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cuba is not a third world country, what makes a third world country is a low gdp and illiteracy as well as low standard of living.
Literacy
95.7% total, 96.2% male, 95.3% female (1995 est.)
Life Expectancy
73.84 male, 78.73 female (2000 est.)
no one can deny castro is dictator, but he is seen as hero and revolutionary by many millions.
personally i wish to see democracy in cuba's future. communism has failed.
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Originally posted here by punchthebaby
Hearing a Floridan talk about such business does make one think, but ending the embargo now would provide many cubans with things they need, not fund castro's gov't. There is little money to be made off imported goods, which cost to shipa nd buy from over a vast expanse of water. So we aren't giving him money unless he taxes our stuff to death, and if he does then his people wont be able to afford them anyways.
So we really just don't have a reason anymore. And we never quite did in the first place.
I beg to differ sir! Do you really think the PEOPLE will see one damn thing out of those shipments? Absolutly not..the only ones to profit by lifting the embargo are the despots in power there (and the companies that supply them). The poeple themselves will continue to starve and suffer..it will just be prolonged because the goverment would then have the life force it needs to survive. I applaud your concern for "the people" just temper your perception with the realisation that they will not see much(I'm sure Castro will televise some distributions) of the goods brought in. The "power structure" will absorb most of it.