This is is no way new but there have been calls for the United States to end its decades-long embargo on Cuba. Cuba’s recent admission into the Rio Group with 23 other Latin American nations has prompted the organization to increase the pressure it places on President-Elect Obama.
It is safe to say, I think, that the embargo on Cuba did not really achieve much of anything. The Castro regime didn’t buckle under economic pressure, and Cuba chugged on. They had a difficult period after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but they’ve managed. I doubt even most American policy experts today could justify why the Cuban embargo is still in place. It is a Cold War leftover that warrants reconsideration. It would seem to me that being able trade with an island nation just a couple hundred miles off the coast of Florida couldn’t hurt the US – if anything it simply adds a new market for hurting US businesses such as the auto makers. Maybe it is time for the US to swallow their pride and let Cuba rejoin the world.
Maybe. I could be wrong. Maybe the Cuban embargo is serving some purpose. I just don’t see it.
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