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To: Mannie who wrote (30869)	7/29/2005 12:20:56 PM
From: techguerrilla	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361609

Drop the embargo and see what the natural course of events brings. The US government is Castro's best friend with the embargo. It gives him a bogeyman at whom to rail. Castro-US government complicity in the repression of the Cuban people is one of the most serious crimes of the past 50 to 60 years. The US embargo of Cuba actively supports the Castro regime. I advocate a more passive response by removing the embargo and exposing Castro's frailties. With the embargo, Castro is allowed to turn his island into a prison surrounded by water. What motivates him to repress his own people is strange to me. The chimp does the same here in the US. Power feeds on itself. /john

To: Mannie who wrote (30869)	7/29/2005 3:37:05 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361609

Cuba: The conventional wisdom (fed by 50 or so years of Press misreporting and lies) is that Cuba is a prison state with people living in dreadful abject poverty. The Cuba of Batista, prior to Castro, was in terrible shape, unless you were a wealthy landowner or associated with the imported U.S Mafia running the gaming industry. If you look here: theglobalist.com you see that something has happened in Cuba over the years and the general wellbeing of people is vastly improved. However, it is NO golden Democracy because there is ONE boss man. Elsewhere in the world the U.S. LOVES boss-men, provided that they can be BOUGHT and will do things the way the U.S. wants. Castro has never signed on for that sort of thing which he considers a total betrayal of the people. So far as having a Regime-Change Czar for Cuba is concerned, would a GENUINE, peace-loving DEMOCRACY ever even CONSIDER such a thing, or would it mind its gucking business? The answer to that question tells you that the problem is MUCH more the U.S. than it is the tiny, and economically insignificant island of Cuba. Namaste! Jim