Is there still an embargo on Cuba?

Question

Why does the United States, a country with 770 military bases worldwide, feel so threatened by small countries such as Cuba and Venezuela, that we must embargo, sanction or sponsor coup d’etat’s to coerce these nations into a government of our choosing? Isn’t this really about getting a ‘resource’ cheaply as possible on the open market? ...Or in Cuba’s case…about strangling a Communist country for four decades? If Communism is such an abject failure, why do we have to help it along? Does any other country support an embargo on Cuba?…besides Israel? If we really cared about the Cuban people(as some of you will proclaim), why do we continue to punish them?

And every president since then has continued it Snowball

If China wanted to hurt us they sure wouldn't need *Cuba* to do it

If we don't like the way Cuban people are treated...why do we add to their suffering? makes no sense to me..?

Well, Michael I suppose you didn't hear about the Jupiter missles the U.S. had parked in Turkey..? Nah..didn't think so.

Sebastian...I was hoping there was an astute conservative out there that would point this out, but Cuba's major offense was expropriating land from its American owners back in '59. That's the real sore spot.

Answer 1

Call me a conspiracy nut if you like but I think that Cuba and in particular Fidel had something to do with the JFK assassination. Think about it. We have forgiven Germany and Japan for WW2 Vietnam is now cuddling up to us trying to make nice nice after chasing the last helicopter off the roof of the American Embassy and we are letting by gone be by gones. However, when it comes to Cuba,The US has no sympathy for them. They are not a threat to us since the fall of the USSR. I know it sounds like Roswell. But what else can it be?

Answer 2

Yes the embargo is still in effect. Cuba's only about 100 miles from the U.S.'s underbelly. Someone thought it'd be a hoot to stick a bunch of nukes (you know, WMDs) there and point them at our country....we'll raise the embargo once the government responsible for that act has been toppled.

Answer 3

the U. S. and the present government of Viet Nam did no longer have diploamtic relatives till 1995. That 20 year hollow (1975-1995) must be seen an embargo with the aid of some. The Vietnamese government negotiated with the U. S.. i need to be wrong yet i do no longer beleave Castro desires to barter. i understand our government would not. Cuba trades with something of the international and that has no longer appeared to help his human beings any. How might commerce with the U. S. help????????

Answer 4

I can't see the point why... I mean...

Japan bombed us as Pearl Harbor.
Korea has nuclear bombs.
China shoots satellites out of space.
Great Britain can still revoke American independence.
The Soviet Union can't even feed it's own.
Saudi Arabia thinks we are all zealous Imperialists and could decend upon America at any time if they felt like it, especially with the nonsense our administration is doing in Iraq.
America bombed two major cities in Japan and killed many civilians.
Under the Bush administration, America bombs Iraq constantly and people live in fear. For nothing, I might add, since they didn't hit the Twin Towers...

Oh... what did Cuba do again?

Answer 5

Yes, there still is an embargo on Cuba. There is because we don't like the way Cuba is treating its people.

Answer 6

Cuba is embargoed, but China and Vietnam aren't. Go figure.

Answer 7

Yes it is.

I guess because it's still Communist and they are so close to our borders that they are still considered a threat. Maybe Fidel still refused to play nice...who knows. Is he even still alive?

Answer 8

Why don't you ask Ted Kennedy that question, his brother started it.

Answer 9

yes there is.