Re: [Marxism] Morales urges action over Cuba

[Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg McD: "Politically speaking, the economic blockade of Cuba is finished."

Really? Get back to me when I can buy a ticket at Orbitz, board a plane in San 
Francisco, and fly to Havana. Get back to me when it's legal for me to go to 
Mexico and bring a bottle of Cuban rum back into the U.S. Or even drink it in 
Mexico.

And get back to all of us when Cubans can book rooms in U.S.-owned hotels 
around the world, do business with banks which in turn do business with the 
U.S., and when Cuba can buy a host of things made in the U.S. which they are 
forced to pay much more for elsewhere, or when Cuba can actually receive money 
from U.S. television networks for allowing broadcasts of the Pan-American 
games, and on and on and on.

The blockade may be weaker in some respects than it has been, and Cuba is 
certainly less politically isolated than it was (not that it was ever *that* 
isolated, as its presidency of the NAM shows), but the blockade is still very 
much doing damage to Cuba and Cubans. Billions of dollars worth.


Eli Stephens
 Left I on the News
 http://lefti.blogspot.com


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