Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, The main one would be the expatriates being a 'voting block'. Politicians can think of nothing but the next election. This will change as the generation that fled Cuba when Castro took over dies, and their children start voting as Americans, not Cubans. Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 11:12 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote: > I'm not sure one can choose between the three major reasons for continuing > the embargo: > 1) Loss of U.S. citizen's property after the revolution > 2) Angry Cuban ex-patriots > 3) The long in the tooth "cold war" politics > They all work together. > > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > On Apr 5, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Greg Lorenzo wrote: > > >> clive.moss at gmail.com writes in part: >> >> >>> Thanks - The US still has a crazy embargo on Cuba, fueled by the angry >>> expat >>> Cuban community in Florida. As a result, travel to Cuba from the US is >>> tightly constrained. As a result, we could only go to Cuba legally in the >>> context of a specific license issued by the US to a religious >>> organization - >>> hence the focus on the Jewish community. >>> >>> >> >> Cuba is a beautiful country populated with very friendly people. As a >> Canadian I can visit Cuba whenever I'd like - and did so about seven years >> ago (no embargo here). However I believe that the US embargo is more >> reflective of the anger of American citizens whose property was >> nationalized >> without compensation after Castro's revolution then ex-pat Cuban's living >> in >> Florida. >> >> >> >> Greg Lorenzo >> >> Calgary, Canada >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. >> >> http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >