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Minutiae and becomes polarized and this was polarized from the get-go. it s been an issue for the past 50 something years. let me ask you this question. i would suppose one of the president s arguments would be look, the embargo hasn t worked for 50 years because the castros remain in power today. if not fidel, his brother raul. so obviously the embargo hasn t worked. democracy has not been restored to cuba so maybe we have to go down another road. yeah, there is something to be said for that. the reason m t embargo hasn t worked is because it s a unilateral embargo. the united states is pretty much the only serious country in the world has has an embargo. almost every other major country in the world does business with cuba. but that hasn t changed cuba s attitudes towards its own people. the fact that britain, canada, europe in general does business with cuba hasn t softened the cuban leadership s record on human rights the way it sort of runs its country and keeps its ....
Back in the 1990s, tried to ease some of these travel restrictions and then, of course t-cas trow government shot down these brothers to the rescue planes and everything changed again. and so what s going to be key here is how raul castro s government behaves in the next year or so, whether they do anything that sets this effort back again. it s really all on them whether or not they can make sure that this relationship doesn t get set back after what president obama is really going on a limb for in this announcement today, carol. evan perez, thanks so much, i appreciate it. i want to bring our viewers back to havana cuba, patrick oppman is standing by. he has new information about the negotiations to release alan gross. tell us more. these negotiations were so fraught, living here in cuba, we heard little bits of information over the past months and the ....
Address. and so this has been a long time coming, the president did absolutely the right thing. we need to move forward now and begin to engage in normal relations so the american people can participate in educational exchanges if they so choose, they can visit cuba. i get it, i want to ask you one question. in your mind what has raul castro done to deserve this? give me one thing? i don t think it s about what any country has done to deserve anything. we have normal relations with vietnam, we have normal relations with china, we need to move forward to work with president raul castro to make sure that normal relations between the united states are respectful and that in fact all of the issues that we care about as it relates to cuba. like what? what about human rights violations? all of those are on the ....
Off limits. the only country that the united states restricts citizens from visiting. president obama s travel allowance is the latest update to the u.s. s 50-year-old policy of economic and diplomatic isolation against cuba. the u.s. embargo was put into place in 1962 by president kennedy after $1.8 billion worth of u.s. property was confiscated by the cuban government under fidel castro. it has been the inheritance of every u.s. president ever since. each administration hoping that the economic choke-hold of sanctions would force the communist island nation to submit to democracy and free market capitalism and end the castro regime. but five decades later, cuba remains a communist nation with a castro in charge. it was old age, not illness ultimately not u.s. policy that forced fidel castro to abdicate it to his brother raul. ....
Island nation from far before fidel castro and his brother raul. let me let lisandro. we could spend the entire day discussing this. ultimately this is a u.s. policy and should be formulated in the best interests of the united states. my argument on that is that regardless of its impact on cuba and i think it will be positive on cuba, ultimately there s no reason why the most powerful nation in world needs to treat cuba has a threat and keep its citizens from traveling there. it s increasingly become isolated. we talked about the sanctions about south africa. the analogy breaks down because in a sense almost the entire world were behind those sanctions in south africa. the vote that was taken in november, last november at the u.n., every year there s a u.n. resolution condemning the u.s. fort embargo on cuba. the vote was 182 this last time to 2. only the u.s. and israel voting ....