Of course, the people who are really screwed by the rapprochement between Cuba and the US are the dissidents in Cuba.
Their only hope was that they had support from overseas in their fight for human rights. And now they have become an embarrassment to the US, and Kerry is studiously avoiding them on his visit to Havana. These dissidents are now completely alone in their resistance to the horrible Castro regime.
Everything comes at a price, folks. The easy decisions of the “let everything be good and nothing be bad” variety are a smokescreen.
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The American far left has harbored a fixation with Cuba for decades, so the idea of throwing the dissidents under the bus is actually gratifying to them.
The line went that the Cuban people are doing badly BECAUSE of the US embargo, despite the fact that the Cubans can trade with the other 94% of the world population.
What I wish they would go further and explicate in some detail why this wasn’t also true of the Eastern European states, despite free Soviet oil, the blood-money the DDR was getting out of the BRD, and the remittances.
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I agree completely. I’ve always found the insistence that Cubans were poor because of the embargo to be extraordinarily ridiculous. It is yet again an example of American narcissism: everything that happens on the planet has to be about Americans.
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I am under the impression that Secretary Kerry has met with Cuban dissidents privately recently.
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