[...] I ought to make it clear that the priest I wrote about is now serving time for crimes he committed before his first incarceration in 1999. WILLIAM PFAFF Paris, France NOT SO SIMPLE While I share many of my friend Robert White's views with regard to the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba, I must take exception to his abbreviated (perhaps for reasons of space) description of its origins. After a long history of military dictators, the democratically elected government of Venezuela, under Romulo Betancourt, was fighting for its very existence against terrorist attacks in Caracas and guerrilla operations in the neighboring state of Miranda and in the Andes.\n It called on member states to break relations and impose economic sanctions on Cuba.
The U.S. Embargo and Its Impact After the 1959 Cuban revolution in which Fidel Castro overthrew the US.-backed Batista dictatorship, Washington acted to impose travel and economic sanctions on the island by 1963. [...] the embargo, or "el bloqueo" (blockade) as it is called in Cuba, has remained in place, except from 1977 to 1982 when U.S. President Jimmy Carter temporarily lifted the travel ban.
Unless you saw a lone Post-Gazette story about the issue, you probably didn't know about the boycott. You probably also didn't hear that Methodists called for an end to the U.S.'s long-standing economic sanctions against Cuba. Or that church leaders held a May 4 press conference at which Bishop McKinley Young wryly noted that President Bush is "not the only one who hears from God." While Bush has said he consulted a "higher Father" in deciding to go to war in Iraq, Young countered, "We did not elect him as the priest of the nation. We elected him as president. Despite the Bible's wariness about wealth, it isn't surprising that Republicans have embraced fundamentalist dogma: If you're a moneychanger (or the modern Republican counterparts) you're always in danger of being tossed out of t...
The most recent effort is one that is getting very little attention in the U.S. media. The [Bush] group is allegedly pressuring the European Union to reverse course away from diplomatic engagement with Cuba and move in the direction of isolating Cuba, including the possibility of economic sanctions. Such a reversal would be largely unprecedented given the long history of relations between European nations and Cuba, including European governments that have been quite conservative (the right-wing dictatorship of the late Spanish leader Francisco Franco even had diplomatic relations with Cuba!!). Nevertheless, in these days of open international bullying by the U.S., all bets are off. This bullying is really going over the top, I should add, and is not limited to the Bush attitude toward C...
In a few months, sport fans around the globe will be extremely entertained and delighted when they watch the first-ever World Baseball Classic. Copied from the long lasting and very successful futbol - soccer - World Cup, the competition aims to match the best countries and their players. However, the U.S. Treasury Department has determined that Cuba will not be allowed to participate in the Classic, due to the longstanding economic sanctions our country has imposed on Cuba.
The national security and foreign policy of the United States regularly confronts choices between tough sanctions or constructive engagement with either allies or adversaries abroad. Libya's transformation from a fundamentalist terrorist state to a semi- respectable member of the international community supports sanctions proponents. The same might be said of South Africa's dismantling of apartheid, the disintegration of the Soviet Empire, and the end of Sandinista tyranny in Nicaragua. But diplomatic and economic sanctions against Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea and Syria have proven futile. And constructive engagement facilitated the evolution of Spain, Portugal, South Korea and Taiwan into thriving democracies, and softened the oppressiveness of Communist China.
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