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Latin America

Judi Lynn

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9. So simple to understand, for most people, isn't it?

Reply to Mika (Reply #8)

Mon Oct 3, 2016, 05:18 PM

Oct 2016

It's especially easy to understand for all the many countries around the world who protested the embargo as being absolutely contrary to international law, long ago.

It's treading on their own rights to do business with Cuba if they choose, WITHOUT interference from the United States. Clearly the US has been so powerful they just didn't want to go through the trouble they'd be inviting if they tried to do something right about formalizing their protests, not ready to face the ####storm, the backlash a truly large bully could and would hand them.

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Counting the cost of the Cuban blockade [View all] Judi Lynn Sep 2016 OP

Embargo not the same thing as a blockade....there is no blockade. EX500rider Oct 2016 #1

U.S.- Cuba relations not normalized until blockade ends Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #2

The US Blockade of Cuba: Its Effects and Global Consequences Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #3

Destabiliziation in Latin America Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #4

As General Assembly Demands End to Cuba Blockade for Twenty-Third Consecutive Year, Country’s Foreig Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #5

So they are all wrong, whats your point? EX500rider Oct 2016 #6

Really? Mika Oct 2016 #8

So simple to understand, for most people, isn't it? Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #9

Yeah and Cuba is not sealed off, goods arrive by ship and plane every day. EX500rider Oct 2016 #10

So, the US has no laws that prevent goods or people from entering or leaving Cuba? Mika Oct 2016 #11

Not my fault if you can't read the definitions and understand them. EX500rider Oct 2016 #12

Nothing to do w/reading. Has to do w/interpretation. Mika Oct 2016 #13

Has to do with the actual meanings of words.. EX500rider Oct 2016 #17

An embargo doesn't have the power to demand that hotels in other countries throw out Cuban people Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #15

Actually the US embargo does have all those powers...as you just showed. EX500rider Oct 2016 #16

Wrong. The US has gone beyond its legal authority, as everyone knows. Everyone. Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #18

Sez Fidel's BFF... Zorro Oct 2016 #19

The US can conduct it's economic embargo as it see's fit.. EX500rider Oct 2016 #20

An affront to our sovereignty Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #7

More than 50 Years Later, the Blockade Against Cuba Survives as Punishment for Achieving Self-Determ Judi Lynn Oct 2016 #14