Word: embargoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lipsticked, in tight black jeans with a black mesh shirt over a sports bra. She's a doctor, on her way to pick up her daughter at school. We ask if it's hard to get medicine. After all, on the way from Havana, a billboard had read: YANKEE EMBARGO: GENOCIDE AGAINST CUBA. She says no, not really...
Sand covers the road. We almost get blindsided by a mural-burdened van from Pastors for Peace. Bumper stickers thereon: END THE EMBARGO! ¡VAMOS A CUBA! Terrible drivers, these guys...
...also a '90s irony: today's political culture craves authenticity but bristles when it actually gets some. But ride with the Guv in his Lincoln Navigator, and you find that even the chastened Ventura is more candid than 99% of pols. On the Cuban trade embargo he says what self-styled truth tellers like Bill Bradley don't: "It's stupid. Fidel's outlasted eight Presidents. Is it an ego thing? Do we have to wait for him to die?" He's the rare non-Democratic Governor who gives Clinton generous credit for the economy. Try getting George W. Bush...
Thanks for the informative article about Cuba and the possibility of lifting the U.S. trade embargo [WORLD, Dec. 6]. It's high time the U.S. establish full diplomatic relations and free trade with that nation. Only by free and open communications, diplomacy and trade will we encourage Cuba to inch toward democracy. You can influence people more effectively when you're talking to them than when you're ignoring them. C.L. GUTHRIE JR. Spartanburg...
...much sense does it make to trade with China, the most communistic, militaristic and anti-human rights regime on the planet, and not to trade with Cuba, which poses absolutely no threat to our national security? The 37-year trade embargo against Castro's Cuba has not yielded any appreciable results and unequivocally should cease. GENE CARTON St. Louis...