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2003-11-05 Latin America

BBC - UN votes against US Cuba embargo for 12th consecutive year

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Posted by Super Hose 2003-11-05 8:46:52 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I agree the US should change policies but since there is no blockade these tools undermine their own story.

Posted by Yank 2003-11-5 9:00:52 AM|| 2003-11-5 9:00:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 US counter-argument:

1) Castro steps down - no more embargo.

2) We repeal head-of-state assassination act - kill Castro & his supporters (operation smoke a cuban) - no more embargo.

3) None of your business UN - go f*ck yourself.

Posted by Jarhead 2003-11-5 9:48:01 AM|| 2003-11-5 9:48:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 This embargo makes NO sense--except in the context of political pandering by BOTH parties to South Florida Cuban-Americans. Now, however there's quite a few midwestern congressmen getting pressured to open up agricultural trade with Cuba in OUR national interest. To enforce the Cuban embargo while free trading with China is the height of hypocrisy. If the Cuban people interacted with Americans-and our way of life-it would all be over for Fidel. By isolating them and not engaging--we've done a disservice to the Cuban people.

Posted by Not Mike Moore 2003-11-5 11:00:08 AM|| 2003-11-5 11:00:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Jarhead, you forgot option 4) all of the above.

Posted by Yank 2003-11-5 11:03:37 AM|| 2003-11-5 11:03:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 The embargo is cruel, eh. But repressing the natural yearning of the human spirit to live free is...

... oh, totally normal to the UN.

Forgot about that. Carry on.

Posted by eLarson 2003-11-5 11:35:32 AM|| 2003-11-5 11:35:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Crime" against Cuba? Since when is refusing to trade with a country an international crime? Where is the international law specifying that a country MUST trade with another? The UN appears to be getting wierder and wierder all the time - when did they last do a reality check?

Posted by rabidfox 2003-11-5 12:21:11 PM|| 2003-11-5 12:21:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I am for keeping the situation where its at until I see Castro stop destabilizing every "free market" government in South America. A Reuters story indicates that I would be in the vast minority in Mississippi. Mississippi Rolls Out Red Carpet for Cuban Trade

Posted by Super Hose 2003-11-5 12:22:55 PM|| 2003-11-5 12:22:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The sooner we open trade with Cuba the sooner the trial lawyers can destroy their economy.

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-5 8:44:26 PM|| 2003-11-5 8:44:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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