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

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (5363)	5/15/2000 12:31:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9127

I heard something funny- and I probably won't get it exactly right- but it's that the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over but expecting different results. Seems to me that typifies the mindset of the people who want the embargo. It has been in place, it has not achieved what it was supposed to achieve. Surely the rational way would be to try something else.

To: X Y Zebra who wrote (5363)	5/15/2000 1:30:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

Fairly predictable that the louder and stronger voices for opening Cuba to the US would come from those americans with an economic ax to grind - agribusiness and exporters in general ..... well, every little bit of contact helps, and this could make a few bucks for a few americans while marginally raising food and medicine availability to cubanos, BUT - The greater force for change in Cuba will come from individual americans holidaying there ... a good part of what props up Castro is his ability to paint a false picture of american life in the absence of information to the contrary ... american tourists could provide that contrary, at least those willing to listen to individual cubanos as a trade for getting to preach to them ... As it stands now, US law denies its citizens the freedom to travel to Cuba ... when that is removed, the great majority of irrational restrictions on human rights will be on the part of Castro, and the Cradle of Liberty would regain a little high moral ground, at the same time as Castro loses the enemy he needs.