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Mika

(17,751 posts) Tue May 20, 2014, 11:28 AM May 2014

End of the road for the US-Cuba trade embargo? (BBC report)

End of the road for the US-Cuba trade embargo?

America's long-standing trade embargo with Cuba is facing calls to be eased from an unlikely source.

President Obama's administration has relaxed some of its provisions but there are growing calls to lift it completely.

In Miami, the Cuban American community has traditionally been a staunch supporter of the embargo, but some members are now calling for it to end.

Nick Bryant went to meet some of them.

Video report here --> http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27480796

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End of the road for the US-Cuba trade embargo? (BBC report) (Original Post) Mika May 2014 OP

Interesting hearing the man say there would have been demonstrations Judi Lynn May 2014 #1

Ending the embargo would be great for America and Cuba FrodosPet May 2014 #2

Judi Lynn

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1. Interesting hearing the man say there would have been demonstrations

Reply to Mika (Original post)

Tue May 20, 2014, 06:23 PM

May 2014

in Miami had a US President shaken hands with a Castro 20 years ago.

Ridiculous! So reactionary.

It's time for that embargo to be removed as swiftly as possible. No time like the present.

Thanks for the video.

FrodosPet

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2. Ending the embargo would be great for America and Cuba

Reply to Mika (Original post)

Tue May 20, 2014, 07:32 PM

May 2014

More trade, financial, and other commercial and social relationships equals more communications. More markets for American producers of the building supplies, tools, machinery, food and more that a desperately impoverished nation needs.

The people of Cuba are desperate for clean, safe housing and furniture. And whatever political pressure that the embargo was designed to elicit is obviously a failure. Sounds like a good time to employ engagement and cooperation to improve the lives of many.

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