After Castro dies should the USA pull Cuba out of its impoverished state? I think we might.?

Question

What do you think.?

Answer 1

Cuba is perfectly capable of doing it on their own and had been for 40+ years . It's CASTRO who has held them down . The day they open their society is the beginning of financial success for all Cubans . We'll be there to help some , but they can do most of it on their own . Cuba will be a vacation mecca as soon as they open the door. . . . . and let em in. . . ooo yeah yeah .

Answer 2

Cuba does not need our financial help. As soon as they renounce Communism, companies will be falling all over themselves to get down there as fast as possible. Their economy will be meteoric!

What the U.S. should do, out of compassion, is to advise the Cubans about how to make an orderly transition to capitalism, and not fall into the same traps Russia did. What Cuba needs to understand is that a small number of people are going to gobble up all the cheap assets the Cuban government will divest itself of, creating instant mega-millionaires, and even billionaires, just as it happened in Russia.

The U.S. should offer technical assistance so that the average Cuban can recoup what 50 years of Communism has stolen from them, and to make sure Cuba does not become some miserable country with a few fat cat oligarchs where everyone else is impoverished. This could very well happen. This would be such a sad ending to Cuba's long odyssey towards freedom. After suffering under Castro for so long, they deserve a break. The U.S. doesn't need to pump money there, just give managerial and technical assistance so that the assets of Cuba can be more equitably distributed to average Cubans.

Two years after Castros death, I do NOT want to read a Time Magazine article entitled: "Cuba's Super Rich: A New Level of Decadence", but without U.S. guidance, that's exactly what's going to happen.

Let's live up to our ideals of compassion and nobility. Let's help a friend in need.

Answer 3

I do not think it is our place to mess in the affairs of other countries that are no direct threat to us, except by diplomatic means. I think, too, we should wait and see what transpires in Cuba after Castro's demise. Perhaps, at best, we can open friendly relations and possibly consider Cuba as a tourist destination once more. This would help the country immesurably, and at the same time give something back to those people who want to go there and spend money having a good time. I do not believe in throwing away billions of dollars on a cause with no return beyond the obvious 'feather in the cap' political manipulations of those who would use it only to further thier political careers. It seems like every time we do this the people we give the 'aid' to wind up in a conflict or war with us. We sent troops to Afghanistan to 'help them against the Russian invasion, only to wind up at war with the Afghans ourselves. Let's wait and see how well Cuba can recover from the loss of Castro. Let's see if his son can hold the state together, and see if the country can stablize without outside interference. We surely would be angry if any other country interfered with our internal politics; so why should we summarilly step in when a country is at one of its weakest moments? Unless, of course, we truely are nothing but the Capitalist Pigs they say we are... or, unless they ASK us for help.

Answer 4

Dream on. If the US does not go around strangling countries who dont want to adopt the "American Way" , Cuba and many others would have prospered under their systems.

The American Senators who wrote the Cuban Sanctions into American law should be done for crimes against humanity. But their places in the deepest furnaces of hell are well reserved. Anyway Castro's brother will take over and a good thing too. People are fed up of Yankee this and Yankee that.

These countries are only strangled because the American rich ruling elite just want to brainwash its masses into thinking that the American system (where 1% own 90% of the wealth and the rest are condemmed to humdrum low waged jobs with extensive hours for entire lifetimes), is the best.

Answer 5

I think there should be a negotiation contact, and a
plebiscite in Cuba to sense the wishes of the Cuban
people. Depending on the result of this referendum,
the USA plus the United Nations should work out a
plan that would attend all the parties concerned. This
would be the first step and from then on, the negotiation
must be concluded within a fully global consensus.

Answer 6

smedrik said: "Cuba has a very high standard of living. I am unsure of what America would be liberating it from, outside of the fact that America really does not like communism."


This is exactly why there are thousands of Floridians every year risking life and limb on make shift rafts just hoping to make it into Havana where they can live illegally and still enjoy a so much better life than they do in thier homeland of Florida.

Answer 7

Cuba has a very high standard of living. I am unsure of what America would be liberating it from, outside of the fact that America really does not like communism.

Edit: Some dude, it is for the same reason Canada has a little problem with American Illegals. Both countries do very well, however no matter what nationality and no matter how well your country does you are always going to have political dissension.

Answer 8

No, but I think you will destabilise Cuba and pillage its wealth, leaving the people poorer than ever, just like you do in the rest of the world.

Answer 9

So, when Castro dies, America gets to fork over billions of our tax dollars to another country that couldn't fix itself?

Nah, I don't think so.

Answer 10

Not the US government. Let capitalists do what they do best and open up that island for tourism.
Unfortunately, we still have Castro's brother at the helm.