October 23, 2007

Food for Thought

(cross-posted at Babalu)

I read this article, and all I could do was stare at my computer screen. It seems unbelievable to me that some people still believe that lifting the embargo and allowing travel to Cuba will help the Cuban people and suddenly put food on their tables and money in their pockets. The ignorance is overwhelming.


“Clarion farmer and Iowa Corn Promotion board member Deb Keller said allowing U.S. tourists to visit would give Cubans more dollars to buy ag products.”

Um, right. Are those the same dollars that the Cuban government pockets? The dollars that the common people never see, the same ones their family members and friends need to smuggle to them for goods in the black market?
It’s been said time and time again on Babalu: the current state of Cuba is not the fault of the “embargo”, but the fault of one man. Any guesses as to who that might be?

Posted by Amanda at October 23, 2007 2:25 PM | TrackBack
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