And here I thought it had to do with human rights and freedom…
All these years I thought the lifting of the embargo against the Castro dictatorship could only come if the Cuban regime began to respect human rights and took concrete and irreversible steps to allow the Cuban people to live in a free and democratic society. At least that is what the U.S. law states. However, apparently I -- and millions of others -- are terribly wrong.
According to the UK Telegraph, all it takes for the U.S. to lift the embargo is for the Castro regime to have something of value the U.S. wants to purchase:
US could lift Cuba embargo after oil discovery
The five decade-long United States embargo against Cuba could finally be lifted after the discovery of an enormous oil field in Cuban waters.
The world's longest-running embargo has endured in part because there was little the US wanted to buy from its impoverished neighbour.
But the discovery of between five and 20 billion barrels of oil in the deep waters off Cuba's north coast, only 60 miles away from Florida, has made American businessmen and politicians consider lifting the embargo.
Repsol, the Spanish oil firm, will start exploratory drilling within months. If it strikes a large deposit, the trade embargo could be significantly revised or removed, according to Professor Mark Jones, an expert on Latin America at the Rice University of Texas.
"The greater the drilling and production, the greater the pressure will be to engage in a complete overhaul of the trade embargo, either getting rid of it altogether or watering it down substantially," he said.
"I think it is fairly realistic, since the embargo is an anachronism of the Cold War sustained only by a misguided fear of a backlash from anti-Castro Cuban Americans."
Alberto,
They'll throw everything, anything in. Whatever it takes including the kitchen sink and the baby and the bathwater. Whatever is convenient to their argument.
I've seen everything from lift the embargo because babies are starving in Cuba, to lift the embargo because of the so-called [risible] "reforms" to lift the embargo because someone is dying of some rare incurable disease inside Cuba that only some rare x-ray machine produced by the USA [which they claim is band by the embargo] can detect, to lift the embargo because castro is a nacro-traffic fighter and relations with Cuba can help us curtail the importation of drugs into the Florida coast, to lift the embargo because we've done so with China and China is a trillion times worst than Cuba, to lift the embargo because every Latin American country and everyone of our allies has done so, to lift the embargo because Americans have a right to travel to lift the embargo because those awful Miami Cubans don't have the right to dictate American foreign policy on Cuba, etc..etc.. ad nauseam.
I mean, you name it! They keep on coming up with stupid arguments and at this point, they really don't care how stupid the arguments are. The point is to bombard the public with it, smear you with it till your exhausted, drenched, and drowning in the lies and stupidity.
They know that most people don't give a shit anyway and besides, the public doesn't think. Most people are passive readers and they don't analyze what they read.
Sadly...Rayarena`s words true. If this action is taken...once again the noble and good people of Cuba will be sacrificed for the love of MONEY.
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Alberto, you silly rabbit. Freedom and human rights are for politically correct victims. You know, like South African blacks. Victims of leftist regimes do not qualify. They should continually strive to accept and be grateful for the fate wished upon them by the likes of American liberals and European "progressives," even though those foreigners would never want such a fate for themselves. As I keep telling you people, read the memo. It's posted everywhere.