Lifting the embargo on Cuba is overdue
From the blog of Cesar Chelala at The Times of Israel
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From the blog of Cesar Chelala at The Times of Israel
While the U.S. trades with other communist dictatorships, Cuba is the exception. The cost to American businesses is estimated at $4 billion a year.
Washington, Mar 7 (Prensa Latina) The reintroduction of a bipartisan bill by five US lawmakers legislators to have the blockade against Cuba lifted has become an example of the efforts to establish normal relations between the two countries.
Since World War II, U.S. international broad¬casting has been a major tool for breaking information barriers and blockades constructed by totalitarian and similarly closed authoritarian regimes. Today, the United States continues to open new doors to individual and media freedom, and to advance the free exchange and debate of ideas for citizens of states that are still not free. Despite this record, Radio and TV Martí—the United States’ Spanish-language broadcasts to Cuba—have come under increas¬ing attack primarily from liberals and members of the Democratic Party. The Heritage Found...
Havana (Prensa Latina) Although it was on February 3, 1962, when US President John F. Kennedy formalized the economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba, the coercive measures against the island date back to 1959.