Should the US end the Cuba embargo?
February 21st, 2008 by Brendan SteinhauserThe Financial Times says “yes.”
As an interim measure, the US should relax its travel ban, encouraging the people-to-people contacts that can help to stimulate the development of a more open society. Restrictions on travel by US-based Cubans introduced in 2004 should be reversed. None of this seems remotely likely under the Bush administration. But a more effective Cuba policy should figure high on the agenda of the next US president.
Opening up to trade with Cuba just might help the people there move away from the imposed socialism of Castro and toward a better, more prosperous future. But Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte says the embargo won’t be ending anytime soon.
February 21st, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Absolutely yes. I hate to say it, but what better way to bring down a regime that’s stuck firmly in the past than to trade with them?