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He stands to make lots and lots and lots of $$$$$ if they remove the embargo. He's been traveling to Cuba for years and has been known to speak to "el culoandante" himself.

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Those that want the regime to stay in power include in the worst case scenario, as Lt. Col. Chris Simmons points out, agents for the regime, or what is almost as bad, a mainstream media that is so afraid of offending the regime that they never publish hard hitting stories for fear of losing their bureau inside Cuba. This toxic group also includes lazy journalists and pundits who do not do their research and instead repeat the same lies and soundbites that were created by the regime in the first place. Seriously, sometimes all that they do is repeat verbatim copies of Cuba's press releases. Then again, that might not be laziness. That's probably more like out-and-out collusion.

To top it off, since they are all in the same bed, there is no oversight, no critique. Someone like Brendan McCaffrey can get away with such an absurd approach to Cuba, because even if others think that it is a bit over-the-top, they basically agree with it. Can you imagine the collective yowl if McCaffrey had written such a capitulating approach towards Iran, Haiti 20 years ago, or apartheid South Africa?

Also, let's not forget that bigotry plays a role in this. Cuban's are supposed to be "people of color," from the Caribbean. So, it really doesn't matter that we stay chain and shackled under the despot's boot. Concepts like democracy are first-world concepts. Like mindless cattle, we are supposed to be happy if we are fed, and our health needs are taken care of.

In conclusion, academia and the media has been so influenced and infiltrated by the regime, by out-and-out agents, by prejudiced concepts, or by their own political leftist worldview shaped by radical professors that in their book, the bottom line is to recognize the regime and help perpetuate it in power indefinitely.

That's why someone like McCaffrey can write so much shit without the stench suffocating everyone around him.