Reply #9: What I don't get is why these dimbulbs are so fixated on sanctions anyway [View All]

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If they really want to turn Cuba back into a corporate-owned banana republic, the single best way is to NORMALIZE trade relations. Anyone who's observed the effect of MFN status on China should gladly bow before the power of sheer greed on the part of government personnel to accomplish in short order that which mighty armies and decades of trade embargo cannot. The example of Vietnam is destined to be equally instructive. Bring Cuba into NAFTA, flood the island with high-tipping tourists and Walmart contracts, and within 10 years the Cuban government itself will be using its powers to enforce cheap-labor "free market" zones, just like the corporatists want.

I wonder, sometimes, if these apparently knee-jerk anti-communists are actually sleeper agents for Castro's revolution. What better way to ensure that the nation survives as a truly socialist state than to nominally isolate it from global capitalists?