Why is there still an embargo against Cuba.
So this is coming from an Englishman so I may be missing some context an American might know. I have recently booked a holiday to Cuba and it got me thinking about why USA still has an embargo against Cuba when they deal with much worse countries than Cuba.
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Nations tend to trade with their allies and not with their enemies, that and backwards countries that can’t really feed themselves have very little to offer in trade anyways.
Countries that nationalize foreign companies on their soil shouldn’t expect good trade relations and we still are getting Cuban refugees fleeing on rafts of garbage floating to our shores. Dumping the problem you created unto someone else’s lap isn’t a great way to build a friendly relationship.
An economic embargo is also being used as leverage to get them to change their ways, if it ends too soon then the Cuban people will have less hope that they can some day enjoy freedom.
If communists truly believed in their economic system, then they shouldn’t need access to capitalistic markets for it to be successful. Instead blaming the embargo for Cuba’s economic stagnation, sounds like one more excuse in a long list of excuses why communism doesn’t work.
Cuba can trade with any other country, and since the Trade Sanction Reform and Export Enhancement Act was enacted in 2000, the trade of food and medicine goods is excluded from the embargo.
Cuba is poor because of communism and no, it’s not America’s responsibility to help their enemies.
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