Saturday, April 18, 2009

Embargo free Cuba, Tourist free Caribbean

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4 comments:

john said...

is it insularity setting in here.So its no longer communism or human rights. We finally get it. Americas policy has always been driven by economics. Their strategy is simple divide and conquer. the europeans used it and now they use it. they are powerful because the are called the UNITED states. We must stop this self preservation bullshit which has enslaved our people

April 18, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Thommo/LuciaBro256@hotmail.com said...

Self preservationist is right that a "Free Cuba" will provide stiff competition for our tourism industry. There is nothing wrong in analysing the economic ramifications of a "Free Cuba", but such analysis must not only focus on this one aspect.

A more economically sound Cuba can also be of benefit to the caribbean in terms of bilateral trade and more of the assistance that Cuba provides to the wider caribbean.

Those who blame the US for pressuring Cuba to ease the restrictions on free speech, releasing of political prisoners, and the provision of greater political and social freedoms for its people would never trade places with a Cuban national.

I agree that the trade and economic embargo is wrong and ineffective, but Cuba cannot have it both ways. There is no question that communism is a failed economic and political experiment. It was interesting to hear Raul Castro say, that there's apossibility that they might have been wrong.

The fact that he is willing to talk to the US on any issue is encouraging. I will not question his motives, but the US should be guardedly optimistic.

The Obama administration has been generous with lifting the travel and remittance resrictions, Cuba should reciprocate in some fashion to show good faith.

The Cuban people deserve the greater freedoms we all enjoy in this hemisphere.

April 19, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Anonymous said...

"Self Preservationist" how simplistic and naive you are. Do you really believe that the opening of the Cuban tourism market to Americans is going to be such an immense and infinite deep-space BLACK HOLE, that it will actually decimate the other islands' tourism sector? I invite you to go do a little reading on Economics, particularly the laws of supply and demand, and the principles of tourism plant capacity, diminishing returns, variety, etc. While the Cuban tourism market will hold some novelty for a time, it will, like everything else in life, get to the point on the curve where the novelty will wear off, and the market forces will re-establish parity, stability, competition, etc., etc., etc. The Cuban tourism market will not be HEAVEN on earth forever for international tourism. STOP being so simplistic in your views. Do some reading and PLEASE do some research. Blogging does not mean that we have a right to simply BLAH, BLAH, BLAH our mouths off. PLEASE!!!!!! DONNA.

April 20, 2009 at 7:59 AM
Anonymous said...

I admire what Castro has done for the people of the region but at the cost of enslaving his own people. Communisim is a bi-product of slavery.

"We've been too long, too long in slavery"

April 22, 2009 at 10:13 AM

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