Fidel Castro steps down, brother Raul takes over
With the news that Fidel Castro has stepped down as el Presidente de Cuba, an era lasting 49 years has ended. Fidel Castro is no longer running the show in Cuba. Fidel has ceded power to his brother Raul instead. After 49 years and 638 miserably failed attempts at Operation Abajo Fidel, Raul Castro is el Presidente de Cuba nuevo. The U.S. has said they won’t lift the trade embargo against Cuba, even though Fidel is gone.
With these developments, I decided to give my take on this here on my blog. This blog ain’t just for sports, even though my interest in the Cuban government and Fidel comes because of what happened during the 2006 World Baseball Classic. The U.S. is stupid for continuing the sanctions against Cuba. What has it done the last 50 years? If the intentions were to ruin the people and destroy a country that was once economically well off, well they have been very successful. If the intent was to destroy Castro, it has failed miserably.
The U.S. needs to get over it’s grudge and admit that this is a personal vendetta. I don’t see an embargo with the Chinese, and they treat their people much worse than Cuba does. People argue that the U.S. does not run the engine to their economy, but it turns out we do. Thanks to the Helms-Burton Act, businesses not based in the U.S. that do business with Cuba, can’t do business with the U.S. This means companies have to choose between the U.S. and Cuba when doing business.
I wonder what the first attempt at Operation Abajo Raul will be. The U.S. is bent on bringing down Cuba, and no one supports the U.S. in their crusade against bringing Cuba down. And while I’m at it, if I’m correct, this embargo is about bringing democracy to Cuba. Interesting. Seems that a war halfway around the world is being fought for the same reason. Since one of the principles of this blog is about asking the hard questions that no one wants to answer, if we’re in Iraq to spread democracy, why aren’t we fighting with Cuba? And are we really in Iraq for democracy, or is it about the oil? Answer that.
I think with your Cuba comments you got in over your head. Cuba was in bed with the enemy in the 60′s. They had an eye on the prize, the USA. The only reason they allowed Russia to house military weapons was with the intent to destroy the USA.
So because they were intent on destroying us, we should continue an embargo on them 40 years later? And what about the Soviets? Did we ever cut off business with them? I don’t think so.
40 yrs later…some regime..same family…same plans…
The Soviet thing is a different beast. We were able to deal with them in a much different way. i.e. The cold War.
Might want to bone up on your history.
Cuba was intent on taking over and instilling Communism on the US of A.
America will never stand for someone trying to invade our homeland and destroy this wonderful democracy.