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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (1799)	4/23/2000 1:02:00 AM
From: George Papadopoulos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

The embargo is irrelevant. Its only relevance stems for Castro to use as his excuse for not doing a better job to provide the Cubans with improved economic conditions. It is also used by the now discredited extremist Cuban exile leadership to pursue a personal vendetta against a man they absolutely hate. I say it is about time some moderates rise together in Miami (together, if they do it one by one they are dead meat) and end the stupid embargo so American companies could get a piece of the Cuban tourism industry (Canadians, Mexicans, Europeans got almost all of it by now) and maybe we can finally take a vacation there and see that beautiful country and get to sample some of their awesome music live instead of waiting years for arranged tours and hoping that the exiles don't place their favorite bombs around the concert halls.

To: TimF who wrote (1799)	4/23/2000 1:15:00 AM
From: marcos	Respond to of 9127

Castro says he wants Eli n back and the embargo dropped, but he doesn't really. If/when he gets Eli n back he becomes the ogre - no more drunk-on-alcohol dictator L zaro holding back Juan Miguel from raising his family, now it's drunk-on-power Fidel. He would be a lot better off if your law gave Eli n to L zaro forever, even better if one of those fanatics had killed the boy. Same reasoning for the embargo - clearly it hasn't worked, it's been fourty years now ... it gives him yet another excuse, an outside enemy to point at and blame. Who cares if he declares victory on its end, he declares victories weekly anyway. Doesn't matter - when the big bad USA resigns its position as his enemy, he loses. Dropping his excuse will not benefit cubanos economically by any great degree in the near term ... they do not benefit greatly from the trade that the entire rest of the planet does with Cuba ... it just eliminates one more excuse for him, and provides a better example ... if you truly believe in your liberty, go there, tread the ground, preach it by all means but mostly just live it. That works better.