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To: LindyBill who wrote (64507)	1/5/2003 9:24:11 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

But I thought you wrote that those South American, Latin American countries had an opportunity for 50 years of "development," by assuming Cuba didn't. Or was it only Cuba that had an opportunity for 50 years of development. Please do answer my question: How have they fared over these past 50 years?

To: LindyBill who wrote (64507)	1/5/2003 10:42:49 PM
From: Alan Brezin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Most Cubans in So Florida support continuing the starvation of their brothers in Cuba via the US embargo of Cuba. Castro's stubbornness plays into their hands. What would the situation be there without the many years of the embargo? Starving Cubans risk their lives to come to So Florida on rickety boats and inner tube rafts to get a decent meal and a decent way of life. The wealthy expatriate Cuban builders who came to South Florida and were subsidized by the US government got richer using the cheap source of immigrant labor. Now they exert a very strong hold on national, state, and Dade county politics. Among other things it seems that Dade county government has more than its fair share of corruption.