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UN Wants End To Cuban Embargo
Topic Started: 30 Oct 2007, 06:16 PM (321 Views)
KamikazeCow
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UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. General Assembly voted for the 16th straight year Tuesday to urge the United States to end its trade embargo against Cuba whose foreign minister accused the U.S. of stepping up its "brutal economic war" to new heights.

The 192-member world body approved a resolution calling for the 46-year-old U.S. economic and commercial embargo against Cuba to be repealed as soon as possible.

"The blockade had never been enforced with such viciousness as over the last year," Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque told the assembly, accusing President Bush's administration of adopting "new measures bordering on madness and fanaticism" that have hurt Cuba and interfered in its relations with at least 30 countries.

Delegates in the General Assembly chamber burst into applause when the vote in favor of the resolution flashed on the screen — 184 to four with one abstention.


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paralock
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We really should. The only way to bring capitalism to them is to open trade. China is slowly converting, and Cuba will too.
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Alkeni Synair
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And Capitalisim is any better than what they have? They LIKE Castro.
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Let me point out Cuban socialism isn't dependent on Castro.
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I don't know much about the Cuban sitatuion over the years,but I mean Castro is becoming a relic of the past.If they are dependant on him...They may wanna start depending on someone else ;) :P
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KamikazeCow
Oct 31 2007, 03:29 PM
Let me point out Cuban socialism isn't dependent on Castro.

I'm not saying it is. But I'd rather have the devil I know.
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I dont care what happens as long as cuba doesnt change its health care system :peace:
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Nov 24 2007, 09:58 PM
I dont care what happens as long as cuba doesnt change its health care system :peace:

agreed.
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Get rid of the embargo and in a few decades time Cuba will have embraced the freedom of the market.
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Alkeni Synair
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free market =/= good
semi-regulated market = good
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Benthamus
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I see you're another unbeliever in the wonders of the free market.

Anyway Cuba isn't semi-regulated it would be fully regulated which is very, very bad.
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*pops in*

This was in late December 1936, less than seven months ago as I write, and
yet it is a period that has already receded into enormous distance. Later events
have obliterated it much more completely than they have obliterated 1935, or
1905, for that matter. I had come to Spain with some notion of writing newspaper
articles, but I had joined the militia almost immediately, because at that time
and in that atmosphere it seemed the only conceivable thing to do. The
Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was
still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the beginning it
probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was
ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was
something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had ever been
in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practically every building
of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with
the red and black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the
hammer and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties; almost
every church had been gutted and its images burnt. Churches here and there were
being systematically demolished by gangs of workmen. Every shop and cafe had an
inscription saying that it had been collectivized; even the bootblacks had been
collectivized and their boxes painted red and black. Waiters and shop-walkers
looked you in the face and treated you as an equal. Servile and even ceremonial
forms of speech had temporarily disappeared. Nobody said 'Senior' or 'Don' or
even 'Usted'; everyone called everyone else 'Comrade' and 'Thou', and said
'Salud!' instead of 'Buenos dias'. Tipping was forbidden by law; almost my first
experience was receiving a lecture from a hotel manager for trying to tip a
lift-boy. There were no private motor-cars, they had all been commandeered, and
all the trams and taxis and much of the other transport were painted red and
black. The revolutionary posters were everywhere, flaming from the walls in
clean reds and blues that made the few remaining advertisements look like daubs
of mud. Down the Ramblas, the wide central artery of the town where crowds of
people streamed constantly to and fro, the loudspeakers were bellowing
revolutionary songs all day and far into the night. And it was the aspect of the
crowds that was the queerest thing of all. In outward appearance it was a town
in which the wealthy classes had practically ceased to exist. Except for a small
number of women and foreigners there were no 'well-dressed' people at all.
Practically everyone wore rough working-class clothes, or blue overalls, or some
variant of the militia uniform. All this was queer and moving. There was much in
it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I
recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for.

*pops out*
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Alkeni Synair
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Blah?


@ Ben: I agree, Cuba has some bad things. However I would like you to give my 15 GOOD things about the Free market system, so I can tear each and every single one apart and win this arguement once and for all.
Work in progress.
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Benthamus
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When you say good things do you want pragmatic reasons or philosophical reasons?
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Alkeni Synair
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Hm....12 Pragmatic reasons and 3 'philosphical'
Work in progress.
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