why is CUBA treated worse than other dictatorships by the US ?

Question

their human rights record is not as bad as CHINA'S,BURMA'S, KAZAKHSTANS or many other countries the US has ties to.
is it just embarrassment at their resistance to US aggresion over the decades,politics related to florida,their willingness to have nukes stationed there during the cold war or all of these reasons or something totally different. answers by partisan nut jobs will be ignored.

sorry meant uzbekistan you know where there are US bases and the president boils opponents alive,and referring to aggresion i mean the constant poisoning of their fields during the cold war

Answer 1

Cuba is treated differently because we have so many expatriot Cubans living in the U.S. who have become U.S. citizens and vote. Furthermore, Cuba is close and the proximity to U.S. soil is a concern for just one of the reasons you mentioned, When the U.S.S.R. sent missiles to Cuba in 1961, that provocation was taken seriously and dealt with as carefully but as forcefully as diplomatically possible.
However, with U.S. laws now written to accept any Cuban refugee who has the fortunate luck to at least set one foot on solid U.S. soil eligible for asylum, that upsets the Cuban regime. And all the Cubanos in S. Florida who are virulently opposed to Castro's dictatorship put tremendous pressure on the American Government and Politicians to keep Cuba under sanctions and economic pressure to make the country fail.
Current speculation has Castro suffering from incurable cancer and the Cuban Gov't is trying out the new leadership of Castro's brother, Raul (age 75), to ease a transition without the upheaval of another Cuban "Revolution".
I find it interesting that the U.S. is probably the only country that prohibits it's citizens from travelling directly to Cuba.

The revolution you should also be concerned about is the economic one going on now between the U.S. and China. The U.S. buys millions of dollars worth of Chinese products a year but China cannot use the dollars in China, so they "lend" them back to the U.S. thru purchase of U.S. Treasury Bonds. Right now, China holds millions of $$ worth of U.S. Debt. If China were to try to sell those Bonds on the world market, it could cause a major economic impact in America.
And with all the money going into China and all the Chinese people beginning to get opportunities for private enterprise, they have disposable income. They want cars, refridgerators, air conditioners....all things that take energy. Which means China is now competing for Oil resources that the U.S. needs, too.
And the same thing goes for India!!
Better start investing in Alternative Energy companies, oil is going to get real scarce.

Answer 2

Well, the fact that they are 90 miles off our coast and, yes, they did allow the Soviet Union to put lethal missles aimed at the U.S. on their island, may have a lot to do with it.

I'm not sure about the US aggression you speak of. I lived through the Cold War, I am 61 years old. What you might be studying as history, I remember as headlines. When Fidel Castro came into power, I was 12 years old and I remember it very well. He started courting the Soviet Union and eventually became a communist satellite. At the time, the Cold War was very HOT and this was a definite threat to the US. Human rights was not the issue, it was self-protection. Kennedy's Bay of Pigs invasion was the only "aggression", and that was done to take Castro out of power so as to remove a communist threat so close to us. It was also done at the request of the Cuban people.

When Jimmy Carter opened up immigration to anyone, Fidel Castro opened up the prisons and mental institutions and sent those people by ship to Miami. This is a matter of record and can be verified by anyone too young to remember. We had to deal with some very serious problems caused by people who could not care for themselves as well as the criminal element.

Fidel Castro has repeatedly, over the decades, done what he could to undermine the US, threaten the US and wreak havoc for the US. If he were across the sea, he would be no more than an irritating gnat, but he is 90 miles off our shores.

I am not a politician and am certainly not privy to the intelligence and other information the government has about Mr. Castro, but I do know our history with this man. Regardless of what is being taught today by college professors who refuse to view history through the mindset of the times but only through the mindset of today, I remember the facts reported at the time and this is how it has been with Mr. Castro. The fact that every president, Republican or Democrat, has dealt firmly with him should suggest something to those who can think critically for themselves and not just absorb the opinion, bias and politics of some professor or teacher.

Answer 3

Mostly because there is a very large, vocal and politically active group of Cuban expatriates in Miami. Many of these people (or their parents/grandparents, nowadays) were wealthy and powerful under the Batista regime in the 1950s. Early on (i.e., the 1960s), these families pressured the US for action against Cuba because they believed they would regain their holdings and influence if the country came out from under Castro's control.

Given the concentration and size of the Cuban population in Miami and Florida, being hardline on Cuba is something of a litmus test for Florida elections. This has translated to a national policy mostly because few people oppose the hardline stance anywhere near as strongly as the Miami population supports it.

Answer 4

You kind of answered your own question in that it has most to do about Florida politics. Most of the Cuban Americans living in Dade country Fl. would cut Castro's throat if they had the chance. When they were kicked out or left Cuba when Castro took over power the expat Cubans lost just about everything they owned including contact with their family members who didn't get out. As we know FL. is an extremely important state for US elections and the Cuban Americans are in one of the most important counties in FL. so to appeal to them US Presidents and Congress treat Cuba worse than most other dictatorships. But the embargo only makes things worse because it doesn't really hurt Castro, it only hurts the Cuban people, and they can't stop Castro so the embargo accomplishes nothing other then keeping the Cuban Americans happy. If the US established more trade with Cuba that would bring more Capitalism to Cuba and capitalism brings freedom and that could bring down the aging Castro and communism in Cuba.

Answer 5

Cuba does not want ties with the US. It nationalized American business and threw the US out a long time ago. The Sanctions were tightened under Clinton because Cuban Americans are Democrats (not Reps as stated above).

http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/16/cuba/index.html

Answer 6

They pulled Nukes out from Russia on our own doorstep, when JFK was President. Castro has never been forgiven for that. Conservative morals, and values of the right wing forgiving Christians.

Answer 7

have you ever had, or known someone who has had a pet they really liked, then one day it turned on them? Cuba was our little pet project, everyone was loving going down there do drink and gamble.. it was like taking Las Vegas and putting an ocean around it... then Castro turned on us and the government took it as much personally as they did politically.. and since then no one has really cared to change it..

Answer 8

IT WAS THE NUKE THING AND THE FACT THAT CASTRO SIDED WITH RUSSIA DURING THE COLD WAR. CASTRO'S WAY OF THINKING IS ANTIQUATED. THE CUBANS WANT FREEDOM AND IT SHOWS BY THE AMOUNT THAT ESCAPE YEAR AFTER YEAR.

Answer 9

insidentses arnt reported because they cant be, you do realize Fidel is with the Un so you will get a biased report on the attrocities over there, why do you think so many want to escape.

Answer 10

the strong influence of the cubans in south florida, many of whom are rich now, and big contributors to the Rep party.