Cuba looks to Obama for change

Posted: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:50 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC’s Andrea Mitchell
As Cuba marks the 50th anniversary of its Communist revolution this week, it is looking to Washington and wondering how Barack Obama, the 11th U.S. president to face the Castro regime, will change the stormy relationship with Havana.

On Jan. 1, 1959, revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro overthrew the U.S.-backed government of President Fulgencio Batista.

Within years, President John F. Kennedy imposed the economic embargo that has been the framework for the U.S. relationship with Cuba ever since.

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How stupid the US is not to deal with Cuba like we deal with other communist countries, ie, China, Korea, Vietnam etc. Hopefully, Obama will correct this situation.

Walter Balderson Clearwater, Fl (Sent Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:04 PM)

Cuba is confused. They need to change.

Liz Lopez, Miami Florida (Sent Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:13 PM)

End the Embargo

China is communist and we trade with them
Viet Nam is communist and we trade with them
Russia was communist and we traded with them

Israel and China have far worse human rights violations and we trade with both of them

The Embargo was never about Democracy or human rights
It was always about American 'control' of the Western Hemisphere
Our sphere of influence (our Warsaw Pact)

A 19th Century 'philosophy' that lasted until the 21st century

MSierra, SF (Sent Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:27 PM)

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