Lennart, can you expand a bit - Cuba is the only free country in Latin America? You’re smoking something from Jamaica rather than from Cuba, I suspect. I am not American, and don’t support all the US strong arm tactics, but Fidel is an insidious dictator who’ long overstayed his welcome. The revolution and the overthrowing of the previous regime was a good thing at the time, but Castro did not heed the change in material conditions. What was good enough 50 years ago, doesn’t hold water anymore. When people are prepared to die, and often do, in their attempts to leave a country, freedom clearly does not exist! As for the deprivation caused to ordinary Cubans as a result of the embargo, I can only laugh. Although limited produce is available, most Cubans cannot afford to buy what they need. Most only survive through the financial contributions of family abroad. Cuba exports cigars, coffe, sugar and now oil. Does the income from all this benifit ordinary citizens - I think not. In addition, they “export” professionals, doctors, for instance, who are beholden to the Cuban government by fierce contracts, most of the money resulting from their work going to the Cuban government, not the professionals themselves. This somehow invokes images of slavery in my mind.
