World economists denounce US embargo against Cuba

[Mika]

World economists denounce US embargo against Cuba
http://www.financialexpress-bd.com/index3.asp?cnd=2/13/2006§ion_id=8&newsid=15664&spcl=no

The 8th International Economists' Congress on Globalisation and Development Problems concluded in Havana, Cuba, yesterday, with the adoption of a declaration condemning the United States' embargo against Cuba.
The declaration noted that although many countries voted for a United Nations (UN) resolution condemning the US's embargo against Cuba, Washington has still not let up its hostile policy against the island country, causing losses and difficulties to Cubans.
More than 1,500 participating economists from 43 countries endorsed another resolution denouncing the US-led war on Iraq. They criticised the US authorities for increasing military spending and causing instability in the world.
During the five-day meeting, participants exchanged views on globalisation and neo-liberalism and their effects on the world economy, monetary, financial, auditing, trade, technological and environmental issues, improvement in techniques, and measures to cope with globalisation-caused threats.

[LynnTheDem]

1. US still trying to grind Cuba into the ground; Cuba beats USA on

literacy... healthcare... infant mortality... hurricane evacuations...

[Ben Ceremos]

2. and from all I have been hearing from home,

Cuba will likely be a greator guarantor of civil rights and social justice than the Useless "A".

[LynnTheDem]

3. The freedoms we already don't have plus the ones bush is busily

taking away, I would not doubt it.

[Mika]

8. It already is. The traitors are in charge of the US.

No one can accuse Mr F & R Castro, Mr Alarcon, Mr Largé, etc, of not being patriots.

[pokercat999]

4. Dumb and dumber. Our policy towards Cuba

when we started it and our policy toward Cuba today.

[Vidar]

5. Castro:Humanitarian; Bush: Terrorist.

[SKKY]

6. Couldn't agree more. It's one of the things I always thought...

...Clinton would have had the courage to change.

[Mika]

7. Only Jimmy Carter had the guts to change the US travel sanctions

http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/funfacts/embargo.htm

As soon as the Reagan regime took over, any normalization of relations with Cuba went south.



The US travel ban on Americans is the most damaging aspect of the sanctions in my opinion, and its impact is twofold. It keeps Americans completely in the dark about the place and makes them subject to outrageous propaganda and false innuendo, and the travel ban (aside from the Helms-Burton law) is designed to cripple the Cuban economy in that the Caribbean islands #1 product (aside from some of the tax shelter Caribbean islands) is tourism income that comes mainly from US tourists.