They deny U. Additional embargo policies restrict Americans from traveling or sending money to Cuba — though there are loopholes enabling U. Treasury-licensed food and medical supply sales to Cuba. The year-old embargo inhibits the fledgling Cuban private sector and makes it harder to obtain the goods they need. Many people in the U. But the president of the United States cannot do that unilaterally.
Lifting the embargo would require Congress to either certify that Cuba has become sufficiently democratic according to the Libertad Act or pass a new bill overturning it. The Cuban government has a history of political repression and fiscal mismanagement, both of which harm the economy. For example, it tightly controls who may obtain state-issued licenses to start their own businesses.
It bans independent labor unions , which would protect workers from exploitation. Finally, few countries still limit trade or diplomatic relations with Cuba because of the embargo. If you look at the history carefully, the Eisenhower administration kind of pushed Fidel right into the arms of the Soviets. They were kind of thin-skinned about his anti-American rhetoric. When Castro was here the CIA secretly met with him and tried to recruit him to try to identify the communists in his government and get rid of them.
Batista, who he overthrew, was such a thug. I worked with Fidel and his office on organizing 40th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs [in ].
And we all saw you as a very romantic figure. Until after the revolution when you lined those guys up at the wall and shot them. Kornbluh: There was a series of turning points. The executions were not really the turning point, but they became kind of a propaganda asset for the Eisenhower administration. And then suddenly human rights was an issue after the revolution, when it never was before. The turning point was the agricultural reform, which nationalized land that was held by U.
And kind of an overreaction to the first Soviet mission to Cuba, which at that point was not a military relationship. Fidel only declared Cuba a socialist state after the preliminary attack in the Bay of Pigs, at the point he understood that they were going to be attacked by the United States.
At the funeral of the initial Cubans who were killed in what was considered the first airstrike, to take out his air force, by the CIA, he announced that Cuba was going to be a member of the socialist bloc and he basically called on the Soviet Union to protect them.
But the actual assault came that night. This article examines five common areas of confusion about Cuba, Cuban Americans and the U.
Fidel Castro and a band of guerrillas overthrew the brutal U. Anti-communist revolutionaries allied with him. The revolution was a nationalist revolution for most Cubans, then, not a communist one.
When Castro installed a socialist economy and a one-party political system, many fellow revolutionaries felt betrayed. Cubans fought to form a government that would answer to the Cuban people, rather than foreign interests. Many poor Cubans revered Castro for implementing policies that promoted equity and minimized discrimination, including major reforms in land, agriculture, education and housing. Others fled because of fear and persecution. The U. They deny U. Additional embargo policies restrict Americans from traveling or sending money to Cuba — though there are loopholes enabling U.
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