Liriena wrote:Greater La Habana Cuba and Miami Shores wrote:So you support the one political party state eternal revolution for life?
What good have the sanctions and embargoes done? Five decades later, the one-party democracy you seek to depose is not only intact, but just had its mandate revitalized in the new constitution. And to top it off, that same one-party democracy continues to manage to get good things done, which leads to another problem: American-style multi-party capitalist democracy is going to continue to be a hard sell for a lot of people if Cuba continues to be a flawed but often successful state that sometimes even manages to provide for its people better than the United States. When push comes to shove, many people will willingly side with the regime that has been most adept at improving their overall quality of life over the abstract, principled ideals of American liberalism or conservatism.
Well I agree the embargo needs to be reformed, to be only one sided (we sell them (almost) anything we want but buy nothing in return), lifting the sanctions altogether would just be giving to Russian government weapons sales and the Maduro regime. Screw that.
Except Cuba has not. Even its vaunted health care system is ranked lower than the US.
https://www.who.int/healthinfo/paper30.pdf
It’s HDI is much lower. The place with the highest HDI in Latin America?
Puerto Rico.
So it has not provided.
And the referendum on the Constitution was not remotely free or fair.
If Cuba is so awesome for the people why is the population declining as people flee in huge numbers despite being banned from doing so? Huh?
If it is so wonderful why does the government have to force people to stay?
But anyways while the sanctions have not toppled the government they have left it less money to buy weapons and found rebel groups so, there is that.
They still have therefore done good.
China shows making an adversary richer only makes them more a problem.