House Shoots Down Relaxed Cuba Sanctions

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/30/AR2005063001202.html

House Shoots Down Relaxed Cuba Sanctions

By ANDREW TAYLOR
The Associated Press
Thursday, June 30, 2005; 4:30 PM

WASHINGTON -- The House voted Thursday against permitting Cuban-Americans to visit their families in Cuba more frequently and for retaining a trade embargo that has been in place since 1960.

The 211-208 vote reversed a trend in Congress in recent years toward relaxing some travel sanctions on Cuba. A similar vote last year _ to permit Cubans who have claimed asylum in the United States to visit the island more frequently than every three years _ produced a 225-174 tally to ease travel rules.

Congressional supporters of maintaining the U.S. government's tough regimen of trade and travel sanctions credit a redoubled lobbying and education effort for their success _ as well as continued bad behavior by communist dictator Fidel Castro.

"Castro's been our best friend in winning the votes around because his conduct has been so reprehensible in the past two years," said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla. "Cubans from all around the United States are doing a greater lobbying effort, more organized than before."

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[RC]

1. That is totally asinine

This embargo is hurting the people of Cuba a lot more than Castro.
But who cares, the rich white sociopaths have to get there revenge for losing all that income from the gambling and flesh trade.

[NorCalDem]

2. At this point...

the sanctions against Cuba only affect the people of Cuba, and they're only implemented because we're sore losers in this country.

My favorite part about all this, is that freepers use Cuba as the stereotypical example of how socialism/communism creates a poor country. NO, you asswipes, a United States imposed embargo creates a poor country!