...even to the clear and obvious disadvantage of U.S. transglobal corporate/war profiteer interests.
The Cuba embargo is INSANE. No other word for it. Not just blitheringly stupid, not just mindbogglingly hypocritical, not just very, very wrong. Madness, of the "Mad Hatter's Tea Party" variety. Non-rational.
I am reminded of the some of the more insane religious "doctrines" that I was taught in Catholic grammar school--for instance, that unbaptized infants who died would never "see God"--as if a few sprinkles of water on the baby's forehead and some whispered mumbo-jumbo was the determinant of God's mercy toward the ENTIRELY INNOCENT LITTLE BABY. Such a child was not consigned to Hell (such were the mercies of 5th Century theology) but rather to "Limbo" where it would spend ETERNITY in a cold crib cut off from God, Paradise, Love, Mercy, Family, Friends, Enlightenment and all those wonderful things they promise to the sprinkled.
Cuba suffers from a similar fate at the hands of the INSANE theologians of Ayn Randism. It is condemned from birth but, as it has somehow continued as the undead "baby" of communist sharing, free medical care for all, free university educations for all, food, a roof and a job for all--it has to be RE-condemned every hour of every day, week after week, decade after decade, so that the edifice of INSANE "individualism" and rule by billionaires will not fall.
Poor tiny Cuba, bearing the brunt of all that fear and loathing--just like all those unbaptized dead babies of the Pagan World!
And THAT is who is running U.S. policy on Latin America, lo these many decades, unto today.
But of course the Miami Mafia and fascist Bishops and Cardinals have always been in each other's pockets. Their brainwaves are attuned. And lurking beneath that unholy accord are mountains of dead babies and other innocents--notably including bishops, priests and nuns who dared to challenge their crimes against the poor.
Maybe the lesson is, wherever you find insane policy, "follow the money." And the more insane it becomes, the more money must you follow, even unto the murky subterranean realms of the non-stop cocaine traffic south to north, that are difficult to route, to say the least.
Something going on here we can't see, that Brazil sees clearly (as do the many other new leftist governments in Latin America, and even some of the few remaining rightwing governments). Why NOT trade with Cuba? Hm?
= new reply since forum marked as read