School us on Cuba

[neurosis]

Lets get a schooling on Cuba.

Why do we keep sanctioning them?

[Jeff]

Cuba is a "protectorate" of the U.S. from way back in the late 1800's thanks to the Treaty of Paris back in 1898.
Then in 1992 we passed the Helms-Burton act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba">//https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_Cuba


tl;dr because they're a poor communist country that is close to our borders.

[PAnderson]

Why shouldn't we sanction them? By sanctioning them, we are simply saying we don't approve of the oppression of the Cuban people. And before someone pipes in and says we are depriving them of essentials, that would be wrong. They are free to purchase anything they need from other countries. They don't. The regime there does not give a flying f*^#k about the people, only themselves, like in most communist/socialist countries. All talk.
My wife is Cuban, brought here in 1962 when her father loaded his wife and three kids into his plane without telling a soul. The wife and kids didn't even know. Her aunt was a revolutionary aligned with Che Guivera, the assassin. Telling anyone would have been a death sentence.
Her dad was a self made pilot, owning numerous planes before the revolution. Hauling advertising banners, crop dusting, anything to make a dollar. When the revolution happened, her dad was "recruited" by Castro himself to be one of his personal pilots. One time Castro ordered her dad to fly him to Mexico during a tropical storm. He refused. Castro told he would be shot. He told Castro, "go ahead and shoot me, if we fly in this we will all die anyway."
My wifes grandfather owned a rum distillery in Cienfuegos, very wealthy family. That wealth couldn't keep him from defecting. Castro took the business and the family remains basically penniless to this day. Proud family, proud people.

[CADCAM396]

thank you for sharing that.
first hand experiences from people i know, trust and or respect I holds much more weight than media retorect.