Summary
While Cuba can't blame the U.S. embargo for all its ills, American foreign policy toward the country is absurd and hypocritical. The embargo is ostensibly in place because Cuba is a Communist country, yet we're cuddled in bed with China. China is equally repressive (remember Tiananmen Square?) with untold numbers of political prisoners and exiled dissidents. But American companies see a market of 1.3 billion people, compared to 11 million in Cuba. And the Chinese, including their children, will work for pennies to manufacture our cheap, lead-laden toys and electronics and to raise our pesticide-tainted food.
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Cuba's Destiny
Our plates overflowed with fruit, rice and mystery meat; our glasses brimmed with rum. Guests of the Cuban government, we had ridden a ...
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