to trade with them, cannot be the cause of their misery. The govt hordes all the resources it trades and uses the embargo as an excuse.

[spepper]

The only ones that can change that situation are cubans themselves, not the hypocrites in Miami. They pushed for an embargo for fifty years, it hasn't work so far... lift the embargo put your exile pride up your ass

[satogato]

This is all a farse. There is no Embargo, Cuba traded with the US a total close to $800 million Dollars in 2009. So where is the Embargo? What happens is that Cuba want open credit, thats it.

[Tsukae]

The major problem Cuba has IS the embargo. Life there will be good when they have economic safety.

[MONTESWEDEN2007]

LIES all lies. I lived there and the most accurate word that comes to mind, as far as Cuban life, is HELL. The utter silence and depression hurt me to my core. Like these women narrating, I believed all of this stuff prior to my own experience, but it really is propaganda and these students are being used as political pawns. The worst part is the young Cubans, whom I had many as firends. One told me that there is no life for him in Cuba.

[MONTESWEDEN2007]

Yes,the govt use doctors to deliver care to other poor nations y I applaud that with politics aside y I will never question motives,because they help many,but it still is what it is and that cannot be denied.Even the staunchest defenders(all foreigners)of the Castro regime must cry and lament the suffering of the Cuban people,if not publicly, then in solitude and silence,because no matter how liars try to obscure the truth,life there is sad and there is simply no room or air to breathe, its HELL

[MONTESWEDEN2007]

I will never forget his happiness and his words. He said, "now everything is possible and my life will be good." I could write a book, but I'll close with this: Cubans ARE oppress by the hands of their own govt. The majority of them desperately want to leave, but are not allowed. Depression in Cuban is beyond words. Unfortunately, these young women speaking have no idea what their talking about, based on their days of vacationing there. Try living there. Life in Cuba IS as bad as it seems

[MONTESWEDEN2007]

Many Cubans sadly suffer from alcoholism and it became apparent to me why. The sadness and utter sense of hopelessness is overwhelming. Watch any video here about Cuban hospitals and you will see for yourself. YES, the hospitals there are that run-down and lacking. I remember running into a friend in Habana one day and he ran up to me giddy with joy and proceeded to say that he married a girl from Slovenia and would be leaving Cuba for good in one week, to join her in Slovenia.