Trade embargo with Cuba: Will it ever end?

[MagicMan08]

I am just curious about how you all see this issue?

[Broken Glass Can]

Of course it will end. Do you think the people of Cuba shall live under a brutal dictatorship forever?

Let's hope it ends sooner rather than later.

[bcubed72]

It will end just as soon as Presidential candidates quit needing to win Florida for election (remeber Elian Gonzales? the votes Gore lost there alone would have been enough to make him President.)

Seriously, the fact that the average citizen suffers under any embargo much more than the political elite makes their use questionable. The embargo would be an ethical toss-up even if there was some chance it would actually wrest power from Castro. Instead, it galvanizes the population into anti-US fervor (BTW, how many US Presidents has Castro outlived now?)

Bottom line: the only country where the US cared enough to embargo is the only country where Communism is fully alive and well. This ought to tell you something. (Don't give me China; yes they're repressive and call themselves Commies, but their economic system embraces Capitalism for the most part.)

[Copernicus]

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It will end just as soon as Presidential candidates quit needing to win Florida for election (remeber Elian Gonzales? the votes Gore lost there alone would have been enough to make him President.)

Seriously, the fact that the average citizen suffers under any embargo much more than the political elite makes their use questionable. The embargo would be an ethical toss-up even if there was some chance it would actually wrest power from Castro. Instead, it galvanizes the population into anti-US fervor (BTW, how many US Presidents has Castro outlived now?)

Bottom line: the only country where the US cared enough to embargo is the only country where Communism is fully alive and well. This ought to tell you something. (Don't give me China; yes they're repressive and call themselves Commies, but their economic system embraces Capitalism for the most part.)

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You think there is an anti-US fervor in the general population of Cuba?

[irvman21]

The embargo with Cuba is the only significant issue that both parties have backed consistently over the course of multiple decades. Nothing will happen until Castro dies.

[boracay]

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You think there is an anti-US fervor in the general population of Cuba?

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i'd say anti-US administration yes, but not anti-US in general.
but that applies to the most of part of the world at present time, right?

[bcubed72]

Just for the history buffs:

How many times in the last 100 years has an economic embargo, by only one country, been single-handedly successful in causing the demise of a government? What is the success rate/100 attempts, do you think?

It's a little before my time, but South Africa was embargoed against, and Apartheid eventually did collapse. That was different, however, due to:
1. A bunch of countries combined in the embargo.
2. The regime seemed to be in trouble already and it's hard to be sure how much of the end result was directly due to the embargo.
3. Unlike Cuba, S. Africa allowed (some of) their citizens to take part in meaningful elections.

So one success, and that's all that comes readily to mind.