US Embargo Against Cuba: Beating a Retreat? by Esteban Morales Dominguez

[magbana]

Picked up from the CubaNews List - comments in parentheses are from List editor, Walter Lippmann. Lot of info here - good to keep in the file drawer.

magbana

(This article is not news, and it is very long, but
it does provide an exceptionally exhaustive review
of all of the things which Washington´s blockade of
Cuba really means in actual practice. If you haven´t
taken the time to consider the full implications of
these facts, which the author kindly supplied, you´d
be well-advised to do so. If you know anyone who has
told you: well, Cuba can trade with anyone else, so
what´s the big deal about the blockade? Send them this.)
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United States Embargo Against Cuba: Beating a retreat?
Esteban Morales Domínguez

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The so-called "embargo” or "blockade" (Translator’s Note: bloqueo in Spanish), as the scientists on the Island call it, is the most controversial topic in the relations between Cuba and the United States. In fact, this embargo constitutes the "corner stone" of U.S. policy against Cuba.

All North American policy matters towards the Island (those concerning political aggression and ideological instruments) are oriented in one way or another to create the necessary scenarios for an effective embargo policy. Therefore, when we speak of U.S. policy towards Cuba, we are referring to a systemic framework of methods, measures, instruments and actors which are implied, superimposed, and act, within a continual process of aggression against Cuba, on the part of the United States.

The United States has more confidence in the embargo than in any other destabilizing instrument against Cuba.

continue article at the Cuba Now website:

http://www.cubanow.net/pages/loader.php?sec=12&t=2&item=2863

[Judi Lynn]

1. This really looks great. Have started reading it, will finish it later tonight.

Very glad to see it mentions right off the bat the fact only the U.S. refused to accept compensation for properties in Cuba. A lot of people have been completely misled about this, and have lingered on with the impression that land was simply stolen from some fine, upstanding, hardworking people. The reality was that these people, just as it happens everywhere else, were offered fair compensation for their property, and blew it off.

Owners from Canada, Europe and other places took the money as soon as it was offered. The U.S. Government insisted owners refuse the offer. After that, babbling idiot liars have insisted on spreading the story Cuba simply stole their precious land. People who listened to their yarns and didn't check it out, lived on with a great lie in their heads where the truth should have been. So damned typical.

Looking forward to reading the complete article, and thanks so much to magbana.