neo cons - Rice won't lift embargo so help can get to Cuba (Ike)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080907/pl_afp/cubaweatherstormusaidmorocco_080907145252;_ylt=AlCjaNgoq_drgT8DQm6LA0us0NUE


Rice: US not ready to lift Cuba trade embargo despite storm


The United States is not prepared to lift its trade embargo against Cuba, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday, after Havana urged Washington to ease restrictions in the wake of a devastating hurricane.

"I don't think in the context that we see now that the lifting of the embargo would be wise," Rice told reporters during a visit to Morocco.

On Saturday Cuba's Foreign Ministry sought an easing of the decades-old embargo to allow US firms to open private lines of credit for food imports to the Caribbean island reeling from Hurricane Gustav, and as another major storm loomed.

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The United States was also urged to "permit the sale to Cuba of emergency supplies," according to the statement, which did not mention the US offer of 100,000 dollars in aid made earlier this week to the Cuban Interests Section in Washington.

Gustav, a powerful Category Four hurricane, slammed into western Cuba August 30, causing major flooding and destroying or seriously damaging more than 140,000 homes and buildings.

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Following earlier hurricane damage, since 2000 the US government has allowed cash-and-carry trade, with restrictions, which allows Cuba to purchase food and medicine from the United States, as long as they are purchased in cash, despite the full US economic embargo in place since 1962.
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I hate the neo cons

wonder how happy this makes the neo con Cubans in Miami

many, if not most, still have family in Cuba. However, in this strange little world we live in...political ideology wins out every time over human suffering. I am afraid you might be right...the neo-con Cubans in Miami are probably not unhappy at all.

miami dont care. they are here and the ones in cuba are there. the neo=con cubans HATE the dems more then they love their cousins

nt

The most urgent need is to ease restrictions on remittances and care packages so that humanitarian aid can be sent. Neither the Castro regime nor the Bush regime is likely to allow it, each for their own selfish reasons.

She always does. Fuck Bushco.