20 billion barrel oil discovery puts Cuba in the big league

Impact of the Embargo on Cuban Health
The U.S. Embargo continues to exact a devastating human toll on innocent families and children.

New Drugs Inaccessible
Cuban patients are deprived of many patented U.S. drugs as a result of deliberately grueling licensing procedures, which, according to an American Association for World Health (AAWH) report, "actively discourage any medical commerce." Since the U.S. boasts the world's leading pharmaceutical research and production capability, these procedures effectively ban Cuba from nearly half of the new world-class drugs on the market.

Medical Equipment Blocked
The embargo virtually prohibits Cuban purchases of U.S. medical equipment, parts and accessories. The AAWH found that U.S. firms, citing the embargo, commonly refuse to even offer price information to Cuban importers. Since the U.S. is a leading manufacturer of advanced medical equipment, Cuba is systematically denied access to life-saving medical technology.

Delivery Delays
Even when vital medicines and medical supplies reach Cuba, U.S. policy has often created deadly delays. The Cuban Democracy Act discourages both American and foreign companies from allowing their vessels to dock in Cuba. For example, delivery of 1,500 metric tons of tallow for hospital soap was delayed by several months because the Argentine supplier, fearing U.S. retaliations, refused to send its ship to a Cuban port. And during an epidemic of hemorrhagic dengue, Cuba was unable to quickly acquire U.S. fumigation equipment to control the disease-bearing mosquitoes. The long delay caused a significant increase in the number of cases and resulting deaths.

Water Quality
The embargo not only prevents water treatment, it creates the conditions for disease. The more stringent embargo restrictions of the 1990s deny Cuba competitively priced water treatment chemicals and prevent the ready purchase of spare parts and equipment upon which Cuba's clean water supply depends. The embargo contributes to serious cutbacks in supplies of safe drinking water and is a factor in the rising incidence in morbidity and mortality rates from water-borne disease.

Nutritional Deficit
U.S. actions are creating a legacy of malnutrition among the Cuban population " especially Cuba's children. Despite legal "cash-only" purchases of food, embargo-imposed expenses continue to compound food shortages and contribute to the deterioration of the Cuban population's nutritional intake. By 1993, nutritional deficiencies began to emerge in the general population. Cuba also began to register nutritional deficiencies in women beginning their pregnancies, as well as an increase in the incidence of low birth-weight babies.

Caribbean Ripple Effect
The embargo damages the quality of medical care throughout the Caribbean. Because Cuba boasts the best medical teaching facilities in the Caribbean, other countries in the area have long been dependent upon it for the training of their medical personnel. Embargo-related limits on advanced training opportunities and new equipment available to Cuban doctors and hospitals lowers the quality of health services throughout the region.

http://www.disarm.org/inform/cuba/index.html

Compare the treatment accorded to present day Cubans, the unbelievable health care system to the treatment by a hero of yours, a common war criminal named ronald reagan who supported the brutalization, rape and torture and murder of thousands of Nicaraguans. Remember, reagan believed that the Contras were the equivalent of your Founding Fathers.

..Russia is so big and so naturally rich a country that it might take communism another 15 - 25 years to destroy Russia, but it's destroying us and our lives NOW.

Moreover if there is any one American president who anybody could call a war criminal, it's Slick KKKlintler and not Reagan and this is vouched for by none other than SC Justice Robert Jackson who was instrumental in prosecuting Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg:

Jackson declared:
He also declared that "if certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us."

If the Nuremberg Laws were Applied...
Noam Chomsky
Delivered around 1990


If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. By violation of the Nuremberg laws I mean the same kind of crimes for which people were hanged in Nuremberg. And Nuremberg means Nuremberg and Tokyo. So first of all you've got to think back as to what people were hanged for at Nuremberg and Tokyo. And once you think back, the question doesn't even require a moment's waste of time. For example, one general at the Tokyo trials, which were the worst, General Yamashita, was hanged on the grounds that troops in the Philippines, which were technically under his command (though it was so late in the war that he had no contact with them -- it was the very end of the war and there were some troops running around the Philippines who he had no contact with), had carried out atrocities, so he was hanged. Well, try that one out and you've already wiped out everybody.

http://www.chomsky.info/talks/1990----.htm

Impact of the Embargo on Cuban Health
The U.S. Embargo continues to exact a devastating human toll on innocent families and children.

New Drugs Inaccessible
Cuban patients are deprived of many patented U.S. drugs as a result of deliberately grueling licensing procedures, which, according to an American Association for World Health (AAWH) report, "actively discourage any medical commerce." Since the U.S. boasts the world's leading pharmaceutical research and production capability, these procedures effectively ban Cuba from nearly half of the new world-class drugs on the market.

Medical Equipment Blocked
The embargo virtually prohibits Cuban purchases of U.S. medical equipment, parts and accessories. The AAWH found that U.S. firms, citing the embargo, commonly refuse to even offer price information to Cuban importers. Since the U.S. is a leading manufacturer of advanced medical equipment, Cuba is systematically denied access to life-saving medical technology.

....Water Quality
The embargo not only prevents water treatment, it creates the conditions for disease. The more stringent embargo restrictions of the 1990s deny Cuba competitively priced water treatment chemicals and prevent the ready purchase of spare parts and equipment upon which Cuba's clean water supply depends....

Nutritional Deficit
U.S. actions are creating a legacy of malnutrition among the Cuban population " especially Cuba's children....

You questioned me impugning your honesty, David.

omsigdavid, you've just about reached the point of being added to my "ignored" list
as you move toward bigot, racist, fanatic posting.

Religious competition and religious bigotry have caused more deaths
that Asian continent communists could dream of doing in the planet's history.