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I have to admit, when a country like the United States denies healthcare to its citizens, allowing them to die, and runs a torture camp on the coast of Cuba, I wonder: What exactly is so wrong with Cuba? Who do they torture? What wars have they started?
Except for a brief period when, after the United States drove them into the arms of the USSR, there were Soviet missiles based in Cuba, Cuba has never been a threat to the United States.
What is more, living conditions would be far better for the people, and they would have far greater freedom, if we had not been waging economic warfare on this tiny country for the last half century.
It's long overdue to open the doors to free and regular relations between the two countries.
"Raúl Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention. Rather than dismantle Cuba's repressive machinery, Raúl Castro has kept it firmly in place and fully active."
"Under Cuba's "dangerousness" law, authorities can imprison people who have not committed a crime on the suspicion that they might commit one in the future. "Dangerous" activities include handing out copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, writing articles critical of the government and trying to start an independent union."
"Amnesty International today called on the Cuban authorities to end harassment of independent journalists following a month in which several reporters were arbitrarily detained and intimidated for criticizing the government."
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I have to admit, when a country like the United States denies healthcare to its citizens, allowing them to die, and runs a torture camp on the coast of Cuba, I wonder: What exactly is so wrong with Cuba? Who do they torture? What wars have they started?
Cuba is not our enemy, Cubans are their own enemies (I'm just kidding).
I see no benefit from either sides of this embargo, if you ask me.
Are we enemies? No.
I think the Cubans in Miami make more of a fuss than anything. They have more of an axe to grind with the Cuban gov't than we Americans do. That's basically it. If the Miami Cubans sat down, and tried to figure out more effective approaches, there would be better results. Their egos are at stake.
Sooner or later, Cuba will change. They just need to get a grip of things and realize that unless they change their policies and mindsets, the relationship between Cuba and the US will not change/improve.
Until then, let's enjoy Mee-Ya-Mee for what it is.
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(I'm just kidding). 
