On February 7th, 1962 President John F. Kennedy laid the groundwork for the infamous economic embargo on Cuba. As a result of the Cuban government nationalizing some U.S. companies and becoming buddies with the former Soviet Union, President Kennedy slapped trade sanctions on Cuba prohibiting the importation of any Cuban goods. The following year, 1963, the embargo was tightened to include penalties that prohibited foreign companies that traded with Cuba to also trade with the United States. The ban on travel for U.S. citizens was also implemented that year. While a whole lot has changed since 1962, the embargo on Cuba remains the same.
 (Original photo by Kenia Trinidad)
Our policy to isolate Cuba through the embargo has only isolated ourselves. Last year the United Nations General Assembly voted, like they do every year for the past 22 years, to condemn the United States’ economic embargo on Cuba - 188 countries were in favor of condemning the embargo, two countries were against the condemnation, the United States and Israel, and three countries abstained from voting, Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau. Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, introduced the text of the United Nations resolution and said:
“The human damages caused by the blockade are incalculable, with 76% of Cubans living under its devastating effects since the day they were born. The resulting economic damages accumulated after half a century amounted to more than $1 trillion. The embargo is also the main obstacle to broader access to the Internet, the free circulation of persons, the exchange of ideas and the development of cultural, sport and scientific relations.”
When it comes to Cuba, the rest of the world is against us. It is not a question of whether or not Cuba will open up to the United States; it’s a question of when the U.S. will open up to Cuba, since the rest of the world travels and trades freely with our neighbor.
President Obama has already taken steps since his first term to change the conversation with Cuba. He has allowed for Cuban-American families to travel freely to the island, opened up general licensed travel for educational exchanges and religious travel, and re-established the people-to-people travel category that allows any U.S. citizen to apply to this educational exchange program and experience Cuba first-hand. And last December, President Obama and President Castro took unprecedented steps to greet one another with a handshake at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in South Africa. All of these actions show that it is not impossible for us to have a better policy towards Cuba.
While getting rid of the embargo does lie in the hands of Congress, President Obama can do a variety of things within his executive authority to continue on a new path with Cuba. These items include:
• Granting general licenses for all categories of travel and therefore eliminating the specific license category.
• Removing Cuba from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism, a list where the Cubans do not belong.
• Starting dialogue with the Cuban government on areas of mutual interest.
All of these actions would not only benefit our own interests in Cuba, but it would lay the groundwork of trust and mutual respect that are essential in repairing a 52 year old antagonistic relationship.
The LAWG Cuba Team
Mavis, Emily and Zuleika
lawg@lawg.org
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Comments
White folks do not like to be defeated. Look at what has happened to Haiti. Whites will never forgive the black Haitians for fighting and winning their freedom. Thus, they, to this day, make sure that Haiti is unstable, poor, confused and unattractive to other blacks around the world.
Do not hold your breath regarding Cuba. Until and unless whites control Cuba, there will always be sanctions and embargoes against her. Have you not read Revelation 13:17? Here is what it says; "And no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
These white devils have constructed a global economic system will not allow you to buy or sell (embargo or boycott) internationally, unless you have the "mark" or "name" or "number" of the "beast".
Cuba is not considered part of the white man's system, just as Haiti is not. Both nations will be strangled economically by the global white economic system until they gain control of those nations.
Of course, many will ignore these prophecies, just as they ignore others that foretell who we are, why we are catching Hell in America, why America is not catching Hell, when we will be delivered, etc.
Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it. The only reliable source of history is the Bible and your ability to research. Shalom, my family.