Snowdon is a dummy

With Cuba, the combination of being a Communist dictatorship, being an accessory to the pointing of nuclear missiles at us right off our shores, executing political prisoners, etc. makes them a government I don't like.

I'm also not thrilled that a government I dislike a lot is very close

It is sufficient for me to approve of an embargo. Are there other governments I dislike as much that we don't embargo? Sure, but I don't face the choice of embargoing every country in the world I dislike or none. Embargoing several but not all is fine with me.

Why blockade instead of embargo?


The “embargo” definition does not fit in with the actions exerted against Cuba by the US government. All the way around, those actions go beyond that definition to typify “a blockade” as they pursue Cuba’s isolation, suffocation and immobility, with the crooked purpose of pushing its people to give up their decision of being sovereign and independent. The blockade concept comprises all the aforementioned, since “blockade” means to cut and close the bonds with the outside world in order to isolate and oblige the besieged country to surrender by force or starvation.
To consider the blockade “a war action” was a principle accepted by International Law since the Naval Conference held in London in 1909. In accordance with this principle, such measure can be exerted only among belligerents. On the other hand, no International Law rule justify the so-called “pacific blockade”, which was a practice developed by the colonial powers during the 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th .

So controversial concept has no tradition even within the principles on International Law accepted by the United States of America, but American authorities’ memory is so bad that they have forgotten what they warned to France in 1916: “The United States do not recognize the right of any foreign power to hinder the exercise of non-interested country commercial rights, resorting to the blockade when a state of war does not exist”.

“Embargo” is generally known as the legal manner of retaining assets in order to assure the fulfillment of an obligation lawfully accepted. It can also be a preventive measure of patrimonial character authorized by judge, court or competent authority with the same purpose of obliging the debtor to fulfill its commitments with their creditors. Is Cuba by chance debtor of the United States? Has Cuba committed any offense as a result of which the kidnapping and liquidation of its assets in favor of the United States can be authorized? The crystal-clear and convincing answer is No. Cuba has never been nor is today a threaten for the US national security , so that, the attempt to apply measures of legitimate defense with regard to the Island is an action against International Law, taking into account that International Law does not recognize subjective legitimate defense, nor justify the legitimate subjective defense brought into play by the Monroe Doctrine, which is in fact an aggression policy.

Despite the “embargo” expression, that group of coercive and economically aggressive measures, are in fact an illegal blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba, therefore, such criminal behavior against the Island cannot be hidden behind legal figures unable to typify its real nature. The figure “embargo” is used by the US government to conceal the applying of wartime measures to Cuba, which are no less than a non-declared war against the Cuban people. The blockade against Cuba is the utmost expression of a genocide behavior aimed at intentionally provoke extremely hard living conditions for Cubans seeking to inflict total or partial physical damages that eventually led to weaken their decision of fighting and defeat any adversary.

http://www.cubavsbloqueo.cu/Default.aspx?tabid=270

We concurred that he had much to say that was on point, but we both wished it could be delivered with less vitriol.

I agree with many of your points, but who do you think are the blame for the corruption of our government?

How could anyone in their right mind [excuse me,Mame] find it surprising that Castro and the Cuban people have had to maintain strict controls on their political system when the very country that had long subjugated them, brutalized them, stole from them, stood right at their doorstep, clamoring to do the same thing to them again.

Really, no, I really mean it - really think about it. The US and people like you, Brandon, talk a good game about freedom and all that crap, but yet the US and people like you, Brandon, have never given this precious gift to any people or country.

The US, with its might, by allowing this embargo to continue for the number of years it has, by trying to force, and actually forcing other countries to follow suit, has committed one of its most egregious war crimes. Now if it was just an embargo, evil as it is, that would be one thing. But the actions against Cuba, by the US, over the last 50 years are precisely the terrorist actions that the US decries.

And for what reason? US national security. Yup, the US has advanced that facetious notion umpteen thousand times.

"President Kennedy warned the Mexican ambassador that Cuba was very dangerous and a threat to security during the Cuban Missile Crisis era. The Mexican ambassador's told President Kennedy that "If we publicly declare that Cuba is a threat to our security, forty million Mexicans will die laughing".

But how many millions of Americans have bought this outlandish notion in order to punish a tiny little neighbor of the US?

But the reality is that Cubans like Americans.

Yes to that except I was born earlier.