he has not lifted them and the cubans have used as an excuse to say, it is a billy the american�*s fault, if only they lifted the embargo, we could feed you, everything would be right again. is it a diplomatic mistake, do you think, to keep a country like cuba under this embargo and give them this excuse? there are a lot of people - who say mr biden should see if he cannot be adopted - what mr 0bama did, particularly by opening up and relaxing sanctions, allowing - the remittances, all of thati money to go from cubans in america... i am not an expert inl the politics of florida, but i am told that it is a key part of it. l the democratic party are trying to defend themselves - in key races there, they do not want to pick a fight _ with the powerful cuban - republicans at the moment, etc, etc. so there is a little bit of politics in this. - at the moment, joe biden is being very specific. - yesterday, himself at the press conferencel with angela merkel, he referred to cuba as a failed state -