Why shouldn't we lift embargo on Cuba?

Question

What I want to ask is, why shouldn't we lift the embargo with Cuba. We already have relations with Communist China, and we have relations with other nations with far worst treatment of people (Saudi Arabia, China, Central Asian nations, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, UAE, etc.).

Why should we continue to have an embargo with Cuba?
It only makes sense that, if we continue to keep the embargo, that we must also stop diplomatic relations and impose embargoes on China, Saudi Arabia, and the other nations we call "allies."

Answer 1

yeah, personally I think we can corrupt them into capitalism much faster if we trade openly with them.

Answer 2

The embargo on Cuba makes no sense. Since the embargo, Cubans have blamed all of their problems on the United States. This hatred could create more danger to the United States than if the ban was lifted. Cuban citizens are the only ones that are being hurt by this ban. $86 billion dollars have been lost. The US gives a little charitable aid to Cuban citizens, but not even close to what they have lost. We probably aren't much safer and it isn't necessary today.

Answer 3

I agree....we have just made the Cuban people more loyal to Castro by keeping the embargo in place for so long. If we were to lift the embargo, especially with Castro in his current condition, capitalism will start to take hold in Cuba, and the communist government won't be able to have as much control as they have in the past when Castro was in his prime.

On the flip side, I think we should pull out of Guantanamo Bay and give it back to Cuba. If we lifted the embargo and pulled out, it would go a long way to repairing our relationship with Cuba. We have to start thinking about a post-Castro Cuba.

Answer 4

It is called the perpetuation of a personal vendetta that has been playing out for the past 40 plus years. Hopefully someone with enough balls, and not dependant on the Cuban exiles in Miami, will take steps to lift the embargo. It has created so much suffering for Cuban people, Cubans paid a high price for someone wanting to take revenge upon Fidel Casto.

Answer 5

the U. S. and the present government of Viet Nam did no longer have diploamtic relatives until 1995. That 20 year hollow (1975-1995) would desire to be seen an embargo by utilising some. The Vietnamese government negotiated with the U. S.. i'd desire to be incorrect yet i do no longer beleave Castro needs to barter. i comprehend our government would not. Cuba trades with something of the international and that has no longer appeared to help his people any. How might commerce with the U. S. help????????

Answer 6

No other country in the world has a problem with Cuba or Castro.

It's just a way the Repubs can keep the loyalty of the loons in Miami.

Answer 7

Because Castro has not ever permise USa to invade it and take every resource in his country.Usa "colonized" Haiti and this country live now in starving and disease as other countries all around the world.

Answer 8

Lot of good answers here from some free thinking Americans.

Answer 9

The Cuban Embargo will never be lifted by the US for several reasons:
A. They don’t have anything the US wants
B. The Cuban American voters don’t want a change
C. They are the United States’ oldest enemy
D. The Castro government will never be forgiven for allowing nuclear weapons to be placed in their country so close to American shores.

The US has made friends out of allies before because they have something that we want. There have been no meaningful changes in Saudi Arabia for hundreds of years. The women are still being treated like second-class citizens. But the US needs allies in the region so they now support the Saudi government. The oil that Saudi Arabia has is nice, but the US gets most of its oil from its own reserves and from Canada. The primary interest in having allies in the Middle East was at first to stop the spread of Communism, and later it was to support Israel, keep an eye on Iran and the communist supported nations as well as keeping an eye on the local terrorists. Thanks to this the US is hated in the region.

Cuba was once a vacation hotspot with unregulated gambling, but all that ended when Castro had his revolution and took control. A lot of people who got fat off the old system fled to the US, where their friends and supporters were. Some of these people were politicians and fled a death sentence. These were the first Cuban Refuges, when they became American citizens they formed a strong voting block in Florida. Their continued support is directly dependent on the embargo. As long as it is up the Floridian Politicians can count on their support. The second wave of Cuban Refuges was in the early 1980s when Castro suddenly let a lot of people flee his country. He dumped a lot of Cuban prisoners in that mix to get them off his hands. It took US law enforcement almost a decade to clean up that mess, and many of those Cuban ex-prisoners are still in US jails. All refuges since then have been economic refuges, most of them fleeing to the US where they have family or can count on supporters. These new people earned their citizenship and joined the Cuban American exiles who supported the embargo.

The problem with these people is that a lot of them still have family and friends in Cuba so they wire them money; thus US Dollars are the unofficial currency of Cuba. There is a healthy black market there and a lot of things can’t be bought unless the purchaser has US dollars. So these Cuban American exiles are one of Cuba’s major supports, the biggest one since the fall of the Soviet Union. These family members are wealthy in Cuba and don’t want the status quo to change, unless they can get completely out of the country.

President Kennedy (the 35th) faced the Cuban Missile Crisis when Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union tried to place nuclear missiles in Cuba. Kennedy was willing to go to war (or at least threaten it) to keep those missiles out of Cuba. WW3 with nukes almost happened and when Khrushchev backed down it cost him his office, and nearly his life. Since that time the US government has never forgiven Castro for allowing the nuclear weapons to be placed there. They will never forgive Castro or his family. Since Castro is near death and his brother Roul is poised to take charge Cuba’s status as an enemy of the US will continue.

The Bay of Pigs was a failed invasion attempt by Cuban patriots, supported by the US, to take over the country. The invasion failed because Kennedy decided at the last minute to withdraw their air cover. If he had not the invasion might still have failed, but since he did withdraw the air cover there was no chance for it to succeed. This has made the US a real threat in Castro’s eyes and thanks to that and a few assassination attempts he will never willingly normalize relations with the US. His brother will most likely turn Castro into a martyr and continue his policies. In that case the political hatred against the US will continue.

Now since the fall of the Soviet Union Cuba is one of the United States’ oldest enemies, matched only by China. Of course Cuba is so weak that it’s status as an enemy is more of a joke.

Cuba is already saturated with American dollars and it would make a great market for US goods and services, if US companies could get around the politically inspired hatred. But, this isn’t enough to force the US to change its political stand.

As long as Cuba doesn’t matter and as long as the Cuban American Exile population wants to keep the embargo in place there is no rush to remove it. I thought that it might have been done after Castro’s death, but with his brother doing business as usual I doubt things will change in his lifetime either.

Answer 10

because the government of most of those nations do not threaten the lives of American people verbally every day

Answer 11

Simple reason Cuba doesn't have oil nor gas.