fee.org/freeman/detail/hasta-la-victoria-siempre I found this fifteen-years-ago diary of a visit to communist Cuba, just updated and published, to be very thought-provoking about the human side of the debate on the relative merits of free-market and socialist command-economy systems. It has become timely, given the semi-thawing of U.S. policy toward Cuba by executive fiat (as with so many things) under President Obama, without congressional input. I have been on the fence about our Cuba policy, finding it cruel to the people who live there (the same argument was made against sanctions on Iraq under Saddam Hussein: the Baathist rulers suffered not, while many of the common people came to hate America as their children died for lack of medicine). I have asked why is our policy toward Red China one of engagement, while our policy toward Red Cuba is one of sanction, embargo, and barrier. In the end, I had given great weight to the opinions of those expatriate Cubans living in the United States: overwhelmingly they have opposed normalizing relations with Red Cuba, and their opinion has been the main reason our hard-line policy has remained in place until now.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 02:54:39 +0000
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