August 3, 2021
The United States imposed more sanctions on Cuba, this time through the Treasury Secretary against two top Cuban officials. The sanctions have to do with the recent waves of protests in the island country and the following crack down on the dissidents and instigators of the protests.
Will this help the situation at all? Considering that Cuba has endured over 50 years of an embargo against the country from the US? I hardly think sanctions on two Cuban officials will make a big difference.
In my opinion, the US kept the embargo in too long and left Cuba to its own devices for too long. The embargo, while obviously costly, is not painful to the ordinary Cuban. The shock value of it is gone, especially to Cubans over 30 years old. You are an adult now and have seen a few things in life.
What should happen for US and Cuban relations is an opening of relations. That would change the situation. Everyone knows that the embargo has not worked by now. The thing is, people think the US cares either way. They really don’t care. American officials don’t go to bed thinking about the Cuban embargo, but they do think about Cuban American votes in South Florida when it comes time for elections.
You see? It’s the Cuban Americans in South Florida who want to keep the embargo on Cuba the most. Not because they think it will work, but because in some cruel and mean spirited sense that one day it will cause Cuban to open up and at worse, it was this warped thinking that they were sticking it to former Cuban strongman, Fidel Castro, who took their ancestors property in the Cuban revolution. How warped can blind anger and rage make a human being?
So because of their blind anger and hate they would let the Cuban people. Their brothers and sisters suffer more than they have to. This is where this is.
This magazine supports the end of this Cuban embargo and any sanctions against it that are in place that make no sense in the global sense. If Cuba is not peddling nuclear weapons, selling children into the international sex trade or conducting mass cybercrime then what is the problem with them? Fidel Castro is dead now. That generation he stuck it too and sent them packing to the US on the Muriel boat lift are most likely dead with him too. The Communist model is a failure, even without the US embargo.
Let’s just stop this silliness now and try to warm relations with Cuba, because a closed window will never let the sunshine in.