Why Exile March Against the "Lock"
By: Danilo Josue Cardona (http://www.facebook .com / note. Php? Note_ id = 378278902998 & id = 1116124833 & ref = mf)
Apparently the desperation is such that the production of writings that seek to distort the reality that the vast majority of Cubans do not want the regime and calls for an end the outrage is at maximum. On the other side can understand the psychological blow of 100,000 or more Cubans present dressed in white and without obligation, marching for the rights must have been devastating for the spokesmen of the official policy of regime kicking say the problem is lock and release 5-atones.
short repeat information of all the reality of the embargo. If anyone wants to debate, discuss a particular point or all, but be specific and stick to comment, debate or differ from what I've written. Other Cubans who oppose the regime in Cuba, also call for the lifting of the embargo, because to them it is the regime who use it as an excuse. In my opinion, the gangster regime used as an excuse any event, person, or situation that will serve as an excuse to stay in power, and the embargo is no exception. I respect the opinion of these opponents, but from what I am sure of is that if the U.S. legitimizes Cuba's government, raising the seizure and bringing a favored nation status (like China), life for the opponents and dissidents will be as harsh and cruel to the Chinese opponents, who did not already know who they are. The Cuban government seeks legitimacy, seeks moral equivalence, and is not either, or of Americans, and more importantly, or the Cubans.
What you should know about the "lock"
1. First, no lock - no American fleet is preventing ships loaded with goods arrive at Cuban ports. A block is a military term and want to change your definition is a waste of time. U.S. blockade of Cuba when the crisis of October. And blocked to Haiti in 1994. Both were acts of war and military, that have nothing to do with trade embargoes such as Cuba, and like South Africa when apartheid.
2. What there is though - the U.S. sovereign decision not to trade with Cuba (the U.S. has its reasons) but for now let's say "do not want."
3. The third article of the Torricelli Act - which penalizes other states or international companies, and that requires you to decide if they trade with Cuba or with the U.S. (and leave the decision to these countries), has never been put in place by any president or a Democrat, or Republican (presidential discretion is).
4. Cuba has trade with Spain, Italy, France, China, Panama, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Chile, Africa, Israel, etc. And to your surprise, the same who is the 5th largest U.S. trading partner of the island.
5. The embargo does not include bans on humanitarian aid, medical aid, food, and communications including telecommunications. And it was the same Cuban government has impeded humanitarian who, because of natural disasters, from the U.S. and the Cuban community abroad. Not only that, but drugs that clearly say they are giving humanitarian, have resulted in pharmacies in Cuba to be resold at the same original people who were offered free.
6. The issue of the embargo is a sovereign decision of the U.S. and no international pressure will make the change. Also keep U.S. embargo with Iran, Sudan, North Korea, Zimbabwe, and a dozen other countries. All the propaganda of Cuba to the United Nations and countries of Europe sympathizers who failed to remove the embargo. By contrast the European Union has underlined its position condemning the Cuban government for its continued violation of human rights of its own citizens.
7. The U.S. embargo reasons are manifold: (1) The Cuban government expropriated property private (business, property, funds) of U.S. citizens in Cuba legally obtained without any compensation. The theft came to the amount of 20 billion, the biggest loss for the expropriation of a foreign government on U.S. citizens in U.S. history (2) The Cuban government allied itself with the arch-enemy of the USA, to become hand puppet Black USSR and its subversive activities in Latin America primarily and elsewhere. (3) U.S. decided that contain the cancer which had become the Cuban Revolution to Cuba, through the denial of resources that gives the U.S. trade. For those who read Imagine a dictator with the cunning Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez resources. (4) The embargo on Cuba did the USSR pay monetarily for your interest in the island since the Cuban regime to keep the Soviet Union cost him billions of dollars annually. (5) In all of these objectives of containment and cold war against the USSR (war in which parties chose Fidel Castro, was part and lost) the U.S. has succeeded.
8. If U.S. trade with Cuba and all other countries do in fact also what is the embargo? The embargo remains in (1) Denial of credits to Americans. Cuba has to pay cash, because they pay. You owe it to everyone. (2) Investments of any kind. In Cuba there is no rule of law that respects the investments of U.S. citizens or U.S. government. What prevents other expropriation? (3) The U.S. tourism. The richest and commercially viable in the world.
9. However, the U.S. Government for years has proposed conditions for the gradual lifting of the embargo, and none of these conditions has to do with the Cuban government grants the U.S. government, however, what the U.S. is required RESPECT the Cuban government to the Cubans. What steps should give Cuba? (1) to release all political prisoners of conscience (2) Respect human rights of the Cuban population - including the right of free expression, movement, assembly, religion, press, etc. (3) Allow the Cuban people their legitimate right to fine-partisan elections. These rights are all other countries in the world except those who are under a dictatorship - as in Cuba.
10. Besides all know that in Cuba constantly see doctors from the ETA terrorists, to Maradona, and medical services offered to the leaders, or tourists are not available to the Cuban people. What applies to medicine also applies to food, Who but the Cuban government itself prohibits Cubans produce for their own consumption, which produce for foreign consumption and export? All that verbiage to justify the utter failure of political-economic system is more Cuban monkey.
11. But let someone else answer better than me Cuban to Cuban reality in the island, my friend, Erik Jacob
is unfortunate also speak at this stage of an economic embargo against the island believe That only those who still live locked by the Iron Curtain in the Castro. We all know that is a lie but philosophical. American products have always come to foreign markets on the island, not the people. Millions of tons of food have entered the country and never admit that the American free enterprise .. Also, do not believe that if the Castroism is so allergic to the U.S. system. Americans need to make your people do not starve. There are many countries that have products or produced in America. Why not negotiate with the rest of the world and leave Americans alone? Perhaps the U.S. is to blame the Cubans do not have your table the rice, beans, meat, vegetables, meats, a pig, birds that are harvested in Cuba? Perhaps the U.S. is to blame for that Cubans have to take buses from buying Camels for Hungarian, Chinese, Russian, Czech or any other country?. Perhaps the U.S. is to blame Castro took to Cuba as a cup of gold and its fifty years later, the buildings are crumbling, unpainted and disrupted the streets, taking pictures and asphalt factories Nationwide?. Perhaps the U.S. is to blame for Cubans can not leave the country on vacation?. Perhaps the U.S. is to blame that Castro did not allow a Cuban to think freely and if you do not like Castro wants, he gets arrested?.
12. In conclusion, as Dorothy Fosdick says, "... in the way a government treats its own citizens ... is an indication of their intentions with the rest of the world." And so we can realize the intentions of the U.S., the intentions of the former USSR, China's intentions today, and the intentions of the Cuban government. Cuban tyranny not just bullying their own people, but supports those who bully other people, no matter their ideology or are far apart geographically and culturally, so the same supports Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Iran), or Kim Jong-il (North Korea), or Hu Jintao and the Communist Party in China, no matter what they think while they are tyrants and enemies of the USA, the leading country of freedom in the world.
Thanks to the moral clarity of the Cuban community, nourished annually to Cubans who arrive in Cuba, the U.S. did not commit the same mistake it made with China Cuba - Unleashing the trade without requiring respect for human rights - and has remained in the same position he held against the Soviet Union, until Gorbachev came a made reforms. Totalitarian regimes require massive resources and energies to repress their people. As these do not produce these resources, because all they have is invested in repressing, need business partners to which suck and / or extortion, not to give any benefit to their people, their people will always live in economic misery and the to lie because the truth is rationed to keep them in power.
