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The Case for Lifting the Embargo |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--CUBA AFTER CASTRO |
| Author: William Ratliff |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 2,952 Words, 18,096 Characters |
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For the first time in more than three decades, there is serious talk about making fundamental changes in U.S. policy toward Cuba. But the talk has not yet led to constructive change in Washington, where inertia and domestic politics often spawn foreign-policy neglect and disaster. vbcrlfU.S. diplomatic and economic pressures on Cuba made sense in the past as a response to Fidel Castro's active support for the Soviet bloc and international policies that were contrary to our national interests. For decades, those interests coincided with objectives of the majority of Cuban exiles in the United States. Thus, the U.S. government and Cuban Americans cooperated in a variety of programs intended to hobble or topple the "maximum leader." vbcrlfThen the Cold War ended, and Castro, one of the few ...
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...e he is still alive. vbcrlfThe United States is trying to move beyond the Cold War in its policies toward many regions of the world, even in some respects in Latin America. We are seriously considering dropping the embargo on Vietnam and selling communications satellites to Beijing. Would that the president and Congress had the wisdom and courage to do the same in our relations with Cuba. vbcrlf
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